Sentences with phrase «author photo looks»

I try to paraphrase the title and describe what the author photo looks like on the inside cover and I become that bookstore customer I HATED when I was a bookstore clerk that came in spouting lines like «I'm looking for a book... the cover is kind of blue...» Vague sentenced title, I HATE YOU FOR MAKING ME THAT BOOKSTORE CUSTOMER.

(For example, the dyspeptic woman in the Setnick author photo looks like a serial killer but claims to spend her spare time teaching children to skip.)

Not exact matches

The study authors created an algorithm which «looked at roughly 44,000 Instagram photos posted by 166 study participants — 71 of whom were diagnosed with depression in the past.

The Power of Pulses: Saving the World with Peas, Beans, Chickpeas, Favas & Lentils, by seedsman Dan Jason and cookbook authors Hilary Malone and Alison Malone Eathorne (Douglas & McIntyre, 2016) has good - looking photos of the legumes as they grow and colourful shots of the dried versions too.

The authors also looked at whether smile intensity in the pre-fight photos predicted dominance and outcomes in other future fights.

However, the authors note that looking at more product photos is not always a bad thing.

But although GANs can produce images that are «realistic - looking at a glance,» they still have a long way to go before achieving true photo - realism, says Alec Radford, a researcher now at AI research company OpenAI and lead author of a study (presented at the international AI conference in 2016) that Facebook's work is based on.

and I hate the cheesy photos of the author looking like she is posing for Playboy.

Don't judge a person by their photo «Men like it when a woman is looking into the camera, as a man wants to believe that a woman is focused on them exclusively,» says Slater, the author.

Online daters have become «emotionally disassociated,» as the authors of «Tinderization of Feeling» argue, simply because it's so emotionally draining to look at so many photos, have so many options — because what happens if you make the wrong choice?

Use pictures to make people feel how you want them to; or to make yourself look awesome with big, full, professional author photos.

Make sure you get all the elements on; analyze the cover of that book you were looking at earlier for things like printed price, bar code and ISBN, author's name and photo, description, title, all that stuff.

Readers love to see what you look like, so put in your very best author photo, and a short bio, complete with all your social media links, your website address, and a direct link to your email list in case they loved your book so much they want to be kept updated on further releases.

Glassdoor gives you an inside look at what it's like to work at Author Solutions, including salaries, reviews, office photos, and more.

One disadvantage of using stock photos is that your book might look like another author's book that used the same photos.

A professional - looking author photo can instantly boost your credibility.

Along with books, awards, and literary accomplishments, publishers look for author bios that give readers a glimpse of the person behind the writer: candid photos, letters to the reader, an inside look at the origin of your latest story, or even a personal story that connects with the themes of your book.

And you look beautiful in your author photo!

So much so, no one knew what he looked like (unless you bought a particular edition of one book) cause he refused to do signings and other such publicity, nor did he include an author photo in his work.

Chrys is right that an author photo should look good and represent you and your genre.

Assuming you're looking for a book you'd like to read and not for an author you'd like to date, does the author photo matter?

It's ironic how many fine independent writers are fully onboard with professional - class editing, design, and production, and yet when it comes to their author photos, you're likely to be looking at a gallery of amateurism.

Your photo is a recognizable part of your author brand, so make sure that it is fairly recent, or at least really does still look like you.

Whether you are looking for an author photo, biography or billing data — we store the profiles of your authors in a central and safe place, accessible at any time for your book projects.

About the Author - Your bio (about 300 - 500 words) should go here, along with a professional headshot (or a high - res photo that you think you look great in).

While you can get some benefit by just setting up a profile here (more traffic to your website, possibly more book sales), you'll get a lot more benefit if you become active here by blogging, sharing videos, sharing photos, joining a forum or two, asking questions, and looking for other authors to do joint promotions with.

Self - published authors will often buy the same stock photo and end up with covers that look almost exactly the same.

A before and after photo of Stephan Pastis, author of «Timmy Failure: Now Look What You've Done», signing more than 5,000 copies of his book as part of Barnes & Noble's Black Friday signed editions offering.

To have a decent author photo, you don't need to look like a model or a movie star, but spending the time to get a decent picture will make a difference.

Add your professional - looking author photo and add a video.

(all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) If Armando Mariño's earlier art looked at the outside world with a critical postcolonial eye, his recent paintings probe visceral states of being tinted by melancholy and framed by a directness that feels intimate.

«The first part of the book features a foreword by Norman Foster and looks at the significance of these buildings with a short chapter on each, complete with texts by John Grindrod (author of «Concretopia») and photos by Peter Chadwick (author of «This Brutal World»).

(To paraphrase, one of my favorite authors Walker Percy says, «Why is it that the first person we look for in a group photo is ourselves?

The cover photo of author Frank McKinney is like an ad for a Las Vegas magician, with a guy who looks like Fabio holding onto a house in a bubble.