Sentences with phrase «author advances now»

Not exact matches

The author of evolution did set the conditions for which his THEORY would not work — conditions that have now been met, with the advances in cell study.

Having invented VASSS, the scoring system that takes the love out of tennis, the author now turns to greener pastures by advancing outrageous proposals that take the hate out of golf

«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.

«Until now scientists have preferred to use a reliable method, Sample Entropy (sampEn), which, however, suffers several limitations,» explains Moses Sokunbi, research scientist at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste and first author of the study.

In their Science Advances paper, Greene, lead author Hari Singhal, now a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard University, and colleagues took a step further.

Lead study author Dr Keith Flaherty, director of developmental therapeutics at the MGH Cancer Centre, commented: «Until now, available therapies [for advanced melanoma] were few and unreliable.

Nevertheless, there is still a story to be told, and the essential part of it is that the program that education reformers have tried to promote now for decades — introduce more choices of schools for students, enable competition among schools, open up paths for preparing teachers and administrators outside schools of education, improve measures of student achievement and teacher competence, enable administrators to act on the basis of such measures, and limit the power of teachers unions — has been advanced under the Obama administration, in the judgment of authors Maranto and McShane.

The indie writers who are now wanting to go with a traditional publisher because — duh — they will get this huge advance and will be sent on tours to sign their books and will soon be playing poker with other best selling authors ala Castle.

In terms of what authors can expect, yes, our advance expectations right now are lower.

Now, let's go back to the scenario where a first time author receives a six - figure book advance, but this time the book doesn't come close to earning back the advance.

Now, I'm no expert in contracts, but when I see a written agreement that includes no advance payment to the author, a 50/50 split of royalties AFTER a muddled clause about subtracting fees for costs that may or may not include promotion, marketing, set - up fees, and even printing fees, with lifetime ownership of the copyright, I think SCAM.

With WestBow Press, you now have the opportunity to begin or advance your career as an author, share your story and start shaping your future today.

Yet during the past 15 years, though advances in print - on - demand book technology and now, a growing interest in digital books, there are a wide - array of services that enable would - be authors the opportunity to place books into the marketplace without having to pay «vanity publishers» to print up hundreds of books.

It wouldn't happen for WOOL, but it would get everyone involved used to the fact that large advances couldn't wash away sour terms now that self - published authors could pay the bills on their own.

However, such advances are now usually reserved for best - selling authors.

Now, with advances shrinking faster than a cotton t - shirt in hot water and indie authors starting to make money, these same authors who had been so comfortable on the legacy publishing bandwagon are getting scared.

I think the concept of «advances» is going to go away for 99 % of authors now.

Some small publishers offer no advances and some large publishers offer no advances, and now crowd - funding publishers offer authors the chance to become fund - raisers with the added attraction of no advances.

Now with e-books, publishers STILL need to make back advances paid to authors, they still need to pay the royalties - but the «old» way of doing things (Initial printing of hardcovers covering the costs of acquisition or the ART / content) may be gone.

But advances for new and mid-list writers are now ridiculously low (ridiculous form the authors» standpoint, not from the publishers» standpoint, for they have to use bottom line practices as the bottom is dropping out of the traditional market).

Booker prizewinner Roddy Doyle is our most famous example of an author who once self - published their work and with technological advances, the way is now open for more authors to choose this alternative path to publication.

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After all, since your contention is now that royalties aren't as important because most books don't earn out, then I wonder how often it is that authors are told this advance money is really the only payment they're ever likely to get.

Many contributors, like Spirits of Oz authors Aimee L. Gross and L. J. Williams, are now advancing their own self - publishing plans.

Reiss cited short bookstore shelf life, long publication lead times, lack of publishing house publicity, decreased monetary advances, and loss of author control, as some of the reasons that many traditionally published authors are now turning to self - publishing.

About the author: A Certified Advanced Resume Writer, Advanced LinkedIn Consultant and a Professional Employment Interview Coach, Victoria McLean is a former Head Hunter and on - site Recruiter and Recruitment Manager for two of the world's largest investment banks, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch and now CEO of City CV.