The struggle that people within the industry face as we try to pitch your book to everyone else in the value chain — sales teams, marketers, booksellers, and ultimately readers — is why the gatekeepers at the very beginning of the chain (the literary agents) have to be so very selective
about the authors we take on.
I read
about the authors taking out a page against Amazon.
We're excited
about authors taking the publishing process into their own hands, and we're here to help however you need it.
We're excited
about authors taking the publishing process into their own hands, and we're here to help however you need it.
Look, you've started a trend... here's an article I read in the NY Times today
about the author taking a «virtual break»: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/fashion/02sabbath.html?ref=fashion
Not exact matches
In an interview at the 2017 Inc. 5000 conference in Palm Springs, California, on Thursday, the entrepreneur, investor, and
author talked
about what it really
takes be successful, his recent brush with cancer, and of course, the inside scoop on Shark Tank.
Caution must be
taken in interpreting these documents: they reveal only so much
about their
authors» motivations.
«I
took about a month to research it, look back in the code, look back in the white paper,» referencing the bitcoin outline
authored by the cryptocurrency's mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
In their forthcoming book, An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization,
authors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey
take a deep dive into several companies where employees are expected to learn
about their pain points — and promptly address them.
After the segment ended, Wolff
took to Twitter to complain
about Brzezinski's treatment of him and the pivoted conversation from the new Times report to criticism of the
author.
,
author Jeremy Kronick finds Canadian household spending, apart from housing, has not dropped despite consumers
taking on more housing debt and draws lessons for policymakers concerned
about a hard landing.
Based in the
author's experience with pursuing his dream and opening his own company, the book describes the
author's feelings and thoughts that
took him to this stage and talks
about topics which he considers important for the young entrepreneur's success.
CNN: My
Take: Cuban cars, Santeria, and the spirit of improvisation Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and
author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» writes
about a recent trip to Cuba.
CNN: My
take: «Atheist» isn't a dirty word, congresswoman Chris Stedman,
author of «Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious,» writes that when Rep. Kyrsten Sinema's campaign said «the terms non-theist, atheist or non-believer are not befitting of her life's work or personal character» it implied that there is something unfavorable
about nonbelievers.
But however one
takes Moby - Dick, the book sufficiently demonstrates that its
author was capable of huge, cosmic ideas
about life and death, freedom and necessity, wisdom and insanity.
CNN: My
Take: The Christmas message of the real St. Nicholas Adam C. English, associate professor of religion at Campbell University and
author of «The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus: The True Life and Trials of St. Nicholas of Myra,» discusses his quest to learn the truth
about St. Nicholas and how it led him to Italy's Adriatic coast.
All of these things were going to happen no matter what, but God
took the blame for all of them by inspiring the biblical
authors to write what they did
about Him.
I did
take notice that although the
author recognizes the big Bang, he made sure to avoid any language
about the age of the universe or evolution that might upset his YEC brethren.
When you read in the Bible
about proclaiming Jesus as Lord, following Jesus,
taking up your cross, eternal reward, inheriting the Kingdom, life in the Spirit, faithful living, and on and on and on, the
author who wrote that text was primarily thinking of how we should live as followers of Jesus so that we can experience the life God meant for us to live.
The first, ascribed to Peter, exists in part in a papyrus fragment which describes the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus and breaks off when the
author says, «But I, Simon Peter, and Andrew my brother,
took our nets and went away to the sea, and with us there was Levi, son of Alphaeus, whom the Lord...» This gospel was known to and criticized by Serapion, bishop of Antioch,
about 190.
The
author questions the Golden Rule, and suggests an improvement.It
takes time, energy and a bit of imagination to know
about somebody else's situation in order to decide how best to treat that person, or how to judge him or her justly.
The
author uses the words «sin willfully» (note that in the Greek it does NOT say «go on sinning») which can be
taken out of context to mean just
about anything, but IN context it specifically is referring to the forsaking of Christ in the face of persecution.
The
authors observe that while tourism is often
about destinations, a pilgrim values the journey itself and is «more like a participant observer, pausing on the path to
take stock of where she has been and where she is going.»
And yet, when the gifted musician /
author Jeremy Begbie reviewed art historian Dan Siedell's book God in the Gallery in the current issue of Image, Begbie appeared - ever so subtly - to
take issue that Dan Siedell, in a book
about art, limited himself to «one particular current within the Nicene river, the Eastern Orthodox tradition... and the council of Niceae (787 CE), the conference which established the orthodoxy of icons.»
The
author reviews a book by Stanley Hauerwas: When Hauerwas asserts that liberal Christians are those who
take «humans, not God, as the center of Christian faith,» or when he says that one of «the most cherished conceits of modernity» is that «humans are the measure of all that is,» he reveals that he has not thought hard enough
about what liberalism and modernity mean to their proponents.
But along with the praise, Wilson offers insights
about the reasons these books are powerful: Lewis's generosity toward the
authors he discusses, the way he finds passages that make them seem interesting; his sense of «wonder and enjoyment» in all he reads; his willingness to
take up the great themes that engaged his
authors, to put to work in criticism his «creative intelligence.»
