Sentences with phrase «on bookstore shelves»

Who knows how many of their names will appear on bookstore shelves over the next twenty years?

By taking the above steps into consideration, you should be able to turn that work into the awesome moment when your book is placed on the bookstore shelf for the first time.

A trade paperback is a larger paperback such as you'd commonly find on a bookstore shelf.

Right at this moment, my little yellow book is sitting on a bookstore shelf or in your mailbox, maybe it's sitting on your couch.

Yes, it is time for consumers to tighten their budgets, but that is not the driving force behind the reduction in titles on bookstore shelves.

It's common to find the newest bestsellers showing up on bookstore shelves in hardcover, and some months later in paperback, and later still in the even more economical trade paperback.

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

Winning space on a bookstore shelf is becoming ever more challenging.

Every spot on a bookstore shelf is a space that could just as easily go to someone else.

* Genre, in the most basic explanation means where on a bookstore shelf would this book belong?

If your book crosses genres or age groups or doesn't fit neatly on a bookstore shelf, agents and editors may reject even the most well written manuscript.

You will not find vanity and / or scam presses on the bookstore shelves.

This arrangement kept inventory on the bookstore shelves and helped create exposure for books on obscure topics or by unknown authors, but the logistics and waste added substantially to the cost of publishing.

I quickly learned that even if I secured a literary agent and found a publisher it would be 3 - 5 years before I'd ever see my story collection on a bookstore shelf.

It should look like any other book on a bookstore shelf, yet many self - published authors make the mistake of cutting corners and skipping over critical steps in the publishing process.

The true work in finding an audience, developing name recognition, and image building should happen light years before the book ever appears on a bookstore shelf.

Hundreds, even thousands of diet and exercise books can be found on bookstore shelves.

If you plan to get reviews, space on bookstore shelves, or speaking engagements, think about this: The biggest complaint about self - published books is lack of editing.

My On The Shelf article went up last week on Otaku USA so check it out to see what new books you can expect to see on bookstore shelves right now.

I've been dreaming of the day where a hardcover book filled with glossy images, the name on the spine reading «Tessa Huff» would sit on bookstore shelves next to some of my baking idols like Greenspan, Tosi, Beranbaum, and Stewart for years.

Go so far as to step outside of her comfort zone of romance, her new book The Lucky Santangelo Cookbook is on bookstore shelves today and her faithful fans will not be disappointed.

Over 500,000 ISBNs were issued last year and most of those authors want to get on bookstore shelves.

If your books are ever displayed on bookstore shelves, having a name like Andrew Barnes will ensure yours will be one of the first books customers see as they scan the shelves looking for a good read.

And when it comes to testing what will work on a bookstore shelf, it's those snap judgments that are the most revealing.

Most debut fiction titles first appear on bookstore shelves as a cloth bound hardcover with a dust jacket — likewise for debut titles in the history, biography, science, and social studies genres.

I've been on bookstore shelves on consignment but decided it wasn't worth the gas and time to go around restocking.

75,000 words translates nicely into a 300 page paperback which, when placed on a bookstore shelf, has a one - to - two inch spine that is narrow enough to leave room for the latest 480 page New York Times best seller release and long enough to keep a customer from feeling cheated.

Fans of Realtor Peggy Blair and Inspector Ricardo Ramirez will be happy to know The Poisoned Pawn is now on bookstore shelves.

Inclusion in IBPA's Bookstore Catalog demonstrates to the professional buyers who receive it that you're engaged with a community of indie publishers committed to producing quality work that would do well on their bookstore shelves.

And although I was never a Tom Clancy fan, one could SEE the problem as his books on the bookstore shelves kept getting bigger.

It is what sets a Richard North Patterson thriller apart from its competitors on bookstore shelves and keeps him hitting the New York Times bestseller list.

The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that E.L. James» Fifty Shades trilogy is on track to hit 20 million copies sold in the United States, after just three months on bookstore shelves (it has been available digitally for about four months).

That books that aren't marketed aggressively usually stay on bookstore shelves for just six months — and are then remaindered, often going out of print?

Find out what's currently on bookstore shelves, which books are being checked out most frequently at the library, which books are making news, why your friends and family are buzzing about certain titles, and what is happening in the literary world in general.

I would have resisted indefinitely if I didn't know that we had written a damned good book, that we were both committed to a long term plan, and that we possessed enough skills and money to put out a book that could stand proudly on a bookstore shelf next to any traditionally published work.

Whether you're a new author or a veteran with dozens of volumes on bookstore shelves, your back cover blurb will always be your best chance to convince a reader to buy your newest book.

Therin is professional to work with and my books look great - very high quality and professional looking even nicer than some of the books you might find published on the bookstore shelves!»

Traditional publishers build their business around the typical sales curve of a print book: put a lot of copies on bookstore shelves, see what sells in the first 90 days, and deal with returns and marginal ongoing demand on most titles.

Once you are satisfied that this book looks like what you want on bookstore shelves and other readers are used to seeing... go ahead and pick your book's birthday (also known as a publication date) and celebrate.

We have to consider a lot more than how grabby a title looks on a bookstore shelf these days.

But the reason that YA fiction has grown so huge as a market, and remained healthy throughout the recession, is that even when money is tight, a parent will put one of their own books back on a bookstore shelf if their teen presents a book that they want to read.

It either didn't meet the compressed economics of a magazine or it didn't give value on the bookstore shelf by merit of its heft.

More importantly, as authors and publisher look for ever more creative ways to attract the attention of readers who already have large amounts of content to choose from, books are going to have to have a way to stand out from the crowd on the bookstore shelves.

This means if getting your title stocked on bookstore shelves is part of your marketing plan, Booksellers Return Program is an essential element to earning shelf space and / or in - store book signings.

On the other hand, many traditionally published midlist authors have a few thousand copies of their works gathering dust — temporarily — on bookstore shelves before the books are remaindered or pulped.

Scarier yet for some of us, $ 18.99 / CAN — thank goodness for the strong Canadian dollar keeping those terrifying prices relatively obselete on bookstore shelves!