Sentences with phrase «writing life self»

One of the other stats I saw is that Writing Life self - published titles account for 15 % of all the books Kobo sells.

As longtime chief of the Writing Life program Mark Lefebvre stepped aside in November, he told us that 25 percent of English - language books sold on Kobo are being produced on the Writing Life self - publishing platform.

I also spent six years as the Director of Self - Publishing and Author Relations at Kobo, where I created and launched their hugely successful Kobo Writing Life self - publishing platform and team.

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Kobo to Expand Magazines, Academic, Comics & Kids Books with Aquafadas Acquisition; Expands on Kobo Writing Life Self Publishing Portal to Offer New Features and Languages

Another of the CONTEC session's heaviest hitters is Toronto's Kobo with its highly regarded Kobo Writing Life self - publishing program for authors.

Self - publishing sales have grown rapidly, Tamblyn says, and the Kobo Writing Life self - publishing imprint is now 15 per cent of all the books it sells.

Kobo does not have a massive selection of comics, most of their content is submitted to them from their Writing Life self - publishing platform.

Robert Bryndza, published through the Kobo Writing Life self - publishing platform, takes second place on Canada's bestsellers list for 2016, which is no surprise as self - published titles make up approximately 20 % of Kobo's unit sales across its English - language markets.

Town Hall panelist Christine Munroe, US manager of the Kobo Writing Life self - publishing platform, sees possibility where others might see limitations.

Not exact matches

«We know relatively little about why older adults decide to pursue self - employment in later life, the self - employment experience itself, and the individual and societal outcomes of this growing type of work,» Halverson and Morrow - Howell write.

«This was the first time we saw self - publishing turn into an audition for commercial prime time,» says Nathan Maharaj, director of merchandise at Kobo, which recently launched Kobo Writing Life, a self - publishing e-book service for aspiring writers that Maharaj's team closely monitors for «opportunities that are worth mainstream attention.»

Mistakes while moving abroad can sometimes be costly and ding your self - esteem, writes International Living's Suzan Haskins.

«If I could go back in time, I'd introduce my 22 - year - old self to a quotation by the writer Brian Andreas: «Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life,»» Huffington writes.

Look, if you want to be just like the opportunistic parasites who write that sort of self - help style nonsense but have never actually run a real company, produced a genuine product, developed an expertise, or done a single thing to help anyone but themselves in their entire lives, be my guest.

Focusing on self - improvement has presented many opportunities in our lives — like speaking at live events, writing for online publications and traveling the world.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

They need a believer that can hear the Holy Spirit's advice and thought; that can share from their own past with vulnerability and nakedness; and that can speak / write to the heart - themes that keep the hearer from experiencing the freedom in Christ: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, patience, and self - control — the amazing freedom that mixes all those fruits of the Spirit into an incredible life.

He observes, however, that «the modernist desire in Frost and Eliot — to preserve an independent selfhood against the coercions of the market, a self made secure by the creation of a unique style — is subverted by the market, not because they wrote according to popular formulas, but because they give us their poems as delicious experiences of voyeurism, illusions of direct access to the life and thought of the famous writer, with the poet inside the poem like a rare animal in a zoo.

A noble effort, and probably a positive contribution to life online — but at its worst, Laura Turner wrote for Religion News Service, «Instapray can be like the worst possible version of Pinterest,» another forum for auto - worship and self - congratulation.

His essay, «Lena Dunham's Inviolable Self,» an analysis of Girls, the HBO series written and starred in by Lena Dunham, argues that Dunham sees a great deal of life operating on the surfaces.

As I did my own writing, I would also think about her stories, the humor and self - deprecation with which she weaved her life with those in her past.

«The Wisdom of Solomon» in the Apocrypha — although Solomon did not write it — is everlastingly right when it says that the beginning of wisdom is «the desire of discipline,» the love of it, the voluntary choice of it, the discovery that self - discipline is the highway to everything that makes life worth living.

The apostle Paul writing to the church in Ephesus encouraged them «with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self... and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.»

This is at best misleading: Writing in the cultural context of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the necessity of humility and surrender for a genuine religious life, but he had no more esteem for a purely submissive religious posture than for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations of mystical self - abnegation.

