Not exact matches
In his book,
which recently
hit No. 8 on the Los Angeles Times
bestseller list, Britton presents a strong case that Millennials have the power to disrupt everything from business to culture to politics.
The reason is that Headstrong just had the huge honor of
hitting the New York Times monthly
bestseller list which is only 10 books that are top in the month and this is in the science category, not the advice category where you normally find health books.
In 2001, Raincoast Books published Monk's first book, Weird Sex and Snowshoes: And Other Canadian Film Phenomena,
which hit the Canadian
bestseller list and was adapted to the screen by Omni Film in 2004 under the direction of Jill Sharpe.
Which leaves bookstores: but bookstores won't order and stock your book unless you're selling a lot of copies and
hitting bestseller lists.
I've written several times about my experiments with self - publishing on the Kindle, mostly concerning my short story The Variant,
which briefly
hit # 18 on the overall
bestsellers list.
But with indie publishing running so much of the industry now, the playing field is really evened out and a lot of the big mojo that used to
hit the
bestseller lists is being seen in fiction —
which often doesn't report to these
lists, or authors are selling lots of copies of all of their books, as opposed to one, singular title.
You're a NYT bestselling author — tell us
which book
hit the
bestseller list first, what number did you
hit, and what did you do to celebrate?
Erik Larson is the author of five New York Times
bestsellers, including In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin,
which hit # 1 and remained on the printed
list for 35 weeks.
The successes of The Pelican Brief,
which hit number one on the New York Times
bestseller list, and The Client,
which debuted at number one, confirmed Grisham's reputation as the master of the legal thriller.
Le Carré is nearly 80, but like his compatriot P.D. James, his age hasn't affected the quality of his work,
which continues to garner top - notch reviews and
hit bestseller lists.
Rowling's new book,
which many thought would be one of the year's biggest
hits, debuted at No. 2 on the New York Times
bestseller list, a triumph for nearly any author, but not for Rowling.
In the weeks that I've been putting together my ebook
bestsellers breakdown,
which examines the titles that are doing better in digital formats than in print and investigates how titles
hit the
bestseller list, one common key to success pops up over and over again: The power of a sale.
In a convincing post at The Bookseller, Scott Pack, publisher of The Friday Project, an imprint of HarperCollins, notes that the lack of e-book sales integration into the UK
bestseller lists cases a «whole host of problems,» not the least of
which is that it might undermine a books ability to
hit the
list.
Only then did he
hit the NYTimes
bestseller list and capture the attention of NY publishing (
which he turned down), agents (
which he did not), and Hollywood (with whom he landed with a very nice deal).
I mean already have to read Facebook posts from authors about
hitting every conceivable niche
bestseller list for that day or hour on Amazon but now I have to puzzle over what it means to be a NYT bestselling animal book (
which is, I assume, by topic rather than author — though I suspect my collie Hamish would love to be on this
list!).
You're a bestselling author on Amazon —
which of your books
hit the Amazon
bestseller list, how high did they go, and how many copies did you sell?
However, some debut authors have gotten some great publicity by giving their novel away, including Jim Rubart on his novel Rooms
which hit the NYT
Bestseller List.
Gone are the days in
which an indie author can simply write a book and suddenly it
hits the
bestseller list on Amazon just by posting it up.
I took their advice, and since then I've has designed hundreds of covers for indie, traditional, and hybrid authors, many of
which have
hit bestseller lists, and won awards.
You'll need to account a budget to buy between 3,000 and 9,000 copies of your book,
which can run you up to a couple hundred thousand dollars depending on the cost of your book to either
hit the Wall Street Journal or New York Times
Bestseller list and you'll also have to account for their fee,
which is typically more than $ 20,000.
Already out in stores, but only just reaching Diamond are big sellers» Noragami Stray God Volume 9 from Kodansha and Monster Musume Volume 8, both of
which also already
hit the NYT
bestseller list.