Sentences with phrase «known on bestseller»

Self - publishing is at present the most vibrant area of publishing today with some author - published books making their presence known on bestseller lists.

Not exact matches

Some of my favourites are well - known — think Margaret Atwood, L.M. Montgomery, Michael Ondaatje, Farley Mowat, Leonard Cohen, Douglas Copeland, even the current darling of the New York Times bestseller list, Ann Voskamp — and therefore, aren't appearing here, since most of you already know of them (and if you don't — get on that).

No doubt this results - based culture influenced Driscoll's decision to use church funds to pay for a spot on the New York Times bestseller list and to vow to «destroy» other area churches «brick by brick.»

Her most recently released book, Being A Teen: Everything Teen Girls & Boys Should Know About Relationships, Sex, Love, Health, Identity & More, landed on the New York Times Bestseller List.

She is well known for her popular book on OCD, «The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing,» which was on The New York Times Bestseller list for 10 weeks, and which brought new hope to families with affected children.

Now, if you base your nutrition knowledge on the kinds of books you find in health food stores, bestsellers like Kombucha — Miracle Fungus will tell you that already by the Tsin dynasty, it was known and honored as a beverage with magical powers, enabling people to live forever.

If you don't know who she is, Amanda Lindhout is the author of A House in the Sky, originally from Red Deer Alberta, who has been on the New York Times Bestseller list for years.

Seeing The Perils of Cyber-Dating become a bestseller on its launch date brought me more joy than you'll ever know.

Based on the critically acclaimed bestseller by Allison Pearson, I Don't Know How She Does It follows a Boston - based working mother trying desperately to juggle marriage, children, and a high - stress job.

Reviewers describe it variously as «a little too much melodrama for one book» (Booklist), «over-the-top, heartrending» (PW), and «a feathery feel - good story» (Kirkus); but Berg fans know what they like - on the day of publication it was one of the top 200 bestsellers at Amazon, and likely to rise!

Now, if you're just starting out, these bestsellers are almost certainly by folks who are better known than you — they have an established platform: a mailing list, followers on social media, folks who can't wait for their next title.

On the Interviewing Authors Podcast, I interviewed over a hundred well - known authors (dozens of New York Times bestsellers), many of whom have been around for decades and sold tens of millions of books.

Saga, the Walking Dead are the two best known ones on the list, both series have been on various bestseller lists for years.

Interestingly, while NaNo is more of a writing exercise and a motivational tool, there have been a number of books that at least began life as NaNo novels, but through massive editing and polishing did go on to become bestsellers; Sara Gruen's Like Water for Elephants is perhaps the most well - known, having been also adapted for film.

In 2007 he was the first author to simultaneously hold the No 1 position on the Sunday Times Bestseller nonfiction and fiction lists for The Dangerous Book for Boys and Wolf of the Plains.

Comic book boom in Flanders If Flemish culture minister Sven Gatz has his way, beginning in the spring of 2017, booksellers and supermarkets will no longer be allowed to offer substantial discounts, on bestsellers in particular.

You may know that a Top 100 Amazon bestseller refers to your book in a specific category, but prospect book buyers visiting your book's sales page on Amazon are unlikely to be as savvy, meaning they'll be very impressed by your book's sales rank.

«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!).

In it, he talked about how publishers used to con their way on to the NY Times bestseller's list by purchasing books at the outlets they knew the NY Times used to gauge their list.

I know we grew up thinking that books made it to the bestseller's list based on merit and popularity but that's not 100 % true.

You probably know it already but wouldn't believe it still, but many big - name authors whose work have gone on to become classics or bestsellers have experienced rejection, the same way you're experiencing it now.

If you want to know the big reason indie books continue to steal one or two spots on the bestsellers» lists, you need only look at the list price.

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.

I wrote a piece on why you should keep writing, no matter what, called You May Be a Bestseller on Trafalmadore.

You get pumped up one week knowing you're going to conquer the world and finally make it on a bestseller list.

The book has spent more than 150 consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and with a movie in the works it will no doubt stay there for at least a few dozen more.

