I wonder if the spiteful and mean spirited reviewers could plot a novel, let
alone get it published.
After reading John Scalzi's article, I'm seriously considering throwing in the towel (not on writing - just on my ambitions of ever finding an agent let
alone getting published by a big publishing house).
«It is sometimes very difficult to make money as a novel writer, let
alone get published.
Not exact matches
In a video
published by Inc, he told audience members that intelligence
alone wouldn't
get them there.
For instance, many bloggers have
gotten book deals based on their blogs
alone, and
published white papers have turned into speaking engagements or private workshops for many large companies.
Despite the safeguards it affords, they say, mothers in developing countries - the most vulnerable of mothers anywhere, the ones least able to afford formula milk, the ones whose babies most need the breast milk they could and should be
getting for free - were being, and continue to be, targeted by corporate giants bent on carving out their share of a valuable market (Save the Children, which today
publishes a report on the baby - milk industry, reckons that the total value of baby - milk and baby - food imports is worth almost # 16m a year in Bangladesh
alone - but the potential, if more mothers were bottlefeeding, is a lot higher than that).
According to
published reports, the Service Employees International Union
alone is committing $ 2 - 3 million on a campaign to
get New Yorkers to support what leaders call «a moral imperative.»
For example, mathematicians are expected to
publish their best research
alone and at a young age, whereas mathematics - education researchers tend to collaborate and
get better with time.
Four small studies
published between 2006 and 2012 by research groups in Europe and Iran found that adults diagnosed with depression who took aspirin or another anti-inflammatory drug called Celecoxib, along with an antidepressant,
got more relief from feelings of sadness, hopelessness, guilt and fatigue compared with those taking an antidepressant
alone.
But in June 2003, the Journal of American Medical Association
published an article stating that you it is impossible to
get all then nutrients you need from food
alone, and to achieve optimal health and disease prevention, you need to supplement with various micronutrients, in the form of a broad spectrum multi vitamin mineral with antioxidants.
Self -
publishing seems a very difficult route for an unknown humor writer; it's tough enough to
get people to read your stuff for free in your blog, let
alone get them to pay you for it when there are so many other sources of humor around.
Publicists will make your book more visible among the nearly 1,000,000 books that
get published each year in the U.S.
alone.
By
publishing valuable, interesting and entertaining blog content, writers
get their name in front of people who may not have found them through their books
alone.
I really never thought it would
get published, let
alone acquired by this major
publishing house, and I was literally speechless when I
got an email confirming their interest in acquiring Strays for the Aladdin Books imprint.
the rest of the authors pretty much
get ignored and would be best off
getting a good editor and going in
alone in the electronic
publishing field.
And a
publishing company with longstanding media and marketing relationships is far more capable of
getting attention for a new book than a writer working
alone.»
I wanted to
publish with a traditional
publishing house but found I could not
get agents or publishers to even consider a synopsis let
alone the book as a whole.
When I wrote my first Delaware novel, When the Bough Breaks, I never thought it was going to
get published let
alone that I would write a series.
And I love it, because I'm passionate about building community and totally believe we can write
alone but we can't
get published alone — or succeed
alone.
This week, on a special free teleseminar call, you're invited to learn how a developmental editor can help you write your book faster and
get published sooner than if you «go it
alone» during the crucial first stages of writing your book.
-- After it hits the top markets, then indie
publish it, or if it sells, after you
get the rights back, indie
publish it as a stand -
alone for $ 2.99 electronic.
However, with a projected estimate of over 500,000 new ebooks being
published in 2015
alone and the future bringing more and more new indie writers to the scene, we have to do what we can to
get noticed.
The that drek like that even
gets published, yet
alone pushed into best sellerdom is a statement as to what is wrong with the system.
And I think the other point between distinguishing between self -
published author and author publisher is, you know, the author publisher isn't doing it
alone, that there's an approach here about partnership and about involving a whole range of professionals in the process of
getting a work from the desktop or the paper and pencil to the actual
published final document.
So, for self -
published comics that otherwise aren't
getting any attention (let
alone making money), the new Submit portal is a chance to
get put on the same digital shelf as Spider - Man, Batman, and The Walking Dead.
I would love it if further discussion of this topic addressed whether it is a necessary or good thing to
publish a print copy of your e-book — if it helps w / marketing efforts, if the money and hassle is worth it, how to
get started, if you can go it
alone or if it is strongly recommended to
get professional help.
Steve, Great information that will probably 1) depress unpublished authors a bit, 2) make
published authors with truly average sales feel they aren't
alone, and 3) point out that Jim Bell
got it right when he said that you might make more as a greeter at WalMart than as a writer.
· How Seth's writing career has unfolded from grad school, to chasing agents and then to going it
alone and becoming a podcaster, and finally
getting a
publishing deal
There's a particular mission where you can receive a request from a New York
publishing company to take certain pictures; you can
get to the ending by just doing that
alone.
A recent study
published in Science found that many participants «preferred to administer electric shocks to themselves instead of being left
alone with their thoughts,» which I have to say I completely
get.