Sentences with phrase «own author tour»

Given Green's sharp writing for GothamSchools (now Chalkbeat), the publishers anticipated something approaching a blockbuster («a six - city author tour....

Join author tours, and blog hops.

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: Simpson is a great literary favorite, and this winning novel will be supported by a cross-country author tour and plenty of publicity.

As publishers» promotional budgets shrink and travel costs rise, the traditional city to city author tour is waning in popularity.

If you would like to have your author interviewed by Locus Magazine, please note that all interviews are by invitation, but information regarding author tours that are passing through the San Francisco area is useful and can lead to an invitation.

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: An all - fronts publicity campaign, augmented by a 15 - city author tour, will ensure fervent interest in best - selling McLain's timely novel about a historic journalist.

When I asked someone at the publishing company where the third author had appeared from I was told that the new author had always been a key member of the team, responsible for keeping track of the plot lines, but had come to the fore recently because she was the most comfortable doing author tours.

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: With an author tour, a major promotional campaign, and a film adaptation already in the works, publishers are banking on Niven's YA debut to be a hit.

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: A stalwart of children's literature, Joyce will drive inherent interest even further with an author tour.

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: An author tour and powerhouse promotional plan will mean lots of attention for best - selling Shusterman's latest endeavor.

So I lived through it, I remember when the author tour started in the mid-1980s, and then became, sort of, I mean people have to do it, but it's hardly as fresh, and then what's happening in the Internet.

Acting as a clearing house for Jewish Book Month events is part of the Jewish Book Council's overall mission to promote the reading, writing, publishing and distribution of quality Jewish content books in English, as well as to serve as the coordinating body of Jewish literary activity in North America in both general and Jewish venues, advising local communities on exhibits, book fairs, book club appearances, author tours and other literary programs.

Budgets are being slashed at all ends of the publishing process from advances to marketing to promotional placements to author tours.

I can do spotlight / promo / excert and about the author tour, with a giveaway.

The avenue that we're currently exploring is the author tour, book signings, and / or bookstore events.

Before going any further, I would like to say that this is my opinion solely based on my experience with booking author tours for the last couple of years.

Readers want to know times and dates of author tours, book signings and appearances.

So are author tours successful?

They worked tirelessly to arrange an author tour across the U.S., securing excellent TV coverage and widespread reviews.

It's similar to the music industry in that authors tour the country like musicians doing appearances to sell books.

400,000 first printing; author tour.

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: Award - winning, critically - acclaimed Zarr is getting the full treatment for her latest, including an author tour.

High Demand Backstory: National advertising, a six - city author tour, an author video, and TV and print and radio publicity are all part of the publisher's campaign behind Tóibín's latest.

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: Multi-award-winner Sachar will launch this book with an author tour and national media campaign, increasing demand for the already popular author.

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: Yoon's debut became a best - seller, so the publisher is giving this a strong push that includes a national author tour.

With a video game, author tour, and major outdoor advertising, this could be even huger.

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: The buzz is loud and will continue to be so when literary star Saunders goes on a national author tour supported by an all - platform media blitz.

As an author who started with traditional publishing in the 80's, my books launched (jeeze, we didn't even use that phrase then) with an author tour.

Great advances, first class air tickets and hotels, author tours for every book were the norm.

Author tours are basically passé and the depth of editing has been reduced.

Author tours aren't as common now, at least, not physical ones.

When you're overburdened with e-mail and cranky people make it their job to interfere with your day; when your printer messes up your order, your distributor doesn't stock enough books to cover your author tour, you're late on one deadline or another... again; or [insert your current stressor here]; are you able to take a deep breath and get a bit of perspective in appreciation for the amazing profession we're engaged in?

Beyond that, as I alluded to in the opening, there's sort of been a new expectation / conventional wisdom creeping up that the key to being a Good Hardworking Promoting Author is to blow out your blog, your Facebook page, your website, your Twitter feed, your Goodreads network, and better yet, all of the above and by the way you need to set up your own author tour and try to get some media appearances going we'd love it if you placed some articles and stories and where's your book trailer oh also don't quit your day job and don't forget about your manuscript deadline and make sure the next book is incredible and amazing and could you spend some time with your family please?

«Simon Lipskar, a literary agent with Writers House Literary Agency suggests that when a publisher has paid a modest sum to publish afirst novel, it's foolish, no matter how great one's fantasies, to hopethat the publisher will print 50,000 copies in hardcover, run anexpensive (and often pointless) ad campaign, send the author on anexpensive (and often pointless) author tour, etc.» http://www.scribd.com/doc/24174468/How-Lucky-Can-You-Get-by-M-J-Rose Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel

SMP had claimed, in galleys, to be «committed to a number of major marketing efforts, such as a national author tour for Hamilton, and a national ad campaign for the book.»

In my new job I have already participated in nearly every imaginable trade business scenario: retailer terms negotiations, international sales & distribution deals, book launches, author tours, agent negotiations, and even a Man Booker winner.

Fewer author tours and changes in book marketing budgets have made our company financially unviable.

So www.authorwebsite.com would be the home page and www.authorwebsite.com/events would be the permalink for the author tour and www.authorwebsite.com/media would be the permalink to interviews and reviews.

She will contract for the proofing and printing of her book, and will run her own book review campaign and author tour.

Is there a co-ops and author tour involved?

The authors toured Britain and beyond in search of the shed - porn, oops, examples, on display.

[Lest some legal publisher tell me that they do market, they don't do anything in comparison with the expense of the Canadian Book Expo, author tours or half page ads in the Book Section of the Saturday Globe.

Kim has been invited to speak as a resume subject matter expert on national television and featured on 26 city radio author tours.

She has been invited to speak as a resume subject matter expert on national television, featured on 26 city radio author tours nationwide and continues to be guest speaker on national and internet radio shows today.

7/06 to Present — TRIUMPH BOOKS Chicago, IL Publicist, Sports Publishing Company • Manage book tours and publicity campaigns for high profile athletes, former athletes, sports writers, radio / TV personalities and other authors • Have secured thousands of interviews on national and regional TV and radio shows to promote book releases and author tours • Have fostered countless relationships with national and regional broadcast, print and web media outlets • Have secured thousands of reviews and excerpts in print and web media outlets to promote book releases • Produce extensive media lists and mailing lists prior to book launches • Assist with triumphbooks.com web site updates • Spearheaded the implementation of social networking sites to promote Triumph Books and its book releases • Produce numerous press releases and media alerts to support book releases and author signing events • Assist in managing part - time employees within the publicity department

Not exact matches

When I became an author, my first shoestring book tour basically consisted of all the places I had lived on the West and East Coasts as well as the Midwest and South.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Author Donald Miller was among the bikers of the Ride: Well tour, and RELEVANT caught up with him recently to talk about the ride.

The tour is marketed to evangelical women to «celebrate what matters,» and also features appearances by female evangelical authors and media personalities.

I'm happy to be hosting cookbook author Robin Robertson on her One - Dish Vegan blog tour today!