As editor of the Jargon File and
author of a few other well - known documents of similar nature, I often get email requests from enthusiastic network newbies A Times Investigation «You want a description of hell?»
Not exact matches
Small - business owners «are having to do a lot more digging to find the opportunities, and since the opportunities are
fewer, they have more competition with
other small businesses,» says Julie Weeks, an American Express research advisor and
author of the report.
Although there are
other solutions already on the market that also claims to allow users to create smart contracts without any coding, Superset is one
of the
few that can do so with «plain English» as far as the
author is aware.
Also, within a
few weeks
of subscribing, I will send you three
other eBooks by three
other authors for free as well.
Very
few other authors, with the exception perhaps
of Schmalhausen and a
few of his students, have done anything more than pay the merest lip - service to the idea that selection operates on phenotypes.
It's arranged roughly in chronological order, covers a time span
of 1000's
of years, comprised
of writings from dozens
of different
authors (
few of whom actually knew each
other) yet whose writings all contained a common thread.
The
authors of this series have probed a number
of them, to our great benefit; let me suggest a
few others.
I wish that these unnamed
authors would have checked with me and a
few others that were quoted out
of context to see if our views were properly presented.
The
authors quote a
few writings
of mine as proof that I have ripped the cross out
of the gospel, and all I can say is that they should have read the entire article from which they quote, and some
of my
other writings as well.
You said, «I wish that these unnamed
authors would have checked with me and a
few others that were quoted out
of context to see if our views were properly presented.»
[Update: see the comment at the end
of the article for more on this subject — and an important correction...] The
author of the French blog Netpolitique left a trackback / comment the
other day on my article from a
few weeks ago on saturation coverage
of the U.S. presidential candidates...
«During the past
few years our group,» says David Jones, an astrophysicist at the IAC and another
of the
authors on the paper, «has discovered that the planetary nebulae with the biggest discrepancies in their abundances are usually associated with binary central stars which have been through a phase with a common envelope, that is to say the process
of expansion
of the more massive
of the two stars has meant that the
other star is orbiting within its outer atmosphere, and the viscosity has brought the stars very close to one another.
And in a
few couples in which one was schizophrenic and the
other bipolar, 27 %
of the children were diagnosed with one or the
other disease, the
authors report in the March issue
of the Archives
of General Psychiatry.
In contrast to previous studies
of access to care in Massachusetts that have relied on patient surveys, which the
authors say may be subject to potential biases due to patient recall or
other factors, the new study is one
of the
few to rely on objectively measured outcomes and was based on nearly every hospital admission occurring in Massachusetts and the comparison states for nearly two years before and two years after the reform was implemented.
«It is becoming increasingly clear that the average person's fiber intake in a Western country has drastically reduced over the past
few decades,» says Fredrik Bäckhed, who studies the role
of the normal gut microbiota in metabolic diseases at the University
of Gothenburg, Sweden and is a co-senior
author of the
other paper.
«We found that adding in a specific antibiotic to the medical treatment also resulted in
fewer recurring infections,
fewer infections in
other places on the body and
fewer people passing on the infection to
other members
of the household,» said Dr. David Talan, the study's lead
author and a professor in the department
of emergency medicine and department
of medicine, division
of infectious diseases, at the David Geffen School
of Medicine at UCLA and Olive View - UCLA Medical Center.
«There have been
few studies on fruiting cherry trees with respect to novel irrigation strategies such as partial and deficit irrigation, which have been intensively researched worldwide for several
other tree fruits,» said Gerry Neilsen, lead
author of the study.
To determine that the fossilized flowers from Argentina belonged to the Rhamnaceae family, the
authors noticed that the organization
of the petals and stamens in the fossil is found in Rhamnaceae and a
few other families.
By building a deep understanding
of the chemistry
of single - layer graphene and a
few layer graphene, I am confident that many new applications
of chemically functionalized graphenes could be possible, in electronics, photonics, optoelectronics, sensors, composites, and
other areas,» notes Rodney Ruoff, corresponding
author of this paper, CMCM director, and UNIST Distinguished Professor at the Ulsan National Institute
of Science and Technology (UNIST).
«These results indicate the NTRK fusion genes might be very potent drivers
of cancer development that have the ability to generate tumors with
few other mutations,» said co-corresponding
author Suzanne Baker, Ph.D., a member
of the St. Jude Department
of Developmental Neurobiology.
The
few authors who have such expertise are known to have extreme views that are out
of step with nearly every
other climate expert.
According to Katie Singer,
author of Honoring Our Cycles, «
other clinical researchers have also found that sleeping in the absence
of light (introducing it for a
few days each cycle, or sleeping only in the absence
of light) can help women in a variety
of situations to strengthen their cycles».
Jonathan Bailor,
author of The Calorie Myth, is fond
of saying that if you make no
other changes in your diet, you will see positive results just from adding a
few extra servings
of green leafy vegetables a day.
