Sentences with phrase «author friend of»

An author friend of mine, Jack London — no, not the dead guy — Jack Woodville London came up with a unique idea: if you can show him that you have his books your Kindle, he'll autograph a cute little cotton bag silkscreened with his books on it.

A few months ago, I participated in an event on Facebook, organized by an author friend of mine.

This author friend of mine bought me a cover and 5 day ad to promote it for Christmas one year.

An author friend of mine soon landed in the middle of the conversation.

So I got the publisher to agree to have an author friend of mine to undertake the project.

I've been thinking about using KDP, an author friend of mine uses it.

I had an author friend of mine at a signing to tell me that he had a Sony ereader and it seemed sort of Star Trekkish to me.

I was talking with an author friend of mine and he suggested me to contact his agent.

As an anecdote on how responsive Mailerlite is, an author friend of mine sent a suggestion to Mailerlite that they add Bookbub follow buttons to their social media options.

I've been discussing this exact theme with another author friend of mine.

(Victoria, an author friend of mine objects to the idea of NY taking self - pubbed books because first publication rights are all important to them.

An author friend of mine used a phrase this week I hadn't heard before: he said I need to make sure «my also - boughts were clean.»

The other day, an author friend of mine sent me a message that said, «I've finished my manuscript and sent it to my editor.

When short paid better in KU, author friends of mine wrote shorter.

Rebecca herself created our original WFP logo with a graphics program, and then other author friends of mine, seeing the success of our original releases, came to us with titles of their own, and our publishing company unintentionally expanded.

I took the advice of a few successful author friends of mine and started up the Melissa Pearl Fan Club.

I'm familiar with the snobbery of traditionally published author friends of mine.

@Terri, I'm familiar with the snobbery of traditionally published author friends of mine.

I'm in the second day of my free promotion for my ebook Sportsman's Bet and I did pretty much everything you mentioned, plus I contacted several author friends of mine to ask for their help in promoting it.

Not exact matches

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My friend Scott Stratten is a fantastic keynote speaker and author of many books, including QR Codes Kill Kittens.

It was also a chance to meet some of my social - media friends in the flesh for the first time, including Entrepreneur Equation author Carol Roth, conversion expert Derek Halpern of Social Triggers, and the Franchise King, Joel Libava.

So when I finally pick him out of the swarm, I'm able to drop the name of a mutual friend: «Parag Khanna sends his regards,» I say, referring to the foreign - policy wonk and author.

Written by Peter Schweizer, a regular Fox News guest and author of controversial bestseller Clinton Cash, the book will reportedly «expose vast corruption by top Washington figures who leverage their political power to enrich their family members and friends, often by helping grease deals with foreign entities,» according to Axios.

It was there that author F. Scott Fitzgerald spent some time with his friend Rumsey, learning about «the lifestyle of the moneyed aristocracy of Old Westport, Long Island, and their involvement in the movement of eugenics,» according to a 2015 article in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review.

For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

The author David Betts, a principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP, concluded saying, «Improving the patient experience can help a hospital improve its financial performance by strengthening customer loyalty, building reputation and brand and boosting utilization of hospital services through increased referrals to family and friends.»

The course was taught at Dale Carnegie, the institute named for the influential speaker and author of «How to Win Friends and Influence People.»

One of the keynote speakers is Robert Thurman, the foremost American scholar, author and activist on Tibetan Buddhist studies in the U.S., and a close personal friend of the Dalai Lama's.

«The last lawyer working on it does now know what the first one worked out», the author, and friend of Ingvar Kamprad, Bertil Torekull wrote in his book «Historien om IKEA», first published in 1998.

Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert and the author of «Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant: How to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job,» says you don't have to be best friends with your manager, «but you can achieve optimal creativity and success if you feel that you're liked, supported, and respected by them.»

«This is because people, other than very close friends and relatives, don't seem to relate well to those who constantly share photos of themselves,» lead study author David Houghton, of Birmingham Business School, said in a release.

She is also the instructor of Find Me A Job: How To Score A Job Before Your Friends, author of Lies, Damned Lies & Internships (2011) and #ENTRYLEVELtweet: Taking Your Career from Classroom to Cubicle (2010), and writes career and recruiting advice for numerous outlets.

