Sentences with phrase «well this book covers over»

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While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Susan Cain is the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller QUIET: The Power of Introverts in A World That Can't Stop Talking, which is being translated into over thirty languages, was named the # 1 best book of the year by Fast Company magazine and was the subject of a TIME magazine cover story.

Even though those three ran more than nine hours total, Jackson still needed to drop a lot of material from JRR Tolkien's source; after all, the book filled well over 1000 pages, so even three long movies couldn't cover everything.

If you put that much energy into your book, then pay for an outstanding cover to give your book the best opportunity it can have in a marketplace that is saturated with over 400,000 newly published books every year.

Since 2015 we have worked on over 200 book projects, including 25 best - sellers to build coherent cover and interior book design concepts that uphold the highest design and typesetting standards while maintaining visual consistency throughout the project.

«It represents a direct distribution channel which covers over 10, 000 Chinese libraries,» says Sun «and this platform also won us the Excellence Award as the Best International Publishing Technical Supplier at the London Book Fair 2014.»

One of the things that reading consumers lost with the transition to a digital book purchasing environment is the ability to walk into a well - stocked bookstore and browse the shelves, picking up books with enticing titles or covers, flipping them over to read the blurb, and maybe reading the first few chapters of an... [Read more...]

Boasting well over 350,000 + freelancers (with about a third or more of those consisting of designers), Guru offers perhaps the most robustly safe option to not only hire your prospective Kindle book cover designer, but also manage and cultivate a potentially long - term, mutually beneficial relationship with them.

Hence, if your cover is nothing but a whiplash of imagery not carefully thought over and cheaply splashed and made into a book jacket, you're well on your road to being ignored.

Over the course of my writing career, I've been shown book covers I loved, and book covers that weren't a good match.

In this episode, we go over the process for identifying good cover design, how to work with graphics professional and the importance of investing in great book covers.

Over dinner one night, Gloria Steinem tried to talk me out of publishing one of my best - selling books, Woman to Woman: From Sabotage to Support, that landed me on every major daytime TV talk show, a cover story on People magazine, features in the Wall Street Journal, Time, News and the National Enquirer.

That's why I've been working on over 100 DI Y book cover templates based on best - selling book covers, which are a lot faster and easier than making your own cover from scratch.

A trusted book production partner for some of the most accomplished coaches, educators, entrepreneurs, and writers of inspirational nonfiction and memoir — several of whom have been finalists or won notable book awards, including a 2015 IPBA Benjamin Franklin award in the category Best New Voice: Nonfiction — Stacey has produced over 50 books from cover to cover, and has designed over 100 distinct interiors for novels, memoirs, middle - grade fiction, various specialty nonfiction, and academic language books.

The book industry is drastically changing, and we at Good e-Reader have covered the shifting landscape over the last four years.

Designer with over 6 years of experience of doing book covers for some of the best - selling indie authors

And if you have a little art background and have been paying attention to covers of the books you read over the years, with some practice you can do a cover good enough to look professional.

I'm a DIY - er in many respects but, after a free month's trial on Adobe Illustrator (fun but very technical), I am turning over my book cover to my graphic designer daughter - in - law and paying her for a much better job than I could do.

About BookBaby: Distributing eBooks in over 170 countries through more than a dozen online retail stores, including Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and more, BookBaby offers a full array of services including eBook conversion, eBook formatting, cover design and distribution, as well as short run book printing.

We've whittled down hundreds of entries to just 20 of the best indie book covers we've ever come across — and now it's over to you.

In addition to giving you better control over and knowledge of the book's formatting, uploading a Mobi file gives you the ability to add a cover image that automatically zooms on the K2 and DX, and it gives you the ability to create waypoints in the Location Bar on those devices, making navigation between chapters as easy as a right - or left - click on the joystick.

This isn't yet another murky blog that defiantly stamps its foot over the «problems» in traditional publishing, and the sheer audacity of publishing companies to expect an author to help with marketing, all of which usually acts as a thin veil that covers what is, at best, an uninspired book and at worst a flimsy manuscript littered with bad formatting, typos, grammatical errors and plot inconsistencies.

