Sentences with phrase «selling book genres»

Here are Midnight Publishing's top three best - selling book genres in history:

Not exact matches

His genre - defining book, A Brief History of Time, has sold more than 10 million copies since its publication in 1988, and has been translated into more than 35 languages.

The Ghost Writer comes from a template similar toPolanski's 1999 thriller, The Ninth Gate.Both films are based on best - selling genre fiction and involve a mercenary inthe world of books who finds himself on a journey into fear and darkness.

I put one of my books up last week free and it «sold» 360 in the first two days but never made it into any genre's top 100.

No, a book will sell if it has a catchy title, attractive cover, is about a genre a reader cares about, and is promoted heavily.

I told her that's especially important for authors — who spend years writing books that people won't read instead of thinking in terms of genres that sell.

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!).

Often, authors are great at writing in their genre, but they don't know the first thing about writing the marketing copy that will sell their book to readers.

Genre fiction books (fantasy, science fiction, erotica / romance, steampunk, paranormal) will need to be sold for less — less than 13 dollars — for the most part, as well as young adult books (younger audience, smaller wallets).

Telling her that a book was great was risky — she liked only one genre and sold the rest of the stuff to make enough money to stay in business.

On Amazon, my last book has a 4.9 average and has stayed in the top 100 best - selling list of its particular genre since it was released a little more than a week ago.

Capital cities of the provinces and different universities in various provinces were also examined to discover the overall rate of book buying and the genres that sold the most copies in each location.

She now has a seven book deal with Pan McMillan and is out selling many of the authors in her genre.

Remember: For any genre, the key to successfully selling your self - published book is to market it effectively.

Take a look at the top - selling genres in self - publishing to find out where your book fits in:

«Rocking Book Blurbs» is totally geared to show you how to do the entire process, from start to finish, based on what sells best in your genre.

Looking to the gender of the authors of the books reviewed, cross factoring this with data on the price, genre and how the books were published brought the study's authors to a lousy conclusion: Books written by women that are released by mainstream publishing houses sell, on average, for 45 % less than those written bybooks reviewed, cross factoring this with data on the price, genre and how the books were published brought the study's authors to a lousy conclusion: Books written by women that are released by mainstream publishing houses sell, on average, for 45 % less than those written bybooks were published brought the study's authors to a lousy conclusion: Books written by women that are released by mainstream publishing houses sell, on average, for 45 % less than those written byBooks written by women that are released by mainstream publishing houses sell, on average, for 45 % less than those written by men.

Pick your genre of choice (YA, science fiction, paranormal, romance, chicklit, etc.) and find out what the top ten best selling books are in that genre.

I went on to write additional books in my niche genre that sold tens of thousands of copies.

Learn how to set the right retail price of your book so you can sell your book at a competitive price compared to other books in your genre.

While not as popular as the romance genre, self - published mystery, thriller, and crime books still sell extremely well.

Since so much of finding an audience and selling a book is about how a book is positioned in the marketplace, it's also important to get feedback about how your book compares to other books in its genre, and whether the way it's presented (for example, the book's cover and title) makes sense to a reader.

More than any other element of your book, you can let genre trends and reader interests guide your cover design — the cover's job is too sell your book, right?

On one front, this is essential material for the first - time author pursuing a traditional publishing deal, as publishers are well known for sticking quite rigidly to genre requirements, for the purposes of selling their products (our books) to the even more hide - bound book shops, who aren't interested in buying a book unless they know where to shelve it.

The mindless idiots on reality shows selling garbage books to the mindless idiots who watch such shows is a typical garbage niche genre that is currently being exploited by traditional publishers none of which has any redeeming literary value whatsoever.

A two - time USA Today bestselling author, Bryan has sold over 100,000 books and co-written over 800 book descriptions in a variety of genres.

No matter what genre your book is, you're always going to sell the most copies at $ 0.99.

You're just focused on «how can I sell my book» and that's going to be your biggest problem because the easiest way to have a bestseller or a successful book launch is to have a partnership opportunities with other authors in your genre.

And the books are genre books, meaning if they sold in science fiction or mystery or romance, they would make about $ 5,000.00 advance.

It's heavy - handed, and unprofessional, but it will help you sell more books than every other self - publishing author who doesn't use any keywords and has covers that don't convey the genre.

BookLogix will consult with author to determine the selling and list price for the print and eBook editions, assisting the author in determining the price of the book based on genre and page count.

Imprints themselves have developed specifically to organize books or a certain type or genre for marketing and selling to the trade show.

This information is relevant if you plan on going to any book fair where foreign rights are sold, in any genre.

Now you can sell a book in May and have it out by the fall depending on the genre.

By the end of 2012, «Loose Ends» had sold over 82,000 copies and, as of the writing of this bio, was the number one bestselling book in Amazon's ranking of Ghost Stories in the Book / Literature & Fiction / Genre Fiction / Horror / Ghosts section and the number two in the same area in the Kindle eBooks sectbook in Amazon's ranking of Ghost Stories in the Book / Literature & Fiction / Genre Fiction / Horror / Ghosts section and the number two in the same area in the Kindle eBooks sectBook / Literature & Fiction / Genre Fiction / Horror / Ghosts section and the number two in the same area in the Kindle eBooks section.

From their perspective, genre purity makes a book faster and easier to sell.

If your books are a similar genre but not really linked as a series then it's the one that sells the best.

My Penname, on the other hand, rocks the Amazon algos — not only does she sell more because she's writing in a popular genre, but her fans know just what to expect from the next book... and eagerly await its arrival.

An editor at a huge publisher loved my book, but marketing vetoed it because my genre «wasn't selling.»

One thing Robertson was kind enough to point out — apart from stating very eloquently that self - published authors do sell a lot of books — is that authors in the thriller and mystery genres may want to keep their options open when it comes to choosing to publish traditionally, with a small press, or by themselves.

Recently I ended up turning down an offer of representation that came with a demand that I massively rewrite my books so they could sell in a different genre.

They want authors to write in a certain genre, for a specific market, because that's what's «selling» this month, e.g. shiny vampires; never mind that by the time the book is actually published (oh, about 12 - 18 months after the deal is signed), the new flavour of the month will be glowing werewolves.

Writing reviews and interviewing authors is great if that's your business, but if you want to sell books, you need to understand who your audience is (before you do anything else) and then create content that they actually want, and helps build your brand identity as an author of [whatever genre].

They don't know what is required in your genre for a cover to sell a book.

Perhaps you want to start a new series or perhaps your book would sell better with an author name that fits well in your genre.

Alas, while every editor response was complimentary of my book, they didn't consider it a big - selling genre, and therefore not worth taking on.

Juvenile Fiction was the best - selling genre in Canada in 2015, with a 29.6 % share of total unit sales through traditional book retailers, representing 20 % of the value of the total book market.

I seem to be selling about 1/6 as many copies per book in German, but I'm making a little more than 1/6 as I've priced the German books a bit higher than in the English markets, both to compensate for the 20 % VAT and because Germans seem to be accepting of these prices — and they're still a bargain, much lower than many of their traditionally published books in the same genre.

You definitely need an eye - catching, genre - appropriate cover design that helps you sell your book.

If your book's cover doesn't quite convey the genre or tone, check the covers of the top selling books in your genre and see if a new cover could be the equivalent of a weekend at the spa.