Sentences with phrase «only focus of your book»

Although indie authors tend to live and die by how many books they sell, sales shouldn't be the only focus of your book publicity efforts...

Not exact matches

While the White House did try to focus its wrath on Wolff and publisher Henry Holt and Company — attempting to impose a cease - and - desist order, only prompting an earlier release of the book — there are more in - depth reports already headed for the printing presses of which the administration should be wary.
Jack Tatar is the author of the book, «Safe 4 Retirement: The Four Keys to a Safe Retirement» which takes a holistic approach to retirement that considers not only the financial aspects but the need to focus on health, wellness, mental attitude and staying involved as keys to living a long and safe retirement.
If any christians had a decent argument, they'd focus on it, instead of on the imagined «hate» and «spite» they seem to see in everyone who doesn't agree with them — but not in god, who demonstrates it in every book of his «word» if you but only read without the bias of indoctrination / brainwashing.
Grey's focus on women in poverty and the prophetic possibilities of a kenotic praxis represent only half of the feminist theological agenda in her book.
I begin with attention to the philosophical underpinnings, not only in Whitehead but also in Charles Hartshorne, and then move to those who have built on this work to bring forth their own vital theological appropriations that inform the focus of this book.
I am writing another book which focuses only on how to read the Bible through the lens of Jesus Christ crucified.
The focus of my comment however is that SATYRS only exist Mythology books (which your bible was derived from), and Hollywood movies.
The sad fact about our seasons of late is that too often we seem to only be focused on the race for 4th as we lack ambition with an owner content with balancing the books..
A number of books are available to help children deal with a father's deployment, but only a very few focus on a mother's deployment.
The chat will focus not only on the new program but also on the value of books in the healing process, and what books have helped our current community members.
For me, the highlights of the book were the chapters I wouldn't expect to see in a parenting book, which so often focus only on the child and parent - child relationship.
In her first public appearance since James Comey, the former FBI director, began his book tour, Hillary Clinton made only a glancing reference to him in a speech last night and instead focused most of her attacks on President Trump, once again likening him to authoritarians.
Additionally, the book also focuses on the importance of not only food, but also on mindfulness and goal setting.
Maggie Moon, M.S., R.D.N., author of the upcoming book, The MIND Diet, says there are foods you should focus on eating that not only help promote a healthy body, but also help improve the health of the mind.»
Your review makes me far more optimistic than I was, though I have been excited for this.Seems that they will get the smaller nuances in, and they have focused more on the drama here, the action only kicked in in the second half of the book anyway.
It's also messy, not only in its depiction of squalor but also its vacillating focus, gaps of character, and a too - tidy finale (Whether it's true to life and the book or not is beside the point), and for all the effort to balance the lives of father and son, it's the father's story that's more intriguing.
Typically, history books divide U.S. citizens into blacks and whites before focusing only on whites to the exclusion of blacks and other minorities.
Whereas books try to create pictures and emotions only through the use of the written word, movies and graphic novels provide these visual images for the reader / viewer, allowing them to focus on the dialogue.
In this book, Zhao points out the flaws of a system focused only on student achievement scores and guides our thinking to a broader approach to preparing students for tomorrow.
In 2015, only 15 % of children's books were written by African - American or Latino authors, or focused on African - American or Latino characters» Over 80 % of public school teachers nationally are White women, though a majority of public school students are people of color.
Rich and supple leather seating with driver friendly features such as a fully digital instrument cluster with the speedometer, tachometer, and engine monitoring gauges squeezed tightly into an area approximately the size of an open check book, and a flat - bottom steering wheel, with the full regiment of buttons, serve - up an atmosphere which could only be borne of the rich tradition created by many generations of machines with a focus on performance.
Luckily, the members of the focus group not only avoided the poor sales that would have resulted from a poorly - titled book, but they suggested a better title, one that expressed what they felt the book was all about, i.e., Customers for Life..
I think it's so critical to stay focused on the only thing we can control in this crazy business: our books and writing more of them.
«Christmas is a busy time for everyone so this year we really focused on making the NOOK Christmas Shop the only place readers need to visit to find all of the best books at fantastic value,» said Colin Eustace, General Manager, Barnes & Noble S.à.r.l.
