Share your stuff with other writers you trust, join a Google or Facebook group
of authors in your genre, share excerpts on your blog and ask for honest feedback.
Focus on creating a network
of authors in your genre or niche.
She now has a seven book deal with Pan McMillan and is out selling many
of the authors in her genre.
Consider group blogs
of authors in your genre.
I'll bet most
of the authors in this genre are fat and ugly, fantasy based women with a serious case of penis envy.
The pitfall to avoid: When studying competing titles, make sure you don't look at old titles or just titles by a favorite author; look at recent releases by a range
of authors in your genre to determine how to publish a book that can compete in that particular genre.
A group
of authors in a genre all get together.
If you love the book
of an author in your genre who has given you a nice review, and you want to avoid any worries, give her a spotlight or interview on your blog or offer a blurb to be included in the «editorial reviews» instead of appearing to trade.
Better yet, get a group
of authors in your genre together to FB and tweet each others» posts to their followings.
That's why I think that the mid-list cohort
of authors in each genre are basically interchangeable.
Create a Facebook account in your author name and begin to chat with readers
of authors in your genre.
If you know for a fact that your books are very similar to just a handful
of authors in your genre, go with an approach that's more targeted.
Not exact matches
Tracing the course
of the
author's work from Typee to Billy Budd, Kelley shows convincingly that Melville — though he borrowed from many different sources — belongs completely to none
of the established
genres of Victorian city writing: the Romantic pastoral that used urban depravity to extol rural virtue; the popular «Reform Literature»
of the yellow journalists that sensationalized municipal corruption and disorder; the «scientific» tracts
of the emerging city planning movement; or the urban strolls
of the flâneur and the Addisonian «spectator» (a
genre that reached its peak, for New York, with what Kelley calls the «humorous - genteel - sentimental - melodramatic - ironic» observations
of Charles Dickens
in his 1842 American Notes).
Such character - centered writing is a mark
of good fiction
in any
genre, but
in detective novels, where the
author may feel enslaved to solution - hungry readers, it's especially rare.
(35) More concretely, it is the sum total
of all the decisions an
author has made to externalize his or her subjectivity
in a literary work
in order to communicate a message: choices
of narrator,
genre, plotline, characters and characterization, repertoire, and rhetorical strategies.
Scripture has many
authors, it makes use
of many sources, and it is written — if we may be excused an unhelpful anachronism —
in various
genres.
So, this means that there is ONE valid interpretation to any text, unless the
author purposely designed the text
in such a way as to make people ponder various interpretations (which would be a certain kind
of genre, but not most texts).
Building upon his understanding that written texts can burst the world
of the
author, and indeed that
of the reader as well, and upon his understanding that different
genres accomplish this
in different ways, Ricoeur comes to his understanding
of «the world
of the text» or,
in other citations, «the world
in front
of the text,» by which he means «the... world intended beyond the text as its reference.
This book, which on its face seems to have been motivated by the old - timer's urge to reminisce by means
of the biographical
genre, is actually a fine work
of history, and
in the end its
author is unafraid to suggest that the work
of history is itself an enterprise
of devotion, a kind
of spiritual work.
To suggest that a collection
of ancient texts, written by multiple
authors and
in multiple
genres, spanning thousands
of years and countless cultural contexts provides a single, uniform prescription for how to be a woman is absolutely ridiculous.
As Thomas Woodman points out: «
In recent years the rise of postmodernist fiction and of such modes as «magic realism» [as exemplified most obviously by Latin American authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez] have called into question the whole privileging of realism in the novel genre.&raqu
In recent years the rise
of postmodernist fiction and
of such modes as «magic realism» [as exemplified most obviously by Latin American
authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez] have called into question the whole privileging
of realism
in the novel genre.&raqu
in the novel
genre.»
Back
in December, a bunch
of Harper Voyager US / UK
authors got together on the #SFFchat hashtag to talk about writing, publishing, and the sci - fi / fantasy
genre with aspiring SF / F
authors.
I'm also thankful for Lawrence J. Cohen,
author of Playful Parenting (one
of my favorite books ever), who is a calming voice
of reason
in the parenting literature
genre.
