Sentences with phrase «sitting on a bookstore»

I've been dreaming of the day where a hardcover book filled with glossy images, the name on the spine reading «Tessa Huff» would sit on bookstore shelves next to some of my baking idols like Greenspan, Tosi, Beranbaum, and Stewart for years.

Once the claw of luck grabs us, we have very little control, and we have less and less as the book gets closer to sitting on the bookstore shelves.

It's definitely an eye - catcher and I believe it will draw a reader's eye to my book when it's sitting on a bookstore shelf.

Outfits like iUniverse, Xlibris, and AuthorHouse (which have merged and been consolidated under AuthorSolutions) offered a range of packages to help authors get their books in print, though most books never sat on a bookstore shelf and sold a few dozen copies at best.

Not exact matches

Standing on my tiptoes, I shifted my view through the bookshelves to the semi-circle of editors sitting at the front of the bookstore.

Sitting in a bookstore, engrossed in a book on Christian leadership, I barely noticed the man sitting across from me rSitting in a bookstore, engrossed in a book on Christian leadership, I barely noticed the man sitting across from me rsitting across from me reading.

On a bright day in early autumn, I found myself sitting on the floor of my favorite bookstore with a pile of picture books two feet talOn a bright day in early autumn, I found myself sitting on the floor of my favorite bookstore with a pile of picture books two feet talon the floor of my favorite bookstore with a pile of picture books two feet tall.

It led to me nearly spending $ 75 on a CD set that promised to help me «decode» my baby's cries, and sitting in the aisle of a used bookstore, surrounded by books on newborn sleep, crying in exhaustion.

With nearly 200,000 new titles published each year, bookstores have books featured everywhere — stacked on the floor, standing on end caps and sitting on tables, not to mention the rows of shelves.

This allows the average bookstore to promote it in their shop and not just rely on the device sitting on a shelf to gain interest.

So when Kobo's Michael Tamblyn sat down with Good e-Reader to catch up on the latest news from the growing device - selfpub - platform - bookstore, it was difficult to take it all in.

That doesn't mean the author's or publisher's books will sit on the shelf of most (or even a few) bricks - and - mortar bookstores in the country — just that the book can look and appear like any other when viewed in an industry database.

If you have a desire to get to bookstores (a fools errand for the most part, but still many want to see that one book sitting on a wooden shelf), go through Ingrams Spark with that.

My novels won't sit stacked on some shelf in the back of a dusty old bookstore (if bookstores exist in the future), they will always be fresh and ready for download, ready to draw new readers into noir, eccentric, and illusionary worlds.

Likewise if one's book isn't in the front of the bookstore; no one sees it and within six weeks of sitting hidden on the back shelves (what is called wallpaper for the big authors), most authors books are no longer in the store and won't be reordered.

He has been in the middle of the publishing process, overseeing large marketing budgets, sitting on publishing editorial boards, and involved with sales presentations to major book buyers and national bookstore accounts.

If cyberspace fails to be the time - wasting stagger - down - the - aisles - and - sit - on - the - bookstore - floor - reading approach of the bookshop, I say bravo for asking us to get a grip, get off the floor, think for ourselves, do a little research, use the damned samples, and order and buy books like discerning readers do, not like sheep who backed into the Philosophy session and fell over what Sartre meant about responsibility.

Those that do sit spine - out on dwindling bookstore shelves for a few months and are then returned to the publisher and go out of print.

They sit on the shelves in a fair number of bookstores (I have a signing tomorrow, actually).

Where we question the general lack of imaginative or world - changing storytelling, or the hundreds of thousands of boring formula fiction with bad covers (got ta have bad to recognise the truly good), we must also question why similar stuff is sitting on my local bookstore's shelves.

If your heart is set on getting into bookstores, then self - publishing those first million words before sitting down with an agent might be your best ticket to success in both arenas.

She often finds herself meandering foreign cities looking for street eats to nibble, trees to climb, a patch of grass to sit on, or a small bookstore to sift through.