Generally speaking, first
time fiction authors without a known brand name do better on the lower pricing side of the market, until they've grown their catalogue to several books.
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As an author you just have to work with the market as it stands, so the average first
time fiction author, taking the business minded approach of making your first book a «loss leader «can go along way to building momentum and your readership in the first year or so of being available.
Not exact matches
Amy Bloom,
author of two New York
Times best - sellers and three collections of short stories, has written for The New Yorker, The New York
Times Magazine, and Vogue, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award for
Fiction.
Authors often use an avatar in their
fiction stories — it is not Jack that climbs the beanstalk, it is the
author... and many
times, it is the reader that years later «lives» the story as they read it.
But, whereas in ancient
times the apocalyptic writers expected God to usher in the new world, the first science
fiction authors described a future created by human invention.
Stephen Hawking publishes children's book Stephen Hawking, wheelchair - bound physicist and
author of A Brief History of
Time, this week published his first children's book in an expected trilogy, designed, he told reporters, to make «real science as exciting as science
fiction.»
Your vision stabilizes by your early 30s, making it an ideal
time for this surgical fix, says Clyde Kitchen, MD, an ophthalmologist in California and the
author of Fact and
Fiction of Healthy Vision: Eye Care for Adults and Children.
Known as a prolific
author of more than eighty books with twenty - two New York
Times best sellers in both
fiction and non-
fiction, his works have been published in more than forty languages.
Dalton Kirk stared out the window and grimaced as the The Top 50 greatest
fiction books of all
time determined by 114 lists and articles from various critics,
authors and experts.
The Top 50 greatest
fiction books of all
time determined by 114 lists and articles from various critics,
authors and experts.
Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York
Times bestselling and award - winning
author of more than thirty books for children and young adults, including picture books, novels, works of historical
fiction and nonfiction.
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Romance doesn't have a lot of conventions, unlike SFF, (or at least it didn't — it's expanding too,) so it's not surprising Romantic
Times got inundated, as romance has been at the forefront of e-books, self - pub romances, small press publication, shorter
fiction publications (novellas & collections,) and
author - reader interaction.
From there, it's only a matter of
time before an independent
author blows the top off of the science
fiction or fantasy markets and does it without the help of a major house.
USA Today bestselling
author Dean Wesley Smith returns to his Thunder Mountain universe with Monumental Summit, a science
fiction novel of the new
times in the Old West.
Obsidian was a history - making experience; it was the first
time in podcast
fiction where the lines between
author and audience were fundamentally blurred in this way.
As a publicist she works with both
fiction and non-
fiction authors including New York
Times bestseller D. Watkins,
author of The Beastside: Living and Dying While Black in America, Tia Williams, former magazine beauty editor and
author of The Perfect Find and Clint Smith award - winning poet, Ted Talk conference speaker and contributor to The New Yorker.
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Fiction Tagged With: Alliance of Independent
Authors, David Gaughran, Freedom, Ivory Tower, Jennifer Weiner, Orna Ross, Purity, Salman Rushdie, The Corrections, The Guardian, The New Yorker,
Time Magazine
He's personally coached over 450
authors, consulted with top publishing houses, and helped clients hit the New York
Times bestseller list three different ways, including new
fiction, new non-
fiction, and backlist non-
fiction.
Although there are thousands of books that address lofty topics like creativity, plot outlines, and the craft of different types of writing, there are relatively few books devoted to helping
authors create a system of
time management habits and practices to write their books — regardless of the types of
fiction or nonfiction book you want to write.
So for some
authors, especially those in the commercial
fiction genres, I think that can be a very interesting way to get the benefits without the huge
time commitment that it takes.»
For over 10 years, I've trained more than 450
authors, consulted with top publishing houses, and helped clients hit the New York
Times bestseller list three different ways, including new
fiction, new non-
fiction, and backlist non-
fiction.
Author of eleven
fiction and nonfiction books including The Life and
Times of Homer Sincere (Peter Mayer / Overlook Press), Cricket (New American Library)
Our staff of agents represents dozens of
authors and experts, including # 1 New York
Times bestsellers, award - winning
fiction writers for adults and children, and important non-
fiction authors.
To kickstart the program, Amazon has commissioned several
authors, including New York
Times bestseller Barbara Freethy, and award winners John Everson and Colleen Thompson, to produce fan
fiction for the series mentioned above.
