Sentences with phrase «author friends out»

Being involved in that contest was a great experience for me, and I got a nice review plus some badass author friends out of it.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

It would have been easy to dismiss her challenge, but now that I'm a published author, now that Bodies on the Potomac is out there in the public domain being read by friends and family and strangers alike, I realize that listening to a respected friend's advice might be the catalyst others can use to break through.

«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.

The ethical mandate underlying my friend's imagery is a familiar one: the earth «belongs as much to those who are to come after us as to us,» British author John Ruskin pointed out.

Of course the author does nt wonder if maybe the church is doing things to drive people away, which it is.You my friend are a cop out and lazy.

The idea for these Mocha Almond Energy Bites started when my good friend, Brian, the author ofClimbing Nutrition, reached out.

«It's nice to be able to reach out to someone else who has experienced nursing problems or who is as sleep - deprived as you are,» says Irene S. Levine, PhD, author of Best Friends Forever.

But as social psychologist and «The Case for the Only Child: Your Essential Guide» author Susan Newman points out in an email exchange with me, «Divorce is not a topic children in general want to talk about even with siblings (although this is age dependent) or friends.

«We just don't put ourselves out there as much as extraverts; and even when we do, we aren't as quick to make friends of strangers,» writes author Sophia Dumbing in her book Introverts in Love.

Author: Nancy Chen If you're Paleo or have ever been Paleo, then you've probably experienced the struggle of eating out with friends.

Dave Asprey: Mind Share for people listening, this is my dear friend JJ Virgin's group of highly influential health authors and celebrity types where we get together once or twice a year usually about 100 or so, 150 people, and talk about how we can better serve listeners, people like you, in just in getting information that's impactful that's out there that maybe is missing because all of us are sort of just tired of or even disgusted by some of the things that big industry is telling people to do.

For more information on neurofeedback, links to research, and a database of practitioners, I'd recommend you check out the website of my friend Nora Gedgaudas, who is a nutrition and brain expert, author, and neurofeedback practitioner.

I picked up a Mason Jar Cocktail Shaker while in the store (it's sadly sold out online) for my friends that always mix drinks from the «Shake: A New Perspective on Cocktails» since the book authors also created the shaker.

Braverman, an idealistic minor author, dies; his four best friends, writers who in one way or another have all sold out, decide to attend his funeral.

Her mother having recently committed suicide, Lucy has been sent to stay at the villa of a family friend's, ostensibly so that he (Donal McCann), the artist, can do her portrait, though she brings with her a private agenda that includes finding out who her real father is, sussing out the author of an old secret - admirer note, and getting her cherry popped.

(There's a cute running joke about Eve's close friend, who turns out to be Christopher Marlowe, being the actual author of the works of William Shakespeare.)

These Book Projects with Grading Rubrics include: - Introduction - student reading record - new book jacket - pyramid diorama - act it out - letter to the author - dress - up character - salesperson - book critic - letter to friend - radio or television broadcast - comic strip - sing a song - character puppet - mobile - new words - Venn diagram - poster board - map with key places - make a web - create a new page - story sequence - advertise - story flip book - character map - book award - new ending - story chart - story map - postcard - story flag - letter to the author questions - character feeling - real or make - believe - character Venn diagram - fact finder - cause and effect - fact and opinions - event timeline - story quilt - book news - grading rubric These are GREAT for reading workshops.

Famous authors Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, or expatriate Americans living in France in the 1920s and 1930s such as Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Oscar Wilde... they all hung out with fellow author friends and gained inspiration (and companionship) from each other.

Recently I was introduced by my author friend Orna Ross, founder and director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, to a new way of squeezing more words out of each day: using voice recognition software.

It's really important to me to make friends with other authors, because one of the hard lessons that I think the majors haven't figured out is that there's no actual competition among indies.

I'm not the only one releasing a book today; check out the latest offering from my friend, indie author / Brain to Books founder Angela B. Chrysler.

And mostly we're gearing up to November, when we'll rent a castle, split it with some author friends and write the f# ck out of Nanowrimo (see that?

Find out who other writer friends are using, or get involved in self - publishing forums or groups — such as KBoards, or the Alliance of Independent Authors.

(For example if you post a negative review on an indie book prepare to have the authors family and friends bash the hell out of you.)

Particularly when any written work is swamped by tens of thousands of books that in another time would only ever be bought by friends and family — purely out of charity for the writer and the knowledge that once all those short - run books are no longer clogging up the author's parent's garage, the parents might actually be able to park their car undercover again.

Billed as «A Conversation» between Patchett and her friend and fellow writer Edith Pearlman (whose short story collection is a finalist in this year's National Book Awards), watching two authors chat before a considerable crowd in the War Memorial Auditorium was a glimpse into the writer's world that stood out from the crowd of readings and panel discussions.

I suppose that's true, but readers have been finding new favorite authors by borrowing books from friends (free) or checking them out from libraries (also free) for ages.

My good friend & fellow author Rob Howard, used those strategies to rewriting a client's book description based on some things pointed out in the training and they ended up seeing a 32 % increase in sales yesterday!!!

Amazon is clearly trying to keep its reviews objective by weeding out reviews from friends and family who may be more interested in supporting the author than in being honest about the quality of the book.

From # 1 NYT Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes KISS ME FOREVER, the first book in Bachelors & Bridesmaids, a fun, romantic series about a group of female friends who start out as bridesmaids and end up as brides!

Oh I talked about this with friends, and they pointed out that the author making discussion questions might sound pompous and egoistic (I didn't think of that.)

At first, we took all kinds of books from author friends, some out - of - print romances, some unusual nonfiction titles.

I am friends with several authors who came out of trads because of rigidity and low returns.

Even those authors and publishers who don't have legions of fans, followers, or online friends usually have relatives and former classmates who are willing to brag that someone they know and love has a new book out — and word can spread pretty quickly through cyberspace.

For more in my «Social Media Secrets» here are links to Part 1: How to Avoid Twitter - Fritter and Facebook Fail, Part 2: How to Blog Your Way Out of the Slush Pile, and Part 3: What Should an Author Blog About?Here's the «secret» about social media that marketers don't tell you: it should be used for making friends, not direct sales.

But every time I see a situation break out between two people, author and reviewer, it; s the reviewer's friends who join in and gang up on the author when it's none of their effing business to begin with.

In the not so distant past, when an author wrote a book and had it printed out, their friends and family were the first ones to show their support and buy it.

They can tell their friends, and their friends» friends, to check out your author website or to start following you on Twitter.

If you're setting out to establish an author brand, then images may be your best friend — both on your website and on your social media platform.

«What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.

This week I want all authors to go back to their roots, dig into their past and reach out to their local community, college alumni office, or an old colleague or long - lost friend from their hometown and reconnect.

Although I have a friend who makes 50K / month, and another who just passed 80K, these are authors in the top 100 of their categories, out of literally millions of books.

You don't want to pressure them to buy a copy, but some will buy it out of a sense of class pride («the author's an old friend of mine» kind of feeling).

Other authors seek out family and friends, where the personal relationship can inhibit or compromise an honest response.

But even if you have one book out, it can't hurt to have a reciprocal relationship with a few other author friends to share posts and tweets.

My new friend and fantastic author Wren Emerson gives out tons of advice to new authors on her blog.

Ask friends / fellow authors to tweet it out as well.

PEN / Faulkner Award finalist Lorraine López, author of the critically acclaimed The Gifted Gabaldón Sisters, has a talent for crafting characters so fleshed out that they could be your sister, your neighbor, your best friend.