Sentences with phrase «local authors get»

Start your own writer's group in your community to help yourself and other local authors get to the next level in their writing careers.

Yes, there are book festivals, but very few local authors get to attend in any way other than setting up a table in the dealer room.

Not exact matches

«The National Front gets support from very small businesses — artisans and local retailers,» says Vincent Jarousseau, a professional photographer and the author of a book on the National Front, called L'illusion National.

I adapted this recipe from one found in The Fishes & Dishes Cookbook: Seafood Recipes and Salty Stories from Alaska's Commercial Fisherwomen — I got to meet one of the authors when we picked this up at our local Whole Foods.

She is a local tour guide, specializing in hiking and trekking, author of «Hikes of Western Newfoundland» and gear reviewer for Get Out There magazine.

A best - selling author who got amnesia as the result of a car accident finds refuge with the local doctor of a small idyllic town in Vermont.

Using a city - branded website lets you get your local community involved — from booksellers to authors and publishers.

Bookstores could be early adopters and natural locations for these machines — but most bookstores would need help to take the risk out of such and investment — and ongoing support in the form of a galvanized local author community to get people into the habit of ordering books through the new in - store technology.

As Village Book's Publishing Director, Brendan Clark has noted, «our publishing program brings together flexible project management, high - quality on - demand book production, and the expertise of local professionals, all with the unified goal of helping authors get their books into print.»

A local author tries to exploit their story, while an unlikely men's rights activist attempts to get Sadie onside their cause.

Here in Canada, there are less choices for local authors to get their digital titles in the local library.

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SELF - e's services can also assisst librarians in responding to the many requests they get for support from their local author communities.

Getting your book in a local bookstore isn't as easy or as difficult as many authors think.

Authors should get the word out to fans to get into local libraries and request books.

I first met superstar author Catherine Ryan Hyde in her pre-Pay it Forward days when she got some terrible critiques at a local writing group.Her story was brilliant.

Over the years many authors have asked me about how to get their books sold in local bookstores.

I would love to find a way to get the many local authors in my area together.

I have an indie author who recently described how she managed to get on local radio shows across the country: she did her research, and acted like she belonged.

Support your local authors, crafters and businesses while getting a jump start on your holiday shopping!

I was interviewed by author Lindsay Buroker for an article on her blog about how self - published authors could get their books into their local libraries.

There's been a trend in library circles lately to focus on encouraging community content creation and building local collections, so authors might stand a chance at getting their book added to libraries in their local area, especially if they offer to do a reading or similar library program for free.

Buy a book, get it signed, and support your local indie author!!!

Many of those authors would even be willing to donate a copy to their local public library (maybe not every public library, mind you, but the one in their own hometown) just to get readers.

In a more expansive campaign, JKS would alert an author's local media of any award wins and help indie authors get an award sticker on their book cover.

Why most authors and experts fail to make the leap from just getting local publicity to scoring big - time national media coverage.

«What's a little bit more difficult is to find the small author, the author who is getting started, the author who is local — but now we have the eBook revolution.»

One of the more frustrating truths about self - publishing and libraries is that indie authors have had a hard time getting their books into their own local libraries, as budgets are small and the risk of insult when the book is of poor quality is high.

We're starting to do collaborations with our work with the ABA (American Booksellers Association) where we're doing local self - publishing nights with the local bookstores, bringing together the local self - publishers and having them run clinics for other aspiring self - published authors or people who are trying to get a handle on what this space is... The catalog keeps growing with new authors all the time, new languages all the time, and even as the total business grows, that percentage of self - published sales remains shockingly consistent.»

Local morning shows are perfect for the author trying to get national media and speaking engagements.

If you are lucky you may stumble on what you need in a few days or weeks, or if you are like me you can spend years attending local author meetings, book publishing meetings, reading everything Google has to offer, and still not have a clear idea of what steps to take to get your book out there.

Local book marketing is surging for a lot of indie authors so get on board the success train!

Look, these fees, sales deals, and low quantities at bookstores will not have you light cigars with hundred dollar bills, and they are very labor intensive, but catering to brick and mortar stores is something an Indie Author should do for several reasons — to build some local cache, get more experience pitching his or her art, and garnering that genuinely terrific feeling of seeing your work on the shelf of a reputable bookstore.

They are becoming a place where a local author can go in, get their book formatted, get their book set up for print and even print through the store.

If your library has not registered, be sure to let the Indie Author Day team know and they will be in touch to help get your local library involved.

So, if you're going to walk into a Barnes and Noble or a BAM, and you want to try to get your book on that local author's table, show to them that they have people around them in their community, again, the readers that Barnes and Noble themselves are trying to connect to, and make that connection for them.

A self - published book can mean almost anything... from what gets spilled out of the fingers and mind of the author to the presentation from the local printing shop and sometimes looking like it was put...

Today we're taking a look bookstores, which are significant sales channels for traditionally published authors, but for indies, it can be a challenge to get your books into local bookstores.

For example, a Newton, Massachusetts - based author who reaches out to national TV shows and is lucky enough to get an invitation to appear on, say, «Good Morning America,» should still pitch local media outlets (the «Newton Tab,» which is a community newspaper with a Newton, Massachusetts readership, for example), local radio stations (in this case, WNTN which is based in Newton), and the community newspapers and radio stations in surrounding cities and towns (such as, in this example, Arlington, Cambridge, Concord, Lexington, Weston, and others).

I've made my own group here in Houston where we get together and support authors at a local bookstore, enjoy some great food and talk of all things books!

While the fans may be reaping the benefits of instant access to ebooks without the hassle and potential embarrassment of shopping in their local brick - and - mortar to get their steamy fix, the authors are the ones truly benefitting from the high volume of titles making their way to market for an audience that can not get enough of their favorite authors and characters.

to offer our customers more options — more options that also help the local economy and ensure authors get paid fairly.»

Keith Dixon One Stop Fiction «I would say the Alliance of Independent Authors is definitely a good thing — it's a very active organisation that's involved at a high level in the world of publishing, while at the same time having a great (private) Facebook group where you can get advice on all kinds of stuff, from copyright law to good cover designers to where the best local independent bookshop is.

So I just created a Facebook group with the intention of getting local authors together to read one another's books and write reviews.

A self - published book can mean almost anything... from what gets spilled out of the fingers and mind of the author to the presentation from the local printing shop and sometimes looking like it was put together at the kitchen table with a glue - stick; to a vanity press like a LuLu, AuthorHouse / Solutions (known as the publishing predators); or one of the pay the other pay to publish services that claim to offer different types of packages / templates for the author to select from; to Ingram Spark or Amazon's CreateSpace; to the author doing the publishing himself with his name or a «looks like a publishing company» name on it (always recommended).

Whether it's a local writers conference, a reading or a book fair, be on the lookout for opportunities to get your name out there as an author.

The Odyssey Book Shop in Massachusetts, for example, wants to work with local organizations to create opportunities for kids to meet authors and get signed books.

Using a headline such as «Local author has just discovered a cure for AIDS» may get you the interview, but it will also earn you instant animosity when the reporter or host finds out it just isn't true.

The Vigilante Author: So, your self - published, self - sold Term Limits took off in the Twin Cities and became a local bestseller — and that finally got you a New York publisher for it.

While carefully choosing titles of local interest by local authors is a laudable goal, will our readers flock to get the latest Indie, library curated eContent?