Sentences with phrase «published author friend»

I called a published author friend whose editor was Kate Duffy and we talked, and I couldn't help it, the tears flowed.

Got a Facebook message from a self published author friend who asked about the apparent success of another author.

I can only think of one self published author friend who earned a traditional publishing contract.

If you'd like me to put you in touch with any of my self - publishing author friends near where you live, leave a comment and I'll see if I can hook you up with a group or a like - minded individual.

So for all the aspiring authors and my published author friends, those are my words of wisdom for today.

Having toyed with the idea of taking my dabblings to the next level — publishing — and having many published author friends whom I felt might enjoy it, I thought I'd give this a listen.

Many of my traditionally published author friends do not have that luxury.

Which sounds a bit stupid; I know some of my self - published author friends would scoff at it.

I polled some of my self - published author friends and we concluded that you can probably sell 1 - 3 copies a month (paperback) and 3 - 5 eBook copies from random, impulse buys online (if you're lucky).

I'm familiar with the snobbery of traditionally published author friends of mine.

@Terri, I'm familiar with the snobbery of traditionally published author friends of mine.

Not exact matches

For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

It would have been easy to dismiss her challenge, but now that I'm a published author, now that Bodies on the Potomac is out there in the public domain being read by friends and family and strangers alike, I realize that listening to a respected friend's advice might be the catalyst others can use to break through.

«The last lawyer working on it does now know what the first one worked out», the author, and friend of Ingvar Kamprad, Bertil Torekull wrote in his book «Historien om IKEA», first published in 1998.

* Jaime (whose blog is soon - to - be-launched) is a long, long - time friend and author of Little Life Lessons (learned at the mall) published here last month.

But no peer - reviewed published studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of these plans, and none were developed by doctors or scientists, so parents either have to trust the authors or hope that what worked for their friends will work for their kids, too.

Patricia Fisher, a former nurse and a published author, and her best friend Seana, a chef, first met when they were babies.

My good friend musician, speaker, and author Michael S. Tyrrell and I would like to give you — as in for FREE — a copy of Barton Publishing's amazing collection of songs called Wholetones: The Healing Frequency Music Project.

Joey was one of my first blogger friends and she's a self - published author.

widowed white woman in mid 60's, caring, shy, friendly, honest, like country music a publish author of 3 books, looking for friends first then see were it may go.

I met many other authors who shared their stories on what they have learned about the book publishing process and made a few friends along the way.

Then, when it launches, Outskirts Press will be connected automatically with a user's Facebook account and will broadcast the author's major publishing & marketing accomplishments to all his or her friends.

My friend Janice Hardy came up with the perfect solution: joining the Indie Author Series at Fiction University, where I'm writing a series digging into some of our options for indie publishing.

I make more money than some of the traditionally published authors that I'm friends with.

Others are effectively pyramid schemes — publishers who have published their own, or friends», work and who are looking for «authors» to sign on and spread social media contacts.

Book Editors & Book Publishing Are Like Peanut Butter and Jelly Why so many authors think that their friend who teaches literature at the local college, or their sister who loves everything they write and do is the perfect editor for their work is beyond me.

By Ron Pramschufer, President, Self Publishing, Inc. - Helping Authors Become Publishers since 1995 Even in this day of e-this and e-that, you haven't published a book unless you can hold it in your hand... flip through the pages, book mark the place you left off and pass it on to a friend after you have read it.

Find out who other writer friends are using, or get involved in self - publishing forums or groups — such as KBoards, or the Alliance of Independent Authors.

Author's Digest meets Robert J. Fanshawe, the self - published author of the World War I novel «The Cellist's Friend&Author's Digest meets Robert J. Fanshawe, the self - published author of the World War I novel «The Cellist's Friend&author of the World War I novel «The Cellist's Friend»

I have several friends who are self - published authors.

Now author (and former editor) Hanya Yanagihara has put her creative talents to work in a twist on the small - town friends trying to make it in NYC story: A Little Life, which will be published by Knopf on March 10.

Most people just convert their word doc to an EPUB and upload it to smashwords and brag to all of their friends that they are a published AUTHOR!

There are many great and experienced editors in traditional publishing who can help a book become better for the author, but at this point, with traditional publishing in the state it's in, I'll take my chances on a couple of friends reading the book.

Here is how some authors have been gaming self - publishing on Amazon: Write a bunch of short books and get a bunch of friends (or paid reviewers) to give you 5 stars.

Following is a collection of books about writing, publishing and promoting nonfiction books, as well as some related topics, authored by past speakers and friends of the Nonfiction Authors Association.

Honestly, substantive editing is so expensive (thousands of dollars), that, as a self - publishing author, you're probably better off finding a workshop and / or good beta readers (other writers, not friends / family) to critique your work.

Many of my author friends are trad published, and I always saw that as a grass - is - greener issue.

I have other friends who take the hybrid route, publishing with both traditional publishers and as indie authors.

The Copper Package is perfect for authors on a budget or those seeking to publish their books for a small group of friends and family.

I was talking with a publisher friend the other day about some of the scariest (and saddest) delusions many self - published authors believe about having a successful book.

The advance paycheck is usually anywhere between $ 5k - 15k (one of my author friend who has published with a traditional publisher told me).

I've been a conference director and met many agents and publishers, and I'm friends with many traditionally published authors.

I've got a friend whose updates have turned into nothing but advertisements of his own books, retweets of other self - pubbed authors, and slams on commercial publishing.

Many of the most popular self publishing authors on Twitter share a mix of formal book promotion updates along with one - liners and casual exchanges with fans and friends.

I have self published over the years (even before Amazon) and many friends and colleagues are self - published authors today.

The friend who told me about Scrivener is an indie author who had heard about the writing and publishing software but hadn't yet tried it.

Rebecca herself created our original WFP logo with a graphics program, and then other author friends of mine, seeing the success of our original releases, came to us with titles of their own, and our publishing company unintentionally expanded.

You should also start networking and making friends with experienced, published authors (this is something you should do anyway), who can help answer your questions.

I really think that 99 cents and FREE are the self - published authors best friend.

I am a self published author and have friends who read my books and I read theirs.