Sentences with phrase «put writing any more books»

Thanks to all the people who have actually bought a copy of one of my books, I hope you aren't just giving me false hope to carry on and end up wasting years of my life for nothing (search eBook piracy is on the increase) I have put writing any more books on hold, keep it all inside my head and just make a living from teaching and being an examiner.

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Beyond knowing the value they place on books written by other people, one of the biggest upsides for us is that many of the Investment Masters have also put those same ideas into one of more of their own books.

The acclaimed book is written by Eugene Peterson, and puts the original text of scripture into contemporary language and has sold more than 16 million copies.

I never set out to write a trilogy on our increasingly endangered democracy, but as I kept stumbling on ever more evidence of the legacy of the imperialist pressures we put on many other countries as well as the nature and size of our military empire, one book led to another.

Simply put — we don't believe that an invisible «divine» being wrote this book, nor were the authors of the various sections «divinely inspired» and therefore this is no more than another Aesop's fable.

As Jenell Williams Paris of Messiah College writes in her book The End of Sexual Identity, «Grounding sexual ethics in our humanity more than in contemporary sexual identity categories... comes at a cost to heterosexuals,» because «it puts them in the game as players instead of umpires.»

I put this view more gently to Randal Keynes, Darwin's great - great - grandson, who wrote the book Annie's Box — an account of Darwin's family life and of his relationship with Annie in particular — and who gets a writing credit on this movie.

However, virtually all the book's contributors put themselves out to prove that Huxley was no more than ordinary, but happened to be able to write well.

I've heard the book is richer and more in - depth, considered one of the best sports stories ever written, so you may also want to put that on your must - read list if you like what you see here.

To put it another way, while I'm more than sympathetic to Jonathan's desire to read Karen Ordahl Kupperman's book about early America before weighing in on The New World (I speak as one who read four different books about feudal Japan before writing my review of The Last Samurai a few years back), I think it's also essential to keep in mind the fact that most audiences who see the film will come to it with very little, if any, historical background, and that to a certain extent the film even asks to be read ahistorically.

I wrote the book because whenever I spoke to parents, teachers or new members of staff they were fascinated and wanted to know more — the book put these ideas in one place and is available to anyone.

It discusses how to not put all your eggs in one writing basket, how to steal ideas from yourself to generate more stories and books, how to avoid the two most common reasons agents reject you, and much more.

Even more than the ever - present writing ability of an author who has the ability to put her readers in the setting, whether it's a dark alley or Diagon Alley, this is one book that might hit too close to home for the world famous author herself.

It's both inspirational and depressing to watch someone else sell more books than you are (I'm often in that position, with the crazy successful indie authors I hang out with)-- but that the most important thing is to keep writing, keep improving, keep putting out your best work, and keep finding ways for your audience to find you.

Now we can follow your handy dandy self - help guide on how NOT to get reviewed, put an end to the flood, and get back to writing more books to not review.

By putting more creativity into your marketing, and boosting your sales and income, you'll be able to spend your creative energy writing more books.

In this interview with him on the esteemed Social Media Marketing podcast — an on - demand talk radio show from Social Media Examiner, he shares his thoughts on publishing and marketing book and also his philosophy on writing, the importance he puts on blogging and more.

To me, two of the more salient points are that you started writing in 1995 and sold your first novel in 2006, and that your income distribution is shifting to include income from royalties as you put out more books and they are out longer.

The more you can put out into the world content that's valuable and consistent, the more you'll build a following for all the writing you do — from tweets to your next book.»

Many nonfiction books could be broken into profitable articles that could very well gain a wider readership and build a platform, putting an author in to a better marketing position when writing a more enduring book.

Putting it on Amazon doesn't make it more of an accomplishment than recognising that despite having written a book it isn't quite the right quality to hit shelves or needs work you don't yet have the ability / finances to give it.

She's opened its purple cover and has started writing, she isn't done writing even when her hand begins to cramp up, she fills her book of errors all the way to the back cover and has more to put down, that's how much she's learned in this one hour.

A bad self - published book would probably hurt the author more than anyone else because you only get one chance for a good first impression and if you write a bad book, a reader probably will avoid any other books you put out no matter who publishes it.

By putting your writing into book form, it feels more public and even a little scary.

Writing more books is indeed the best place to put your energy!

