Sentences with phrase «successful authors right»

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In his book, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, author Eric Ries highlights how «startup success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.»

«Behind every successful entrepreneur today is the right smartphone,» says Jennifer Jolly, consumer technology journalist and author of USA Today's Tech Now series.

From The Author: «One of the keys to a successful day is starting your morning off the right way — with a hearty and healthy breakfast that kick - starts your metabolism an»

Pimp turned successful urban fiction author Robert Beck gets a loving, burnished treatment in the new documentary «Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp,» a film which awkwardly straddles the line between amiable hagiography and a more discerning sociological study of the constricted economic opportunities for African - Americans in the pre-Civil Rights era.

Dr. Scannella, a former principal, assistant principal, director of curriculum and psychotherapist, is the author of a number of notable projects and texts including Sending the Right Signals, a program to eliminate sexual harassment; co-author of The Children We Share, a program for parents and principals, and the author of Changing Student Behavior: Comprehensive Learning and Interventions for Correcting Kids and Successful Interventions for Today's Exceptional Kids: Cultivating a Passion for Compassion (Rowman & Littlefield, publishers).

Many are successful authors in their own right.

We've received a couple of nibbles on film rights for Dragon's Trail, which tells me that we're getting to a point in this business where an independent author is eventually going to have a successful movie or TV franchise made while keeping the publishing rights.

It's getting easier and easier for successful digital - first authors to move into print and even bookstores without the help of a publisher, and the spread of e-book reading from dedicated devices such as the Kindle to tablets and smartphones (22 percent of Americans age 18 to 29 read books on their phones, according to the Pew survey) seems to offer new opportunities for those who get the format and pricing right.

Even highly established and successful authors such as Lynda La Plante are adapting to really get to grips with the rapidly evolving rights and licensing marketplace.

Right now I'm finishing my PhD in Comparative Literature in Taiwan, developing platforms and services to help indie authors and artists be more successful.

Successful authors make time to support their books or they hire the right people to do it for them.

Cass talks about things like what editorial letters are, how royalties and rights work, and what it's like to write a sequel, all with an approachable, refreshing genuineness that reminds us successful authors really are just like us.

He is always willing to help point new author's in the right direction which is why the Awesomegang Facebook authors group has been so successful.

In fact, self - published and independent authors are sometimes so successful that they have forced traditional publishers to do things they never would have agreed to in years past — things like split digital / print publishing rights and change royalty rates.

Stephen: The people that are really successful as Indie authors right now, there seems to be a sort of formula for, and it's writing a lot of books, writing really fast, publishing on a rapid and regular basis, and we can't all do that!

A talented and successful author in her own right, Heather is savvy about all things publishing, and can help guide both your writing and your career accordingly.

You don't earn a black belt in a month, and you certainly don't become a successful, established, selling author that quickly either, so take your time and do it right.

What I do when I teach, however, is save writers years of trial and error by showing them right away what successful authors do, and how they can do it themselves.

But you have to do everything right, and it's often expensive (I know a lot of successful authors who barely break even — so they're excited to be allowed to basically work for free.)

This is why we're so pushy when it comes to marketing — there's no way to be magically successful as an author, but marketing to the right audiences in the right ways sure helps.

Some of them will write reviews on Amazon and you will be on the right path to work as a full time writer and as a successful author.

How to Be More Successful with the Right Content Marketing Tools (Ben Sailer for CoSchedule): This article is especially helpful for writers who already have an author platform in the works, but they're not quite sure how to drive traffic or followers to those outlets.

TOBY MUNDY AND ALLI RELEASE LBF RIGHTS GUIDE Philip Jones The Bookseller Orna Ross, director of ALLi, commented: «Being a successful indie author means doing whatever is best for your work, within the bounds of what's possible at a particular time.

But it doesn't have to be that way: once you figure out that everyone is failing, it's much easier to see what they're doing wrong, and what the minority of successful authors are doing right.

I am a successful author who's publisher IS Strategic books and Publishing Rights Agency.

Today's successful authors know that there isn't a right or wrong way to publish, as a matter of fact some of the best are going HYBRID!

An author has to do everything right at all these stages for his / her marketing efforts to be successful.

The big question is would I trust a Christian pastor who consistantly rips off other sites for information when he's claiming to be a successful author in his own right?

She has worn many hats — she's published with major New York houses, then broke away and created her own imprint; has successfully published over 20 books and sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies; understands niche publishing and marketing; has created publicity campaigns for her own work that landed her on Oprah, Donahue, CNN and even grabbed a cover story in People magazine; she's penetrated the foreign rights market with her work in 16 countries to date; she has guided and coached many others from creation to completion of their work; she has created and chair several publishing conferences; and she has successfully turned several publishing disasters into successful outcomes for their authors.

The hosts are all successful self - publishing authors in their own right, and we get to listen in on the trials and tribulations of their writing lives.

Right away and start learning the secrets that few people know when it comes to becoming a successful author.

You are in the right place, because this is the Happy Self Publishing show — where you get all of your questions related to book writing, publishing and marketing answered by successful authors.

But successful authors get right back on.

If I were a successful indie author and the publishers came calling, I'd do a deal for print, since that's such a hassle, but keep the ebook rights for myself.

Many authors have been successful in reclaiming their audio rights in this manner.

Judith has published 35 books, sold rights to 16 countries and is the Founder and chief Visionary Officer of AuthorU.org, a membership organization and community that was created for the author who desires to be seriously successful.

Given the right topic, authors can be very successful in selling their books to associations.

Successful self - published authors like Howey, who did well by ultimately selling print rights to a Big 5 publisher while retaining digital rights, are less likely to see any benefit in prestige or marketing when there is diminished gain from a rapidly diminishing retail presence.

Still the right marketing approach remains questionable depending on individual author's resolution to find a successful formula for their books.

I know successful authors who fall into every strategy camp, so there's no «one right answer.»

A hugely successful author in her own right earning 6 figures in many genres, Joanna has recently launched her own publishing imprint called Curl Up Press.

This is a terrific service for self - published authors who are looking to drive more sales and are searching for the right tools that would help their book become successful in the industry.

Still other successful indie authors have turned down traditional publishing offers after going indie and are scooping up international deals and optioning movie rights, all while not giving up their ebook rights.

The purpose of this post is to share well thought - out tips from several self - published authors who have been successful on many different levels and in their own right — not just those that have sold millions of copies.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch, a bestselling author writing in several different genres, seemed to have the right take on things when she said, ``... just because your book isn't successful now doesn't mean it won't be in the future.

They are talking about a tiny percentage of Hachette international booklist — the newest or most successful and fairly recent of their bestselling authors — the ones where the price is highest (although still much less than the hardcover edition,) for the premium of getting the e-book right away.

In all my 18 years in business, I think I've seen only one book from a first - time author become crazy successful right out of the gate.

It's tough to know where the right price point is, but it looks to me like the more successful titles an author has, the higher pricing they can command.

That's why I've asked 11 successful self - published eBooks authors to offer up some tips to help get you started on the right foot, while avoiding some of the common roadblocks in the process.

But successful authors spend a lot of time perfecting their craft, finding the right publishing partnership, and doing everything it takes to make sure their books get discovered.