Sentences with phrase «anything out of the author»

I would never sign a contract that said net returns, because you could deduct anything out of the author's slice.

Not exact matches

By a geographical expansion shattering anything that either his cosmopolitan detractors within paganism or, for that matter, the author of the Book of Acts within Christianity could have imagined, his name has moved out far from that «small corner of the earth somewhere» and has come to be known «unto the uttermost part of the earth.»

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.

And may no noise - making busybody interfere to snatch me out of my carefree content as the author of a little piece, or prevent a kind and benevolent reader from examining it at his leisure, to see if it contains anything that he can use.

The author points out that the former works out very well, as the current standard of living in developed countries is way beyond anything even princes could have dreamt of just a century ago.

The authors point out one caveat in their methods — that some irisin is lost during sample preparation, and therefore the amount of irisin detected is, if anything, a slight underestimation.

Another wake - up call It turns out that prediabetes isnt really «pre» anything, according to Mark Hyman, MD, author of UltraMetabolism and The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First.

Often, that reputation comes from authors putting out sub-par work, but in a corner of an artistic industry where anyone can make anything go, contractors deserve some of the blame.

If there's not a readily - defined, ready - to - shell - out - cash market segment, a regular publisher won't take a chance on something unless they know there are hordes of sheeple to shell out that cash without worrying about anything but the author's name on the cover..

I only point this out because a professional author — such as yourself — would never publish anything with so many mistakes in it, of course, knowing it would appear to be absolute bollix, so you must have intended to appear utterly inept at the craft you propose to be so knowledgeable about, right?

As David Gaughran points out, Author Solutions's strategy is to take advantage of writers who don't know anything about the industry.

I've been extremely stubborn and resistant because I do believe that I could have major success as an author and I don't want to cheat myself out of anything.

Knowing that there are people out there who are going to not only sneer at anything I write just because I'm female (and prone to writing heroines of color, women in positions of power, and queer people), but who will actively work to shout down anything I and authors like me try to do.

Others say traditional publishing is a scam, they use their authors, and only the top sellers get anything out of the relationship.

We all know the readers in our social group and most of them follow particular authors and devour anything they put out.

Rich - and - famous authors who pull out aren't doing anything wrong, of course.

But the problem is that there is a glut of content that has taken those fringe readers out of the mix for indie authors, as they're struggling to digest 1000 free books, and so aren't buying anything right now.

A self - published book can mean almost anything... from what gets spilled out of the fingers and mind of the author to the presentation from the local printing shop and sometimes looking like it was put...

It is only when the author decides to use another service that they find out that they had been sold a «Pig in a Poke» and that they didn't own anything of value (Other than the movie rights, of course).

I'm grateful to him, Geller, Morris, and the many others whose comments on their articles have played into this two - week exchange, corps - à - corps... even as the wider, battered industry apparently is too caught up in its daily hysteria to mount anything but a passata - sotto, a dropping out of sight, an evasion, on the knotty issue of publisher - author relations.

This isn't anything new — authors paying for positive reviews on the big sites like Amazon, Goodreads etc, despite policies on those sites that warn against paid reviews — but it's definitely interesting to read about someone making a career out of it.

Three reader favorites also return next month: Elizabeth Strout is back with Anything Is Possible, out in late April; A Man Called Ove author Fredrik Backman publishes Beartown late in the month; and Anita Shreve will share her tale of a woman in a small 1940s town, The Stars Are Fire, on April 18.

Writers guilds responded with our very own Toronto Declaration — pointing out that, if anything, the writer should be regarded as the «primary» author of a film, and that their declaration flies in the face of the whole notion of filmmaking being a collaborative medium.

Don't say anything about the ALA enabling the sexualization of our communities that is so bad that the author of CIPA has to speak out.

Do not rely on the publisher's word that the contract is «hybrid» or «fair» — and don't forget: a traditional publishing house will never expect the author to pay anything out of pocket (and none of the publishing costs, except for unreasonable changes demanded by the author after the proofs are approved).

A self - published book can mean almost anything... from what gets spilled out of the fingers and mind of the author to the presentation from the local printing shop and sometimes looking like it was put together at the kitchen table with a glue - stick; to a vanity press like a LuLu, AuthorHouse / Solutions (known as the publishing predators); or one of the pay the other pay to publish services that claim to offer different types of packages / templates for the author to select from; to Ingram Spark or Amazon's CreateSpace; to the author doing the publishing himself with his name or a «looks like a publishing company» name on it (always recommended).

Legitimate traditional publishers never make authors pay for anything out of pocket, either as part of the publishing contract or in a separate (but required) agreement.

disclosure about the real author, and book sales took off as much out of curiosity as anything else... the true test will come when JK publishes the sequel.

Traditional deals don't require the author to pay for anything, either out of pocket or by allowing the publisher to recoup expenses before calculating the author's royalty share.

