Sentences with phrase «published authors know»

Many of the successful self - published authors I know publish several works a year until they have a dozen or several dozen titles available.

@Lee: That's because even self - published authors know the difference between self - publishing and vanity publishing.

Published authors know this and are indeed joining our ranks.

These tools are useful when self published authors know how to use them.

[pullquote] The traditionally published authors I know are faring little better, with shrinking advances, ill - supported launches — even the authors who have awards to prove their worth.

Many of the published authors I know have sought representation elsewhere, such as the US or UK, or have attracted the attention of editors via competitions and only become agented once they have a publisher's interest, and yet several of these have become internationally best - selling authors — though their names continue to be barely recognised in Australia, except by devoted fans.

While self - published authors know this all too well, many traditionally published authors are surprised to find that their publishers aren't going to take care of everything when it comes to marketing their books.

If I know anything from talking with most self - published authors I know, it's a) they refuse to accept traditional publishing as anything worth spitting on, and b) they've sold maybe 10 books per each publication, but they're pretty darn proud of those 10 books so it's okay.

But, as all successful self published authors know, it's a long game.

Most published authors know that they need to be on it yet at its core, Goodreads is all about the reader, not about hawking our books.

One of the most successful self - published authors I know claims that while he was building his writing business he spent 20 % of his time writing and the remaining 80 % doing everything I listed before.

a) That further discourages the great writers from thinking querying is the answer, and b) Successful self - published authors know exactly why they would — and wouldn't — need an agent.

Not everyone does this, but enough authors do, so the big 5 are threatened because many self - published authors know how to put out a quality book, and they are not constrained by the marketing or accounting departments of a big publisher.

Every single successful self - published author I know or have researched has done something significant to get people to read their book.

When people have asked me how to self - publish, I always say it's very easy to upload your book to Amazon and have it be «published,» the difficult part as any self - published author knows is having people know it's out there.

13 min readThe Blog Team here at Lulu doesn't usually have the opportunity to share such a story with our readers, but when Lisa Haneberg sent us her account of helping our elders become published authors we knew we had to share... Continue Reading →

The Blog Team here at Lulu doesn't usually have the opportunity to share such a story with our readers, but when Lisa Haneberg sent us her account of helping our elders become published authors we knew we had to share it.

-LSB-...] January 22, 2009 What not to Web Posted by Leah under Uncategorized Every published author knows she needs to have a website — and I highly encourage those who are in the submission process to have some kind of web presence as well.

Reading Richard McCartney — whether in his books or his articles — reiterates what the self - publishing authors know — read his books and find the answers — from a man who understands this arena and KNOWS!

With their meteoric rise, self - published authors no longer face a categorical stigma.

As most self - publishing authors know, Amazon offers marketing incentives to authors who sell their ebooks exclusively through Kindle, through a program called KDP Select.

Any self - respecting self - published author knows that you still need an editor.

As every self - published author knows once you write your book, getting the word out and finding readers is an essential task that any successful author must engage in.What are the things you've done... Continue

Self - published authors no longer need to enter into expensive contracts — you get to see your work in black and white for a fraction of what it would have cost ten years ago.

As any published author knows though, the hard work starts here.

Not exact matches

Steven Finlay is the author of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Business: A No - Nonsense Guide to Data Driven Technologies, which was published in June 2017.

It's never been easier to be a self - published author, but with democratization comes issues of trust: How do you know where to start?

«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.

«If people know that their fellow co-workers are watching out for theft, they will think twice before stealing because there are higher odds they will be caught,» says Terrence Shulman, founder of the The Shulman Center for Compulsive Theft, Spending & Hoarding and author of Biting the Hand that Feeds: The Employee Theft Epidemic (Infinity Publishing, 2005).

You might know Seth Godin as a sort of marketing legend, the author of books such as Unleashing the Ideavirus, «the most popular e-book ever published,» according to his marketing materials (I have no idea how I'd check that), and Purple Cow, «the best - selling marketing book of the decade» (similar caveat).

Consider these five tips for making a graceful exit from Bill McBean, author of the recent book The Facts of Business Life: What Every Successful Business Owner Knows That You Don't, published by Wiley.

Trevor's mission is to help publish 1000 new authors and help people take their LIFE and their BUSINESS to the next level — no matter how successful they already are.

And the interview author had no idea that a piece was being written on yield curves, or he didn't know that his subject had published on the subject three decades ago.

As an author, Neal is best known for his definitive book on social media strategy creation, implementation, and optimization «Maximize Your Social: A One - Stop Guide to Building a Social Media Strategy for Marketing and Business Success» (Wiley) but has also published two other award - winning and critically acclaimed social media books:» Maximizing LinkedIn for Sales and Social Media Marketing» and «Windmill Networking: Maximizing LinkedIn.»

This excerpt is a taste of what you need to know to build a platform so a top New York Publishing House will consider you an author who deserves a six - figure book advance.

As an author, he has had 27 books published by 7 different U.S. publishers, including his NO B.S. book series, now in its 12th year at Entrepreneur Media, which also publishes Entrepreneur Magazine.

So, I have a Ph.D. in Theology / comparative religions and published author (known to personally debate with your good and misguided church propagandist Mr. Turley (LDS managing director of famil and church history) because I wanted to «understand.»

I am not a published author, a well - known speaker, and a world traveler; but I am a minister to the world, too.

And while the focus has been placed on why Doug remains silent, don't forget that EVERY published US emergent author knew about this pattern and not only stood by silently, but defended Tony by participating in his projects, agreeing to speak at his conferences, endorsing his books and the like.

Little did she know that published authors are just as insecure and jealous and frightened as unpublished authors, sometimes even more so.

As you may or may not know, I started a publishing company almost two years ago, and as part of the process of publishing and marketing books, I wanted to create a «Book Launch» strategy so that the authors whose books we publish could get a good start on helping people learn about their book.

I've read plenty of Christian authors, know a good deal about fiction, publishing, and such.

Feuerbach is well known as the author of The Essence of Christianity, first published in German in 1841.

(But unless you're a well - known author, you probably couldn't get it published!)

At the outset the author lets us know that this book is a revised version of chapters that appeared in his earlier Ethos and the Oxford Movement published in 2007.

In 1908 a book was published in France entitled La Folie de Jésus (The Insanity of Jesus), in which the author said that in modern Europe Jesus would have been put into an asylum, as a megalomaniac afflicted with mystical hallucinations of a kind well known to clinical medicine.

What's interesting is that though both these reports by independent and secular organisations (NSPCC and JJC) either state or imply that child sex abuse is part of a problem in society as a whole and not a particular problem for the Catholic Church, in other words that Catholic priests are no more likely than anyone else to be involved in it, Dr Pravin Thevathasan, the author of the third document on this subject published around the same time, «The Catholic Church & the Sex Abuse Crisis», published by the CTS, is not inclined to deploy this fact to get the Church off the hook.

Luther did not want to tangle personally with the great scholar, seventeen years his senior, and the best known literary man in Europe; only this very year (1516), Erasmus the famous author of Enchiridion Militis Christiani (Manual of the Christian Knight, 1503) had published in addition to the Greek New Testament his edition of Jerome, and an original work commissioned for the likely future emperor, sixteen - year - old Charles Habsburg of Castile and the Netherlands, grandson of Emperor Maximilian, Institutio Principis Christiani (The Education of a Christian Price), a plea for international peace and the encouragement of learning.

Not only is Megan an internationally published author, but she's also a nutrition expert for television and magazines, so girl knows her stuff!

I am the author of two books of poems, and my essays and poems have been published in anthologies and well - known literary magazines.