Thanks, I am putting a project together myself... it isn't a direct writing project... I have laser engraved on paper thin sheets of wood the complete original Alice's Adventures in Wonderland including the original graphics and made it into a wooden book... I want to do the same with the works of Edgar Allen Poe... but my laser is broken and I need another... my goal will be to raise $ 15,000 to produce the new book and more after that.

Because, if you compare yourself to the crap other authors are putting out, and recognize that your book is better looking, better written, and you are more serious than those other authors, you can expect greater success.

If nothing works and you're not making * any * money with your book, put it on permafree to build your list while you write more books.

As more and more writers turn to the freedom of digital publishing to put their works in front of reading audiences, more authors may be lured into realizing their goals of writing a book, which is precisely where NaNoWriMo fits in for many debut authors.

Sabrina Ricci presents Indie Authors: Know Your Rights posted at Digital Pubbing, saying, «Writing and publishing books can be so much more than simply put a print and ebook out.

Bottom line, Sally, is that your writing time MUST be a priority, but you also have to put in time to create relationships in order to find readers, get more visible, be part of an online community with important and meaningful connections, and, oh, yeah, MARKET your books.

Suchomel writes:"Amazon.com is putting pressure on publishers and distributors to change their terms for electronic and print books to be more favorable toward Amazon.

Snarkiness aside, I've written before about the importance of publishers (or broadcasters, or record labels) as filters: how in a world where anyone can publish a book, we're more likely than ever to be drawn to titles put out by recognised publishing houses.

There's a lot of talk about how there's more competition in the Kindle Store and elsewhere these days — more independent authors publishing and also more Big 6 backlist books being put out in ebook form, but if you can cultivate a fan base that enjoys your work and will try a lot of what you write, then you can do this for a living, providing you're able to publish regularly and keep getting more stuff out there for readers to consume.

Five published books later, I can honestly say, putting myself out there and getting involved in my local writing world was not only the key to getting published, but a whole lot more valuable than an entire inbox full of rejections.

He's pretty sure he has some traits of autism, because he's been constantly working and obscenely prolific for the entire duration, writing over a hundred screenplays and TV pilots, which he's adapting into forthcoming books, because these days very few people are willing to turn throw money at him to put his... [Read more...]

I'd rather keep writing, and putting my work out there at a rate of 1 or 2 books a year than wait five or more years before the process begins.

Uploading, writing descriptions and setting up the book takes time, and the more places you're putting it, the longer it's going to take.

Just remember, you're going to need to put as much time into promoting your book as you did writing it - perhaps even more.

YALSA and Teen Read Week: The goal of Young Adult Library Services Association division (YALSA) of the American Library Association is to engage YA readers — in other words, they share your YA writing goal of putting more books into teenage hands.

But instead of putting his energy into writing his next book or learning how to more effectively market his current book, he spends his time lashing out at other authors (or bloggers, for that matter) who are experiencing more success than he is.

Yes, it's a lot of work, but a lot more work goes into the writing of each book, so putting the effort into finding readers is work I'm happy to do.

Organized by Bryan Cohen (of Build Creative Writing Ideas) and Jim Kukral (of Author Marketing Club) through their Sell More Books Show podcast, It's a one - day sale where twenty super-successful authors have put their finest works on book writing and marketing on sale for only Writing Ideas) and Jim Kukral (of Author Marketing Club) through their Sell More Books Show podcast, It's a one - day sale where twenty super-successful authors have put their finest works on book writing and marketing on sale for only writing and marketing on sale for only $ 0.99.

-- Write and put out the books more efficiently.

What I have learned since the release of my ebook in February 2013 was that there is more to selling a book than just writing it and putting it on Amazon.

Writing with a partner is supposed to help you put out books more quickly, but it does force some rewriting and editing you might not have done otherwise.

The philosophy of not putting all your eggs in one basket springs to mind so whilst Authors have predominately relied on certain outlet streams and stayed there in the main as the comfort zone, so as to not spend more time exploring new markets than focusing on writing the next book, there is a plethora of options and alternative ways of promoting, marketing, and selling out there that we have yet to comprehensively explore that opens up new opportunities.

Author Stephen King wrote multiple books under the name Richard Bachman, in part to try out new ideas, but also because his publisher advised him not to put out more than one book a year.

In this episode, we were joined by author Kevin Tumlinson, who shared some great insights on how he learned to write quicker so he could put out more great books, as well as some awesome marketing strategies he has implemented to sell more books.

(Or to put it another way, as we spend more time on - line and less reading books and magazines, longer pieces like this - no matter how well considered and written - will be read by fewer and fewer people.