Sentences with phrase «on self published authors»

You might be asking yourself how I can be so harsh on self published authors, considering I am one, but there are many of us who remember the days before ebooks.

Apropos my comment on self published authors not getting sales.

Take it from the hundreds of authors who have posted comments and testimonials on our website and on the Self Publishing Author blog.

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I'm a self - published author, and while writing more books is great, I also need to focus on selling the one that is already out there to as many distribution platforms as possible.

Similarly, I wanted to be a published author (not self - published, which to me is to being published as owning a home is to being a monarch), but once I was, I wanted to have 50 articles in print before I was 50, and so on.

His company takes authors from blank page to published in 90 days, with courses on how to self - publish.

As the CEO of the Author Incubator, Lauria and her team provide aspiring authors with guidance on how to write and publish their own books — whether that's through self - publishing or through her company.

Guy Kawasaki, venture capitalist and bestselling author, encouraged visitors to the site for his book about self - publishing, Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur — How to Publish a Book, to share a link to the site on Twitter or Facebook in exchange for a bundle of free materials, including a book design temauthor, encouraged visitors to the site for his book about self - publishing, Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur — How to Publish a Book, to share a link to the site on Twitter or Facebook in exchange for a bundle of free materials, including a book design temAuthor, Publisher, Entrepreneur — How to Publish a Book, to share a link to the site on Twitter or Facebook in exchange for a bundle of free materials, including a book design template.

It is also playing catch up with Amazon by selling more and more books from self - published authors, both on - line and in its retail outlets.

She is an internationally published author on the topics of raising children with difficult and severe behaviors, understanding the parent's reactivity when challenged in the home, and self - development.

Melding the category strengths and bestselling authors of both imprints, TarcherPerigee's core publishing areas include: Self - improvement (such as the runaway successes Start Where You Are by Meera Patel, The Power of Kindness by Piero Ferrucci, Attached by Dr. Amir Levine, and A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley); Creativity (including interactive books like Adam J. Kurtz's 1 Page at a Time and Me, You, Us by Lisa Currie as well as the multi-million-copy bestsellers Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards and The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron); Parenting (the New York Times bestseller Brainstorm by Dr. Daniel Siegel, Carol Kranowitz's go - to guide The Out - of - Sync Child, and Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids by Dr. Laura Markham); Spirituality (including bestselling titles like Transcendence by Dr. Norman Rosenthal, Goldie Hawn's 10 Mindful Minutes, The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes, and I Am the Word by Paul Selig); and Gift / Inspiration (such as the Wall Street Journal bestseller Chasers of the Light by Tyler Knott Gregson, the New York Times bestseller Catification by Jackson Galaxy and the James Beard Award - winner Imbibe by David Wondrich).

The paper, authored by New York University's Steven Brams, Wilfrid Laurier University's D. Marc Kilgour, and the University of Graz's Christian Klamler and published this month in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, outlines a pair of algorithms that are based on the self - identified priorities of the parties.

A Lawyer's Thoughts on Authors, Self - Publishing and Traditional Publishing

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From freelancers looking for a nudge to pitch new markets to new authors preparing to self - publish, many types of writers find helpful advice on this site.

Outskirts Press, the No. 1 - rated self - publishing company according to Top Consumer Reviews, has announced a limited - time St. Patrick's Day flash sale that will save independent authors hundreds of dollars on self - publishing in March.

By engaging in self - publishing through Infinity, the author retains all rights to the book and Infinity pays monthly royalties on every book sold — we earn our profit selling books to ever expanding niches and discount books to our authors who create and control the content.

The company is focused on publishing, marketing and distributing self - help, memoirs and niche fiction books by qualified and talented authors.

In this updated edition, author and book publishing expert Mark Levine shares his wisdom on the legal, publishing, and marketing details self - published authors often miss in the excitement of getting -LSB-...]

If the self - published author plans on taking on debt to fund the business or acquire assets, then she should definitely choose one of the Big Three above.

Like self - publishing services, author mills tend to exclusively rely on digital technology, to have wholesale and online distribution only, and to impose high cover prices.

For the record, I am not categorically against a process whereby self - published works are vetted, but I'm squeamish at the thought that authors might feel they have to go on bended knee to «industry insiders» for their blessing.

In addition, it's getting harder and harder for traditionally published authors to wrest their rights back from publishers, which is undoubtedly cutting down on the number of backlist titles being newly self - published.

Many moons ago, long before I dreamed of seeking fame and fortune as a self - published author, back when I was of that peculiar age when young men choose to live in smelly apartments with other young and smelly men, I had as a roommate the incredible and talented drummer of Charlie's on Acid.

