Sentences with phrase «never get a book deal»

At the same time, I'm being approached by a number of traditionally published writers who believe they will never get another book deal, and their careers are ruined forever.

Not exact matches

I never chased money, and have always given away a large chunk of my income to children in Africa (though it's still less than what he gave), but I don't get the book deal, the radio interviews, or the conference speaking invitations!!!

I wrote a book about it, a very long time ago, that never got published, but it was a deal with prints... This was my world.

But here's the deal: I realized I wouldn't get paid anything if Smash's slower distribution never made my book available on the Kobo website.

There's never been an easier way to get a book deal.

After writing dozens of query letters, getting rejections from agents, and only being offered a deal with a publisher if I put a few thousand dollars upfront, I was frustrated and thought I'd never get these books into print.

The Christmas Secret is Anderson's fourth deal with VanLiere, who told us she «never imagined» she'd write about Christmas or get TV deals back when she brainstormed her first book idea «on a hot, sweaty day in July.»

A couple of well - known British authors recently said that if they were to come out now and try to get published, they would never get a traditional book deal.

When I was talking about Rachelle's post on Twitter, my friend Roni Loren mentioned that she got a book deal with Berkley in the past year and was never asked by her agent or publisher what her numbers were.

But since I've never really tried to get my books into bookstores, that's not a big deal for me.

So translation rights, I mean, the thing about selling translation rights today, and I'm sure you know this, is that you often deal with the foreign publisher, they translate the book, they give you $ 500, and you never hear from them again; you never get any sales figures, you never build an audience in that country.

Self - publishing authors should stay that way — if you want to use traditional publishers to help market your paper books to gain more attention to get better agent - represented film & tv rights deals, by all means, but never, ever trust them.

While some might not think it a big deal to promote a coloring book, it was a huge thing to me that the word never got out from the publisher.

And a great deal of authors never even reach the «publishing» stage because even though they desperately want to write a book, they can't find the time to get it finished.

It's never too late for a previously published author to get a literary agent, traditional publisher, and book deal.

I was told I would never get another traditional publishing deal (my 1st novel was also published by St. Martin's) if I self - published, but I self - published anyway — and then I got a traditional publishing deal for my next book.

As someone who has read your site for a long time but never commented, I think your idea is great and I hope you get a book deal — as the previous poster said, there is plenty of garbage on the investing bookshelves.

The further away you book (say Mataram, the Gili Islands, or Bali) the more likely you're dealing with an agent who in all likelihood has never been near Rinjani before and you'll have very limited recourse when you discover you're not getting what you paid for.

I had never even considered being a landlord or investing in rental property before reading that book (That's probably because house flipping just sounds sexier, and there are not any hit TV shows that I know of showing a landlord dealing with a bad tenant) however after reading the book I was overwhelmed with the feeling that rental property investing is something I should get into.

I have seen so many want - to - be investors attending countless seminars, spending thousands in books and program, but never getting the first deal going.

By all means, keep reading books and going to free REIA meetings where 90 % of the people have never done a deal... jut don't complain if you get «free» results.