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).

I can no more be an expert in all areas of marketing anymore than they can «guarantee» I'll be on a bestseller list or win an award.

In fact, as I will now attempt to prove in terms of that other obviously agricultural matter which obviously isn't well known in NYC publishing circles, logic — in terms of talent, on average, agent - selected, traditionally published authors are... third class bestsellers, and quite possibly of less value than even midlisters, or largely indistinguishable from those.

The book appears on a bestseller list, so you know that other people are reading and recommending it, so it might be worth reading.

I know you're just trolling for attention, but you need some empirical evidence when you spout off like this — something more than looking at the names on a bestseller list.

This should not be viewed as an attempt by the publishing industry to discredit the bestseller status of some ebooks, but rather to help consumers know that books appearing on the list are genuinely deserving of those spots based on accurate sales figures.

Though known primarily for her award - winning and international bestselling erotic romances (including the Stark and Most Wanted series) that have reached as high as # 2 on the New York Times bestseller list, JK has been writing full time for over a decade in a variety of genres including paranormal and contemporary romance, «chicklit» suspense, urban fantasy, and paranormal mommy lit.

You know, the # 4 book on the NYT bestseller list of combined paper and ebook sales is a The Mill River Recluse, a self - pubbed novel by first - time author Darcie Chan.

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.

A good way to start is to have your ebooks available cheaply to libraries, because their collection development budgets aren't endless, and they're going to spend most of it on books that they know people will want — the NYT Bestsellers, the non-fiction books on important topics, the big names in each genre.

Yet, many authors base their fantasy life on being in a brick and mortar bookstore — even though they basically know that only bestsellers are found there.

After all, the NYT bestseller list is based (so they tell us) on anonymous and supposedly widely sourced data from a lot of bookstores, and wholesales who retail to other outlets... And has: 1) reputedly been cooked before 2) As we don't know the methodology is hard to check — but we know some very popular books never make it, and books which don't sell that many copies (17K hardback was reputed to get you onto the extend list, according to a friend who got there on that) 3) We know Bookscan data is pretty close to GIGO — so it's hard to see where the NYT would get better data.

This is what is known: The New York Times prepares a list of expected bestsellers (based in part on past performance and on wholesale preorders and what the publishers tell them should be on the list) and sends that list to bookstores.

The next time you see «bestseller» next to an author's name, you might want to consider how flawed that status is and take a chance on a lesser - known author.

Some people who know their ebooks may land on major bestseller lists use them to make their books more trackable for said list maintainers.

I'm Matt Herron, also known as M.G. Herron, the author of three sci - fi novels and a nonfiction book for writers called Scrivener Superpowers that was launched to bestseller status on Amazon twice with the help of email newsletters.

But as we know, digital publishing was right around the corner, and Elena had the foresight to make astute decisions that put her right back on the bestseller lists, and she did this all while overcoming a personal hardship.

If you look at the top 100 bestsellers, there will be the authors you know and the ones you don't — if the ones you don't are low - priced, it's easier to take a chance on purchasing.

When a book becomes a film, for instance, the hardcover, trade paperback and mass market paperback editions of that book may all end up back on the bestseller list at the same time, despite the mass market being the cheapest (and the e-book too — that's one time where the e-book price may be raised again because they know people will pay it.)

The plethora of free books on the Kindle bestseller list has been known for some time.

I know David Gaughran has some fairly accurate estimations that he's used before, but here's a what if for you: What if you could accurately model Amazon's ebook sales using data submitted by selfpub authors (which I remember seeing a blogger on the Writer's Cafe who was already doing this with extreme accuracy) combined with a sliding scale, using the same data, to determine sales at any given time (because being the # 5 bestseller in the Mystery category on Tuesday doesn't mean the same sales on Thursday).

There was no better time to have a book doing well on the bestseller lists.

Pat Flynn is the «Smart Passive Income» guy — but his Facebook group, «Pat's first ebook» is one of the largest and most active publishing Facebook groups that I'm on — and unlike most other Facebook groups, there are a lot of people who really know how to make bestsellers.