Sentences with phrase «bad authors copy»

I took a creative writing course years ago — the prof said «Bad authors copy ideas from other authors.

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@jf well your information about the New Testament is about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth of Christ, Your interpretation of God at His worst shows a complete lack of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language of the day.Most of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three of the authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»

«What we found was that when larger amounts of quantum information are encoded on a single photon, the copies will get worse and hacking even simpler to detect,» said Frédéric Bouchard, a University of Ottawa doctoral student and lead author of an open access publication that appeared this month in the journal Science Advances.

Every day I see authors complain that their expensive review copies are immediately sold on Amazon as «new» and they get no review, or worse, a one - sentence one - star.

Utter drivel; high expectations only to see a book by an author who tried to copy John Ringo and David Weber only to fail badly

If a self - published book sells 5,000 copies in its first six months, an agent or publisher is not going to let first rights issues stand in their way (always assuming that the book is well - written [I've known self - pubbed authors who've managed to sell large numbers of really pretty bad books] and the sales suggest a market that could be tapped, rather than one that has been exhausted, as with some niche products).

Writing good sales copy (the description of the book on your amazon page) is an art and a science — most authors are very bad about summarizing their story into an attention grabbing, intrigue building lead - in (without giving too much away).

In my post, dated April 17, 2017 (read Amazon's New KDP Print Feature is Bad News for CreateSpace Users), one of the major drawbacks of KDP Print over CreateSpace was the inability to order proofs and author copies.

But having a few copies of the authors» books handy for these instances means giving away their work — which still isn't a bad thing — but there's only so long an author can afford to give away her print material.

Through this blog, you also may obtain copies of BAD DEEDS, personally inscribed by the author to you or to someone else as a gift.

And with the ongoing squeeze of the mid-list and the dwindling support — I'm talking marketing and promotion, but even copy editing — for the vast majority of new authors the traditional publishers do sign up, it's gotten much worse since.

Indie authors with no name recognition may do even worse, selling a handful of copies to friends and family and then sputtering out entirely.

There are many bad books out there that sell thousands of copies simply because their authors spent time building their brands.

Peer review may be harder to satisfy; traditionally - published authors are, of course, «reviewed» by agents and editors before the book is released, but self - published works aren't necessarily seen (or screened) by professional eyes before the book is published (which is one reason why some of them are so badly written, copy - edited, and / or proofread.)

I would submit that trad publishing could do worse than adopt the Baen Free Library concept for ebooks and to allow bookstores to «remainder» midlist authors for one or two copies to local libraries.