A Self-Published Author's $2-Million Cinderella Story

A Self-Published Author's $2-Million Cinderella Story
NPR
And I'd read the books, and I enjoyed them and thought it was something I should try." Hocking went home and wrote her first paranormal romance — in 15 days. She wrote and re-wrote, edited and re-edited, but still no one was interested in publishing ...

The Future of Publishing? – Forward.com
e-Books Are Bright Spot in Dismal Publishing Industry. On Fire: ... Simultaneously , as an exercise in branding, Open Road produces short films about its authors. ...
www.forward.com/articles/148713/?p=all

Authors Just Want To Sell Books, Top NYC Publicity Agency Says Your Book Has ...
The Open Press (press release)
Authors Don't Know That Over 2.7 Million Print On Demand (Self Published) Books Were Published In 2010: Now, that's a lot of books. If you are an author, you are literally one in 2.7 million. According to established industry stats, book publishing and ...

Authors on their work
San Jose Mercury News
Author Joyce Maynard says Sexton "has dared to explore a subject more taboo than almost any other: not only suicide, but what comes after, for its survivors." Sexton appears Wednesday in Palo Alto: 7 pm, Books, Inc., 855 El Camino Real. ...

Leaves of crafts
Boston.com
He loves to read books. With pages. “I personally do not own a Kindle or anything like that,'' said Isy, a seventh grader at Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston. “I love the sound of a page turning, for some reason. ...

Boston.com

Books that left their mark
Marshall Independent
By Cindy Votruba , Marshall Independent Since I?seem to be a bookaholic - the 500+ books on my Kindle and countless others that I?have in two bookcases, a couple of Rubbermaid tubs and several on the floors of both my living room and bedroom are ...

Book fair to celebrate 100 yrs of Indian cinema
Times of India
The Feb 25-March 4 fair, organised by the National Book Trust (NBT) every two years, aims to boost the publishing trade, promote reading and create a new segment of readers for both Indian and foreign books. "Books and Indian cinema have had a long ...

author Judie Panneton at Time Tested Books
The Sacramento Press
After she answered questions from audience members, Panneton stayed an hour to sign books and talk to the audience members one on one. At this time, everyone talked to each other, many of whom were in the book and were meeting for the first time. ...

The Sacramento Press

Books to look forward to in 2012: Clear some serious time, folks
Montreal Gazette (blog)
Here, then, not quite random but probably rife with gaps, is a roundup in no particular order of some of the books to look forward to in the first half of 2012. Marilynne Robinson commands a readership almost evangelical in its fervor, ...

How-to books take you only so far in January
Kansas.com
Reading more is always a resolution of mine, and a couple of new garden books, received as Christmas presents, seemed the best place to start in 2012. I love the initial digging into garden and cookbooks — some of them combined in one, as in “Growing ...

Kansas.com

For many parents, books that can be held are still the first choice
Baltimore Sun
Jo Keller relies on her Kindle when she travels so she can forgo lugging hardback books, but when it comes to her children's reading habits, she feels differently. She has squirreled away many of thebooks she read as a child growing up in England and ...

3 books on the Eastern Front of World War II
Washington Post
These three books explore Hitler's reasons for invading, the Russian resolve in resisting, and the sheer magnitude of the Eastern Front in World War II. 1 OSTKRIEG : Hitler's War of Extermination in the East, by Stephen G. Fritz (Univ. of Kentucky, ...

Six books that inspired me to become a writer | MadMikesAmerica
By Erin Nanasi
There are books you read that are good, and you put them down and walk away. Then there arebooks that you read that you want to devour, to keep with you always.
MadMike'sAmerica-The Next Great...

'Big Indian publishing houses don't think the northeast will sell'
Times of India
Speaking with Kim Arora , Iralu discussed how her state became defined only by conflict, a fine tension vibrating between Naga and Indian identity - and the politics of publishing: I'm a reader. I started as a bookworm. I loved books. ...

On Books: Elegant portraits of a queen
Palm Beach Post
By Post Staff | Arts and Culture, Books | January 08, 2012 Cecil Beaton had a gift for gentility. In his costumes for My Fair Lady, in his photographs, in his diaries, he's looking for a combination of elegance and style that's hard to find except in ...

Five books on faith, from the sacred to the profane
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
But both books are eminently readable. Historical revisionism always makes for fun reading, Richelieu, the Catholic cardinal and chief adviser to King Louis XIII has long been synonymous with the sort of scheming that makes Machiavelli look like an ...

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Books help us focus on and boost new year's resolutions
The Daily Advertiser
I thought to write about books to ring in the New Year last Sunday, but my column was due almost a week ahead and I was still enjoying all the wonderful holiday treats hanging around my home. Not to mention the parties, the bowl games and champagne. ...

