Not exact matches
This is an excerpt from Brad Phillips» new
book, The Media Training Bible: 101
Things You Absolutely, Positively Need to
Know Before Your
Next Interview.
You try to write a
book on marriage and sex with your wife and
next thing you
know there are a lot of ants crashing your picnic.
Next thing you
know, she will be working the religious conservative circle, selling tickets to Christian conferences, writing a Christian
book, or working on FOX News.
Next thing you
know these yahoos are going to rewrite the Good
Book to include their anti-gay, anti-feminist, and anti-science rhetoric just to push their agenda.
The
next thing I
knew I was writing a
book on chocolate.
«At first, he was just going to do a few songs for the film, and then he came in and watched quite a bit of the movie, and the
next thing I
know, they were
booking a studio and they were going at it,» Coogler told NPR.
The
next thing I
knew, I had devoured the entire
book in one evening and was ravenously re-reading my favorite scenes!
It presumes that we
know what we are looking for; that blessed with foresight, we anticipate the
Next Big
Thing and then instigate a full - bore search for the perfect prepackaged
book and author.
Things keep being revealed and you can barely put the
book down because you just have to
know what's going to happen
next.»
The
next question is always something like: «Yeah, I
know I could do those
things, but the
book's already written.
There are a lot of aspects to
book marketing, and I
know it can get overwhelming, but here are 5
things to consider doing differently
next year to shake up your approach.
We also talk a bit about avoiding marketing FOMO, or the fear of missing out on the
next big
thing, you
know that
thing you read about on Facebook, that's like a
book selling miracle.
If I say yes to you, the rest will think I'll say yes to them, and
next thing you
know, to make sure the
books I sell remain high - quality enough for my customers, I'm screening which
books make it on my shelves and which ones don't, which basically means I'm doing the job of a publishing house now, and damn it, I'm trying to run a bookstore, not a publishing house, so no... you can't put your self - published
book on my shelf.
I don't
know if I should offer my current
book on Wattpad to build my client base, then release my
next books on a site like Smashwords or Amazon, or if I should offer my
book chapter by chapter on Wattpad, and link to my
book so readers can get the whole
thing immediately.
It's now up there
next to
books that have hundreds of five star reviews, and some really well -
known names like Dan Norris, Gary Vaynerchuck, Peter Thiel, Chris Guillebeau, and Jon Lee Dumas, I had initially hired someone to handle the marketing for me because I didn't want to to have to think about it, but that whole
thing ended up blowing up in my face and I had to learn to do it all myself.
I
know agents, that used to be a
thing when you were pitching to an agent in traditional publishing was the agent's not just interested in the
book you're pitching, they may ask you what your
next book is going to be.
Triggers such as keyword searches, categories and spikes in sales that last longer than 48 hours start to ping Amazon's algorithms and the
next thing you
know, your
book is showing up as a recommended buy and top of searches.
Earlier this week my partner was using the PC to
book some train tickets and the
next thing I
know, she's joking about having finally caught me looking at porn.
I am beginning to read more and more and the only
thing that can really delay my reading activity is not
knowing which
book to read
next!
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things you should
know about job references February 14, 2011 If you're job - searching, at some point you're going to be asked for references... and if you're like a lot of people, you're going to hand them over without giving much thought to what will happen
next.
I've had everything from your typical tourists, to chefs in town for a conference, to businessmen from Chicago — one
thing I've learned is that you will never
know the demographic of your
next booking.