Sentences with phrase «times book prize»

Not exact matches

we have at most 4 real quality outfielders i.e. players that other top european teams would take... ozil sanchez santi and kos... in my books you need 6... we are two short but worse the quality of others is lower than needed... only bellerin coq and wilshere have that potential... and there are problems with each still... we should have put in bids in june for griezman kondogbia and the Burussia striker as all could have been prized away with right bid plus players thrown in IMO... now its too late and wenger is in some weird gallic world of existential hope and denial and fans are just praying we do nt lose opening 2 matches for first time in over two decades... but no one is really confident against a team which is sure to finish around mid table...

Yet in one of the cruel absurdities of legacy, Ehrlich's name is invariably linked with a book that he and Anne Ehrlich, his wife and long - time collaborator (and the corecipient of many of his prizes), wrote in a few weeks in the late 1960s, at a time when the world seemed to be coming undone.

Free time is my own most prized resource, so to know that people are spending theirs reading my book is incredibly gratifying.

This is unfortunate because indie authors already have a tough time figuring out what makes a «Good Cover» — and if book cover contests like this give prizes to fairly ordinary or even pretty ugly book covers, the bar will not be raised.

The prize identifies, and puts at the forefront of the competitive publishing industry, exceptional books written by first - time authors from three categories: Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction (this year Speculative Fiction; a different genre is showcased each year), and Non-Fiction.

Over time, as you write more books, hold more launches, and give away more prizes, you may start to gather several hardcore fans.

In addition to entering the giveaway for that prize the normal way, by providing your email address, we also provide additional chances every time you take certain easy, measurable actions that help the book giveaway spread.

I've already posted a couple times about the flood in Nashville (read here and here), but I today I've got an update on how you can contribute to relief efforts — and get some awesome book - related prizes!

Rysa Walker, author of the YA book Timebound and the upcoming sequel Time's Echo, was the grand prize winner of last year's ABNA awards, and said,

The Answer Is Yes Quartz «They don't often get nominated for huge book prizes, noticed by The New York Times book review, or endorsed by the president.

Our clients have won innumerable literary prizes, including the Man Booker five times, the Carnegie, the Costa, the Guardian First Book, the William Hill, the Arthur C. Clarke, the Geoffrey Faber, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse, the John Llewellyn Rhys, the Somerset Maugham, the James Tait Black Memorial, the Orwell Prize and many others.

On the other hand, a traditional book prize competition in my home province of British Columbia is open to submissions of ebooks for the first time.

She was the author of four award - winning travel books and the internationally bestselling novels: Bombay Ice, a Sunday Times bestseller, and Fish, Blood, & Bone, which was nominated for the Orange prize.

The year that John Steinbeck published his Nobel prize - winning book, The Grapes of Wrath, which happens to be celebrating its 75th anniversary this year with much fanfare from Penguin, what other books did the publisher reject at that time?

In this follow - up to his prize - winning first book, New York Times reporter John Branch delivers an epic and intimate family story deep in the American grain.

Both proven prize winners and relatively new faces appear on the list of LA Times Book Award finalists for 2010, which were announced on Tuesday.

The prize, however, gave me the excuse to finally pick up a book I'd meant to read for a very long time.

If you would like to be eligible for prizes during the June 15 - August 9, 2015 program, you will need to add a book review to the 2015 bookshelf or the 2015 discussion thread during that time and have a Baltimore County Public Library Card.

Frank McCourt was the winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award in Biography / Autobiography, The Boston Book Review's Non-Fiction prize, the ABBY Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award.

«Self - published titles now routinely appear on The New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists, as well as being shortlisted for prestigious book prizes like the PEN / Robert W. Bingham Prize and The Bookseller Industry Book of the Year Awbook prizes like the PEN / Robert W. Bingham Prize and The Bookseller Industry Book of the Year AwBook of the Year Award.

An active environmentalist, author of five books and four - time winner of the Lowell Thomas Award, the highest prize in American travel journalism, Tidwell outlines expensive solutions but says the main question is whether sufficient willpower can be mustered to tackle the problem.

Sure, if you go trad you'll get a big fat check so you'll be able to quit your day job and spend some quality time with the ol' muse... oh, wait, no; if you win Slush Pile Lotto, your prize is one third of a pretty mediocre check that may pay a month or two of rent during the six months before the book is done and you get the second third of said check.

They speculate that the prize of getting an agent is locked in a secret vault and the many applicants spend too much time trying to charm the guard and not enough writing the books themselves.

Stephen Hawley Martin is a professional editor, ghostwriter, and author, and the only three - time winner of the Writer's Digest Book Award, having won first prize twice for fiction and once for nonfiction.

So many authors volunteered their time and a few bucks for the overall prizes and to share books excerpts, interesting facts, reveal covers, announce new books and lots of other fun!

This year's winner of the Financial Times / Bodley Head essay prize, Ed Posnett, has secured two book deals with Viking America and the Bodley Head.

Probably, for my own books, I'd do this weekly for a month, with different prizes every time they can win by sharing.

The Alliance of Independent Authors also has an Open Up To Indies campaign, which will hopefully mean that more prizes and festivals open up to self - published books over time.

TMG represents over 1,000 bestselling and emerging authors in a range of genres of fiction and nonfiction, many of whom have appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers Lists and have won major awards and prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the P.E.N. Faulkner Award, the P.E.N. Hemingway Award, The Booker Prize, and the L.A. Times Book Award, among others.

I know authors who tweet about their book 20 times a day, each time trying to use a clever new twist, sale, giveaway, prize or description.

The Alliance of Independent Authors has an Open Up To Indies campaign, which will hopefully mean that more prizes and festivals are open to self - published books over time.

Bring your Yellow Dude savings book in every time you make a deposit or complete activities to earn points towards a fun prize from Yellow Dude!

René Clement is Dutch photojournalist and artist based in New York City, a six - time nominee for the Zilveren Camera prize, and the author of several books — including Promising Land, the product of a five - year photo project on Dutch Heritage in Orange City, Iowa; and «Scar Tissue,» an award - winning collection featuring New York ten years after 9/11.

Since I'm always trying to earn elite status or book cheap flights that accrue more miles than the flight itself cost, I don't have time to fly on planes that aren't offering me a prize at the end.

For the first time in National Book Critics Circle Award history, a graphic novel won the prize for autobiography.

The finalists for the prestigious prize were New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis — in part for her «sustained dedication to exposing male dominance in Hollywood and decrying the exploitation of women in the film business» — and book critic Carlos Lozada of the Washington Post, whose reviews, the committee stated, «dug deep into the books that have shaped political discourse.»

This exhibition takes its cue from Donna Haraway's influential book Staying With The Trouble (2016), in which the prominent academic argues that the world can not be understood «as the heroic story, told yet one more time, of the privileged signifier moving across time and space to bring back the prize at the end and die».

She has illustrated a number of books, and is a three - time recipient of the Governor General's Award for Illustration, Canada's most prestigious literary prize.

Over all, the directives reinforce an idea I've been exploring for many years now, in the paper (see the «Big Melt» series), our prize - winning «Arctic Rush» documentary, and my prize - winning Times book, «The North Pole Was Here» — essentially, the combination of a warming climate and rising thirst for oil and gas and shipping routes guarantees that the Arctic Ocean of our history and lore, an untouched, forbidding frontier, is now really history.

If you need a game to occupy the time, have everyone guess who brought which book and give a prize for the person who gets the most right.

Protect and Preserve Store your most prized books in an elegant glass cabinet to keep them free from dust and dirt and create a dramatic storage statement at the same time.