UK universities made £50 million from overdue library books
DigitalJournal.com
Freedom of Information requests revealed British universities took in £50 million from students whose library books were overdue or simply never returned. Some schools have policies that students owing fines cannot graduate. The figure of £50 million ...

DigitalJournal.com

20 of the best books of 2011
Ottawa Citizen
By Tracy Sherlock, Postmedia News January 8, 2012 It's not an easy task to choose a mere 10 of the hundreds of worthy books that made waves in the English-speaking world in 2011. And it was a great year for Canadian fiction. ...

Review: 'Shadow Heir' by Richelle Mead
USA TODAY
By Jessie Potts, USA TODAY Richelle Mead is the fabulous best-selling author of the Vampire Academy books and the Georgia Kincaid (Succubus) series. She has a new spinoff series from the Vampire Academy books (Bloodlines), and Shadow Heir has just ...

USA TODAY

Apps take e-books beyond reading
The Register-Guard
“It's clearly a market waiting to be fed,” said Corinne Helman, vice president of digital publishing and business development for Harper Collins children's books. “This is still very, very early days.” Book apps can be as modest as “Big Little Brother ...

Florida authors discuss the late Zora Neale Hurston at Martin Chautauqua South ...
TCPalm
Panelists' books will be available for sale and signing. Also available for sale will be Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography and Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston's best known novel celebrating its 75th anniversary in print ...

Craft gives new meaning to shelving books
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Because we're going to talk about doing things to books that might, under other circumstances, send a shiver up your spine (pardon the pun). As mountains of encyclopedias, atlases and almanacs become outdated, and an ocean of literarybooks succumb to ...

TheChronicleHerald.ca

Small delights: Collecting children's books
The Somerville News
Children's books today now represent one of the fastest growing segments of thepublishing market. Thanks to the record-breaking Harry Potter phenomenon in recent years, young people and books are more inseparable than ever. It is not only enthusiastic ...

The Somerville News

McCrum: Traditional books, dressed to kill
The Guardian
Driven by fierce competition between Amazon, Apple and their rivals, ebooks are acquiring audio and video facilities. Kindle Fire, Kobo and Nook e-readers, combined with the surging iPad market, are opening up new possibilities for the ebook publisher....

The Guardian

Benjamin Morris: Support your library — buy more books!
UptownMessenger.com
Never before has more information been more readily available at such speed, whether from the producing end — publishing, posting, blogging, or tweeting — or the consuming end. Undoubtedly, more access yields many benefits to our society: greater ...

UptownMessenger.com

Running rules: Books offer advice for newbies
Arizona Republic
There are tons of books and publications to help you with that. We offer some advice from Olympic distance runner and author Kara Goucher and other experts to get you off on the right foot. Set a personal goal. "If you really have a goal that you're ...

Genesee District Library uses Skype to host national authors
MLive.com
Authors and the audience can see each other and interact in real time. In many ways, it's just like an author visit. There might be a reading, a question and answer session. Authors even send booksto the library ahead of time so attendees can pick one ...

Books offer strategies for handling adversity
Hartford Business
Bernstein classifies crises into three categories: Creeping (ie foreshadowed by a series of events that aren't seen as part of a pattern), Slow-Burn (ie there are red flags, but no damage yet), and Sudden (ie it's hit the fan.) ...

Don't Become Your Money's Enemy
New York Times
But one constant, say the authors of two new business books, is the real possibility that you will do something to make your portfolio worse. The writers are out to save you from yourself. The better of the two books, “Investment Mistakes Even Smart ...

Just About Books Talk Show Announces the Winner of the Book Award for Best ...
PR.com (press release)
The purpose of the awards is two-fold: it recognizes and encourages the writing and publishing of outstanding books; and it raises the cultural appreciation of great writing in America. Just AboutBooks Talk Show started in 2005 on Internet radio and ...

Josef Skvorecky, Czech writer and publisher of dissident works, dies at 87
Washington Post
In addition to writing many books, Mr. Skvorecky (pronounced shook-vor-ETZ-kee) played a significant part in publishing the works of other Czech dissident writers. He and his wife, Zdena Salivarova, were the first publishers of Milan Kundera's “The ...

Traditional ink books
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Molanda said even though she's gotten used to reading books on her phone, she's noticed some differences in her reading experience. She reads ebooks faster, but she's able to recall information better if it is a paper and ink book. ...

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Driven to help others enjoy books
Los Angeles Daily News
By Melissa Pamer, Daily News Staff Writer Oaks Christian High School students Trevor Hanken, left, and Jack DiCanio held a book drive and donated about 11500 books to new charter schools in North Hollywood and downtown as well as to a future ...