I think if you spend a lot of money on the more expensive packages then you have to take with a grain of salt what any self - publishing house can realistically do to help an author.

Amanda Hocking — who became the poster child for self - publishing on the Kindle after she made more than $ 2 million from a series of young - adult novels she wrote and published in the past year — signed a $ 2 - million deal earlier this year with St. Martin's Press, a unit of publishing giant Macmillan, to write a new series of young - adult novels (my colleague Cyndy Aleo wrote a series of posts recently based on her interviews with several young authors about the changes in the industry).

I've been following the print - on - demand (or self - publishing) issue for several years, watching as self - publishing has become (more) legitimized, and always with a bit of amusement given that some of the most revered authors in literature were self - published (ex: Virginia Woolf... Continue reading →

I've seen too many self - published authors promote the same book over and over rather than focusing on expanding their offerings.

After all, the purpose of RWA is to provide an organization of writers of romance who are pursuing professional publication, and although a handful of self - published authors go on to make mega-bucks, the vast, vast majority of them — 99.9999 % — don't make enough that they would have to declare the earnings on their taxes.

Many self - published authors rely on online sales of both print books and ebooks though, so, okay, a badly designed book might not necessarily put off all prospective buyers.

One daily commitment I have is to check out the post at http://www.thepassivevoice.com, which is branded as «A Lawyer's Thoughts on Authors, Self - Publishing and Traditional Publishing.»

But what about the opposite side of the coin: the best - selling traditionally published authors who have kicked their publishers to the curb, focused on self - publishing their books both past and present?

Balboa Press authors who'd like to share a 350 - 600 word experience related to the self - publishing of their books are invited to do so through the submission form on the Guidelines page.

Congratulations on being the UK's bestselling self - published author of 2012!

I've also been active in Facebook groups and on Quora (where I was the most viewed author in Self - Publishing for awhile).

In the days of digital technology, e-books, tablet reading devices and Kindle Direct Publishing (to name one distribution platform), paperback for indie authors was the one «as yet unconquered» land for self - published authors everywhere until about four years ago, when Amazon - owned print - on - demand company CreateSpace built traction and changed the playing field for indies everywhere.

< And in our preparatory column to last week's Issues on the Ether column for our #EtherIssue live discussion, Bringing Tools of the Trade to Self - Publishing, we askwed our readers to talk with us about what tools entrepreneurial authors need most; to what degree those tools can be as much of a burden as a help if they slow down writers with steep learning curves; how well the commercial world seems to be responding so far to the needs of entrepreneurial authors; and what kind of results they're seeing from their own experiences and experiments with new tools.

Then there are companies springing up like Blue Inc., where self - published authors can pay a small fee for unbiased reviews that are posted on the web.

We're stepping out of running every promotion as a monthly stint, and driving the site to more of a community, where readers and authors have more interaction, bloggers and reviewers can connect and choose books based on availability, and education spans every aspect of self - publishing, from harnessing the power of social media to creating strong websites and platforms, and effective book marketing.

The self - published authors mentioned below are a combination of things: bestsellers on the NYT's lists, part of the «Amazon's million» book club, and some, like Ksenia Anske, are not even making money off their book sales yet, but already have thousands of supporters.

Commentators on the current upheaval in publishing have observed that many authors desperately seek a traditional publisher when self - publishing would serve them far better.

If you'd like to find out more about it, you may like to read the blog post I've just written in my capacity as Commissioning Editor for the Alliance of Independent Authors on their blog of self - publishing advice here: http://www.selfpublishingadvice.org/voice-recognition/

There are many posts by professional editors on this site, and each has something to offer to authors contemplating self - publishing.

Xlibris provides a book publishing guide to writers and authors on how to publish a book through self publishing, and offers print on demand services.

Opting Out of Sales on Amazon.com If you're a self - publishing author you need to make sure you're visible to people who want to find you on the internet.

I would estimate that the average annual income for self - published authors is slightly lower now and, having seen a number of authors quit over the last couple of years in order to get full time jobs because of financial problems, it hasn't gotten any easier to make ends meet on just book royalties.

In short, Penn sees little to complain about in the conversation of the agents on the panel from her stance as an author who hopes to publish traditionally as well as in self - publishing.

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Mick Rooney put a post up on his site today that details a long - running dispute between an author and self - publishing company in the UK.

Amazon allows self - published authors to put books on their platform and earn between 35 % and 70 % of the list price of the book.