Sentences with phrase «author public readings»

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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.

Easily the best «Jesus book» of our time, this has to be read with the consciousness that its author was writing for the general public rather than specifically for theologians or theological students.

Most of the work suggests a date early in the second century, but the author of the Muratorian fragment, in forbidding public reading of the book, states that Hermas wrote it while his brother Pius (mid-second century) was bishop of Rome.

Click the buttons below to read an important publication authored by state assessment expert, Dr. Robert Anderson, and endorsed by the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education.

Read the piece, and then listen to me on The Morning Current on Minnesota Public Radio talking about the limited usefulness of creating fake trends with the author of the article on the «opt - out generation.»

Recently, thanks to authors of blockbuster books like Good Calories, Bad Calories, The Big Fat Surprise, and The Primal Blueprint, the reading public has come a long way in our understanding of the health harms of trans fat, and the lack of harm from natural saturated fat.

Mira Dessy, The Ingredient Guru, is a holistic nutritionist, a popular public speaker, and the author of The Pantry Principle: how to read the label and understand what's really in your food.

Each month, read contemporary stories by up - and - coming and established fiction authors, and classic flash - length stories from famous authors whose content is in the public.

And it's on the reading list of Gerald (Sylvester Stallone), the editor of a Huffington Post-style website who dispatches his green reporter / lackey Roger (Kevin Connolly) to get the skinny on «Reach Me's» Salinger - like author, Teddy Raymond, who's never given an interview or made a public appearance.

Having just finished reading the book by author Ernest Cline, I've only been more excited for this movie to reveal itself to the public.

Educational researcher Gerald Bracey, author of Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered, writes in Stanford magazine that «NCLB aims to shrink the public sector, transfer large sums of public money to the private sector, weaken or destroy two Democratic power bases — the teachers» unions — and provide vouchers to let students attend private schools at public expense.»

Sponsored by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson and authored by Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla, D - Concord, AB 484 would end the standardized tests that have been in place since 1999 and move California forward in implementing... read more

To be fair, I would ask you to conduct due diligence and read what Mercedes Schneider, a New Orleans teacher, education activist, and the author of three books on «education reform», including her most recent: School Choice: The End of Public Education?

R.L. Stine signs a book during the Express - News Children's Book & Author Celebration at Pearl Stable, benefiting the SA Public Library Foundation's Born to Read program on Oct. 8, 2011.

BookWorks — BookBaby — IngramSpark — SELF - e / Library Journal — BookLife — Pressbooks Public — Califa — Rails Libraries — IBPA (Independent Book Publishers Assocation)-- IndieReader — Soon to be Famous Illinois Author Project — Bibliolabs — Massachusetts Library System — Where Writers Win — No Shelf Required — Author U — Read Local — Written Word Media — Indies Unlimited — Publishers & Writers of San Diego (PWSD) / Publishers & Writers of Orange County (PWOC)

Author R.L. Stine poses for a picture with Frederick Garcia, 8, during the Express - News Children's Book & Author Celebration at Pearl Stable, benefiting the S.A. Public Library Foundation's Born to Read

Historically, these traditional publishers have been able to dictate to the reading public what books they will make available and independent authors who didn't meet every single one of their criteria didn't make the cut.

Those grumbles turned to a roar that was being echoed by the reading public when some authors started gaming the system.

Author R.L. Stine asks for audience participation during the Express - News Children's Book & Author Celebration at Pearl Stable, benefiting the S.A. Public Library Foundation's Born to Read program on Oct. 8, 2011.

Changing My Mind is divided into four sections — «Reading,» «Being,» «Seeing» and «Feeling» — and the essays cover topics ranging from personal experiences traveling the world to authors who have influenced her own writing to thoughts on public figures like Katharine Hepburn and President Obama to advice and lessons on the writing process.

An agreement announced today between ebook distributor and self - publishing platform Smashwords and OverDrive, the largest provider of digital content to public and school libraries, is going to give self - published authors one of the few remaining pieces in the publishing puzzle, namely the ability for libraries to... [Read more...]

Based on the increasingly popular idea that the majority of the reading public will not only recognize good content but also feel compelled to compensate writers for it in a voluntary way, Blookist lets authors start a «blook» (blog + book) and add to it, chapter by chapter, while selling those chapters to donors who come to the site for content.

This time, nearly thirty indie authors signed the letter thanking Amazon for its service to the reading public and to authors in particular.

Whether it's the latest title from a legacy publisher's hottest author, or a graduate - level biochemistry textbook, there is a severe disillusion on the part of the reading public that ebooks should automatically... [Read more...]

This concept lets authors sell their books directly to the reading public via their websites, meaning they can cut out that Amazon - middle - man and pocket the 30 % or so that Amazon usually takes in exchange for being the retailer.

