Most authors publish chapters (of non-fiction) in good beta quality and I enjoy reading them and having access to them well ahead of the full book.
However, I'll concede here that success isn't always quick:
most authors publish, are excited, aren't happy with their sales, and over the course of several years learn enough about book design and marketing to improve.
Most authors publish first and try to build a platform later, and have no idea how to keep their book selling.
(Just like those PJs...) Because at some point,
most authors publishing and publicizing a book will need to understand galleys and make decisions that involve them.
Not exact matches
Black beer «marinade was the
most efficient on reduction of PAH formation, providing a proper mitigation strategy,» the
authors conclude i n their recently
published paper in the ACS Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
For
most, self -
publishing revenue remains humble; one survey found that half of all self -
published authors bank less than $ 500 for their efforts.
Self -
publishing is the best way to go for
most first - time
authors.
Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the
most lucrative ever for
authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to
publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.
You might know Seth Godin as a sort of marketing legend, the
author of books such as Unleashing the Ideavirus, «the
most popular e-book ever
published,» according to his marketing materials (I have no idea how I'd check that), and Purple Cow, «the best - selling marketing book of the decade» (similar caveat).
He hasn't quite made it yet, but he has carved out a place for himself as a senior editor who is also a gifted writer, the
author of some of the
most memorable pieces we've
published over the years.
Dr. Farrell is the
author of two textbooks on global marketing the
most recent (2015) titled: Global Marketing: Practical Insights and International Perspectives
published by SAGE.
Unfortunately,
most e-publishers are pretty hush - hush about the amount of money their
authors receive in royalties, but it's safe to say that it's probably more than mainline publishers offer, but not as much as you'd get from
publishing your book yourself.
He is the
author of one of the
most important commentaries on the Gospel of Matthew
published over the past century, and a reviewer has called him one of the five
most important thinkers in Jesus research over the past 125 years.
For even the
most reclusive
author, to
publish is to go public.
In Bulfinch's Legends of Charlemagne,
published in 1867, the
author blandly and uncontentiously numbers these works «among the
most cherished creations of human genius,» some knowledge of which «is expected of every well - educated young person.»
The
authors do point to one of the
most extraordinary features of Kennedy's
published work was that it either ignored or failed to discover the sexual misconduct of the clergy that was greatly on the increase at the time.
Editor's note: David Hazony is the
author of «The Ten Commandments: How Our
Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life,»
published recently by Scribner.
So if an
author makes it through Round 1 to actually get
published, she has to then make it through Round 2 in which her content is subjected to edits, which — trust me —
most editors in the Christian
publishing industry aren't thrilled to have to make but which are influenced by the standards of Christian bookstores.
If the name sounds obscure, would it help if I mentioned that he was, by some estimates, the world's
most published author?
Kevin Phillips, who
published The Emerging Republican Majority in 1969, is the
author,
most recently, of American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush (Viking).
«Indians focus on the health properties of chai,» says Dana Jacobi,
author of The Essential Best Foods Cookbook: 225 Irresistible Recipes Featuring the Healthiest and
Most Delicious Foods and a contributor to the New American Plate Cookbook: Recipes for a Healthy Weight and a Healthy Life,
published by the American Institute for Cancer Research.
Authoring organization (s): Program for Appropriate Technology in Health -
Published: 2006, 2008 Summary: These materials include clinical algorithms geared for health workers (not lay counselors) to use to counsel mothers and determine the
most appropriate time to stop breastfeeding; an adaptation and finalization of the World Health Organization (WHO) Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling: An Integrated Course, including new chapters on complementary feeding and country - specific recommendations; adaptations and local drawings / graphics inspired by the WHO counseling cards; and take - home brochures for mothers on exclusive breastfeeding, expressing breastmilk, and replacement feeding.
Sheila Kitzinger M.B.E, M.Litt was a social anthropologist of birth and
author of 25 books
published internationally,
most on the emotional journey through this major life experience.
«During infancy and childhood, individuals are very receptive to sensory and cognitive learning, and the behaviors established in this period are
most probably important for later preference and food behaviors,» wrote lead
author Helene Hausner in the article, which is
published in Physiology & Behavior.
From an accountability standpoint, the JAMA system would seem to have few disadvantages; Biagioli says the move from «
author» to «contributor» has been by far the
most innovative step toward transparency in
publishing research results.
Whether that is because
most scientific researchers are extremely nice and forgiving people, or the more likely possibility that contributing
authors confuse my job as managing editor with that of the editor - in - chief (who has the power to decide what gets
published and what does not), I am not entirely sure.
The study is
published in Nature's Scientific Reports and lead
author Neil Roberts, Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Plymouth, said: «
Most countries go through a forest transition and the UK and Ireland reached their forest minimum around 200 years ago.
