Sentences with phrase «to hit a bestseller list»

Long before my books hit bestseller lists, I used to hide my writing under the bed in notebooks like secret treasure.

Don't expect to hit a bestseller list with your first book.

While indie authors continued to hit the bestseller lists in 2015, their presence in physical shops was negligible.

It's hard not to when you hear about the latest seven - figure book deal or read about an indie author hitting the bestseller lists or selling their film rights.

There are plenty of indie authors who hit bestseller lists without them.

Another title hit the bestseller list, only to have more copies of the book returned than sold only a week later.

To hit a bestseller list means that your book has sold enough copies in a single weekly period to win it a spot.

Long - time favorite novels that have enjoyed decades of critical acclaim are once again hitting the bestseller lists, and in many cases are even out of stock from some major retailers.

If your novel doesn't hit any bestseller lists, it's unlikely you'll earn out your advance.

Turns out, the author had never hit any bestseller list, nor had they worked with a bestselling author — ever.

The boxed set hit the bestseller list and stayed for almost 8 months.

First off, the term «hit a list» can mean hitting a bestseller list at any point of entry, including the bottom 100.

Some of my clients started hitting bestseller lists, and one author made an extra $ 500,000 from a single book launch!

With high quality self - published books regularly hitting bestseller lists, this is rapidly changing.

If you sign on with a publisher and expect to hit a bestseller list right away, it can happen, but chances are it won't.

The next week, the print edition hit the bestseller lists.

If your book hasn't hit a bestseller list, or at least come close, any press release about it is only headed in one direction: right into the trash can.

So they push and promote and discount and suddenly their book hits a bestseller list on Kindle, one of a thousand or so such lists covering every tiny area of every tiny genre.

Australian author Liane Moriarity hit the bestseller list for the first time in America with her fifth novel, The Husband's Secret.

One has to bank on the PB / MG / CB winning awards or hitting bestsellers lists like our book WONDER by R.J. Palacio has done for Knopf.

Smashwords does have some stuff that has hit the bestseller list which is fine, but its like MAYBE 25 - 100 books out of 300,000, those are not good odds.

Joanna also noted that its easier to hit the bestseller lists when you give your customers a bargain.

Terry Pratchett is a household name in England where the books in his satirical Discworld series for adults consistently hit the bestseller lists.

In those heady days of 2008 - 2011, anybody could make a book free on Amazon and it could hit the bestseller lists without a bit of promotion.

Do you believe that an author who hits the bestseller list becomes famous, triples his speaking fee, and gets new doors opened for his career?

You're a NYT bestselling author — tell us which book hit the bestseller list first, what number did you hit, and what did you do to celebrate?

Indies hit the bestseller lists every week, and the number of indies doing so is rising, not falling.

Chase has already hit bestseller lists with her Royal series, which imagines the love lives of European royalty, and in this guest post, she tells us why she decided to hop over the pond and focus on the romance of American «royalty» with her new series.

Wohlleben, who previously hit the bestseller list with The Hidden Life of Trees, provides research and anecdotes that will have you looking at the animals you encounter everyday — from squirrels to your own beloved pooch — with a changed eye.

A contributing writer for the Nation magazine, Smith is already drawing comparisons to Ta - Nehisi Coates, whose memoir, Between the World and Me, hit bestseller lists last summer and won a National Book Award.

Will Harding hit the bestseller list a second time?

Every week Smashwords authors are hitting bestsellers lists there, and every week you'll find Smashwords titles prominently featured.

Black — a regular contributor to «The Daily Show» whose Me of Little Faith hit the bestseller list in 2008 — makes it obvious (often in all caps) that he abhors «the claustrophobic and cloying warmth» of the holidays.

New Adult phenom, Colleen Hoover, began hitting bestseller lists a few months after publishing her first novel.

And then there were the Chicken Soup for the Soul authors who to start out gave away tons physical books to everyone they met, and eventually also hit the bestseller lists.

So there are about 200 NEW NAMES in fiction hit the bestseller lists every year that have never been there before.

In the weeks that I've been putting together my ebook bestsellers breakdown, which examines the titles that are doing better in digital formats than in print and investigates how titles hit the bestseller list, one common key to success pops up over and over again: The power of a sale.

Do you want to hit a bestseller list like the New York Times or the USA Today?

Resurrected as an eBook in 2013, when it once again hit the bestseller list, the book is now being offered in a new paperback edition.

And since we have it on good authority that cheaters never hit the bestsellers lists, we won't cover those services in this series.

We asked McCreight, who hit the bestseller list with her debut, Reconstructing Amelia, a few questions about this shocking and suspenseful second novel.

So, if you want to sell more books — and hit a bestseller list in the future — you must learn how to sell more books through Amazon.

Learn how to implement Mark's exclusive strategies that have helped dozens of Smashwords authors hit the bestseller lists.

McWilliams wasn't the first person to prove that how - to prose about computers could be lively and entertaining rather than dry and technical, but his self - published books hit bestseller lists, attracted attention from the mainstream press, and converted doubters such as William F, Buckley.

For that, you need talent and persistence — and maybe some savings to keep afloat before you hit the bestseller lists.

This was in early 2009, when Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food were hitting the bestseller list, and Michelle Obama had just planted the White House vegetable garden.

Hitting bestseller lists is no longer our goal.