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I also just heard about some authors getting their Twitter accounts blocked or banned — this is probably because they're sending out or retweeting lots of spam.

Reading about the author getting into relationships with men that didn't really see her was tough, I imagine it was so much tougher to have lived it though.

The pairing of authors and reviewers shows how much they care about their authors getting the best service possible.

I do care about my authors getting paid.

I used to let my emotions about the author get in the way of my review — usually saying too much good.

Not exact matches

The COO and Lean In author has emerged as a vocal proponent of federal paid leave and I spoke with her about how to get the rest of corporate America to follow Facebook's lead.

The study's authors say that getting people to think favourably of your accomplishments might be better achieved «by modest self - representation, or even self - denigration, than by outright bragging about one's positive qualities.»

The author of «The Bitcoin Big Bang — How Alternative Currencies are About to Change the World» breaks down the basics of how digital currencies work and explains how investors can get in on the action.

When author and blogger Mark Manson was about to get married, he reached out for some advice.

He is the author of two books: BIG LIKE: CASCADE INTO AN ODYSSEY, a travel memoir of an almost regular guy who gets totally unstuck in Tokyo — a «funny as hell non-fiction book about wanderlust and traveling abroad»; and TESTOSTERONE PIT, a short, edgy, humorous novel about car salesmen, their customers, managers, and shenanigans at a large Ford dealership.

Their book got me psyched about the importance of the people the authors call, well... superconnectors.

When I first got involved in the American Society of Journalists and Authors, I quickly learned a few things about freelance writers.

Author Kelly Shue, of the University of Chicago, says boards» apparent mistake is a common one, highlighted by years of research in the field of behavioral economics, and much like the way workers get confused about the effect of inflation on the real value of their paychecks.

I got to thinking about the topic again during a conversation with Tor Nørretranders, an author and former journalist in Denmark, when I visited him a few weeks ago.

Kim Stanley Robinson, «New York 2140» author, talks about what needs to be done to get humans beyond the moon and how financial markets could play into the future of space travel.

Author and life coach Tony Robbins urges Americans to get educated about the fees they pay for portfolio management and retirement saving.

As Jon Goodman, author of Viralnomics: How to Get People to Want to Talk About You, says, «People shouldn't see your design; they should feel your design.

«Social Security is about as complicated a fiscal system as is humanly possible to design,» said Larry Kotlikoff, an economics professor at Boston University and author of the book «Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security,» set for release in February.

About the Author: Isabel Crouch is the Social Media Manager, SEO, and digital marketing geek who rejoices in getting maximum results at minimum expense for South Wales Web Solutions, a web design and marketing team based in South Wales, U.K.

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Five - time bestselling author, Jeff Goins, says «The hardest part about writing a book isn't getting published.

The only content that gets effectively communicated these days is authentically shared material (often user - authored) and SquareOffs encourages and accelerates that behavior by helping publishers and authors provide current and compelling bite - size choices and content (suitable for sharing) that triggers our natural (water cooler) inclinations and behaviors to share something new, something timely, something political, something we're concerned or passionate about, etc. with those around and closest to us.

The authors of the report — professors at Georgetown University, Harvard Business School and Morehouse College president David Thomas — interviewed 30 of those women, asking about the skills, attributes and workplace strategies they felt were important for getting ahead.

Unfortunately, most e-publishers are pretty hush - hush about the amount of money their authors receive in royalties, but it's safe to say that it's probably more than mainline publishers offer, but not as much as you'd get from publishing your book yourself.

In the soon - to - be-released 4th edition of The New Rules of Marketing & PR, David Meerman Scott (best - selling author and HubSpot Advisor) added a whole new section about newsjacking that got us thinking about our own blog's newsjacks.

Despite Disney's apparent lack of concern about the potential to scare off remotely budget - conscious vacationers, Frommer.com's Jason Cochran, author of Frommer's Easy Guide to Walt Disney World and Orlando, says that the theme park giant is «playing a dangerous game» not only with the latest price hikes, but with an array of policies that all but force guests to book multi-day vacations (because the per - day costs are astronomical if the visit is short) and to plan every latest detail of one's visit far in advance (because that's the way to get the most out of one's trip).

