As much as I love
meeting readers in person and connecting with all these cool universities, churches, and conferences, I'm exhausted.
You need to be as good or better at exciting readers with a beautifully written description and cover design, and also
meet reader expectations by delivering a satisfying story.
Many enjoy
meeting their readers face - to - face, discussing their book, and maybe even signing a copy, allowing readers to have a one - of - a-kind treasure.
Besides the writing itself, she
loves meeting readers and fellow writers at conventions and conferences and drawing on the family teaching tradition to share the craft of writing with aspiring writers.
Neither of them make any particular effort to
meet their readers where the readers are as a general rule, instead insisting that the readers come to them.
Yet so much content
meets readers at a superficial level; most of it lacks heart and emotional connection.
However, indie publishing has proven traditional publishing was
not meeting reader demand — either in the number of new books being offered each month or in subject matter.
Active readers use the network to rate and track their books, and
meet readers with interests just like theirs.
I
always meet readers at demos, or even on the street who tell me that it's become a weekly tradition for them.
There are many wonderful things about having my manuscripts turned into published novels, but the opportunity to
meet readers such as you tops the list.
My favorite part of traveling is getting the chance to
meet readers in person — so I'd love for your hometown to make it to the list.
Instead of blowing up social media, I'll be running ads and doing some discounted book promotions to
meet readers where they are at.
Many authors are glad to know that there are people out there who still love books and they are glad to go out and
meet their readers at indie bookstores.
But if we cut that cover price in half, to
meet the reader demand for cheaper books in e-form, the royalties would reflect that per copy cost.
I wasted a lot of money on the airplanes and in hotels going to events where there's such a better, more effective way to meet them online, through Facebook ads, Twitter ads, Instagram, things like that are a better investment
for meeting readers than travel.
I
enjoyed meeting the readers who came by to say hello in person, including Mike from MoneySmarts, and hearing from those who Tweeted their comments.
Or maybe the bookstores can just cater to their needs and let the rest of us in the
midlist meet our readers and sell books of ALL types, returnable or not returnable.
The Writer's Café is good to learn about publishing and promotions, but you won't
meet readers here.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has Lehrer out on a long book tour — not a blog tour, a book tour, a real one, in which you move your body physically across the land and
actually meet readers and booksellers, can you Imagine?
Each year, more than 170 local and national authors participate in the event, signing their latest books and
meeting readers from Kentucky and surrounding states.
Using videos to
meet your readers takes far less time and energy as you can meet with all of them at once, provide 3 different sessions to meet more peoples availability, and offer the replay free online for those who can't make it.
It was just wonderful to see those
writers meet their readers directly at BookCon day on Saturday particularly, but also networking with each other on the other days and with other people in publishing.
Poor quality, unfinished pieces and working with an unedited manuscript leads to unprofessional quality that simply wo
n't meet reader expectations.
The challenge for publishers now is to ensure that all conversion and content quality is done with the greatest amount of care, especially to
meet reader expectations.»
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Most authors opt to offer both formats to their readers to
meet readers where they are and not the other way around.