Sentences with phrase «where debut authors»

That's still a really nice advance in these days where debut authors often don't get any advance at all, but I'm not sure I'd have had the courage to leave behind a regular paycheck if I didn't know that a full year's salary was in the bank.

As we get closer and closer to the tipping point and less books are bought through physical places where debut authors find the bulk of their readers is going to change.

Not exact matches

Events like BookExpo America, the London Book Fair, and the Frankfurt Book Fair are widely known, but it's easy to overlook the various other international events and book fairs where book publication rights are sold, debut authors exhibited, and other business conducted that brings new titles to market.

Whaley's Where Things Come Back might just be the most acclaimed YA novel that was published in 2011: It won the 2012 Printz Award, the 2012 William C. Morris Debut Fiction Award and Whaley was the first - ever YA author to be selected as a «Top 5 Under 35 Author» by the National Book Foundauthor to be selected as a «Top 5 Under 35 Author» by the National Book FoundAuthor» by the National Book Foundation.

Mashable wrote that Booktrack «debuted as an iOS app focused on professional authors like Salman Rushdie; a total of 40 titles sold more than 250,000 downloads,» but then pivoted in 2013 to become a platform where «writers can embed songs from a catalogue of 20,000 licensed audio files, adding mood music, ambient audio and sound effects to play in tune with story lines, paced to a user's reading speed.»

So where do you think a debut author is going to sell in 2 - 4 years?

There's a reason, likewise, that John Corey Whaley's debut novel, Where Things Come Back, won so many awards and turned its young author into an insta - star.

As more and more writers turn to the freedom of digital publishing to put their works in front of reading audiences, more authors may be lured into realizing their goals of writing a book, which is precisely where NaNoWriMo fits in for many debut authors.

But what if a debut author actually tries to track down where their book first began to sprout?

Here's a juicy debut for you: Inspired by the author's own difficult separation from religion, the harrowing, fierce The Incendiaries is set in a small college town, where a young Korean - American woman finds herself wrapped up in an extremist cult with North Korean ties.

These three authors broke out big over the past 12 months, so why not go back to where it all began and check out their debuts?

Well, it seems that it has: In the past week, Paolo Giordano's debut has received accolades in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and USA Today — not to mention BookPage, where reviewer Tony Kuehn wrote that the author «deftly creates a sense of loneliness and loss through the use of simple, beautiful language and powerful imagery.»

Bestselling and debut authors have created worlds where invasions are apocalyptic and...

We caught up with her at Hippocampus Magazine's Hippocamp17 creative nonfiction conference in Lancaster, PA, where she gave a reading and was part of the debut author panel.