Sentences with phrase «author puts himself on the line»

But when an author puts himself on the line by embracing an unfashionable idea, even though he is guaranteed to generate scorn or indifference, this should somehow be recognized.

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David Mixner, author of Stranger Among Friends and himself a renowned activist, political adviser, and White House insider, presents a vivid account of seven heroes of the gay rights movement who put their careers and lives on the line in their quest for equality.

Shocked by her firsthand experience of the city's failing public schools, the author put her career on the line to do something about the problem.

The author called the studio line and hooked up with an apologetic radio show host who said the producer had never put the information about the interview on her calendar, and she knew nothing about the book or the author or the topic.

Publishers should share legal risk No author can afford to put his or her entire net worth on the line, but that's what many authors do when they sign publishing contracts.

About not knowing where you are in the book, there is a little line across the bottom of the page and it has little tick marks on it if the author put them there that represent chapter breaks.

Copy Editing Copy editing, also known as line editing, is performed once the author has finished their own revision process and is ready to put the final polish on the manuscript.

The party line I have been hearing is that while free or $.99 prices work to generate interest in an author, in the long run, if an author doesn't put a value on his / her hard work, no one else will.

During one of the last big kerfuffles, wherein Amazon tried to push around a number of small POD publishers into making them use their own in - house print service (Angela Hoy and Booklocker fought back on that one and won) many of the other indy authors that I was hanging out with as part of our on - line support group) tried to put more of our efforts into marketing our books through Barnes & Noble, and to Borders.

Some authors and publishers put an empty line and no indentation on the first paragraph after a scene change to let you know things have switched, but on ebooks, if a scene break happens to occur on a «page» turn, the reader can be confused.

Today's indie authors stand on the shoulders of those predecessors who put their talents and hard work on the line to demonstrate an independent alternative to traditional publishing.

-- Excerpts of sampling of scientists predicting a coming global cooling Geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook, an emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University who has authored eight books and 150 journal publications, announced earlier this week that he was putting his «reputation on the line» by predicting global cooling.

You'll recall that the paper in Annals of Applied Statistics by McShane and Wyner had critiques by 9 teams of colleagues as well as a rejoinder, that paper was put on line well in advance of publication, and the authors referred to the online critiques as well as published critiques in their printed rejoinder and supporting online material (the published version alone amounted to 110 pp.)

Author and climate activist Bill McKibben says that if we want to put the brakes on global warming, it's time to put our bodies on the line.