Sentences with phrase «sure some authors take»

Sure some authors take advantage of Kickstarter or Indiegogo to raise funds, but often they fail to meet their financial targets.

Not exact matches

I did take notice that although the author recognizes the big Bang, he made sure to avoid any language about the age of the universe or evolution that might upset his YEC brethren.

i hope the author of this article remembered to touch wood after writing this... Way too many things are taken for granted here... «players like Santi Cazorla and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain are really hitting form and are sure to turn up for the big clash against the Saints.»

It was a way to make sure property could be passed to heirs, alliances could be forged (often to avoid wars), children could be reared, society could be assured that caregiving would be taken care of and a lot of other practical matters, as historian and Marriage, a History author Stephanie Coontz has extensively detailed.

If you're still not sure you're up to «confident parenting» with your adult child, take heart in these encouraging words from the authors: «Some of us have forgotten how to be confident in a fallen world.

Take a little advice from seasoned safety professionals Denise Fields, author of Baby 411: Clear Answers and Smart Advice for Your Baby's First Year, and Alison Jacobson, The Safety Mom, and make sure you don't miss these 10 not - so - obvious tips to help keep your baby safe and sound.

This approach could prove useful in a number of areas, including medical clinical trials, criminal profiling, airport screening, making sure patients are taking medications, and environmental exposure studies, said study senior author Pieter Dorrestein.

Since Donald Trump took office last January, USA TODAY tracked where he spent each of his first 52 The author of the explosive new Trump book says he can't be sure if parts of it are true

But to the sure relief of armchair aviators everywhere, director Mark Osborne's «The Little Prince» turns out to be a respectful, lovingly reimagined take on Antoine de Saint - Exupery's classic 1943 tale, which adds all manner of narrative bells and whistles to the author's slender, lyrical story of friendship between a pilot and a mysterious extraterrestrial voyager, but stays true to its timeless depiction of childhood wonderment at odds with grown - up disillusionment.

• First of all, make sure you attend The author visit can have far - reaching staying power when the classroom teachers also take part.

So they won't brand these books, they won't edit them, they won't market or distribute them, but they sure as hell will point authors there and take their money.

As for which company I am taking a close look at it would be Author House, not sure if you have heard of this particular company or not.

Sure, we have to run our author business and take care of the never - ending marketing, but we wouldn't get anywhere if we didn't look after our audience.

Make sure your author website is strong enough to take advantage of those three seconds and really grab a reader's attention.

These companies are focused on taking the book from a manuscript format to a finished product and will do what's necessary to make sure the author is satisfied.

Book reviewers love it when an author takes the time to engage their followers in conversation and comment on the online book reviews — so be sure to participate.

If I WAS one of the people who took you to task about the farm team concept, I'm sure it must have been in reference to indie authors, not digital imprints for major publishers.

Now that there are more opportunities than ever to get in touch with a bestselling author, you should make sure that any question you get the chance to ask will yield something you can immediately take home, apply, and improve upon.

Now, to be sure, if an author doesn't take your advice, you can mention the perceived weakness / fault in the review, but there's also no cause to say, «I warned her not to do this,» or anything of the kind.

In a book by author David Gardner (The Last of the Hitlers: The Story of Adolf Hitler's British Nephew and the Amazing Pact to Make Sure His Genes Die Out, BMM, December 8, 2001) descendants of Adolf Hitler's nephew have taken an extra step.

Show them that you can bring someone into the store, or if you have a different approach, maybe an author event isn't the approach you take to selling your books into retailers, but whatever that approach is, make sure that it makes sense to them.

I've gotten dozens of testimonials like this from early students, so I know the course is useful — but I wanted to make sure I support authors and get them to take action, even if they don't have time to go through all the course contents.

So my advice, as a freelance professional in the business of helping authors turn good stories into stellar ones that garner great reviews, is to take the time to make sure that at least the weakest links in the chain of your backlist are brought up to your current standards.

I'm not sure if Amazon eventually does this or not (if they do it must take a long time), so I just contact Amazon Author Central support right away and within hours the ebook and paperback versions of my book are linked on Amazon which is very important.

It sure beats drifting around the book marketing universe like a hobo, holding out our collection cups to anyone who passes by, hoping for some reader to take pity on the poor indie author.

Mark Lefebvre, the Director Self - Publishing & Author Relations told Good e-Reader, «We wanted to make sure that self - publish and indie authors have the ability to take advantage of pre-order activities, but not force them into it.

The question of bringing readers over from trad to self is worth taking into account, but with the lion's share of the marketing being done by the author wherever the publishing is happening, I'm not sure how much longer that will be relevant either.