Through troll - like behavior, even «real» authors have taken public stabs at each other while the reading consumers sit back watching the tennis match - style back and forth exchanges.

They have each played a monumental role in the literary community, and the work they do on behalf of authors and the reading public has made that community a stronger, richer, and more wonderful one.»

Actually, it was two gigs: first of all, a 90 - minute talk about how to self - publish to a professional standard, as part of the university's Reading Series of public lectures, followed by a 75 - minute seminar with MA students talking about blogging for authors.

It is this attitude that continues to discourage so many good authors from trying alternate routes to getting their work into the hands of the reading public.

The gist: The Soon to be Famous Illinois Author Project ™ shows that public libraries have an influence on what their patrons read.

«If selected via Library Journal's SELF - e curation process, the author's ebooks will become part of a unique discovery platform for participating public libraries across the United States that enables patrons to read ebooks on any device, at any time.

- David Cole, national legal director of the ACLU and author of Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed «Extensively researched and exquisitely written, Insane is a must read for policymakers, mental health professionals, mental health consumers and their families, and the general public.»

Here's how it works: during the four - day Tour, reading public can go to indiebookcollective.wordpress.com to see the complete roster of authors who are giving away copies of their e-books.

Other initiatives to celebrate the event and promote reading in the city included using the city's buses and trams to display inspiring quotes from classic and contemporary authors, giving out bookmarks to the general public and a weekly book club which ran throughout June in the Cluj - Napoca's botanical garden.

Whether it's the latest title from a legacy publisher's hottest author, or a graduate - level biochemistry textbook, there is a severe disillusion on the part of the reading public that ebooks should automatically be exponentially cheaper than print books, and it's a topic that hasn't made much headway in the last several years.

As for another large group of people who have not paid to read eBooks, there is probably a large percentage of them who have downloaded legally «free» copies... like ones you have written about in some of your 4456 posts — not only from independent current authors, but from the huge quantity of public domain books offered on large sites like ProjectGutenberg.org — many of which come pre-loaded on some eBook reading devices.

From now on Robert Jordan's Memory of Light will be remembered by the reading community as the source of an ebook that the author's wife didn't want the public to have.

Almost every author who has ever considered going indie, every small press that has weighed the different options of getting e-book titles to the public has read any number of terms of use documents.

While these are excellent tools when used properly, authors should never overlook opportunities to meet the reading public face - to - face.

Reviews help improve the ranking of books on Amazon which in turn helps the authors continue to produce products to offer the reading public...... just a thought!

As a reading public, we need to stop judging self - published authors by the loose cannons.

Ideal content to share: writing tips, public readings, author meet - ups, and forthcoming publications.

And remember: Some authors love to read and talk about their work in public — so they'll want those hard copies to sign and sell.

I think educating the public about what indie publishing really means and the rise of review blogs that cater to them and carry as much weight as places like Dear Author and Smart Bitches Trashy Books will go a lot further toward informing the public what qualifies as a good read.

But Amazon is bad for giving authors another way, a legitimate way, of getting their work into the hands of the reading public.

Of course, not every book is worth reading, but the general public's sentiment in regards to published authors remains.

When we publicize and blog about self - published authors we should note that at least right now they fascinate us not because of their talent but because they're underdogs, writing risqué books, and achieving unheard - of monetary success... Perhaps the digital age will produce e-editors, e-agents, and e-publicists that specialize in bringing e-literature, rather than just e-books, to a reading public ready for more.

Given the limitations of the modern reading public and publishing companies towards Catholic authors, do you think modern Catholic novels that headline under «Catholic fiction» will ever be able to reach that block - buster level of popularity one sometimes sees in the Christian fiction market?

Kindles: Amazon has a larger catalog of modern books because amazon has been in the e-book market longer than anyone other.They have 2,00,000 Kindle exclusive e-books with many from the famous authors who publish directly via amazon.There are not many choices to buy e-books for the kindle from other stores or free book sites.The bought books are stored in the cloud.Just keep the local copies of the books.You can also lend a book to a friend once for 14 days.Amazon also has kindle lending library which is currently available only to amazon prime subscribers.Thus via this service borrow books and read without buying.You can also read e-books loaned from the public libraries.Getting the loaded books onto the device is simpler on kindle unlike the nook.The books can easily be downloaded wirelessly via whisper sync service (an AT&T 3G powered connection).

Author mills often present themselves as «traditional», because they don't require you to pay up front — but as with the vanity anthologies, their books are marketed not to the reading public but to the authors themselves (who are pressured to buy their own books for resale) and to «pocket» markets surrounding them, such as friends and family.