In what is possibly the slowest death in the publishing industry, German publisher and retailer Bertelsmann announced this week that it would be leaving the bookselling business to focus on content, which it produces not only as a book publisher but also in other forms of media.
By splitting its children's books division into two separate imprints based on the age demographic of its consumer readers, the publisher is acknowledging not only the very different needs and business practices of children's book publishing, but is also currently strong enough in the market to focus on differentiating its publishing model.
Don't focus on the finish line of the publication date — that's only the beginning of your journey to make your book count.
Unfortunately, Kobo, which is focused on books is the only one of the three applications that is currently live here on our German - version.
Because of their business cycles, each book only gets a small window of opportunity to make an impact before everyone moves on to the next book, so the entire focus is to make the bulk of sales in the first month... In fact, launch sales are generally disappointing compared to what happens once the Amazon algorithms kick in and you get some traction around reviews and reputation.
The system resembles a more competition - focused version of social reading startup Wattpad in some ways, but this is very much commerce driven, whereas Wattpad is about providing a free publishing platform for entire works first, and only recently started dabbling in crowdsourcing with its crowdfunding book publishing experiments.
And while it's not a bad thing to focus on book sales, it shouldn't be your only measurement of success.
In general, I've given away hundreds of books through this service and only received a handful of reviews in response, so when I'm working on my future efforts I'll probably drop this service and focus more on the other things I use that actually work.
Not only are they having you pay for the possibility of having your book reviewed in their QUARTERLY supplement the focuses only on indie books, but they are also trying to get you to pay to publish through their VOOK line.
The risks extended to altering our original idea of focusing only on books set in the U.S. Would stories that took place in regions around the globe appeal to an American audience?
There are only a few major players in the digital book industry and most of them just refine their reading apps or focus on eBook discovery engines.
If E Ink wants to sell more displays (not sure about that) to consumers the only advantage is in 13 inch — reading documents, study books, journals, sheet music... But after 5 years of showing large screens EInk got tired and is shifting focus to business and corporate world.
Amazon also isn't selling The Checklist Manifesto tonight, which is the only Macmillan book to make the list (you'd think as one of the «big six» publishing houses Macmillan would have a better showing, but maybe they've been focused on things other than publishing popular books).
I also wanted to keep the design the same, which left me only two lines to fit the whole subtitle: that forced me to be conservative with words, and tweak things down to focus on the one, main benefit of each book and communicate it in a way that makes it seem unskippable.
Those are valuable skills, focused on a poor market (most authors aren't going to make a lot of money with their books; there's only so much they are willing to spend.)
These points are valid enough, but honestly, when it comes to promotion, most traditional large publishers focus their time only on a handful of books that they think will go big (or have started that way and will go bigger).
In order for publishers to reclaim some of the digital market, it is important to cultivate a brand that is not only focused on B2B, but also on consumers — after all, 41 % of traditionally published print books sold in the United States were purchased online in 2016.
Even though my Kindle is an old - school one that only serves as an e-reader, without the distractions of game apps and Web browsers, I find I'm better able to focus when I'm reading a paper book.
Beebliome joins other companies who are working at increasing not only the reading traffic of student readers, but the enjoyability and readability of many great books through this interactive focus.
This new endeavor will not only focus on a select number of books to be downloaded per month on a subscription basis, but also social media elements.
Amazon is focused on many different things and books are only a portion of its focus.
Little, Brown & Co. announced the news last week that its flagship title dedicated to preserving the words of notable people, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, was not only in its eighteen edition, but that the publication of this edition also focused on the creation of a digital app version of the beloved book.
Because of this, the passages about Danticat's own childhood never fully snap into focus and she can only gesture toward her feeling of abandonment when her parents move to the U.S.. For at least one reviewer, this self - effacement compromises Danticat's honesty with the reader, especially since she was writing acclaimed novels and winning literary renown as the book's events unfolded.
One of the often overlooked formats in the focus on digital versus print books is the audiobook, a separate entity that — despite a long standing history — still gets relegated to only certain titles.
The Digital Book World conference has been one of the only events in the United States that exclusively focused on digital publishing and eBooks.
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