Sentences with phrase «selling authors pick»

Many best - selling authors pick their topic or angle specifically because they know it will be of interest to their audience.

2 min readMany best - selling authors pick their topic or angle specifically because they know it will be of interest to their audience.

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Amazon's dominant position in both book publishing and book selling means that it would be incredibly dangerous for the company to start picking and choosing, on moral grounds, which authors it chooses to work with.

To pick the personal care products to assess, the report authors spent a year gathering a list of popular products used and sold at retailers and speciality stores catering to black women.

I picked up a Mason Jar Cocktail Shaker while in the store (it's sadly sold out online) for my friends that always mix drinks from the «Shake: A New Perspective on Cocktails» since the book authors also created the shaker.

We've received the news that the wonderful BBC Films and Shine Pictures today have picked up the rights to best - selling author Tom Rob Smith's...

Even the most industry naïve author has picked up on the talking point that the author has to sell their book.

Paul Pilkington, a lecturer in a university in the UK, signed up with the UK - based publisher Hodder & Stoughton after two of his novels went on to sell more than 150,000 copies, other indie authors who got picked up by conventional publishers include the likes of Kerry Wilkinson and Beth Reeks.

In Proofreading Secrets of Best - Selling Authors, professional freelance author / editor Kathy Ide shares tips she's picked up during her years in the publishing industry.

Mark's authors have gotten 6 - figure advances, been on the NY Times bestseller list, and had their work picked up for TV, stage, and feature film with companies like Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks resulting in millions of books being sold.

The many fans of best - selling author Robert Morgan are no doubt very excited about the recent publication of The Road from Gap Creek, a sequel to his wildly popular, Oprah Book Club pick, Gap Creek.

Diana Abu - Jaber is most recently the author of Birds of Paradise, an Indie Books Pick, as well as of the award winning memoir, The Language of Baklava, the best - selling novels Origin andCrescent, which was awarded the 2004 PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the American Book Award.

Both author and musician have a similar goal: being picked up by a major publisher / label, or selling enough books / music (and merchandise) to make a living.

And, since a legitimate agent doesn't charge reading fees, or make money until the book sells, they are very reluctant to pick up new authors.

They email you a list every day of their pick of free or heavily discounted books by the top selling Christian authors.

To introduce you as a new author, eg if you get picked up by a major book chain as Author of the Month, the publisher may sell your books to that chain at a high discount in return for a large order, and guaranteed publicity and shelf author, eg if you get picked up by a major book chain as Author of the Month, the publisher may sell your books to that chain at a high discount in return for a large order, and guaranteed publicity and shelf Author of the Month, the publisher may sell your books to that chain at a high discount in return for a large order, and guaranteed publicity and shelf space.

And that is how I wound up spending an hour picking a bestselling author's brain about selling a manuscript, self - publishing, and baby pictures (ok, that's not really about writing, but I was delighted to get a peek at Epic Baby).

Thousands of people know my name, and while most people who know my name who buy my books pick a math workbook, science book, or self - publishing book, I still sell a significant number of golf and chess books to people who've heard of me (plus many who haven't, who apparently weren't deterred by the variety shown on my author page).

Then the publishers want to pick the authors who already demonstrate they have the ability to sell the book, and who come with a fully developed book promotion plan ready to implement.

Authors who sell tons of books don't try to appeal to everyone — they sell to a certain group, and if others happen to pick up their book too, super-duper.

Best - selling romantic suspense author Christina Dodd returns to Virtue Falls, Washington, in our September Romance Top Pick, Obsession Falls.

This month's free pick is Humaity 2.0, by variopus best - selling science fiction authors, which you should be pleased to note while this book costs $ 2.99 in the Amazon Kindle website, you can get it for free if you follow the instructions below.

He is also the creator of KDP Rocket, a software that helps authors see what's really going on in Kindle marketing, and thus pick better keywords and categories to help them sell more books.

You may have a small percentage of self - published authors who break out with readers, but you can just as easily find authors who were picked up by publishers who would never have sold an equal number of books on their own without the help of a brand and professional support.

With Pronoun, authors can also make their eBooks free at any time, pick and choose which retailers to sell through, and send simultaneous updates to multiple retailers (e.g. copies sold, total sales, estimated earning etc.).

For help in selling or appraising their businesses, «salespeople should pick up the phone book and look up business appraisers and brokers or call the local real estate school for recommendations on experts in the local market,» says Scott Gabehart, president of VR Business Brokers in Scottsdale, Ariz., and author ofThe Upstart Guide to Buying, Valuing, and Selling Your Buselling or appraising their businesses, «salespeople should pick up the phone book and look up business appraisers and brokers or call the local real estate school for recommendations on experts in the local market,» says Scott Gabehart, president of VR Business Brokers in Scottsdale, Ariz., and author ofThe Upstart Guide to Buying, Valuing, and Selling Your BuSelling Your Business.

And speaking of talented Southerners - New York Times best - selling author, Mary Kay Andrews, will also be bringing a trailer full of vintage goods picked from around the South, and I could not be more excited that she is able to attend!