Even best -
selling authors work with editors to make their manuscripts better.
Not exact matches
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.
A best -
selling co
author of cookbooks such as Vegan Fusion World Cuisine, The Complete Idiot's Guide To Eating Raw and now his latest
work, The Complete Idiot's Guide To Green Smoothies, he enjoys sharing his knowledge
with the vast worldwide audience.
Dr. Sachs is a clinical psychologist and educator specializing in
work with children, adolescents, and families, Founder and Director of The Father Center, and best -
selling author of The Good Enough Teen: Raising Adolescents
with Love and Acceptance
Dr. Brad Sachs is an Advisory Board Member of Challenge Success, and is a psychologist, educator, consultant, and best -
selling author specializing in clinical
work with children, adolescents, couples, and families.
Dr. Brad Sachs is a Challenge Success Advisory Council member, and is a psychologist, educator, consultant, and best -
selling author specializing in clinical
work with children, adolescents, couples, and families.
Having
worked with thousands of women over the past two decades, best -
selling author Samantha Ettus shares the secrets for how you can sustain a thriving personal and professional life at the same time.
Mario Livio is an astrophysicist who
worked for 24 years
with the Hubble Space Telescope and a best -
selling author of popular science books; his most recent one is Why?
Between her
work as an actress, producer, best -
selling author, Special Olympics ambassador, Dancing
with the Stars contestant, Â and reality TV starâ $» Maria Menounos is busy.
In this prequel to the Harry Potter series, best -
selling author J.K. Rowling
worked with director David Yates to bring her writing talents directly to the screen.
Wire Side Chat: Helping «Fake Readers» Become Proficient Life - Long Readers Cris Tovani,
author of the best -
selling «I Read It, But I Don't Get It,» chats
with Education World about her checkered reading past and about her widely acclaimed
work with students and teachers in the area of reading comprehension strategies.
Practising teacher and mindset expert Katherine Muncaster has
worked with best -
selling author Shirley Clarke to produce this essential handbook for anyone looking to embed a growth mindset across their primary school.
Total Literacy Techniques: Tools to Help Students Analyze Literature and Informational Texts: Building on ASCD's best -
selling book Total Participation Techniques: Making Every Student an Active Learner,
authors Pérsida Himmele and William Himmele
worked with National Board — certified teacher Keely Potter to develop more than 50 teacher - tested tools and techniques that help students read independently and critically.
Keynote speaker Sonia Nazario, a Pulitzer Prize - winner journalist and
author of the best -
selling book Enrique's Journey, will discuss her own experiences as an upstander
working with undocumented children.
Authors who have
worked with Mark have been published
with prestigious publishing houses including Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, Thomas Nelson, and Penguin Books, resulting in millions of books
sold.
We have twenty years of experience
working with a wide range of best -
selling books and
authors including narrative and literary fiction and non-fiction; memoirs; self - help; spirituality; cookbooks; politics; children's books; photo books; commercial fiction; history; science and the environment; fashion, and more.
It also
works for publishers and
authors who want to
sell ebooks
with Aerio.
Smashwords, which gives
authors 85 % of net profit, regardless of their
work's length, had its own issues
with censorship last February, when PayPal threatened to deactivate the ebookstore's account if it didn't cease
selling, according to a PayPal statement, «erotic fiction that contains bestiality, rape and incest.»
On this podcast, Kevin T. Johns speaks
with the instructors, editors, coaches, and mentors who help writers and
authors create their art, build their audience, and
sell their
work.
Being involved in every stage of putting together a non-fiction book proposal, offering substantial editing on fiction manuscripts, and coming up
with book ideas for
authors looking for their next project is as much a part of the
work at DGLM as
selling, negotiating contracts, and collecting monies for their clients.
Steampunk (and Harlequin and Amish romance)
author Shelley Adina joins us today to talk about managing multiple pen names and genres, keeping a long - running series fresh (and
selling), paying for foreign translations of indie books, and
working the cons to get in touch
with more readers (and take trips you can write off on your taxes!).
Tim procured Steve Alten's, «The Shell Game,» overseeing the campaign that turned the novel into a NY Times bestseller and
worked with best -
selling author, Richard Paul Evans» wholesale company as National Accounts Manager for distribution and publishing.
Author may,
with Publisher's consent, license other parties to reproduce, display, perform, distribute and
sell copies of the
Work, so long as such copies are not directly competitive
with Publisher's.