If you are an avid reader, instead
of sharing this
in your «leisure time» answer, share your love
of reading, your favorite
genres, and your favorite
author when answering Question 11.
NSW South Coast, Australia About Blog Juliet Madison is a bestselling and award - nominated
author of fiction
in multiple
genres, an inspirational coloring book artist, and a self - empowerment and writing coach.
Discover the tale
of each girl and Yaoi, primarily known as boys» love
in Japan, is a Japanese
genre of fictional media focusing on romantic or sexual relationships between male characters, typically marketed for a female audience and usually created by female
authors.
Stephen King is the
author of a lot
of books
in the
genre of thriller and horror.
Ten years later, working from an adaptation
of the caper novel by W.R. Burnett scripted
in collaboration with the
author, he essentially launched the heist film as a
genre of its own and set the blueprint that all subsequent heist dramas built upon.
The ensuing book,
In Cold Blood, was a sensational success and is credited with creating the «Non-Fiction Novel»
genre, influencing generations
of authors.
*** Includes 129 original reading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect,
author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track
of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed
in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 -
author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 -
genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot
of fluency practice!
Even
in the newest libraries, books are arranged
in terms
of genre, often by the
author's last name.
Many content textbooks are written
in a way that makes both the cognitive and language load unsupportable for language learners; reading a wide range
of authors and
genres can also be overwhelming.
Information about the title,
author, and
genre of the book is written
in the third tier
of the birthday cake.
Below:
In addition to separating my classroom library into
genres, I have colorful boxes labeled with the names
of some
of my students» favorite
authors.
Students write the title,
author, and
genre in the stems, and along the top rim
of the pot students write their name and date.
«The
authors here are intent on showing and demonstrating how thoughtful technology planning by the teacher leads to classrooms full
of engaged students who can dive deep into content - area exploration
in a variety
of genres, formats, and assessments.
There are lots
of literary agencies looking for new
authors,
in every
genre or category.
As I am scrolling and looking I will also look for other
authors in the
genre and see if they have a big following and follow some
of their followers
in the same way I described above.
I believe all we can do as
authors is to create compelling work to the best
of our abilities, targeted
in genres that are large enough to sustain us if they it breaks big, and to love what we're doing even if we had to pay to do it.
In the case of print books, just cut out the last page in every book, which details the program and lists qualifying titles in the same genre or by the same autho
In the case
of print books, just cut out the last page
in every book, which details the program and lists qualifying titles in the same genre or by the same autho
in every book, which details the program and lists qualifying titles
in the same genre or by the same autho
in the same
genre or by the same
author.
The ideal venues are the blogs
of well - known
authors in your
genre.
I told her that's especially important for
authors — who spend years writing books that people won't read instead
of thinking
in terms
of genres that sell.
As you've pointed out, many times, that's
authors who write
in the same
genre — fans
of their books can become fans
of another writer
in that
genre, too.
Over the course
of her dynamic career she has sold over seven hundred titles to every major publisher, and has built a client list
of more than forty
authors spanning the commercial fiction
genres, primarily
in the areas
of fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, suspense and erotica.
Steampunk (and Harlequin and Amish romance)
author Shelley Adina joins us today to talk about managing multiple pen names and
genres, keeping a long - running series fresh (and selling), paying for foreign translations
of indie books, and working the cons to get
in touch with more readers (and take trips you can write off on your taxes!).
Do you think it matters that all
of the
authors in a co-op be writing
in similar
genres?
Unlike traditional publishers — who only take on a book if it has a chance
of doing really well, either because the
author has an established platform or because the book is
in a very popular
genre — I work on a lot
of projects that probably won't be as successful.
While my own ties
in the romance community have drawn a few romance
authors, we are accepting submissions from all areas
of adult
genre fiction.
Dear
Author and Smart Bitches both run regular features on their sites highlighting books that have gone on sale for $ 2.99, $ 1.99, or $.99, because the romance
genre in particular is full
of readers that burn through so many titles that they are eager to snap up books for as cheaply as they can get them.
If you're an indie
author who's competing
in your
genre, on your own, with best - selling
authors who have the resources
of big publishing houses behind them.