You already know that Jennifer Crusie is the
author of popular and very clever women's
fiction — most recently Maybe This
Time, released in September.
Bret Anthony Johnston,
author of Remember Me Like This Rebecca Makkai,
author of The Hundred - Year House Maggie Shipstead,
author of Astonish Me Backward Through
Time:
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Recently, Karen Kingsbury, the prolific
author crowned the queen of Christian
fiction by
Time magazine, will celebrate the publication of Leaving, the first book in her four - part Bailey Flanigan series.But she won't be celebrating alone.
The prize identifies, and puts at the forefront of the competitive publishing industry, exceptional books written by first -
time authors from three categories: Literary
Fiction, Genre
Fiction (this year Speculative
Fiction; a different genre is showcased each year), and Non-
Fiction.
Reader name: Nancy Hometown: Champaign, Illinois Favorite genres: contemporary
fiction, historical
fiction, biographies and suspense Favorite
authors: Audrey Niffenegger, Ann Patchett, Stieg Larsson Favorite books: Unbroken, Memoirs of a Geisha, The
Time Traveler's Wife, Water for Elephants, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Three Cups of Tea
He's been published in a number of publications, including The Irish
Times, and his
fiction was featured in Surge, an anthology of new Irish writing published by O» Brien Press with the aim of showcasing «the very best of the next generation of Irish
authors».
Jonathan's road from his first published short story in 1978 to being a full -
time indie
author of more than thirty novels of (mostly) military science
fiction.
Facebook and Twitter have strong book communities, especially with women, so your
time might be better spent there if you're a
fiction author or a nonfiction
author marketing to women book lovers.
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Laurie's clients include the New York
Times and USA Today bestselling YA
author Julie Kagawa, bestselling fantasy and science
fiction author Michael J. Sullivan, award - winning romance
author Julianne Donaldson, award - winning steampunk and fantasy
authors Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris, and the award - winning Linda Wisdom, who has had more than 100 romance novels published in her career.
An innovative series that defies genre classification, USA Today bestselling
author Dean Wesley Smith's Thunder Mountain Series offers a compelling mix of science
fiction,
time travel, historical
fiction set in the old west, and even a dash of romance.
He served for a
time as the
fiction columnist for Writer's Digest and he's the
author of Plot & Structure, one of the books I recommend most often to beginning writers.
Celeste Ng is the New York
Times bestselling
author of the incredibly popular literary
fiction novels Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You.
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For traditional epic fantasy readers, we have A HERO BORN by Michael A. Stackpole, ECHOES OF A SHATTERED AGE by Ramon Terrell, THE FEATHER AND THE MOON WELL by new
author Shean Pao (the first «Farland Discovery» specially chosen and mentored by New York
Times bestselling fantasy
author David Farland), HEART READERS by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, SHADOWS FOR SILENCE IN THE FORESTS OF HELL by Brandon Sanderson, as well as a host of imaginative stories in the
Fiction River anthology UNNATURAL WORLDS.
Last year, in 2013, I've made the ranks of the Top 100 Best Seller
Authors in Science
Fiction a few
times and I've been contacted by two Independent publishing houses to feature my work.
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Sales are great, press releases, interviews, live radio guest appearances are exciting, climbing the ranks and entering the Top 100 Best Selling
Authors in Science
Fiction multiple
times is exhilarating, but nothing beats the support from readers and friends, and fellow writers who share this thrill with me.
NY
Times Bestselling
Author Brian Tracy is one of the most successful Non
Fiction authors alive.
Rob Eagar is a successful
author and marketing consultant who has worked with over 400
fiction and non-
fiction authors, including New York
Times bestsellers, Dr. Gary Chapman, Wanda Brunstetter, and Lysa TerKeurst.
This week, we brought back Carolynn Gockel,
author of the I Bring the Fire urban fantasy series and the Archangel Project science
fiction trilogy, for a third
time.
I read books of all genres, but my favorite
fiction books are Christian historical romance novels, with my all -
time favorite
author being Lori Wick.
Best thing I can tell you is to have fun looking at what everyone else is doing... especially YA
fiction authors... and you'll start getting ideas... to do it YOUR way... but building social media numbers by simply following other people... can be easier for a
fiction author than spending too much
time writing blog articles just to try and build a following.