Sentences with phrase «published on the bookstore shelves»

Therin is professional to work with and my books look great - very high quality and professional looking even nicer than some of the books you might find published on the bookstore shelves!»

Not exact matches

With nearly 200,000 new titles published each year, bookstores have books featured everywhere — stacked on the floor, standing on end caps and sitting on tables, not to mention the rows of shelves.

Traditional publishing has ever been a lottery chance: throw your talent into the ring and if you hit it juuuusst right, you can go to the bookstore and see your name on the shelf.

Back when my first novel was published in 1997, authors went on book tours, scheduling talks and signings at bookstores, groceries, and even stopping at drugstores and big - box retail stores to sign books on the shelves.

While it's true that they will also distribute it to the waning number of brick - and - mortar bookstores — self - published books are not usually available in bookstores — the number that actually land on the shelves is surprisingly small.

Another Published digitally in two volumes by Yen Press in 2013, Yukito Ayatsuji's spine - chilling horror novels make their way to bookstore shelves in a hardcover omnibus edition under the Yen On brand in October 2014.

She had spent two decades writing books that languished on bookstore shelves, caught in what she believed was a «vicious cycle» common to the publishing world.

Simply publishing your book is not enough to make it worthy of a sale or a spot on the shelf of a bookstore.

It isn't just books by Amazon publishing imprints that Barnes & Noble and most indie bookstores won't stock... they don't even want CreateSpace - printed indie books on their shelves, because CreateSpace is owned by Amazon.

Too often, IBPA has noticed a bias against self - published authors, independent publishers, and hybrid presses when it comes to choosing titles or authors for book review consideration, book award contests, association memberships, and inclusion on independent bookstore shelves.

It should look like any other book on a bookstore shelf, yet many self - published authors make the mistake of cutting corners and skipping over critical steps in the publishing process.

The first step on this journey to being published is to realize that for publishers, the dream location is not the bookstore shelf; that shelf is simply a short stop on the way to the real destination... a reader's bookshelf.

Self published authors have to rely on their own resources, be more creative in finding retail shelf space for their books (as a rule, self published authors have far less access to chain bookstore shelves than the big publishers who spend millions on marketing dollars), and have to work very hard to create any sort of buzz about their books.

Published digitally in two volumes by Yen Press in 2013, Yukito Ayatsuji's spine - chilling horror novels make their way to bookstore shelves in a hardcover omnibus edition under the Yen On brand in October 2014.

I have two self published novels that are great stories and would sell on bookstore shelves if given the chance.

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

First, an aside: publishing industry definitions for frontlist vs. backlist books: Though timelines differ for different publishers, a book is considered «frontlist» from when it is newly released into the marketplace until it on the bricks and mortar or virtual bookstore shelves six months or so.

That «80 % +» holds whether one measures by titles released, by face value, by copies sold, by compensation paid to authors, by shelf - inches devoted in general bookstores, by sales rankings at Amazon... indeed, by any numeric measure of which I am aware, and my «day job» involves being directly and immediately aware of what's going on in publishing.

The backlist is essentially the author's previously published books that once enjoyed appearing on the «front shelves» at bookstores.

Like so many new writers, I started with the idea of going the traditional publishing route, and someday seeing my book on the shelf of the local bookstore (assuming they're still in business...).

The books everyone sees on display in bookstores» shelves more or less went through a traditional publishing process.

Every traditionally published book will have to be placed on a specific shelf in a bookstore or library — and you need to know which shelf that is before you pitch to an agent or publishing house.

By self - publishing, I was able to ensure that it stayed in print — and on bookstore shelves — forever.

Received a comment from a frustrated author who was hoping to have a self - published book (done on a popular self - publishing platform) included on the shelves of a brick - and - mortar retail bookstore.

If I say yes to you, the rest will think I'll say yes to them, and next thing you know, to make sure the books I sell remain high - quality enough for my customers, I'm screening which books make it on my shelves and which ones don't, which basically means I'm doing the job of a publishing house now, and damn it, I'm trying to run a bookstore, not a publishing house, so no... you can't put your self - published book on my shelf.

(Harder for print, sure, but really, how often does a self - published work end up on a bookstore shelf for people to browse?)

This is especially true for the traditionally published author or for those indie authors fortunate enough to have a locally owned independent bookstore in their area that is open to having indie books on their shelves.

Authors have better prospects for having their books stocked on the shelves of chain bookstores through traditional publishing.

First - time self - published authors rarely have a sufficient marketing and sales plan in place (or a sufficient track record) that would justify bookstores ordering and stocking books on their shelves.

It's a small victory for self - published authors like myself to get their books on bookstore shelves.

The New York Times «The film rights to self - published books are getting acquired even before the big houses can get them onto bookstore shelves with their own imprints on them.»

I have found that many locally owned used bookstores will carry self - published books (mine, anyway) on their shelves, either on consignment or buying them outright.

However, time goes on, book publishing is still just the same, bookstore shelves are not empty, public libraries are not closed.

When publishing, authors must disclose information relative to their book so it will be properly displayed on a retailer's website or a shelf in a bookstore.

There are few, if any, of us who have chosen the indie route to publishing who wouldn't love to walk into the local bookstore and find our books on the shelves.

Honestly, I don't think that the ratio of good to bad writers is any worse among the independent / self - published authors than on the shelves at the mega bookstore in my town.

I remember the day I first saw my self - published book on the shelf and for sale at a bookstore.

It takes a (helluva) lot of time and money for self - published books to get on the radar (never mind into the inventory and then shelf space) of a retail bookstore.

The result is that a book you see on the shelf of a bookstore, or at a reading, may have been produced by an entire team of publishing professionals in New York, or a team of professionals working independently for a self - published author.

«Too often, IBPA has noticed a bias against self - published authors, independent publishers, and hybrid presses when it comes to choosing titles or authors for review consideration, book award contests, association memberships, and inclusion on independent bookstore shelves,» said IBPA CEO Angela Bole.

As an independently publishing author, you want your book to be positioned along with other titles, published by the bigger houses, and getting your book on the bookstore shelves can do just that.

Other sources are recent like - type books (titles on the same bookstore shelf as your title), in which the author thanks her or his literary agent and recommendations garnered from published authors to their agents.

«Too often, IBPA has noticed a bias against self - published authors, independent publishers, and hybrid presses when it comes to choosing titles or authors for review consideration, book award contests, association memberships, and inclusion on independent bookstore shelves.

I thought self - publishing my novels would doom me to anonymity forever, that I'd never experience the rush of joy that came with walking into a bookstore and seeing my book on the shelf.

If your objective is to gain recognition by lining the shelves of brick - and - mortar bookstores in shopping plazas across the country — and you've got the wherewithal to pitch multiple agents on a blockbuster topic with mass appeal — then a trade publishing house might suit you.

Additionally, I think that as self - publishing becomes even stronger and traditional publishing weakens, bookstores and libraries will be forced to put books with Amazon or Smashwords ISBN's on their shelves in order to compete and provide what their clients are asking for.

Publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin discusses the erosion of shelf space in bookstores, publishing innovation, English as a disruptive force overseas, and the two priorities publishers should be focused on over the next 6 - 12 months: price experimentation and improving rights Publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin discusses the erosion of shelf space in bookstores, publishing innovation, English as a disruptive force overseas, and the two priorities publishers should be focused on over the next 6 - 12 months: price experimentation and improving rights publishing innovation, English as a disruptive force overseas, and the two priorities publishers should be focused on over the next 6 - 12 months: price experimentation and improving rights databases.

Hi, Debbie, How can I get a self - published book on the shelves of bookstores?