Sentences with phrase «just getting their work published»

The goal is to help ensure writers focus not just getting their work published, but that it has an impact on people's lives.

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While this strategy works just fine for large publishers that already have established brands and get thousands of shares on any new article they publish (such as Mashable or TechCrunch), a more pragmatic approach is needed for just about every other business.It's true that getting quality inbound links starts with great content on your client's website, but the missing link is getting journalists, contributors, authors, and editors at quality publications to become aware of that content so that they can link to it when writing relevant stories / articles.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

So, first, congratulations, because I am only just beginning to see how much work this is going to be and I guess my question is, how do you get published?

On 1 December 2000, ORI published regulations requiring all research staff working on Public Health Service - funded projects to get formal ethics training — not just NIH trainees as was previously the case.

«This apparent editorial bias leads to the «file - drawer effect,» in which research with statistically significant outcomes are much more likely to get published, while other work that might well be just as important scientifically is never seen in print.

All great authors know that a killer first line is almost more important than the first few pages, and authors put in hours of work just to get Following is a list of the 100 best first lines from novels, as decided by the American Book Review, a nonprofit journal published at the Unit

I am just getting ready to self - publish my first book after deciding I didn't want to hand a traditional publisher my hard work so that they could make most of the money off it.

Some also offer a sample manuscript evaluation, which can be an economical way to find out just how much work your book needs to get it ready to publish.

Digital publishing made the speed - to - market incredibly fast, and just like other e-short platforms, Byliner was able to get quality non-fiction into the hands of busy readers with minimal delay, along with dedicated fiction works that were written expressly for snippet - like consumption from some of the top names in books.

Getting published by a company just proves, while it can be impossible, people that do that for a living thought your work was good enough to sink their time and efforts.

So those who do get published by an indie publisher can put just as much care and effort into their work as what goes into a traditionally produced novel.

Once, it was basically a kinder term for vanity publishing; then it was a trick entrepreneurial authors could use to get their work out there (after investing some time and money); but now, it's very much a frictionless Long Tail scenario... If you're a new author, why not just publish to Kindle and iBooks and see how you fare?

Authors who self publish (I just put out my first ebook so I know) soon discover that it's really hard to get your work visable without paying big $ for it.

For my indie - published work, the very best way to make sure I get the most money is to just buy books from me directly — either via my Paypal.Me link, or via my Square store.

Randomly stumbled upon this tonight and I see most of the comments are now years old... but in response to your last comment Tracy about how you know at least some writers that make $ 1,000 a day by writing longer works... out of curiosity, are these writers publishing dozens of books to get to that level or did they just find the right niche and only have to publish a few books to get to that level?

Finally, any indie authors still choosing to operate under a half - arsed mentality of, «eh, I'll just publish it through Amazon», will inevitably get pushed to the bottom of the pile as those who are serious about making things work will continue to hike to the top — egged on by readers, peers and other like - minded artists within this incredibly supportive community.

That's just one reason I suggest, while you're working on getting traditionally published, self - publish and start building a fan base.

I'd love to have the confidence to self - publish, but whenever I read about the «how - to» of how other writers have done it, I just get so intimidated and feel like I'd never be able to do that kind of work.

One is where an author self publishes a book, working from a Word file, or similar and trying, what with very sparse technical skills, to just get the darn thing out there.

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

Hands Off Books Review and Bonus It is just so much fun learning all the different ways that you can get your kindle books published without having to do much work at all yourself!

But yes lots of bloggers get so overwhelmed with requests they have to draw lines to cut back, but the point of this post is just because they may not accept requests that does not mean they do not read self - published work so we should encourage that by creating better quality self - published work and keeping up the professional standards of conduct.

Perhaps one for a magazine who publishes several short stories per issue, one for an agent who just got done working with Madonna on a book of short stories, and one for a publisher who has published short story collections and anthologies in the past, but since we don't know any of those writers, this would be a cold call type of letter so to speak given we don't know the publisher either, but yet we know he publishes short stories.

Margaret Harrison [00:02:07] Oh thanks, well so, yeah, I've worked my whole career in publishing and I started out on the ebook side working for OverDrive, a major distributor of ebooks at public libraries, and focusing on ebooks, so much of it is about the metadata, not just getting books into channels but also making sure those books, as Justine said, can be discoverable, can be found, and so I started spending a lot more of my time on metadata, and I'm a curious person so I got to know a lot and here I am

But, if you are surrounded by writers who just love to write; who really don't care if their work gets publishing, you are in the wrong group.

