Sentences with phrase «novels on bookstore»

But I would still love to find a traditional publisher willing to put my novels on bookstore shelves, too.

This blog is a creative outlet not only for my love of fashion, but for that geeky writer in me who dreamed as a little girl of seeing her name on the spine of a novel on a bookstore shelf.

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He works, at the beginning of the novel, at a Chicago bookstore, but he can't shake his calling; strangers will unload their anxieties on them, struck by a supernatural confessional urge.

Outlander: A Novel by Diane Gabaldon — I have several friends who have recommended this series to me for years now so I picked it up at our used bookstore and took it on our family holiday to Colorado.

From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life.

Back when my first novel was published in 1997, authors went on book tours, scheduling talks and signings at bookstores, groceries, and even stopping at drugstores and big - box retail stores to sign books on the shelves.

Another Published digitally in two volumes by Yen Press in 2013, Yukito Ayatsuji's spine - chilling horror novels make their way to bookstore shelves in a hardcover omnibus edition under the Yen On brand in October 2014.

Boscha would be the first to say it's usually not so easy, but as of that December 2011 blog post, she'd placed her novel «in three different local independent bookstores, and I'm on the cusp of having it at a fourth.»

Based on a popular blog in the voice of a bookstore clerk who turns survivalist in the wake of a zombie apocalypse, Madeline Roux's debut novel puts a new spin on the zombie genre.

Fans of Elizabeth Gilbert have been waiting on pins and needles for her next book, The Signature of All Things, a 19th - century historical novel due to hit bookstores on October 1.

Indeed, our not - so - independent - as - all - that bookstores here in the Portland area apparently don't even bother to read the cover blurbs (since these stores feature and proclaim the very authors cited, yet will neither schedule a reading from this novel, nor accept except — after much pleading — a very few copies on consignment.

Published digitally in two volumes by Yen Press in 2013, Yukito Ayatsuji's spine - chilling horror novels make their way to bookstore shelves in a hardcover omnibus edition under the Yen On brand in October 2014.

As a firm supporter of independent authors, publishers and bookstores, she has recently taken on the role of UK Editor for the Historical Novel Society Online Review for self - published historical fiction produced in the UK.

I also feel that if we had a breakout novel that generated «Girl on a Train» type of sales, digital and physical bookstores would be doing better.

I have two self published novels that are great stories and would sell on bookstore shelves if given the chance.

Browsing at my favorite bookstore in New York City on a recent Sunday, I flipped through a few of the staff's recommended titles and imagined what it would feel like to see a novel of my own on those shelves.

Publishing Continuing its domination of the graphic novel sales in bookstores, The Walking Dead laid claim to seven of the Top 10 spots on BookScan's April chart.

The 77 - year - old author and bookstore owner, who's best known for epics like Lonesome Dove, hasn't published a novel since 2009's Rhino Ranch; he's been focusing on his memoirs and an epic biography of Custer.

Digital comics are also on the rise due to Kobo offering a wide array of new graphic novels in its digital bookstore.

If you hit the bookstore on your work break, you can often complete a novel in a few days.

Fed up with attempts to find a traditional publisher for her young - adult paranormal novels, Hocking self - published last March and began selling her novels on online bookstores like Amazon and Barnesandnoble.com.

My friend Deborah Reed, a wonderful writer but not a household name, has sold more than 100,000 copies of her novel Things We Set on Fire — virtually none of them in a conventional bookstore, since conventional bookstores won't sell Amazon Publishing — produced novels.

Posted in Books, Writing, tagged B&N, barnes and noble, bookstore chains, novels, publishing, S&S, simon and schuster, Writing on 26 Mar 2013 4 Comments»

I recently stumbled upon Kent Haruf's most celebrated novel on the remainder table at my local bookstore, which just seems wrong.

For example, compare a romance novel ebook selling on Amazon in English with a poetry chapbook in Dutch selling in a unique bookstore in a chic corner of Amsterdam.

The second was a culmination of so many things — realizing the work of promoting my novel was my responsibility, that books are only on the shelves for 2 - 3 months (if a bookstore even elects to carry a debut novel), and that if my first book didn't earn its advance (which I understand most don't), my writing career would be short - lived.

There's no way to know how many people might have added my novel to their «want lists» at Amazon or any other online bookstore, or even jotted it down on a to - read list at home, but I'm sure some have.

My novels won't sit stacked on some shelf in the back of a dusty old bookstore (if bookstores exist in the future), they will always be fresh and ready for download, ready to draw new readers into noir, eccentric, and illusionary worlds.

Publishing Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series continues to dominate graphic - novel sales in bookstores, taking six of the top seven spots on BookScan's September chart.

The other missing pieces are bookstores and libraries, but I doubt much good news will be coming from either sector; the big bookstore chains are stumbling badly this year, and my local stores have cut back on their graphic novel inventory, while libraries, like all branches of local government, must contend with budget cuts.

It's hard for me to imagine my novel showing up in the window of a major bookstore, but it can show up on the front page of Amazon.

And one of the first things I noticed when I went to explore the local Christian bookstore for the first time was the plethora of novels with young girls on the cover wearing goofy looking hats... Call me crazy, but what gives with all the prairie romances???

Also, literary novelist Jeff Stayton, went on a very long book tour to promote his first novel and he donated Little Libraries to any «book deserts» he ran across throughout the US... those communities that had lost a local bookstore and had no where to turn except Amazon for their books.

I wonder what can be done for my seafaring novel, Tropic Squall, published by BQB Publishers and available on line and through bookstores.

Book tours, autographs, travel, books piled high on bookstore shelves, everyone wanting to know me, Oprah, awards, greatest American novel: these were the dreams shoving me onto the road of authordom.

Authors of any genre of novel (or works of standard length for YA / MG / Children / Graphic Novels) and any field of full - length non-fiction work, published by presses who distribute to major American bookstores on a returnable basis and / or make their ebooks available on at least three of the following American online book stores: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Apple iBookStore, Kobo.

JK Rowling's first novel not to feature young bespectacled wizard Harry Potter was released on Wednesday, following a massive marketing campaign that effectively shrouded The Casual Vacancy in mystery before its debut on bookstore shelves.

On the day I received my first box of books (cue Marty McFly moment as George opens a box full of his new novels at the end of Back To The Future), I took a copy to our local bookstore, introduced myself to the owner, and asked if they would consider stocking it.

Fed up with attempts to find a traditional publisher for her young - adult paranormal novels, Hocking self - published last March and began selling her novels on online bookstores like Amazon and Barne...

My husband and I created our own publishing company, Teen Mystery Press, hoping that having a legitimate publishing company logo on my novels would help me get into bookstores.

09/26/11 - Today Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success by K. M. Weiland released on Amazon and other bookstores.

I thought self - publishing my novels would doom me to anonymity forever, that I'd never experience the rush of joy that came with walking into a bookstore and seeing my book on the shelf.

Retailing Image Comics took seven of the Top 20 spots on Nielsen BookScan's list of graphic novels sold in bookstores in May, with multiple volumes of Saga and The...

On our way home from our six month honeymoon in India back in 2007, we paid $ 1000 in excess baggage fees for very few clothes, and anvil weighted books: hard to find travel essays, fiction, Hindi pulp short novels only published in India we «d picked up from tiny book stalls in Amritsar, a massive bookstore in a Bombay mall, and one nestled next to a ghat in Varanasi.

The novel includes gems on the history of printing, the design of type - faces, cataloging systems, bookstore operation, the inner life at Google and much else.