Sentences with phrase «other big name authors»
Honestly, it will always sting for a nanosecond when I read about authors winning awards that I can't begin to hope to win as an indie, or heading off on book tours, or getting picked to speak at big events, or receiving glowing reviews from notable publications, or hobnobbing with other big name authors.
https://the-coconut-chronicles.com/ Not exact matches
Other renowned authors have drawn together powerful analyses of these issues, with key examples being David Korten (The Great Turning), David Selby (Education and Climate Change), Basarab Nicolescu (From Modernity to Cosmodernity), Duane Elgin (Deep Big History essay), Peter Senge (The Fifth Discipline), and Margaret Wheatley (Leadership and the New Science, to name a few.
Not true... some big name authors are going in the other direction, deciding against taking the contract a publishing house is offering and self - publishing instead.
Hindsight is 20/20 — perhaps RT should have placed the «big names» in the Mardi Gras room — it had more «breathing room» plus it would drive more traffic to it (whereas their location in the other ballroom created havoc for the rows of authors in alphabetical order).
John Scalzi has said repeatedly on his posts about Amazon and other big - name vendors of books that they are not an author's friend.
Face it: Your book is competing with millions of other titles — many by Big Name authors from major publishers — for the attention, consideration, and purchasing dollars of your target reader.
To date she has not «broken out» and become a big name the way other regional mystery authors, such as
There are other reasons for the authors who fall between these extremes; all are stigmatized against by the big name publishers and chain bookstores.
To date she has not «broken out» and become a big name the way other regional mystery authors, such as Tony Hillerman and Archer Mayer or Wyoming's own CJ Box and Craig Johnson, have done.
And is there a need for big name authors to stop other authors from using a word?
What that platform looks like, or how it works, varies from author to author: Some are big names who can attract attention with any book they release, others have figured out how to harness a local or regional fan base to spread word of mouth, and still others know how to use digital media for visibility.
Some new authors may hope to get their names out there, but even some very experienced writers and big publishing houses run free promotions on science fiction, fantasy, and other book genres in order to increase their readership.
What traditional publishers are doing is relying upon those handful of big name authors entirely as their publishing model, forgetting that the majority of their «other» sales are what makes them the money.
(The other big factors include shopping the bestseller list, shopping by the name of an established author, browsing through the gigantic haystack of books on Amazon, professional book reviews, and bookstore recommendations.)
As a self - published author, it's especially important to maintain a social media presence and ongoing marketing of oneself, so we are often more accessible than others who've published traditionally or are already big - name authors who don't need to maintain robust accounts.
Also be warned that a number of other big name publishers like Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Thomas Nelson (owned by Harper Collins), and others have contracted with Author Solutions for their own money - making vanity press operations.
Penned by Hachette thriller author Douglas Preston, the letter is backed by many other big - name writers, including Stephen King and John Grisham.
In other words, if you want to read new books by Liane Moriarty, James Patterson, or John Grisham — the books from big - name authors released by big publishers — you will have to buy them separately because they are not included in Kindle Unlimited.
Please read David's article about the Simon & Schuster deal with Author Solutions (one of many warning articles on this deal published this week) to educate yourself, so you can warn other hopeful writers against being blinded by the big publisher name.