Michael Lewis (
author of Moneyball and The Big Short) wrote in Vanity Fair
about a trip he
took to research the financial collapse of Greece.
@jf well your information
about the New Testament is
about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth of Christ, Your interpretation of God at His worst shows a complete lack of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language of the day.Most of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three of the
authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to
take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»
CNN: My
Take: It's time for evangelicals to speak up
about guns Pastor and
author Daniel Darling urges evangelicals to participate in the debate over access to guns, and to acknowledge that there is «no clear - cut Christian position on gun control.»
CNN: My
Take: The danger of calling behavior «biblical» Rachel Held Evans, a popular blogger and
author of «A Year of Biblical Womanhood,» writes
about her discomfort seeing the bible «edited down and used as a prop to support a select few political positions and platforms.»
It's been nearly a year since Saddleback Church pastor and bestselling
author Rick Warren lost his son to suicide, and now he is calling the Church to begin to long road of clearing misconceptions
about mental health and
taking the plight of the suffering seriously.
We talked to Trillia Newbell, a speaker and
author whose books include United: Captured by God's Vision for Diversity,
about how Christians can have productive conversations and
take action on issues of racial injustice.
With the war in Iraq it seems appropriate to
take a hard look at historical and political realities
about U.S. response to atrocities, raised by the two books the
author reviews..
CNN: My
Take: More doubts about God doesn't mean religion is weakening Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» gives his take on a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, which shows a sharp increase in the number of millenials who doubt the existence of
Take: More doubts
about God doesn't mean religion is weakening Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and
author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» gives his
take on a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, which shows a sharp increase in the number of millenials who doubt the existence of
take on a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, which shows a sharp increase in the number of millenials who doubt the existence of God.
CNN: My
Take: What the Bible really says
about homosexuality Daniel A. Helminiak who was ordained a priest in Rome, is a theologian, psychotherapist and
author of «What the Bible Really Says
about homosexuality» and books on contemporary spirituality.
When the
author talks
about interpretation of an ancient book, he means to
take literally the scripture the way you are putting.
They are knowingly attempting to inject their religious world view on everyone and anyone because they believe they know how best to live and don't give a rat's ass
about anyone elses freedoms or rights, but if you want to call that «doing their best» then you can
take your message back to it's
authors, the vile disgusting things, the wh.o.re of Babylon, the putrid decaying evil of Joseph Smith and shove it down his dead and crumbling corpse.
As you can see in the example, we inform
about the
author of the photos and the recipe, and includes a link to your website.We can
take care of preparing the format of the recipe with the material you submit.
The
author seems to
take great pleasure in telling us
about Arsenal's great achievements so far — fifth round of the cup, only two points off the top and another fantastic European campaign, qualifying for the last 16 yet again!
The reason I am testy
about all of this — and critical of the
author of this post for ANOTHER chat
about Tony (choke) Romo, et al. is that watching a perennial loser like the Eagles squeak by and ultimately win a SB with a journeyman QB was almost all I can
take.
After writing his first book
about his life as a vet,
author Alf Wight couldn't find a suitable pseudonym under which to publish his memoirs until one night he was watching a game of football and was rather
taken with the name of Hibernian's goalkeeper - Jim Herriot.
:::::: I also want to mention here, Jeffrey Yamaguchi,
author 52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity; and Zoe Weil,
author of Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times for
taking the time to read the book in it's early form, and for so generously sharing their kind words
about it in the form of the «blurb» on the back of the book.
What's nice
about this book compared to some others is the impartial stance the
authors take.
In The Marriage Sabbatical: The Journey That Brings You Home,
author Cheryl Jarvis details the stories of 55 women who
took time off their marriage —
about three months — including herself.
Caroline Homer, one of the
authors of the study, and Hannah Dahlen, a spokesperson for the Australian College of Midwives,
take to the lay press to boast
about the results of the study (Study of low risk women reveals good news on the home birth front):
«If you're exclusively breastfeeding, it
takes about 500 extra calories per day for your body to make milk for your baby,» says Alice Callahan,
author of «The Science of Mom.»
Take this quiz, by Dr. Sam Gosling,
author of Snoop: What Your Stuff Says
about You, to determine your personality when it comes to doing household chores.
Three complete novels that,
taken together, tell a single epic story,
about an
author whose life is shattered when violence and tragedy consume the people closest to him.
Lauren Casper,
author of It's Okay
About It: Lessons from a Remarkable Five - Year - Old About Living Life Wide Open, shares what she hopes readers will take away from her book and advice about adop
About It: Lessons from a Remarkable Five - Year - Old
About Living Life Wide Open, shares what she hopes readers will take away from her book and advice about adop
About Living Life Wide Open, shares what she hopes readers will
take away from her book and advice
about adop
about adoption.
Tough,
author of «Whatever It
Takes»
about the expensive and immersive Harlem Children's Project, covers a lot of territory but doesn't let his books become too academic.