Sentences with phrase «hits a bestseller list on»

I could probably come up with at least 10 major benefits of running an Amazon book launch campaign, including how it helps you sell more books long after the bestseller campaign is over, to getting approached by foreign publishers looking to do editions of your book in other languages (this has happened to several indie authors I know, after they hit the bestseller lists on Amazon).

So they push and promote and discount and suddenly their book hits a bestseller list on Kindle, one of a thousand or so such lists covering every tiny area of every tiny genre.

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.

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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 book, Hashimoto's The Root Cause, now has over a 1,000 reviews on Amazon and recently hit the New York Times Bestseller list.

The book hit # 1 on Amazon Bestsellers list in entrepreneurship.

After presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway coined the phrase «alternative facts» in January, Orwell's chilling 1949 work about a totalitarian society hit No. 1 on the Amazon bestseller list; today, it's No. 2 on the Amazon classics list, right behind Orwell's «Animal Farm.»

An author who finds an agent and a publisher quickly and when her book debuts it hits # 1 on the NY Times Bestseller List and then gets turned into a movie and she becomes an overnight success story.

As a result, Rob's expertise helped Lysa's next book, Made to Crave, hit the New York Times bestseller list for over 25 weeks, reach # 7 on Amazon, and sell over 200,000 copies in the first nine months.

Jill Marsal: Our most recent big success in this area was J. Lynn, who self - published through our agency and hit # 1 on the New York Times e-books bestseller list for her book Wait for You.

In the past 12 months, Dragon's Trail has been on the bestseller lists in every major online retailer, breaking the Top 100 overall on Kindle, Kobo, iBooks, and Barnes and Noble, and hitting # 1 in Epic Fantasy on Amazon in four countries.

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.

Jim Devitt's debut YA novel, The Card, hit # 1 in three separate categories on the Kindle Bestseller list in early January and was a finalist in the Guys Can Read Indie Author Contest this past summer.

In fact, many books that «hit a list» are never viewed by consumers; they land on one or more bestseller lists, stay for a week or so, and then vanish.

Now understand, I had a book hit # 1 on the electronic bestseller list done by Peanut Press in 2000 and even have an award on my shelf proving it.

Credit where due, though, while not nearly as humble as Richard Nash's candid take on Cursor's shortcomings, Godin does a nice job of offering highlights, and lowlights, of each of The Domino Project's books at Squidoo, including the interesting explanation of his disappointment in We Are All Weird: «This one hit the bestseller list the first day (I think it went to # 9 overall) but it ultimately disappointed me.

In 2011, her novel Blind Faith hit # 2 on the NY Times bestseller list, # 4 on the USA Today list and sold 240,000 copies in 2 months.

«Once we hit the New York Times bestseller list, the nibbles we'd had on our books became more serious,» said Holder in an e-mail interview.

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.

Full of the homey recipes, beautiful photography and goofy humor found on her site, the book became an instant hit: the week of November 6, the book was # 1 on the New York Times bestseller list in the Hardcover Advice category.

In addition to top rankings on several bestseller lists, the children's book depicting Colton's trip, «Heaven Is for Real for Kids,» has hit a new benchmark: # 1 on the children's picture books list of the New York -LSB-...]

«I knew Bryan's descriptions were top - notch, but I never expected them to help me hit the USA Today Bestseller List all on my own.

The traditional publishing industry no longer seems to want to «nurture» /» guide» new authors and accompany them on a long and hopefully successful career; instead, they want writers who will hit the «bestseller» list with their very first novel and sell more than 20 000 copies in a flash (I may be exaggerating with the numbers but I don't think I'm that far off!).

I have four years of editing experience and have helped many clients sign with literary agents, several of whom have gone on to sell to Big Five publishers, as well as hit the USA Today Bestsellers» list.

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I have six years of editing experience and have helped many clients sign with literary agents, several of whom have gone on to sell to Big Five publishers, as well as hit the USA Today Bestsellers» list and more.

One has to bank on the PB / MG / CB winning awards or hitting bestsellers lists like our book WONDER by R.J. Palacio has done for Knopf.

I have six years of editing experience and have helped many clients sign with literary agents, several of whom have gone on to sell to Big Five publishers, as well as hit the USA Today Bestsellers» list.

Within just a few days of implementing some of these tricks, one of Shelley's books hit # 1 on the Kindle bestseller list for its category!

To wrap up my year, I was on the cover of The Wall Street Journal and in The Times, The Chicago Tribune, Forbes, and a host of others at the top of the year, have sold nearly a million books now (not counting my co-authored tomes), released my co-authored novel with Clive Cussler in Sept. and hit # 2 on the NYT Bestseller List with it, sold foreign rights to Germany, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic, have a half dozen name production companies nosing around JET and my Assassin series, have a wonderful agent who has forgotten more than I'll ever know about the biz, and have generally had a nice run of it.

Andrea Kane's newest book (and the first in her exciting new forensic series), The Girl Who Disappeared Twice, was on the NYT bestseller list within a week of hitting bookshelves.

So far, three of my books have been optioned for film, and my third novel, Already Gone, hit the top ten on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list.

Published in 2011, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list, where it has spent more than 100 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.

Twelve of her novels have reached # 1 on the New York Times bestseller lists, and five of her beloved Christmas novels have been hit movies on the Hallmark Channel, including Mrs. Miracle and Mr. Miracle.

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.

The most preordered book in Audible history (Audible's Most Wanted 2017) had a phenomenal debut across formats, hitting # 1 on the NY Times Hardcover Fiction list, # 1 on the Audible list, # 2 on the NY Times combined print / ebook bestseller list, # 6 on the Sunday Times of London hardcover list in the UK, and more bestseller lists across the globe.

His recent novel with Lincoln Child, Cold Vengeance, hit # 1 on both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.

I've had days where a single bad review comes in on one of my books and then bam, I look and see a fellow Indie author announcing they just hit the NYT Bestseller list, and suddenly my whole writing day is wrecked.

Andy went on to co-author some of the women's murder club thrillers and 3 other thrillers with Patterson that hit all the bestseller lists.

Thirteen of her novels have reached # 1 on the New York Times bestseller lists, and five of her beloved Christmas novels have been hit movies on the Hallmark Channel, including Mrs. Miracle and Mr. Miracle.

In December 2013, it hit number 1 on Amazon's Kidnapping Crime Fiction Bestseller list.

Author Gia Blue hit number twenty three on the overall Amazon Kindle Bestsellers list with a short erotic story and continues to self - pub what she calls her «smut» since she feels publishers won't touch it but... readers love it.

But there's been no one huge book promotion hit — no, not even an appearance on «Oprah» — that can guarantee an author will sell a specific number of books on a given day, or that the number of books sold will be enough to catapult the book to the bestseller lists.

If you sign on with a publisher and expect to hit a bestseller list right away, it can happen, but chances are it won't.

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!).

Getting enough sales to hit high on the bestseller lists requires many, many extra miles.

Exceptions are awesome, and maybe some of us will hit that winning mix of magic, luck, and good writing that lands us on bestseller lists and snags movie deals, but I propose a more measured approach to thinking about your writing career.

Now, after an algorithm shift, those free downloads don't help your paid ranking as much, so unless you hit the top of the free list with a massive number of downloads (probably at least 20,000), it won't place your book very high on the paid bestseller lists.

And on the various «major category» genre bestseller lists, promotion hits high gear for books that make the list.