Our Authors: 2011 Snowdance winner writes adult fiction novel
Journal Times
Occupation: "Jill of All Trades." If my math is right, since 9th grade I've held 49 jobs that spanned at least 25 different occupations. Somewhere in this lengthy parade of activities to pay the bills, a writer poked through. And now I are one. ...

You can make a wreath out of books?
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
There are some books I put on my bookshelf at home. I need to see my favorite authors and bend back the covers of their books. But like the bookworm who uses Google, the Kindle adds another dimension to the flame. It is small and I can take it ...

YEAR-BOOKS 2
IBNLive.com
Kannada writer UR Ananthamurthy ('Bharathipura'), Kavery Nambisan ('The Story that Must Not Be Told'), Chandrakanta ('A Street in Srinagar'), Usha KR ('Monkey-man') and Tabish Khair ('The Thing About Thugs') were the shortlisted authors for the DSC ...

2012 is stellar year for books
The Tennessean
However you obtain your reading material in 2012, there's a crop of promising new books coming your way. Here are 10 fiction and nonfiction titles for a happy 2012. &#; The Obamas by Jodi Kantor (Little, Brown) — Jodi Kantor's portrait of the first ...

MORE THAN BOOKS Newark Public Library offers program for kids 2 and younger
Finger Lakes Times
Morehouse knows her audience is there for more than the books. She will usually try to read two or three books, but quickly moves into songs and then playtime. She sees the weekly sessions as a social time — for the babies and their caregivers alike. ...

Winstons books « Winstonsdad's Blog
By winstonsdad
I didn't get many books for christmas ,well that is a lie really I 'd in a way I got an I Pad from the lovely Amanda ,which via i books ,kobo and kindle has a infinite number of books and will replace my broken E-reader .Any way to make up for the ...
Winstonsdad's Blog

Innovations In Publishing: Technical Aspects of Creating A ...
By joanna@TheCreativePenn.com (Joanna Penn)
There's lots of talk lately about how authors need to be moving in the direction of 'enhanced' ebooks(e.g., features like interactivity, full-motion video, embedded audio, full color and heavy use of graphics) if they hope to attract and retain a ...
The Creative Penn

Chinese authors sue Apple over illegal e-book downloads ...
By Chris Meadows
TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics · HOME| · AROUND THE WORLD| · EREADERS| ... Chinese authors sue Apple over illegal e-book downloads. January 8, 2012 | 11:40 am. Posted in: Apple ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...

The World According to Maggie: Giant Stack o' Books Winner!
By Maggie Stiefvater
Giant Stack o' Books Winner! The random contestinator has spoken and the winner of the giant stack of books is Caitlin (http://upbeatandwhatnot.blogspot.com). A huge thanks to everyone for posting about what their favorite blog posts were! ...
The World According to Maggie

Paperback Writer: Changed by Books
By Lynn Viehl
Author Kris Reisz is looking for some opinions on a project he's contemplating -- and I'll quote here -- "I want to start a website where people can send in anecdotes about books, stories, poems, etc. that helped them somehow, whether they ...
Paperback Writer

Three Books You Should Know About — The Bluestocking Society
By Jessica
What 10 Fictional Characters Were Almost Called What Eight Classic Books Were Almost Called Six Words Invented by Authors The Little-Known Stories of Five Famous Authors Nine Things Mark Twain Didn't Say (And Nine He Did) ...
The Bluestocking Society

Literary Luminaries: Some Surprising and Successful Celebrity ...
By Kschlicher
Check out these 9 authors that also happen to be some of our favorite actors, TV hosts, politicians and filmmakers. ... For many of our favorite celebrities, their talent doesn't just extend to acting or singing, they're also accomplished authors. ...
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Books, Inq. — The Epilogue: Cultural impresario ...
By Frank Wilson
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Books, Inq. — The Epilogue .... From Maxine ... Collective mediocrity ... Totally on demand ... Dogmatic slumber ... Publishing news ,,, · Kindred spirits ... Discovery ... Today's Inquirer reviews ... Thought for the day . ...
Books, Inq. — The Epilogue

Rose City Reader: Books Read in 2011
By Rose City Reader
Looking back, I am pleased to see that I read a mix I am happy with -- I read some of my favoriteauthors, some books I've been meaning to get to for a long time, a couple of big classics, some vintage mysteries, plenty of prize winners, and ...
Rose City Reader

TEH BOOKS - My Little Brony
By Cheezburger Network
my little pony, friendship is magic, brony - TEH BOOKS.
My Little Brony

Why Authors Tweet - NYTimes.com
Social media sites like Twitter are demystifying the writing profession — and that may be salutary.
www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/.../why-authors-tweet.html?...

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