While this strategy works just fine for large publishers that already have established brands and get thousands of shares on any new article they publish (such as Mashable or TechCrunch), a more pragmatic approach is needed for just about every other business.It's true that getting quality inbound links starts with great content on your client's website, but the missing link is getting journalists, contributors, authors, and editors at quality publications to become aware of that content so that they can link to it when writing relevant stories / articles.

Then, W247 gets defensive and asks where in the bible it says this, though the author said nothing about any bible.

As many authors can attest, however, after a few months of talking about your book topic, day after day after day, you get the writer's equivalent of the late - night giggles.

As you may or may not know, I started a publishing company almost two years ago, and as part of the process of publishing and marketing books, I wanted to create a «Book Launch» strategy so that the authors whose books we publish could get a good start on helping people learn about their book.

If the headline had not included quotation marks around «wrong» you might have had a beef, but those quotation marks should immediately get you thinking that the author is going to be critical about those who may say that.

If / when an author in the group becomes published, he / she promises to help other members in the group also get published, and in return, they promise to write about and review the author's book so they can sell more copies.

Finally, The Closing of the American Mind says nothing about how colleges and universities should get from where they are to where its author thinks they should be.

One other nice thing about being a published author, is that it proves that you are an expert in your field, which gets you invited to speak at conferences, which increases your visibility and platform in the fishing world, which then allows you to get more books published.

Lehrer (author of the best - selling How We Decide) explains why we get our best ideas in the shower, shatters the myth of the muse, descries creative working environments that increase productivity, and tells story after story about the ways in which the world's most creative people work.

In the last 15 years, psychologist Mark Laaser, author of Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction, has seen «an escalating crisis in the church» so that «rarely a day goes by that I don't get a call about a «fallen» pastor.»

Delivering the Sermon: Voice, Body, and Animation in Proclamation by Teresa L. Fry Brown (a couple others that I haven't read yet but have heard great things about from this author are: Can a Sistah Get a Little Help?

The author obviously hasn't read some of the posts to a story about scientists looking at people who eat all they want without gaining weight in order to get an idea of how obesity works.

Look, along with teaching and writing about Scripture and theology, I also design websites and publish books for other authors, and I get paid a little bit of money to do so.

The authors, Neil Howe and William Strauss, have of late astounded armchair sociologists with their predictions about the «turnings» of history, the approximately twenty - year cycles in which American society gets....

The impression you will get from the book is that the authors are simply teaching what Jesus, Paul, and John really thought and cared about, when in reality, what you will be getting is a strong Calvinistic interpretation of the New Testament.

When we read about Paul struggling mightily so that Christians in small churches will learn to live in Christian harmony, perhaps we see an alternative vision of church — one in which all the theological muscle of the author of Philippians is marshaled merely to get Euodia and Syntyche to get along (Phil.

The author's degrees are in philosophy, not theology, and I think it shows one of his biases when he goes on about where his Mormon counterparts got their degrees.

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

The author must have gotten his research from historical works on the puritans or something, because, as a regular church going Bible believing Christian, I can say from experience that I have no clue what he's talking about.

This article hs done what the author wanted it to do... got people talking about the issue... I was raised in a Christian home..

In my proposal, God is not just getting human authors to write the incorrect ideas about Him which they already have, but God is actively inspiring the ideas themselves.

Back in December, a bunch of Harper Voyager US / UK authors got together on the #SFFchat hashtag to talk about writing, publishing, and the sci - fi / fantasy genre with aspiring SF / F authors.

««It's not just about having the right people on the bus, it's about getting them in the right seats,» author Jim Collins says.

I think the authors REALLY got creative on ways to use up grains, and they were really thoughtful about cultural appropriation but still having a wide range of different ethnic foods to feature.