Sentences with phrase «author friends take»

I have to tell you that I have many posts that I will have author friends take a look at and tell me to rethink it.

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But it fails from the start because the author, while claiming he has gay friends and would never take them to an evangelical church, still believes that those friends of his are sinners for no other reason than they are gay.

CNN: My Take: 7 life lessons from a Holocaust survivor Caroline Stoessinger, a concert pianist and author, recounts the lessons she learned from her friend Alice Herz - Sommers, who is the world's oldest survivor of the Holocaust.

Jani Ortland, author and speaker, shared on a Revive Our Hearts broadcast that when her kids were little, she and a friend would take turns watching the kids for 2 hours.

I was invited to take part by my friend Lori Holden, author of The Open - Hearted Way to Open Adoption.

The author of the book, Carolyn Maull McKinstry, is a survivor of the Civil Rights struggle and an eyewitness to the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing that took the lives of four of her young friends in 1963.

My friend took the publisher to task for the lousy copyediting; the authors deserve better, he figured, for the $ 1000 or so per article they paid for publication, and copyediting was supposed to be covered by the publication charge.

Take the comedian who's unspeakably annoyed when friends text and ask him questions they could answer themselves and the author who can't stand it when people are on their phones when he's with them.

«If you take a random group of people and you ask them to nominate their friends, their friends will be more central in the network than they are,» says one of the study's authors, Nicholas Christakis, MD, a professor of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School, in Boston.

The guests start arriving, as Sophie's bubbly friends (Ashley Lilley & Rachel McDowall) arrive first and after she swears them to secrecy, she tells them her devious plan; soon afterwards Donna's long - time friends when she was a hedonist arrive: Tanya (Christine Baranski), a much divorced lady who takes pleasure flirting with young men, and the game Rosie (Julie Walters), the best - selling author of a cookbook.

From the internationally best - selling, Pulitzer Prize — winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories — longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written — that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.

There are many great and experienced editors in traditional publishing who can help a book become better for the author, but at this point, with traditional publishing in the state it's in, I'll take my chances on a couple of friends reading the book.

Taking place in Nashville, the setting of the new novel, Emily Giffin's Garden Party is the perfect opportunity to spend time with your favorite author and your favorite friends.

# 1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Barbara Freethy, takes us back to the beach in an emotional love story between two best friends who have been separated for a very long time.

No offense to any of your author friends, but don't just take their word for it.

I have other friends who take the hybrid route, publishing with both traditional publishers and as indie authors.

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

It only takes a moment and when you've signed, could you pass it to your author friends, facebook groups, or anyone who might support?

(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.

Indie authors can compete with this, but it takes a bit more than the art direction of your friend Sam's kid who is pretty good in art (or, to get on a very brief tangent, your high - school English teacher and niece Jackie as the sole editor).

But taking that same situation and applying it to the state of so - called bullying, it amounts to more like this: the friends are affected by an author's behavior, so one of them buys national ad space to tell readers across the country that the author deserves to be raped in jail (as one of the infamous Goodreads shelves was labelled).

- Tova Mirvis, author of The Ladies Auxiliary and The Outside World «In this gem of a book Anouk Markovits takes a reader to an exotic world, portrayed with such warmth and precision that the journey feels perfectly real and the characters become your intimate friends.»

Or they're so awed that an author would actually thank them or even take time to say hi, that they leave the bookstore wanting to tell all their friends and buy all the author's books.

Very divergent upbringing and lives but the author somehow made them tolerate each other (with Aunt Midge referring) and actually become fast friends and learn to take care of each other.

What follows is a list taken from my wall — to see it in full (with replies), click here (you need to friend me first at Author Rachel Thompson): feel free to pick and choose what you feel is worth trying.

Recent conversations with author friends have reminded me of why it's so important for us to take time away from our own book writing and marketing to cheer on other authors we know or like.

I was also lucky to have had a few author friends who backed me up saying while I need to agree with those writing loopholes, I needed to find my own ways to fill the gaps rather than take someone else's directions.

Having toyed with the idea of taking my dabblings to the next level — publishing — and having many published author friends whom I felt might enjoy it, I thought I'd give this a listen.

That, my friends, is the story of why I have taken a step back from trying to tell authors they need to get organized and start marketing.

It took me talking with one of these authors to really understand her roadblock: she's terrified of failing, of looking the fool to family and friends.

He outlined a number of actions the authors can take in order to tell their friends, family and anyone who will listen that Amazon is totally evil.

There's only one problem: Mouse's friend, Frog, wants to take part, too, and the two budding authors don't always see eye - to - eye.

Being a Mac user, for me that is not a problem at all, but I have many author friends who do not take kindly to it — and I can certainly sympathize.

A series of trips (to conventions and visits with my daughter and grandsons), the constant work it seems to take to keep my body moving at my age, a demanding schedule of lunches and tea dates with friends, a number of other authors» manuscripts I had the honor to beta read, and the unexpected discovery that my short sequel had turned into two full - length books, meant that here I am, not six months, but a year later, finally, starting to work on my next historical mystery.

Author Efrat Haddi is taking young children on a journey with Lisa and her friends while they learn a very important lesson.

While the playlists sometimes revolve around actual scenes in the book, such as a crucial plot point taking place in a dark, loud night club or two characters meeting at the wedding of a mutual friend, many authors are even incorporating their favorite «writing music» into a downloadable playlist for their fans.

I haven't seen friendships strained for asking, especially since successful authors know very well what it takes to get a book published and it sounds like this friend admires her work to begin with.

The whole thing seems to be a rip off as far as the author is concerned — but here I hear myself asking what is the difference if I lend a hard copy book to a friend or take one out from the library?

It does not take too many setbacks from «friends» for an author to quickly become afraid of their own craft.

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Currently, when I get a strong recommendation from a friend it's a few days before I get around to a bookstore and take a look at it (of course, with the exception of getting lent a copy which actually is zero profit to author or publisher).

I have several writing friends from each route listed, and as an Indie author who took her time getting there (three years, to be exact), I can now say I am very pleased with what's come of it.

How hundreds of authors are hitting NY Times and USA Today bestseller lists thanks to their fans and friends, to the straight up hustle it takes to earn such a title.

Now, if you enjoyed this free article (and the free book), please take a moment to share this page with 3 of your author friends.

Many, many writer friends — especially indie authors — have mentioned the need to refill the creative well, take a break, or even just «be in a funk» for a while.

With that in mind, let's take a look at the major categories of author challenges and examine where some of our self - published friends might be falling a wee bit short.

I love promoting my fellow Indelible authors because I know their work is great, they're forward - thinking Indie authors taking this new paradigm by storm, and they're my friends.

And I simply walk away when traditionally - published authors drop the names of their publicists who don't take on self - published projects or chat about opportunities they're collaborating on exclusively with their traditionally - published friends.

One other friend of mine left he was in the real estate space wrote a book with with a major publishing house and then a few years later stopped he left real estate and went into a really strong personal development business and the publisher went up well you're not promoting this book anymore and they took his book word - for - word and put somebody else's name on the cover of it and just put a new introduction on it no credit to anybody he had worked because he had two co-authors help him with it because he's dyslexic so they essentially were the ones that wrote it and he provided a lot of the content and the publisher gave those other authors no credit took his name off and put somebody else's name on the front and then the publisher was 100 % within their rights to do it so you know there's a lot of things that I challenge people to kind of think about what's important and if you're putting all your expertise into this book you want to make sure that somebody's negotiated a heck out of it giving you a contract that actually makes sense for you and your business.