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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor
Teacher
Good
Good Teacher
Bestseller
Could
Been
Many
'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
Abbi Glines
Life
My Life
First
Too
Changed
Bestseller
Fallen
Far
If you can pay enough people to buy your .99 ebook and review it positively, and crack one of Amazon's bestseller lists, readers are going to check it out. Especially at a low price point like .99. Customers are suckers for the fallacy that the cream rises to the top.
Andrew Shaffer
Buy
You
People
Pay
Enough
Enough People
Top
Positively
Out
Bestseller
Rises
Point
Price
Check
Like
Readers
Fallacy
Review
Amazon
Crack
Going
Lists
Low
Customers
Cream
Your
When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.
Dave Eggers
Me
Book
Dark
First
Every
Everyone
Bestseller
Week
Knows
Continue
Off
Very
List
Wanted
Who
We partner with movies that stand for more than the latest bestseller.
David A. R. White
Partner
Latest
Bestseller
More
Than
Movies
Stand
When' Voyager', the third book of the series, hit the 'New York Times' bestseller list, they very honorably redesigned the covers and started calling them fiction.
Diana Gabaldon
Book
Honorably
Bestseller
New
Calling
Covers
Very
Times
Hit
York
List
New York
Fiction
New York Times
Them
Series
Started
Third
I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.
E. L. James
Out
Bestseller
Never
New
Times
York
List
Getting
New York
New York Times
Even
Set
When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print.
Frank Abagnale
Me
You
Book
Amazing
Picture
Big
Become
Gone
Back
Musical
Broadway
Out
Would
Dreamed
Bestseller
About
Never
Catch
Major
Print
Motion
Motion Picture
Much
Less
Now
Published
I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn't sunk in.
Frank McCourt
Book
Astounded
Sunk
Bestseller
Wrote
Became
Still
Amazed
Won
Prize
Just
Pulitzer
Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great.
Graham Brown
Best
Great
You
People
Writing
Inspire
Job
Few
Doubt
Pay
Dream
Able
Bestseller
Write
Self
Had
Feels
Days
Until
Also
Self-Doubt
Deadlines
How
Still
Been
Lot
Itself
Wondering
Going
Help
Bills
Even
Ever
I really told my story as I saw it in 'Cross to Bear,' and I was pleased - and a bit surprised - by how well it was received and how it sold. No. 2 on the 'New York Times' bestseller list? I'll take that any day, my man!
Gregg Allman
Day
Man
Sold
Pleased
Saw
Bit
Bestseller
Cross
Bear
Take
New
Well
How
Surprised
Times
York
List
Any
New York
New York Times
Story
Really
Received
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
Jackie Collins
Me
Book
Finished
First
Critic
Bestseller
About
Finishing
Never
He
Instant
Most
Read
Became
Accepted
Male
Encouraged
Friends
Shocking
Confident
Away
Ever
Publisher
Right
Right Away
I know the bestseller 'Gone Girl' doesn't need an ounce of support from me, but that book was as sharp and witty as they come.
Jami Attenberg
Me
Book
Girl
Gone
Ounce
Bestseller
Support
Sharp
Come
Know
Witty
Need
'Bag of Bones' was a big, distorted yet wonderfully entertaining novel that rode high on the bestseller lists in 1998.
Jay Parini
Big
Distorted
High
Entertaining
Bestseller
Bag
Rode
Wonderfully
Lists
Novel
Bones
When my plans to become a world-famous rockstar didn't pan out, I decided to try being a lesbian instead, didn't pull that off either, and wrote my second book, the national bestseller, 'The Straight Girl's Guide To Sleeping With Chicks.'
Jen Sincero
Book
Try
Girl
Become
National
Lesbian
Sleeping
Guide
Out
Bestseller
Instead
Wrote
Off
Chicks
Being
Decided
Either
Straight
Plans
Second
Pan
Pull
If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.
Jennifer Weiner
You
Book
Spell
Paper
Topic
Bestseller
About
Mention
Write
New
Name
Make
Becomes
Chick
Forget
Yorker
List
Romance
Lit
New Yorker
Might
Ignorant
Your
Fascination
Lucky
Right
'The Rap Year Book' is really great. Shea Serrano wrote it, and it became this huge phenomenon where he sold out everywhere and made the bestseller list just on the strength of his fans on Twitter wanting him to succeed.
Josh Gondelman
Strength
Great
Book
Fans
Made
Year
Twitter
Sold
Everywhere
Rap
Out
Bestseller
He
Wrote
Him
Became
His
Huge
List
Just
Where
Wanting
Succeed
Really
Phenomenon
Don't do a hard sell or try to tell the agent that you're going to be a bestseller or the next John Grisham. This goes down very badly. If your work is good, then they are skilled enough to know this within a few pages.
Lisa Jewell
Work
Good
You
Try
Few
Down
Enough
Tell
John
Bestseller
John Grisham
Badly
Know
Within
Sell
Very
Goes
Going
Agent
Then
Next
Skilled
Pages
Your
Hard
I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.
Lori Greiner
History
Same Thing
Enough
See
Bestseller
Something
Had
Ideas
Halfway
Doing
Were
Same
List
Done
Getting
Maybe
Them
Then
Fast
Right
Thing
Starting
I didn't make 'The New York Times' bestseller list until 'Charmed Thirds,' and then again for 'Fourth Comings.' It gave me a certain validation, and it certainly helps position me for future books, but it's not something I think about on a daily basis.
Megan McCafferty
Future
Daily
Me
Think
Gave
Validation
Books
Bestseller
About
Charmed
Something
New
Until
Make
Times
York
List
New York
New York Times
Again
Then
Certain
Certainly
Helps
Daily Basis
Fourth
Basis
Position
'Game Change,' the infamous bestseller written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, has plagued anyone directly associated with the 2008 election cycle.
Meghan McCain
Game
Change
Election
Mark
John
Bestseller
Directly
Written
Infamous
Anyone
Cycle
Associated
I'll have to self-publish it because unless you're on the 'New York Times' bestseller lists, anthologies don't sell all that well. However, low sales to a big publisher are a major success to a small one!
P. N. Elrod
Success
You
Big
Unless
Bestseller
Small
New
Major
Well
Because
However
Sales
Sell
Times
York
New York
Lists
New York Times
Low
Publisher
I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
Samantha Shannon
Big
Bestseller
Give
New
Am
Times
York
Going
New York
New York Times
Now
Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work again, or so the myth goes.
Sara Sheridan
Work
You
Book
Made
Myth
Easy
Bestseller
Write
Writers
Never
Goes
Movie
Again
Your
You do not know, and the readers cannot tell you, what they might like until they have it. It is one of those things that particularly if you want to be the next wave, well the next wave is not already on the bestseller lists. The next wave is in somebody's head.
Stephanie Laurens
You
Somebody
Wave
Those
Tell
Bestseller
Head
Like
Know
Particularly
Until
Well
Readers
Lists
Want
Cannot
Might
Next
Things
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.
Terry Brooks
Work
First
Become
Publish
Books
Later
Several
Paperback
Bestseller
New
Trade
Times
Did
York
List
New York
Fiction
New York Times
Anyway
Novel
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