Search results
5 books
- A complete list of all Priscilla Shirer's books & series in order (5 books) (1 series).
www.fictiondb.com › author › priscilla-shirer~467839
People also ask
How many books are published a year?
How many books are sold per year?
Is shire Shire reciting 'for women who are difficult to love'?
How many books do Ya authors write before publishing?
In its short history, Shire has published over 1,000 titles and has gained a reputation for producing affordable non-fiction paperbacks that reflect the wide variety of interests and passions of ordinary people everywhere.
A complete list of all Priscilla Shirer's books & series in order (5 books) (1 series). Browse plot descriptions, book covers, genres, pseudonyms, ratings and awards.
Oct 21, 2015 · With fifty thousand Twitter followers and a similar number of Tumblr readers, Shire, more than most today, demonstrates the writing life of a young, prolific poet whose poetry or poem-like...
- Publishing Landscape Statistics
- Submission Statistics
- Debut Author Statistics
- How Can You Increase Your Odds of Getting published?
- Don’T Fixate
- Why The Odds of Getting Published Don’T Matter
Between 600,000 and 1 million books are traditionally published every year. Even without including self-published books, that’s a hell of a lot of books on the shelves. (Forbes)Publishing is a $29 billion dollar industry in the United States. (Association of American Publishers)As of 2023, the global book publishing revenue stands at $129 billion. (WordsRated)Despite the pandemic, 750.9 million printed books were sold in 2020, which marks the biggest increase in a decade. (Publisher’s Weekly)There are nearly 50,000 writers and authors writing and working in the United States alone. (Statista)Between 95 and 99% of manuscripts submitted to editorsare too poorly written, have a bad or unoriginal premise, or are irrelevant. These will get an instant pass or ghost. (Slushkiller)From the remaining 5% of high-quality manuscripts left for consideration, most are still rejected due to timing, similar books on their list, or the state of the market. (Wordsrated)The popular industry statistic is that between 1 and 2% of manuscripts that a publisher receives is published. In other words, they accept one or two of every hundred manuscripts they receive. (Fic...8% of debut authors write at least one novel before writing what becomes their published debut, with an average of 3.24 books written before debuting. (Writability)The average age of debut novelists is 36. (Jim C. Hines)It takes about 70% of YA authors four or more years to publish their debut. (Hannah Holt)The average advance for a debut author is $5k to $10k, also known as a “nice deal,” with 5% to 15% royalties on print books, and 25% royalties on eBooks. (Reedsy)Some of these debut author statistics are pretty bleak, huh? So what can you do to take back control? I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: write the best book you can write, that only you could write. Write the book that sets your soul on fire. Ensure that it’s grammatically correct, that the plot is robust, and the quality is exceptional. Y...
Publishing is a fickle, subjective mistress. From the above debut author statistics, it may look like the real odds of getting published are slimmer than becoming a professional athlete or making it into the Olympics. And – they are! However – and I say this as someone who has performed in an Olympics Opening Ceremony – once you are near to greatne...
If an editor loves your excellent manuscript, the editorial board loves it, and they think that readers will love it, your odds of getting published at the moment in time become 100%. This excellent manuscript may have been rejected dozens of times, or not at all. It may be your first manuscript, or your seventeenth. It doesn’t matter; your debut n...
Jun 27, 2023 · The U.S. book industry made $28.1 billion in revenue in 2022. Including self-published and commercially published, over 4 million new books were published in 2022. Romance is the most popular genre of books sold in the US, achieving over 32 million print copies sold in 2022.
Warsan Shire is a Somali British writer and poet born in Nairobi and raised in London. She has written two chapbooks, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth and Her Blue Body. She was awarded the inaugural Brunel International African Poetry Prize and served as the first Young Poet Laureate of London.
Apr 29, 2016 · Ms. Shire has published chapbooks of poetry — including “Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth” in 2011 and “Her Blue Body” in 2015 — but much of her reputation was built online by publishing on Tumblr and using Twitter like an open notebook. In 2014, she was appointed the first Young Poet Laureate of London.