A study
published in the January issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings shows that
most clinical practice guidelines for interventional procedures (e.g., bronchoscopy, angioplasty) are based on lower - quality medical evidence and fail to disclose
authors» conflicts of interest.
«When
most people think about cancer genetics, they think about single key mutations that foster tumor formation — very specific things like the BRCA genes,» said Joe R. Delaney, PhD, a fellow in the Clinical Translation program at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center and lead
author of the paper
published February 15 in Nature Communications.
In a study
published online in July in Acta Neuropathologica, the
authors offer evidence of a crucial pathogenic role for a molecule that is associated with acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy — or AIDP, the
most common variant of Guillain - Barré syndrome.
A final point that some people raise is that
authors» individual responsibilities are typically not indicated clearly in the
published paper; in
most journals, each
author's contributions are not explicitly listed.
Given annually, the Gene S. Stuart Award recognizes the
author of the
most interesting and outstanding original newspaper or magazine story
published in the past year that enhances the public understanding of archaeology.
Rare Amur tigers in Russia are succumbing to infection with canine distemper virus (CDV), a pathogen
most commonly found in domestic dogs, according to the
authors of a study
published in mBio ®, the online open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
The group's
most recent report, for example,
published at the end of last year, had 25 main
authors from 11 countries.
As a result, the vast majority of
authors on a given paper do not write a single word of it, make no direct contribution to the
published results and
most likely do not even read it until after submission.
Examining the peer - review process for every paper submitted to Functional Ecology between January 2004 and June 2014,
authors Charles W. Fox and C. Sean Burns of the University of Kentucky in Lexington and Jennifer A. Meyer of the British Ecological Society in London, United Kingdom, which
publishes the journal, found that
most of the Functional Ecology reviewers were men, but female reviewers became more numerous over the period studied.
Pika populations were
most likely to go locally extinct at sites with high summer temperatures and low habitat area, said Joseph Stewart, a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz and first
author of a paper reporting the new findings,
published January 29 in the Journal of Biogeography.
In a paper
published in Global Heart (the journal of the World Heart Federation) the
authors review the findings of atherosclerotic calcifications in the remains of ancient people — humans who lived across a very wide span of human history and over
most of the inhabited globe.
Authors of papers
published in
most medical journals are required to disclose their funding sources and other conflicts of interests.
«We tried to untangle the large role aging appears to play in some of the
most devastating neurological disorders,» said Edward Giniger, Ph.D., senior investigator at the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the senior
author of the study
published in Disease Models & Mechanisms.
According to the
authors on the paper «Flexible Ionic Devices for Low - Frequency Mechanical Energy Harvesting»
published online in the journal Advanced Energy Materials, «The peak power density of our device is in general larger than or comparable to those of piezoelectric generators operated at their
most efficient frequencies.»
«This is the first study that looks at all seven impact effects generated by hazardous asteroids and estimates which are, in terms of human loss,
most severe,» said Clemens Rumpf, a senior research assistant at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, and lead
author of the new study
published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
The new study «shows that the fly has the potential to drive populations of the
most common species of Darwin's finch to extinction in several decades,» says biology professor Dale Clayton, senior
author of the study
published online Dec. 18 in the Journal of Applied Ecology.
Alfred Deakin Professor Ying (Ian) Chen, PhD, the lead
author of a paper, recently
published in Nature Communications, said the material is the
most exciting advancement in oil spill remediation technology in decades.
The challenge received 37 submissions,
most from people who knew nothing about ALS, says Neta Zach, Prize4Life's scientific director in Tel Aviv, Israel, and an
author on the new paper,
published online on 2 November in Nature Biotechnology.
Most of this $ 10 billion industry is still tied up with subscriptions, paid primarily by libraries, but a growing slice comes from gold open - access
publishing, the business model in which
authors of accepted papers pay up front for their publication.
«Nematodinium has the
most sophisticated extrusomes we've seen so far,» says UBC zoologist Brian Leander, senior
author on the paper
published in Science Advances.
This new edition of Recognizing Our
Authors (PDF) acknowledges authors of our most highly cited papers published between 2009 an
Authors (PDF) acknowledges
authors of our most highly cited papers published between 2009 an
authors of our
most highly cited papers
published between 2009 and 2013.
«The complete surprise to us was that although
most forms of PKC make inflammation worse, PKC - delta happens to be the opposite, a natural protective mechanism,» says George King, M.D., Joslin Chief Scientific Officer and corresponding
author on a paper describing the work
published in the journal Circulation Research.
«While optical technology can expand capacity, the
most advanced optical discs developed so far have only 50 - year lifespans,» explained lead investigator Min Gu, a professor at RMIT and senior
author of an open - access paper
published in Nature Communications.