Lastly, our good friends at the Incrementum Fund, Ronald Stoeferle and Mark Valek, who our readers know as the authors the annual «In Gold We Trust» report, have released the inaugural issue of their new Crypto Research Report this December in cooperation with Demelza Kelso Hays and several other contributors.

This time with my friend David Meerman Scott, best - selling author of numerous books including The New Rules of Marketing & PR, Real - Time Marketing & PR and a new book called Newsjacking (Wiley) created specifically for the Amazon Kindle.

The Bitcoin name was tainted in my mind then, but my good friend Steve Patterson, the author of What's the Big Deal About Bitcoin?

FreedomFest was founded in 2002 by my friend Mark Skousen, then - president of the Foundation for Economic Education and author of several books, including one of my favorites, The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes.

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Networking Breakfast in Hotel Courtyard 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Tom Russo, Patner, Gardner, Russo & Gardner [USA] Topic: «Be Right Once» 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Justin Fuller, CFA, Stock Analyst, Morningstar [USA] Topic: «Morningstar's Ultimate Stock Picker's Portfolio» 10:15 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Megh Manseta, Investor, Manseta Family Office [India] Topic: «Buffett Munger Principles in Emerging Markets: An Indian Perspective» 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Charles Mizrahi, Managing Partner, CGM Partners Fund LP, Author, Getting Started in Value Investing & Editor, Hidden Value Alert [USA] Topic: «How To Lose $ 1 Million By Investing In Stocks» 12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Networking Lunch - Executive Deli Sandwiches in Hotel Courtyard (sponsored by Morningstar) 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Piet Viljoen, Portfolio Manager, RE-CM [South Africa] Topic: «Compounding: Your Only Friend in the Investing World» 2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Sees Chocolate Break 2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Todd Green, Portfolio Manager, First Manhattan [USA] Topic: «Reflections on 25 Years of Investing» 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Al Ueltschi, Founder & Chairman, FlightSafety, Warren Buffett CEO Topic: «Building a Business Warren Buffett Would Buy: The Story of FlightSafety» [watch video interview] 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Optional Tour: Shuttle bus from Ayres Hotel LAX to FlightSafety Training Center ($ 45 shuttle and BBQ buffet dinner fee per person) 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Buffet Dinner and Tour of FlightSafety 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Shuttle bus from FlightSafety to Ayres Hotel LAX

Tentatively titled «Option B,» a reference to a piece of advice she was given by a close friend after the untimely death of her husband David Goldberg, it has been co-written with well - known Wharton professor and author Adam Grant.

Ben Carlson of A Wealth of Common Sense blog (and author of a great book by the same name), had a recent post Playing the Probabilities outlining that time has been an investor's best friend (for those investors that have had in some cases quite a bit of time), pointing to the following table.

My friend, author and preeminent American Orthodox apologist Frederica Matthewes - Green, considers the remembrance of death as one of the most helpful disciplines in living a healthy Christian life.

The author of the article defines family broadly as including «the families we make through the people we choose as friends.»

The author says they are his friends, which is commendable, but friendship does not explain promoting a book that can only exacerbate the problems of Christians trying to attain moral clarity about human sexuality.

The author is a friend and colleague of long standing, and his book discusses many other friends and colleagues.

The author tells us enthusiastically about a journey made with a friend, Gloria Thurn und Taxis, around the places in Bavaria associated with Pope Benedict XVI: his birthplace, the scenes of his boyhood in Tittmoning and Altoetting, and the cities of Munich and Regensburg.

The illustrations show no scenes from the Pope's childhood, but simply views of the churches and towns visited, and the only pictures of the Holy Father are those with — yes, here they are again — our author and her friend well to the fore.

It is courteous and explanatory, rather as if the author is talking to a good friend whom she has known for years and is aware carries certain anti-Catholic prejudices and considerable ignorance but also goodwill and genuineinterest in the subject of the Church.

Author Shauna Niequist once wrote, «We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story.»

In an interview with The Telegraph, the American author referred to a friend of his who had «drunkenly» looked for images of 16 - year - old girls and was later jailed.

Today [Aug. 26], author - pastor Paul Tripp, a friend and counselor to Tchividjian, said in a statement that for six months much effort was made in «hope of healing the marriage,» but he said it was too «deeply broken.»