In the meantime, they live in a sort of self - imposed spiritual isolation — never telling people what they really believe about various things, because those are the things they are going to write about in their book, and they are deathly afraid that anyone they share their beliefs with will take them and write their own book about them before they can get THEIR book finished.

We could argue that their books were written by several different authors over a period of several decades, all of whom had competing interests and goals, most of which involve self - advancing propaganda and fictional tales of the supposed author's life and ideas.

On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»

As a colleague of mine recently wrote, a true church emerges when Christ's Spirit empowers human participation in the life of the triune God's and all living as Christ's disciples is lived as outgoing, self - giving love to others.

In Adventures of Ideas 233 he writes: «The present moment is constituted by the influx of the other into that self - identity which is the continued life of the immediate past within the immediacy of the present.»

Paul writes in Ephesians, «You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires.»

So he wrote, «We know that the man we once were has been crucified with Christ for the destruction of the sinful self... ’21 He likened the Christian's immersion under the water at his baptism to the death and burial of Jesus.22 The self must die before a man can rise to new life.

In that time I «wrote» a story that gave me the sense of self loathing that I feel when reading your «Life of Regrets.»

For most of my life, I self - selected my calling as exclusively in the realm of the written word.

Moses was represented as identifying himself sacrificially with his people's lot until he desired no good fortune of his own apart from theirs — «Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin — ; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written» (Exodus 32:32)-- and from such beginnings an illustrious record of vicarious suffering had brought the national history to Jeremiah, who, only a few years before Isaiah of Babylon wrote, had lived and died in voluntary self - giving for the salvation of his people.

May writes: «Actually in real life it is a matter of long, uphill growth, to new levels of integration — growth meaning not automatic progress but re-education, finding new insights, making self - conscious decisions, and throughout being willing to face occasional or frequent struggles.»

You write about how the pressure to live up to the StrongBlackWoman ideal affected your own health, self - esteem, and emotional and relational well - being.

A self - taught cook and classically - trained soprano, Coco Morante writes and sings in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her husband and their beagle.

Enter Canal House Cooking, La Dolce Vita, # 7 in a series of self - published volumes from a multi-talented duo who have worked at food, cooking, and food writing / photography most of their lives.

As some of you may know, there was quite a bit of backlash to this healthy - living tome «written» by the self - proclaimed lifestyle guru.

As Heather and I struggle to balance our dedication to supporting true rookie moms with our self - centered desire to blog authentically and document our own real lives, we frequently debate how our readers might be reacting to what we write.

The award culminated an extensive, two - year self - assessment process that required the department to develop 112 comprehensive sets of written directives that address life, health and safety issues as applied to law enforcement personnel, critical legal issues and conditions that reduce risk and high - liability exposure to the officers and the agency.

«You feel unfulfilled because you're not being yourself, and it's a burden for a guy to feel like he's the center of your life,» the late therapist Martha Baldwin Beveridge writes in Loving Your Partner Without Losing Your Self.

Breast reconstruction «is an important option for women undergoing mastectomy and may improve patient self - esteem, body image, and quality of life,» the researchers write.

So I wrote on relationships and self - improvement and whatever else I could think of to make life better for others.

Jim said he used to «live» in the self - help section, visualized his success when he «had nothing» — and even wrote a $ 10 million check to himself when he was broke.

Writing in the Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology, Burrow and his co-author define a sense of purpose as a «self - organizing life aim that organizes and stimulates goals, manages behaviors, and provides a sense of meaning.»

This life - altering realization led me to research and write Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself, which includes all the diagnostic exercises I used with patients who had maxed out what Western medicine had to offer in order to help them identify the root causes of their health conditions so they could write The Prescription for themselves and activate their natural self - repair mechanisms.

And I also have great appreciation for being able to do my passion of writing and designing books and posters which help empower people to live their most fulfilling lives — my brand of what I call «self help for people who wouldn't be caught dead doing self help.»

The competition will be judged by an Editor appointed by the Promoter, and will be judged on the best written answer to the question: «In 25 words or less tell us what in your life has brought you deep healing or self love?»