For authors working with publishers (with or without representation), this kind of thing is a whole other ball game.
It's just as important
for authors working with a publisher as it is for self - publishers.
Do they not understand what Amazon has done and continues to do
for authors the work with directly either through KDP or T&M??
This is a must - read
for any author working with a publicist, or planning on ever working with a publicist.
For each author I work with, I customize the editing process to fit the book's needs and to best benefit the author.
I couldn't think off hand of an example (except
for an author I worked with recently who only recently revealed a plan to self publish whose name I couldn't reveal).
Not exact matches
Amazon's dominant position in both book publishing and book selling means that it would be incredibly dangerous
for the company to start picking and choosing, on moral grounds, which
authors it chooses to
work with.
After all, the
author was paid
for the
work with wages.
To gain insight into the best strategies
for working with and
for a narcissist, I tapped my dear friend Robert Weiss, the senior vice president
for clinical development at Elements Behavioral Health, an accomplished
author and world - renowned speaker on sex and intimacy in the digital age.
Neon Roots has
worked with more than 100 clients, and that roster includes companies such as Spotify and Epson, and figures such as Snoop Dogg,
for whom they created the much - lauded cannabis - culture app Merry Jane, and
author - speaker Tony Robbins.
While the research was aimed at eventually developing treatments
for those suffering from PTSD, the study
authors said these initial findings were also useful
for those of us who just have to deal
with normal negativity like marital spats and nasty
work disagreements.
Devora Zack,
author of Networking
for People Who Hate Networking (Berrett - Koehler, 2010) says introverts can still enjoy holiday parties by understanding and
working with, rather than against, their natural temperament.
Fredrick Petrie,
author of «The End of
Work: Financial Planning
for People
With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over
for savings.
Penelope Trunk, the
author of Brazen Careerist: The New Rules
for Success, argues that one of the advantages of the
work spouse relationship is its no - strings - attached vibe — it offers the closeness and support of a marriage,
with out any sexual ties, commitment, or other relationship baggage.
Dan Schawbel,
author of «Promote Yourself: The New Rules
For Career Success» says the photo makes her seem like she is on vacation while her staffers toil at work — an unfortunate message, he says, for someone who's done away with flexible schedul
For Career Success» says the photo makes her seem like she is on vacation while her staffers toil at
work — an unfortunate message, he says,
for someone who's done away with flexible schedul
for someone who's done away
with flexible schedules.
Writing
for Quartz,
author Richard Koch argued that history has shown that greater amounts of time spent at
work do not correlate
with greater prosperity.
Using his publishing background to tap into what readers would like to read —
with absolutely no guidance from me — he created several columns that helped to highlight [our]
authors and services... I can not recommend Shel Horowitz highly enough and he continues to do
work for me to this day.
As an example, I not only agented this book myself to a major NYC - area publisher, I brought in Jay and his famous brand, I brought in Stephen M.R. Covey
for the foreword, and even wrote my own back cover (something most
authors never get to do when
working with a major publisher).
This is why Matthew Pollard has teamed up
with speaker and
author, of «Marketing
Works: Unlocking Big Company Strategies
for Small Business,» to guide you through the highly confusing, yet absolutely vital world of sales and marketing.
In Saudi Arabia, there is no incentive
for boys to
work hard in school because the government will provide most men
with jobs when they grow up, explains Madawi Al - Rasheed, the
author of A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.
During his time
with Ad Age, he has been recognized
with the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award
for best range of
work by a single
author, as well as a Best in Business award
for a feature story from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
I'm a copywriter and communications strategist, and I've had the privilege of writing
for or
working with some of the most powerful voices in leadership and business including New York Times bestselling
authors Michael Hyatt, Jeff Walker, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup
for the Soul) and Tony Robbins.
Reading novels can improve empathy and understanding of social cues, allowing a leader to better
work with and understand others — traits that
author Anne Kreamer persuasively linked to increased organizational effectiveness, and to pay raises and promotions
for the leaders who possessed these qualities.
I noted
with much interest an article distributed by Bloomberg News and
authored by Olga Kharif entitled IPad Wins Following Among Business Users
for Work Outside Office.
While this strategy
works just fine
for large publishers that already have established brands and get thousands of shares on any new article they publish (such as Mashable or TechCrunch), a more pragmatic approach is needed
for just about every other business.It's true that getting quality inbound links starts
with great content on your client's website, but the missing link is getting journalists, contributors,
authors, and editors at quality publications to become aware of that content so that they can link to it when writing relevant stories / articles.
As a scholar, Polk had gained access to Faulkner's carbon typescripts
for the major
works; these were, effectively, keystroke logs of the
author's original manuscripts, and Polk compared these
with the published texts to return the prose to Faulkner's original intentions (these are the «corrected text editions» published by Vintage).
Chris is co-
author of the award - winning book Slow Church (2014),
author of Reading
for the Common Good (2016), and is presently finishing a book manuscript
with the
working title, Conversational Bodies: A Field Guide
for the Journey Toward Belonging.
