Sentences with phrase «sale of the short story»

I've just had the best post-launch week of sales of my short story, Something in the Cellar, in the UK, and that's just been through blogging, and tweeting.

I was quite successful in my promotion in NOT selling copies of the novel, as well as very successful in not getting reviews, and resoundingly not successful in getting new sales of the short story book.

My Kingdom for a Review My interest in using KDP wasn't to later sell copies of that promoted novel, but indeed to induce some positive reviews, in the hopes that might promote, fiendish marketer I am, the sale of my short story collection, which had been published by a small press after my novel's self - publication.

Not only am I seeing the increase in sales, in one occasion a triple digit percentage increase in sales, for the title that had been free, but also in sales of short stories.

There was probably one sale of the short story book, maybe two.

I was quite successful in my recent promotion in NOT selling copies of the promoted novel (I'm apparently quite good at that), but not very successful in getting reviews, and not successful in getting new sales of the short story book.

You can publish on it using Smashwords — and, as I suggested with PubIt, you might want to compare your sales of short stories (or anything priced under $ 2.99) via the Smashwords premium catalog with sales directly through Amazon to see where you get the most money for your time investment — or you can go straight to Amazon through the KDP platform.

Not exact matches

Kelly Liyakasa from the Westchester County Business Journal has a story about the short sale of the luxury Altelier Suites in White Plains.

Long story short — does anyone know of any killer online sales of leftover toddler summer clothes?

Look 1: Are you Am I, silk dress & Other Stories, loafers Look 2: Vintage, cardigan Creatures of Comfort, silk dress Celine, shoes Look 3: Baukjen, suede shorts ON SALE Rodebjer, top Dries Van Noten, sandals (high heel style) Look 4: The Perfext, fringe jacket Frame, jeans (These are my fav.

Bringing to mind the apocryphal tale of Ernest Hemingway's shortest story ever — «For sale: grown actor's jock strap, worn a lot» — a new prop auction has opened up, allowing Dirty Grandpa superfans to take their picks of the movie's memorabilia.

Long story short the code was for the CATs and we did a bunch of other rigorous tests with Stevinson Porsche but at the end of the day, they ordered new CATs for my GT2... not sure if you guys know this but OEM CATs are expensive and for them to go above and beyond like that after the sale, really spoke volumes for me considering a lot of other dealers i know would have said «Tough Luck».

My only MG is a 5 - year - old collection of short stories (short stories, collections and otherwise, are always hard to sell), but I was never tempted to go ahead with the novels I'd had planned for those characters, not based on those ebook sales.

In The Dangerous Kind (ahem: my novella found in the huge collection of short stories, Murders Among Dead Trees on sale for a short time for just 99 cents) a boy forms a plan to murder his abusive older brother on a hunting trip.

A best - selling novel that's sure to appeal to book clubs and two short story collections by Southern masters of the form top the list of new paperbacks on sale today:

Unfortunately, short stories fall somewhere just above poetry and below everything else in terms of their ability to generate sales, which is painful news for the short - story - lover — and even more devastating for the short story writer.

If you've stopped by my blog before, you've doubtlessly heard me suggest that giving away a free ebook (whether a short story, a novella, or a complete Book 1) can be a great way to boost sales of your other books.

If reviews and sales rankings are anything to go by, readers aren't keen on the idea of $ 2.99 short stories, even by established authors.

Many, many traditionally published authors are working to add either back - list titles they've gotten the rights back on, or bonus books (novellas, short stories) through indie publishing to boost the sales of their books under contract.

Thomas A. Mays is the Improbable Author of «The Mutineer's Daughter», «A Sword Into Darkness», «Demigod», «Lancers Into The Light», and numerous short stories here on the web, such as «Strategic Deployment», «Dreams for Sale — Two Bits!»

Newsletter subscribers receive first notice of new releases in the selected genre / series (including preorders), special sales, and giveaways, as well as access to members - only content, like bonus scenes and short stories.

Anyone can write a novel, a short story or a non-fiction book and make it available for sale to 100's of millions of people.