Any time you, a non-designer who has never designed a bestselling book cover, take over the design project and decide what «looks good to you...» you have a problem.

Amazon said the program would include «over a thousand popular books» as well as «rotating selection of fresh, full issues of top magazines covering sports, technology, cooking and home improvement, current affairs, notable people and more.»

It's not uncommon to see an indie authors do well and make tons of money despite having an unprofessional cover or website, and doing half of everything wrong (they're nearly always writing books in very popular genres and doing things better than their competition... and it's worth pointing out these books can often make MUCH more money than professionally published / traditionally published books, because they have control over their pricing, promotions and advertising.)

As I find myself stressing over finding an artist for my next book, and still don't have money to cover an editor, I ask myself, why pay a bunch of different people whose quality I can not truly be sure of, when I can hire a company with the backing of Penguin, and produce a better quality book.

You own your book and that gives you 100 % control over audio rights, electronic rights as well as book cover design, plot decisions and more.

Since launching Damonza.com 18 months ago, I have designed well over 400 covers, researched many successful books and their covers in all genres, and generally kept up with trends in book cover design worldwide.

One book that stands out is the first jack Burton Play By Play book which I finally broke down and bought in spite of the price after reading a few good reviews and drooling over the cover — well, the «cover» page of the book is plain white with text and the book itself did not knock my socks off.

The agent helps shape the proposal (so that it is clear how the proposed work is different from and better than the competition) or work of fiction, finds a publisher, negotiates the contract, sells subsidiary rights to the work, intervenes when there is a controversy, whether it be over an editorial question or the publisher's promotion plans, weighs in with an opinion (e.g., the book cover), monitors the publishing process and steers the author's career, book by book.

He discussed many of the pitfalls with book covers, as well as one technique he used to get over 5000 genre - specific readers onto his mailing list.

With 10 + years of cover design experience, he has amassed a design portfolio of well over 1000 book covers.

While I don't have that nice advance, I do have complete control over content, cover, title, price, and the best thing to me, the rights to my books are mine forever, with no battle to get them reverted, IF I can at all.

The free four - in - one Skyscanner app which has been downloaded over 70 million times, covers flights, hotels, car hire and now train travel, helping travellers search and book trips with ease by uncovering the best travel deals, saving time and money.

As a member of the Great Rail Journeys Group of Companies, Rail Discoveries bookings are covered by the Association of Independent Tour Operators, an organisation representing over 150 of Britain's best specialist tour operators.

Featuring over 100 pages, and having a similar cover design to the Book of Shadows within the Corpse Party games; this Corpse Party: Blood Drive art book contains artwork from the entire game as well as information about the charactBook of Shadows within the Corpse Party games; this Corpse Party: Blood Drive art book contains artwork from the entire game as well as information about the charactbook contains artwork from the entire game as well as information about the characters.

As well as its superb collection of paintings, sculpture and drawings, The Courtauld has two photographic libraries - the Lord Martin Conway library, embracing architectural drawings, sculpture and illuminated manuscripts; and the Robert Witt library, covering paintings, drawings and engravings, with over 2 million reproductions of works by more than 70,000 artists - and a Book Library, which contains one of the UK's largest archives of works on the history of art.

To see the range of what is now — and has been — good design in book covers, go to the Book Cover Archive, where over a thousand images are available for your perubook covers, go to the Book Cover Archive, where over a thousand images are available for your peruBook Cover Archive, where over a thousand images are available for your perusal.

Ann is one of the few professional resume writers in the resume writing industry to receive the NRWA's Vivien Belen Award for Excellence and her works are published in over 25 best - selling resume samples books including well known titles such as The Gallery of Best Resumes, Resumes That Knock Em Dead, Cover Letters That Knock Em Dead and Expert Resubest - selling resume samples books including well known titles such as The Gallery of Best Resumes, Resumes That Knock Em Dead, Cover Letters That Knock Em Dead and Expert ResuBest Resumes, Resumes That Knock Em Dead, Cover Letters That Knock Em Dead and Expert Resumes.

Now includes over 16 lessons covering the best anger management strategies from the book; questions and practical scenarios for real life application.