If, on the other hand, your idea is likely to stick around for a while — like the ideas of, I du n no, Orwell or Postman or Keynes or, well, any of a hundred thousand other authors whose ideas are still relevant today, then maybe it's worth taking the time — and the multiple rounds of copy - editing and revising and proof - reading and checking and double checking that causes publishing to the so slow — just to make sure you get it right before you publish.

I am sure you've heard the saying before, that freedom is never free, however, and while not really meant within that context, it is certainly true for self - publishing authors and contains a nugget of wisdom we should all take to heart.

I'm not saying open the flood gates to any old crap — they still have to curate their stable of authors to maintain their reputation — but I'm sure they could take a few more chances, what with the approaching - zero cost of launching an ebook - only title?

It IS the publisher's fault / responsibility ultimately because they want these inflated prices (which don't translate into additional royalties for authors) on a product that has SHITTY FORMATTING (and I now know for sure that it does NOT take a rocket scientist to format and ebook well).

You are sure to be both entertained and shocked as the author takes us through life in the firehouse and on the streets.

This only makes sense since book publishers must use their diminishing budgets on «sure things» rather than taking a risk on an unknown author.

To set up a book signing, certain steps need to be taken as an indie author to make sure things run smoothly — the responsibility falls squarely on your shoulders to initiate and run the event.

Though I'm pretty sure that was not what the author had in mind... Anyone else enjoy trying to take great malapropisms and trying to find a legitimate use for them?

It's true; eBooks provide opportunities to reach huge numbers of new readers, and we want to make sure all of our authors are set to take full advantage of those opportunities.

> It's funny how when many of the people who disagree with her make a few typing or spelling mistakes (for instance «shepard», she says nothing, but when someone who disagrees with her makes a slip up, then she gets sarcastic, < Anon / anon / anon / anon, sadly the above makes no sense, though I am sure you mean to say «many of the people who «agree» with her...» «She» as well as some others, may be expecting more from people who have taken this course to work with Authors, then from other posters who may be illustrator or not even in this industry.

There are a lot of reasons for this to happen but if you've pledged money to see a project happen and it never does, or it takes so long to happen that you figure it will never take place, you will think twice before ever funding another suck project and you sure as hell will think twice before ever buying anything else from that author.

Sure, you should take a look at it, and if you absolutely hate it then you should say something, but for the most part, there's a reason that you're the author and not the artist.

Sure, some unscrupulous authors might find a way to abuse the system in the short run with this, but (A) they won't find substantial or long - term success by chopping books and (B) Amazon tends to learn how to prevent authors from taking advantage or catch and provide a fit punishment for those who game the system.

If this is becoming the new norm, publishers asking for more rights, paying smaller advances, taking forever to make a decision on buying a manuscript, and delivering less marketing and promotion then expecting authors / agents to pick up the slack, I'm not sure how I'm going to keep convincing my hybrid authors to stay the course with traditional publishers when they are making more money self - publishing.

I'd like to say how thrilled I am that you took the time to comment, and I'm so happy you found me — and other authors, I'm sure — through BookBub.

Sure, authors move up and down, but the percentage of indie / trad / small / Amazon remains the same (from the snapshots we've taken).

Pam, I'm not sure this is a «Christmas rush of freebies» as much as a «ooooh, something new to do» rush for authors who haven't had an easy way to take books for free before now.

One other friend of mine left he was in the real estate space wrote a book with with a major publishing house and then a few years later stopped he left real estate and went into a really strong personal development business and the publisher went up well you're not promoting this book anymore and they took his book word - for - word and put somebody else's name on the cover of it and just put a new introduction on it no credit to anybody he had worked because he had two co-authors help him with it because he's dyslexic so they essentially were the ones that wrote it and he provided a lot of the content and the publisher gave those other authors no credit took his name off and put somebody else's name on the front and then the publisher was 100 % within their rights to do it so you know there's a lot of things that I challenge people to kind of think about what's important and if you're putting all your expertise into this book you want to make sure that somebody's negotiated a heck out of it giving you a contract that actually makes sense for you and your business.

Take this time to make sure you have an author abode in good working order.

On the contrary, a poorly designed book cover conveys to the readers that author does not care much about the book and I am sure you don't want to take chances here.

Fiction authors, particularly romantic fiction authors: take a page from the Hallmark Channel and make sure to incorporate the search term «Romance and Christmas.»

I am sure the gap must be filled by some kind of co-publishing arrangement, which will mean selective independent publishers taking less risk and matching the author's input with their marketing input.

I'm sure that Hachette is in communication with its authors, but the authors in the license grant allow Hachette to decide pricing, etc. on their editions of the book and what costs they will incur in return for Hachette taking on all those costs.