The words he wrote took on the form of an advert and make up a story which is not only the shortest but is also in my opinion one of the most tragic stories ever told: For Sale, baby shoes, never worn.

Grab it while it's on sale... and win one of five cute paperbacks of my short Mindjack story, The Locksmith!

In spite of such responses, within a year the story was included in Prize Stories of 1949 and 55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, acknowledging the power of Jackson's storytelling craft and introducing very widely a writer whose first novel, The Road Through the Wall (1948), had disappointing sales but cannily and hauntingly depicted the humorous, horrific and sometimes macabre irony of suburban life.

Somewhat OT, but in response to a few comments here — as a new indie author (one novel and two short stories so far), is there a certain minimum output I'll need to gain substantial traction in terms of readership and sales?

KDP and KU exclusivity, in my case, seems increasingly a place for top of sales funnel projects (i.e. prequels, short stories and novellas.)

Those of us who write more than that, and who can also do short stories and collections, don't even have to have many per - book sales to have it add up to large amounts of money.

Today, Amazon have 85,837 titles of short story collections listed for sale to their Kindles.

I now have started to giveaway a couple of short stories — one at a time — and I'll be interested to see if doing this encourages more sales of my books.

This price point of 99 cents works for my offerings as my continued sales indicate there is currently still a market for short stories.

2013 (so far): 4 Books published (total of 9 books and a short story for sale)-- $ 100,987.24; Expenses (advertising and production)-- $ 9,111.56

I'd vaguely heard of Scribd before but only came across the possible sales and promotional potential of both it and Wattpad after reading David Gaughran's attempts with both his own short stories and serially posting his novel A Storm Hits Valparaiso.

It has pushed the sales of Ellie's two short stories, Free Surprise in Every Box and Predator or Prey.

It took six months (of < 150 sales / month over 2 books and a free short story) to gain real traction.

There was a time when I broke out the numbers of borrows and sales for each short story, but now I lump the numbers for all the short stories together and just compare sales versus borrows for this group.

Email Insiders club members get: «try a new series» free books, free short stories, beta reading opportunities, special sales and giveaways, and early announcements of book releases.

One thing I would like to add: there also exists the opportunity for publication of short stories in e-form for sale, either originals or ones involving characters from novels or serials.

And, perhaps more significantly, the improved visibility in the Kindle store resulted in a consistently high number of regular sales and borrows for all my books and short stories.

«In a few years» time we will look back at e-readers and remember them as one of the shortest - lived of all consumer media devices; sales of tablets have been the key device story of 2013 and 2014,» he said.

As many of you know, in an attempt to promote some of my shorter fantasy titles, I recently (June 22 - 26) held a six - day sale of three of my short stories: Sword of Kings, Assassin, and Seven Into the Bleak.

The shift with KU is one I've noticed in particular, though it's odd because I'll see a spike in sales from some of my older books / short stories and it won't show the «borrow» from KDP for days sometimes, basically until someone passes the 10 % mark.

In our case, we will donate the royalties of book sales that come from the sale of our first Facebook Anthology, which is a collection of short stories, poems, and excerpts from our many Facebook Fans.

I can definitely attest to the query being more of a sales letter than a short story.

* There's a market for short stories in Kindle Unlimited (bundle your short stories once you have four or five of them for additional sales);

Seven major ways of composing sales copy for your novels or short stories or non-fiction works.

King novel and six months before release he put out a collection of short stories, that might cut your readership (and your sales) in half.

Dave Cornford presents One Million Words posted at Dave Cornford — author, saying, «After about 3 years of writing and self - publishing seriously, I've achieved the milestone of having 1,000,000 words on sale — novels, short stories, novellas, collections, humor and parody.

It's not uncommon to run across horror stories of the short sale process and timeline stretching out over seven months or more.

Now this is interesting (at least to me): according to a story on REO Insider by Kerry Curry, Rep. Robert Andrews (D - NJ) and Rep. Tom Rooney (R - FL) have introduced a bill in the house (H.R. 6133 — Prompt Decision for Qualification of Short Sale Act of 2010) that would force lenders to make a yes... View Article