Don't get me wrong, that filtering process led to a lot of great work getting published over the years, and even made a lot of that work better than it would have been otherwise, but I would guess that for every success story of that kind there are just as many books that went through the wood - chipper of legacy publishing and came out the other side half the product it once was.

Just be aware that while self - published authors do get more control and a higher percentage of income, they also get 100 % of the cost and work of releasing their book.

I now have to get back to a hopeful, hard - working novelist and tell her that, because she thought about garnering traditional book reviews just about the time the book was slated to be published, that plan just isn't going to work out for her.

You Can Fashion a Reputation Getting published in literary or genre magazines helps you pitch your novels, because those credits indicate that you are a working writer, not just a one - hit wonder.

At that time, the self - publishing thing was really just getting going and I wasn't sure where it would lead, so I just kept working.

It's really important that you educate yourself, not just on how publishing works, both self - publishing and traditional publishing, but how you work and how you can get the work done.

Whether your idea for a book is in the idea stage, or you've written a few chapters or the entire manuscript, working with a book coach can provide crucial direction and professional expertise that you just can't get if you haven't been in the publishing industry for years.

An online blog doesn't necessarily imply publishing your work just for the sake of it and not getting anything in return.

I am just getting started, having just self - published my first book, with not much of a budget to work with right now, and was looking for an inexpensive way to do a book trailer!

At the end of the day, with the business plan and building your author platform and remembering to pay it forward and work with other authors in your genre, the whole concept of «The 7 - Step Guide to Authorpreneurship» is just to make it really easy, really simple for you to get started without you having to make the series, serious decisions «Do I traditionally publish?

I am just wondering about whether it is best to get an Australian literary agent to approach Australian arms of publishing houses or whether going overseas to the US and UK to get an agent works best?

For example, photographers sign stock agency contracts with outrageously bad terms they should never accept, and authors sign publishing contracts with outrageously bad terms they should never accept, in both cases demonstrating a desperate willingness to undervalue their work to nearly nothing just to get into print.

«Not too far in the future, the author comes to the Pubslush site,» Ioannou says, «gets a checklist of the steps that the book needs; gets to choose an editor who has lots of experience with that kind of book or a young editor just starting out who will do the work more cheaply; sees samples of the work of a lot of cover designers and picks one; sees an array of publishers who might be interested in publishing the book — or gets various options to self - publish; and gets help to pay for it all» with crowdfunding «or can just pay for it all on the spot if that option appeals more.»

You can use the Smashwords guide to get your manuscript ready for any site, whether it's B&N or Amazon; it all works pretty much the same with just a few exceptions (which I will get to in a minute), and even if you are not going to use Smashwords to publish, you can still use their guide to format your book on your own.

How Publishing Really works has a normal feature where they review self - published books, and one of the best categories on there is the «page number test», where the reviewer says how many pages they got through before they just couldn't take it anymore.

At the same time, I get both sad and frustrated when self - publishers share their work before it is actually ready to be published, such as no professional editing, self - made cover designs, front and back matter missing or incomplete or just wrong.

Joyce, you say, «How Publishing Really works has a normal feature where they review self - published books, and one of the best categories on there is the «page number test», where the reviewer says how many pages they got through before they just couldn't take it anymore.

It's not, as Andrew Wheeler seems to allege, me suddenly discovering Bookscan, what with my coming out of the direct market and all, and just not getting how the big publishing picture works.

It could be you've tried to get a traditional publishing contract, but it just didn't work out.

If you are just getting started and want to get on a fast - paced course, like one - on - one, but really get up to speed on how the publishing industry works, you can also access that at MakePublishingFun.com.

Yes, the distribution you get with traditional publishing helps get your work in the hands of more people, but I always try to remember I was just as good of a writer before my contracts than I was after.

If you're just starting out, the Select program from Kindle Direct Publishing is one of the best ways to get your work

If the editor has done all this work, and he thinks your book needs three pages of sex, and the only way he's going to get paid is percentage, then you just put yourself in the same position as with traditional publishing, where you have to take the chance this editor hit the vision just right and will make it better and not truncate it or castrate it.

So, again, you just got the CEO of a major publishing company to admit that his company has no viable business model; they can't offer authors anywhere near as good a deal as Amazon because «The numbers just wouldn't work.»