Sentences with phrase «works by unknown authors»
No matter how good a book is, getting readers to find and choose works by unknown authors is an enormous hurdle to leap.
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As just one example, we have the story of Jesus turning water into wine in the Marriage of Cana story in John 2:1 - 11, which appears to have been borrowed by the unknown author or authors, i.e., the Johannine community (see the Wikipedia article «Authorship of the Johannine works»), from stories of Dionysus turning water into wine.
The Bible is a «symposium» of works by a number of persons, composed of many writings, written over a period of hundreds of years, some only preserved in fragments, by unknown authors, written on animal skins (for they had no paper as we know it), with no printing presses to preserve the writing... It's a marvel we have the Bible at all.
A work of that length written by seven authors, many of them unknown, did not fit the traditional publishing model.
A tool such as this could lead to an increase in sales, especially when consumers are considering a work by an as - of - yet unknown author.
The American Booksellers Association and the Authors Guild are working together to bring relatively unknown authors into the forefront by pairing them with more recognizable names for live author Authors Guild are working together to bring relatively unknown authors into the forefront by pairing them with more recognizable names for live author authors into the forefront by pairing them with more recognizable names for live author events.
To allot precious retail space for a new work by a lesser known or unknown author is a gamble.
Authors who are represented by a literary agent are, in a sense, «pre-screened» and therefore given higher priority than unrepresented authors, whose work is of completely unknown qAuthors who are represented by a literary agent are, in a sense, «pre-screened» and therefore given higher priority than unrepresented authors, whose work is of completely unknown qauthors, whose work is of completely unknown quality.
It's by no means unknown for publishers of heavily illustrated books to require authors to pay for photos or line art, or to find an illustrator who will work for part of the royalties.
Then the New York Times examined a now - shuttered book review - for - hire service aimed at self - publishers, run by an Oklahoma businessman who realized that a large pool of underemployed writers willing to work for peanuts plus an equally large pool of unknown authors desperate to stand out equals profit.
Dr. Peter Warshall (great ecologist, birder, desert denizen, Bio-neer, Northern Jaguar Alliance, author working on a book about color and vision in nature, etc) was telling me (and I wish I had taken proper notes and references) that he had read an article in a technical biology journal of some sort showing that the DNA of a ancient bacterium had been absorbed into the DNA of the host creature, and that on further looking we may find that creatures are constantly acquiring whole sections of DNA by some unknown process.