Sentences with phrase «hocking wrote»

In his recent column on Slaw entitled Funding the LIIs, Sean Hocking wrote of the challenges faced by BAILII, the successes of AustLII and, to the extent information was available, the various funding models pursued by other legal information institutes.

Hi Rae, Amanda Hocking wrote several series and got a $ 2.5 million deal because of it.

Amanda Hocking wrote 17 novels in her free time and then began self - publishing them as ebooks in April 2010

In his book Thoughts On Death And Life, philosopher William Ernest Hocking wrote these thought - provoking words:

«Nothing EPA presented suggests anything has changed since August of last year — the science remains inconclusive in terms of data, impact, and source,» Hock wrote.

Not exact matches

«Unless there is truth that is changeless,» William Ernest Hocking has written in a brilliant essay on the mystical spirit in Protestantism, «religion becomes a branch of anthropology, chiefly of historical interest.»

But isn't the greatest disadvantage of all being written off by those so in hock to a culture of low expectations that they have forgotten what it's like to be ambitious, to want to transcend your background, to overcome circumstance and succeed on your own terms?

Fastball Directed and written by Jonathan Hock (USA)-- World Premiere, Documentary Since 1912, baseball has been a game obsessed with statistics and speed.

Amanda Hocking — who became the poster child for self - publishing on the Kindle after she made more than $ 2 million from a series of young - adult novels she wrote and published in the past year — signed a $ 2 - million deal earlier this year with St. Martin's Press, a unit of publishing giant Macmillan, to write a new series of young - adult novels (my colleague Cyndy Aleo wrote a series of posts recently based on her interviews with several young authors about the changes in the industry).

Amanda Hocking spent 9 years writing books and getting rejected by publishers.

In a blog post that she wrote about her deal, Hocking said something that drove home just how much the industry has changed: she said that she chose to accept the $ 2 - million offer from St. Martins even though she knew she could probably make more money by self - publishing the books.

Amanda Hocking: As a young woman working as a caretaker at a group home, Amanda spent her free time writing while friends partied on weekends.

As we've written a number of times at GigaOM, the traditional book - publishing business continues to be disrupted, with some self - published authors such as Amanda Hocking making millions of dollars without using a traditional agent or publisher, by selling their own books through Amazon's (s amzn) Kindle platform.

As we wrote at the time, this example makes the point that authors already have a lot of the tools for marketing their work, and in some cases — as with Hocking, Locke and other self - publishers such as J.A. Konrath — this can make them so self - sufficient that they no longer need the support of a traditional publishing deal.

Friday I wrote about Amanda Hocking's tremendous rise to becoming a bestseller through self - publishing her e-books.

Kirkus says, «while the writing certainly lacks the depth and polish it takes to win major literary awards, there is no denying that Hocking knows how to tell a good story and keep readers coming back for more.»

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Breakout authors such as John Locke and Amanda Hocking blazed a trail by writing a handful of books and listing them for 99 cents (Amanda's books range from free to $ 2.99, John tends to stick to 99 cents).

Her novels combine action and romance with a dash of quirk and topped off by Hocking's creative style of writing.

Hocking has openly explained that she suffered from depression for the vast majority of her life and turned to writing as a sort of escape.

Hocking also suggests that writing paired with reading more than she writes, was instrumental in her success.

* Even Amanda Hocking had to write eight or nine books before they (in total) sold a million copies.

I just don't want to run my corporation, because that takes away from writing and everything else that I actually enjoy doing,» concludes Hocking.

Self - published eBook phenom Amanda Hocking (now in print with St. Martins) hand - writes her outlines before formatting them.

I sometimes can't decide if so many write because they want to be like Hocking or because they've got stories that want to break free.

Citing a wish to spend more of her time writing as opposed to publishing, Hocking signed a multi-million dollar book deal with St. Martin's Press for a paranormal romance series.

Personally, I think all Amanda Hocking wanted to do was write books and she used the only venue available to her — Self Publishing.

Congratulations to Amanda Hocking first of all, and to you Kait, you are certainly my main source of guidance and inspiration when it comes to my writing and promotions.

For one thing, one important characteristic that Hocking and Locke share is that each of them writes very fast.

While this may be true, Hocking's stunning Do - It - Yourself success — which involved years of writing and countless hours marketing her work — makes it clearer than ever that the introduction of e-readers is changing the publishing industry radically and forever.

What the not terribly well informed folks who were quoted in this article missed is that Ms. Hocking plans to write 3 - 4 additional novels for each one she writes for SMP.

Hocking recently began writing the Kanin series (debuting with Frostfire) about the princess of an icy kingdom charged with a self - sacrificing mission.

Hocking originally worked as a group homeworker until 2010, writing novels in her free time, eventually totaling 17 books before making the decision to publish them.

And I'm starting to see inexperienced writers choose self - publishing as an alternative to learning to write well, fueled by impatience and dreams of becoming the next Amanda Hocking or John Locke.

Although some authors did make a career out of writing pulp, I don't think anyone ever got rich off of exclusively writing pulp fiction (there were no Amanda Hockings of pulp).

While Hocking could continue to do all these jobs herself, they take away from what she does best, and what she clearly wants to do: writing books.

There's definitely a stigma, and although it's fading, I think it will continue to take time and hard work from authors like yourself (and Amanda Hocking, as a great example) to show that self publishing doesn't mean lazy writing.

A young author, Amanda Hocking, rejected by major publishing houses, has become a millionaire in less than a year, by taking her writing into her own hands.

The success that Pratt and Hocking have experienced was not gained solely by their undisputable writing skills.

Do you think that series writers like Hocking have a better chance of self - publishing success than those who write single titles?

J.K. Rowling and Amanda Hocking figured out how to write stories people enjoy reading.

You also said, «But I also think that in Amanda Hocking's case, the fact that she writes YA has a lot to do with it.

After punching me out simply for saying «Good morning» (and I don't blame you), you then answer my question by telling me that no matter how many candles you light on the Altar of St. Amanda the Hocking, not even your mother will buy your book and thus you can not show me one penny of writing income.

I hope I haven't given the impression that I don't think Amanda Hocking worked very hard or accomplished some rather amazing feats in her writing career.

I figured I should (1) write a trilogy because that's what was selling (vide Amanda Hocking's Trylle Trilogy) and (2) classify my book in a «hot» genre, and of course like everyone and his uncle I picked YA.

While self - publishing has enabled genuine talents like Amanda Hocking to rise to the top, the general lack of editing and selection means that there's a much worse noise - to - signal ratio among self - published works than among professionally published writing.

As for Amanda Hocking — she is talented and I wish I could write just one series of teenage wet dreams and finance all the books I really I want to write.

First, meet Amanda Hocking, a writer of paranormal fiction who started her writing career as an unknown author and has become a bestseller when deciding on self - publishing on Amazon Kindle.

And those are the few major traits that help these self - publishing success stories (Amanda Hocking, John Locke, JA Konrath — they're all either great storytellers, great self - editors, aggressive marketers, and / or they can write a book faster than you can say «bestseller.»

I'm surprised by the number of people who — after getting used to the idea that Amanda Hocking is making a bucketload of money via the Kindle store — come around to complain that her writing is lousy.