The quality
of information reflects the
author's credentials, which are none,
other than briefly visiting a
few doctors for symptoms
of hormonal imbalance.
There are a
few things that I consider crucial to a blog; some being white space, clear contact information, a picture
of the
author and a button that
others can easily grab.
Because the
other standardized tests are «low - stakes tests,» without any reward or punishment attached to student or school performance, the
authors reason that there are
few incentives to manipulate the results or cheat, making the low - stakes test results a reliable measure
of student performance (although it is also possible that schools and students won't prepare enough for a low - stakes test to demonstrate their true abilities).
Other renowned
authors have drawn together powerful analyses
of these issues, with key examples being David Korten (The Great Turning), David Selby (Education and Climate Change), Basarab Nicolescu (From Modernity to Cosmodernity), Duane Elgin (Deep Big History essay), Peter Senge (The Fifth Discipline), and Margaret Wheatley (Leadership and the New Science, to name a
few.
I can point to moments
of good fortune in the life
of the book, but then, so can
other authors whose books sold either far more or far
fewer copies than mine did.
From the very
few pictures I've seen that ONE person was not getting what they paid for, there were really clearly massive displays from
other authors crowding their space, and they had nothing but a tiny stack
of books.
I must admit I have not heard
of quite a
few of these
authors and was surprised by the omission
of other writers.
While the price is a
few dollars less, the small press section is usually just to the south
of Outer Mongolia so nobody ever makes it there,
other than
other authors.
Promotional pricing (sales), even going free briefly, has less influence on total earnings than I'd have expected, though a
few authors have reported that putting one book free has increased sales
of their
other books, especially if it's a series.
As a reader, I find I connect with more readers and
authors on Twitter than on any
other platform (and I've tried quite a
few of them).
Well, I don't believe that is happening, and I believe if either or both
of these ventures ultimately fail because
of a
few really loud voices who don't intend to use it anyway, and
others «allowing» them to determine for them what is right for them, then I don't want to hear another indie
author complain about how «hard it is.»
There are a lot
of other independent
authors who've hit that mark (with many selling more than 200,000 already), some with
fewer total books out, but I feel like this is an encouraging start to my writing career.
After working with fellow indie
authors in NIWA for a
few years now, I've decided that it's stupid that I don't have print copies
of my books available on Amazon (and by extension, a couple
other places that carry books published via CreateSpace / KDP).
Consider getting together with a
few other authors in your genre to create lists
of recommendations that include all
of your group's books and
others that you enjoy or that have inspired you.
I do a lot
of signings and conventions with
other self published
authors, David Corwell, Jonathan Miller and Kirt Hickman to name a
few, these gentlemen are very perofessional and respectful to everyone.
We covered a
few essential
author sales tools — website, blog, social media, and email — but there are tons
of other ways publishers can empower their
authors to boost book sales, such as:
On the
other end
of her complaint, until a
few years ago, e-published
authors weren't treated as real
authors within RWA.
Well, that money will have to come from something
other than marginal cost
of production... probably either
author advance, or by publishing
fewer books by more marginal
authors (those who sell less than 20,000 copies).
Once we know that, there might be
other solutions available that eliminate the need for the advance criteria while meeting the objective
of a viable career option for the many (the
author group) as opposed to the
few (individual
authors).
As an indie
author of nine titles, a mix
of fiction and nonfiction, and as one who has shepherded more than thirty
other books to publication, I've been around the block a
few times.
For $ 8 to $ 15, you can get a month or two
of tweets, an
author page, and a
few other things.
A couple weeks ago Matt Stone
of Archangel Ink asked me to be part
of a 99cent book promotion, with a
few other authors I respect like Tom Knowles (The Kindle Publishing Bible; we did some sightseeing in Vancouver BC last month) and S.J. Scott (Habit Stacking; we had dinner with a group
authors in Cleveland last night).
Smashwords, who sells
author content as well as distributes that content to major retailers
of authors» choice, gives
authors the option to sell their ebooks through Smashwords at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Apple, Flipkart, and a
few other retailers, as well as to distribute their work for lending to OverDrive, Oyster, and Scribd.
Smashwords also has a list
of outside professional people offering publishing services like cover design, formatting, and
other assistance, and quite a
few authors who don't have the services
of outside proof - reading families use the Smashwords list.
I've had the pleasure
of working with Dave for the past
few months as his assistant and proofreader, and now I've asked him for an interview to share his experiences with German translations with
other authors who may be interested in translating their work.
That doesn't mean the
author's or publisher's books will sit on the shelf
of most (or even a
few) bricks - and - mortar bookstores in the country — just that the book can look and appear like any
other when viewed in an industry database.
With over 4500 new books entering the marketplace every day, it is a challenge for any
author to find readers — and to find readers who will write a
few sentences
of honest review and post it on Amazon and Goodreads and
other sites.