It's shocking the devaluation they have
with the readers, wanting to push high prices, when we know that we can
sell the e-book for a more affordable price without depreciate the
author's
work.
This change means that the very publishers who
sell their own
works — whether they are the
authors themselves, fully operating publishers, or
authors with their own imprint for business purposes — can now be undersold and therefore not be the actual seller when a consumer (oblivious to the rule change) clicks «add to cart.»
«We are delighted to
work with Scribd and Oyster to offer this exciting new model for readers to find and read eBooks, and to do so in a manner that respects the value of our
authors» creative endeavors and supports our mutual goals of
selling the most possible copies of their books.»
Of course, this could be a sign of something less dire, namely that Amazon will
work with larger files and let
authors sell overly long titles at 50 % royalty in order to make up for what the company is footing in terms of file transfer fees and hosting.
Ted Adams, CEO of IDW Publishing, the company producing the books, wanted to
work with the prolific
author because he
sells a ton of books and he's a «creative genius.»
The bottom line is simple, if it were up to someone else to decide what to call my efforts they would only hesitate to call me an
author if they had issues
with my
work selling.
We have
worked with New York Times bestselling
authors and helped
authors sell over 300,000 books.
Authors know that when they
work with a publisher, they're partnering
with a company that has years, decades or even centuries of experience choosing, editing, designing, marketing and
selling books.
Whether it's optimizing your online listings, advertising your book on social media, or designing a
sell - sheet, we
work with our
authors to get the right message out to the right audience.
The HarperCollins team is also
working with Accenture to
sell e-books directly to consumers — starting
with the
works of C.S. Lewis at cslewis.com and Narnia.com,
with the possibility of more launches for other
authors and genres — rather than going through intermediaries.
Lulu saw a 44 percent growth in Canadian creators last year
with authors making upwards of $ 165,000 and
selling thousands of copies of their
works.
they were caught by surprise
with the huge success of you independent
authors selling works at such a cheap price... and i'd say they'll adjust soon.
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.
Best way for a prospect to initiate contact — Jeff Herman's Directory of Agents Visit our website where you can: review sample queries and proposals for
works we've
sold; query us via email (24 - hour response time); subscribe to our free publishing newsletter; submit your question to our interactive «Ask the Agent» column; read articles by well - known
authors and publishing professionals; meet
with us at a writers» conference where I'll be speaking.
But I'd so much like to catch
authors before it's too late to get a book publicist really excited about a project: before a major book publishing house has given up on promoting the book (or lost interest in
selling the book) or before an
author has committed to
working with a print - on - demand company whose imprint would make a book about 95 % more difficult to properly promote than it has to be.
As a young editorial assistant, she
worked in the magazines department
working closely
with well - known
authors to
sell their short stories and book excerpts to The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly.
But the best advice this book publicist could provide to most
authors who want to self publish their books would be this: to maximize your chances of
selling the greatest number of books as a reward for your book promotion efforts,
work with LightningSource.
Karen
works with numerous
authors, speakers, and coaches designing and producing ebooks while helping
authors sell more books and back - end products and services through a variety of print and online design and production.
Albertine's mission and that of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy is to support
authors as much as possible in these endeavors, most notably by providing a platform to
sell and share their
works with the public.»
How, then, do you explain that the small epress I
worked for is capable of keeping track of the percentages paid to
authors authors and editors (typically 35 % for the
author and 10 % for the editor) for several hundred books
sold through multiple retail outlets (all
with different net payouts to the publisher) over a period of four years?
Authors who've had their
work featured in a Kobo promotion have touted four - figure monthly revenue
with books
sold in a variety of countries.
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.
On this podcast, I speak
with the instructors, editors, coaches, and mentors who help writers and
authors create their art, build their audience, and
sell their
work.
Since 2002, he has been a literary agent
with Brandt & Hochman, representing
authors and
selling their
work to publishers.
These little tips count, and this is how I've successfully
sold my five books (Broken Places is currently # 1 on Amazon's Poetry list), how I
work with my own BadRedhead Media clients, and how I'm
working with the
authors of the Gravity Imprint (which I'm directing) of my publisher, Booktrope.
Join writing coach Kevin T. Johns as he speaks
with the instructors, editors, coaches, and mentors who help writers and
authors create their art, build their audience, and
sell their
work.
Writers approach the endeavour of sharing their
work with the world
with different aims in mind, but I'm guessing that being able to say that you're a «Number 1 Best
Selling Author» is something most would cherish.