Tracing the course of the
author's
work from Typee to Billy Budd, Kelley shows convincingly that Melville — though he borrowed from many different sources — belongs completely to none of the established genres of Victorian city writing: the Romantic pastoral that used urban depravity to extol rural virtue; the popular «Reform Literature» of the yellow journalists that sensationalized municipal corruption and disorder; the «scientific» tracts of the emerging city planning movement; or the urban strolls of the flâneur and the Addisonian «spectator» (a genre that reached its peak,
for New York,
with what Kelley calls the «humorous - genteel - sentimental - melodramatic - ironic» observations of Charles Dickens in his 1842 American Notes).
The
author of evolution did set the conditions
for which his THEORY would not
work — conditions that have now been met,
with the advances in cell study.
Collingwood interprets this characterization as follows: «In Whitehead the resemblance is more
with Hegel; and the
author, though he does not seem to be acquainted
with Hegel, is not wholly unaware of this,
for he describes the book as an attempt to do over again the
work of «idealism,» «but from a realist point of view.»
The
authors believe that these efforts, together
with the efforts of Catholics who
work in solidarity
with the marginalized population, will play a determining role in the struggle
for justice and democracy in the next few years.
In the
works of Kemmis and other
authors in the New Urbanist movement, I found convergent themes of longing
for community, joy beauty, place, connection
with our past, and meaning.
The
author thanks Liz Riggs and Jeff Rojas
for helping him come up
with these ideas — and giving him a few to
work on himself.
If
with due attention to this difficulty one were to read through the
works of particular
authors most celebrated
for their genius, it might in barely a single instance perhaps be possible, though
with much pains, to discover a little.
None but the tenured and the wannabe tenured would approach the Bible as a mere
work of literature — much less as a text of divine inspiration —
with so little imagination or so little appreciation
for the imagination of its
authors, this is sobering,
for today's student theologians are likely to be tomorrow's women of the cloth.
The Bible is a «symposium» of
works by a number of persons, composed of many writings, written over a period of hundreds of years, some only preserved in fragments, by unknown
authors, written on animal skins (
for they had no paper as we know it),
with no printing presses to preserve the writing... It's a marvel we have the Bible at all.
For Ozick, however, the literary critic is herself the architect of literary tradition, arranging
works,
authors, movements, and trends in conversation
with one another, «teas [ing] out hidden imperatives and assumptions held in common, and... creat [ing] the fertilizing conditions that underlie and stimulate a living literary consciousness.»
Robin Fox is an English anthropologist who has
authored,
with the equally delightfully named Lionel Tiger, The Imperial Animal and many other
works making the case
for the «nature» side of the interminable nature / nurture controversy over how best to understand why human beings do what they do.
It seemed to me to be a
work in which the
author became fascinated
with his ability to twist and contort a situation
for the sake of displaying his own virtuosity and inventiveness.
Today's guest post comes all the way from Laos, where my friend Lisa McKay —
author of the highly acclaimed novel, My Hands Came Away Red — lives
with her husband Mike, who
works for a humanitarian organization in the region.
For example, Philip H. Ashby, The Conflict of Religions (New York, 1955), the first
work of the first scholar in this field at Princeton, is a discussion «concerning the possible contributions of the religions of the world to the amelioration of the problems of mankind» (p. 192; opening sentence of the concluding chapter); the
author is concerned to show that man (sic) can meet the terrible problems that confront him today if he can replace the «conflict» among his various religions
with a «combined witness» (p. viii).
Luther did not want to tangle personally
with the great scholar, seventeen years his senior, and the best known literary man in Europe; only this very year (1516), Erasmus the famous
author of Enchiridion Militis Christiani (Manual of the Christian Knight, 1503) had published in addition to the Greek New Testament his edition of Jerome, and an original
work commissioned
for the likely future emperor, sixteen - year - old Charles Habsburg of Castile and the Netherlands, grandson of Emperor Maximilian, Institutio Principis Christiani (The Education of a Christian Price), a plea
for international peace and the encouragement of learning.
On reading and reflecting on this
work, I am reminded of why it is that I remained in dialogue
with the Boston - area branch of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), founded by Harrington and led locally by John Cort (
author of Christian Socialism)
for more than a decade.
Deb, you advocate weighing ingredients, and I'm
with you on that one - its always
worked for me, and British recipes don't have the variation between
authors since grams (or even oz!)
Vegan Heritage Press has a reputation
for producing quality books and
working closely
with our
authors and sellers.
Serving diners a 100 percent plant - based and vegan culinary experience
for breakfast, dinner, dessert, and lunch on the go, The Ravens» co-creative kitchen is led by Sid Garza - Hillman,
author, certified nutritionist, and long - time vegan, who
works in close contact
with chef team Sadhana Berkow, Ubaldo Salazar, and Big River Nurseries gardener Clayton Houghland.
This podcast link to an interview
with study
authors will give more information: Thank you
for your
work trying to help gluten - free folks find safe beers.
As far as the deliciousness of the recipe, I think the praise falls
with the original
author, but there is no obvious vehicle
for that praise if there isn't a direct link to the
author's original
work.
Rob Neyer began his career
with legendary baseball
author Bill James, and later
worked for STATS, Inc. and ESPN.com, writing more words
for that website than anyone else.
The
author had the opportunity to
work with a sports syndicate
for a period of time.