It doesn't do anything to take out the middleman, which would have put more money into the hands of the publishers and authors.

Deanna Cabinian shares a detailed analysis of using Amazon ads to sell her books, Scott La Counte explains how to tweet like a best - selling author, The Passive Voice explores if there is anything better than BookBub out there, and Jane Friedman lists the 4 key elements that belong on an author website homepage.

They make up 25 % (according to the article), so if we are going to single anything out to interpret this data with the goal of helping authors find the truth, it shouldn't be the minority that we use to make points, but that dropped 75 %.

A self - published book can mean almost anything... from what gets spilled out of the fingers and mind of the author to the presentation from the local printing shop and sometimes looking like it was put together at the kitchen table with a glue - stick; to a vanity press like a LuLu, AuthorHouse; or an Outskirts Press that offers different types of packages / templates for the author to select from; to Amazon's CreateSpace; to the author doing the publishing himself with his name or a «looks like a publishing company» name on it.

A self - published book can mean almost anything... from what gets spilled out of the fingers and mind of the author to the presentation from the...

A self - published book can mean almost anything... from what gets spilled out of the fingers and mind of the author to the presentation from the local printing shop and sometimes looking like it was put together at the kitchen table with a glue - stick; to a vanity press like a LuLu, AuthorHouse / Solutions (known to many as publishing predators); or any of the pay to publish operations that claim to offer different types of packages / templates for the author to select from as well as claiming to do more personalization and hand - holding than a vanity press operation; to Amazon's CreateSpace and the Ingram Spark (higher quality); to the author doing the publishing himself with his name or a «looks like a publishing company» name on it (always recommended).

A self - published book can mean almost anything... from what gets spilled out of the fingers and mind of the author to the presentation from the local printing shop...

«I've seen what indie authors call Amazon Derangement Syndrome, which is when folks in the traditional system decry anything Amazon does as being some kind of Lovecraftian Evil — any change in the way they do business is just them building a throne out of the bones of innocent children.

It SAYS it doesn't believe in anything other than Author Reader to scare the crap out of everyone else and draw attention from the fact that it is building a platform to provide really good publishing services to authors and really good reading services to readers.

But out of fear of losing revenue to people who aren't going to ever buy anything, publishers have put themselves in the interesting and losing position of making authors» works almost completely inaccessible — like closing the ice cream store and shutting out thousands of potential paying customers, just because one kid stole a sugar cone.

Perhaps maybe... I du n no... I don't want to be out of line or anything... but perhaps the FUCKING AUTHORS GUILD CAN WRITE SOME FUCKING LETTERS TO THE FUCKING HEADS OF THE FUCKING BIG 5 AND FUCKING DEMAND HIGHER ROYALTIEof line or anything... but perhaps the FUCKING AUTHORS GUILD CAN WRITE SOME FUCKING LETTERS TO THE FUCKING HEADS OF THE FUCKING BIG 5 AND FUCKING DEMAND HIGHER ROYALTIEOF THE FUCKING BIG 5 AND FUCKING DEMAND HIGHER ROYALTIES.

Now that Nook are pulling out of the UK, for a UK author, is it worthwhile doing anything with Nook now?

Friday July 22, 7:30 pm: Find out what makes DEAD ISLAND's zombies tick as GamePro's science editor, Andrew Groen, joins Dead Island writer Haris Orkin, Harvard psychiatrist and author of The Zombie Autopsies, Dr. Steven C. Schlozman, author of The Zombie Survival Guide Max Brooks, and UC Berkeley's neuroscience expert Brad Voytek to explore the misunderstood monsters in a panel that will be anything but dead simple.

MACUF - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa, La Coruña Under the title «Almost Anything», the exhibition of the american artist Alex Katz at the Contemporary Art Museum Gas Natural Fenosa, MACUF, presents a selection of 22 paintings of landscapes, scenes and portraits, mostly of them large size, with the plain style of this author of flat compositions, silhouettes and «cutouts», as well as portraits on cut out wood he has been made since the sixties.

Judith — apart a couple of authors, I can not for the life of me see anything serious / positive / trustworthy coming out of AR5.

I would hope that you'd give the authors of the paper a chance to post here (as opposed to real science) and heavily moderate comments to those with the appropriate technical expertise plus strip out anything that could be perceived at personal jabs.

There isn't anything about social media, author tags, or any of the other speculative stuff out there — just core strategies.

Wayne Besen is the Founding Executive Director of Truth Wins Out, the Center Against Religious Extremism (TWOCARE.org) and author of «Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth» (Routledge, 2003) and «Bashing Back: Wayne Besen on People, Politics, and Culture.»

Don't make an issue out of anything that happened during your split, advises Michael Broder, Ph.D., author of «Can Your Relationship Be Saved?»