Sentences with phrase «authors about their book ideas»

Terry will be teaching a workshop and meeting with authors about their book ideas throughout the conference.

Not exact matches

The book is particularly helpful, says Branson, because the authors explain how to build and successfully channel new power: «It's a useful lens to use when thinking about how business has changed, how to spread ideas or start a movement, or create change.»

Understand the Annuity Product - In Plain Language Annie Logue of the Root of All, Chicago on the Cheap, and author of several Money and Investing Dummies books about asks; «When are annuity investment products a good idea?»

We recently spoke with author Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy; Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery) about his new book Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life and what inspired him to explore the idea of supernatural phenomenon in an increasingly cynical world.

But however one takes Moby - Dick, the book sufficiently demonstrates that its author was capable of huge, cosmic ideas about life and death, freedom and necessity, wisdom and insanity.

If I was aware that the vast majority of his ideas in 50 pages of the book were simply the summaries of ideas from some other author, it made me wonder about the other 150 pages in his book.

Maybe the Holy Spirit is at work around the world to bring multiple authors and pastors and theologians to similar ideas about similar things all at once, and so when I read something in someone else's book that sounds a lot like something I have written, but they don't give me credit, it is not that they «borrowed» from me, but because both of us were listening to what the Spirit has been whispering to minds all over the world.

It was only obvious to me because I have read most of the books by Author B and was shocked to see so many of his ideas and insights being written about as if they belonged to Author A.

Since I have read so heavily from books about non-violence over the past several years, I noticed many themes and ideas which this author pulled from other authors, but this author rarely cited these other authors.

Like most authors, I have about 97 other book ideas on my computer that I want to write.

The idea of featuring the justice secretary in novels and plays came from Australian author Kathy Lette, who inserted a character called Chris Grayling into her book Courting Trouble, about a mother - daughter feminist law firm.

For those interested in learning more about it, here are some great Whole30 - related resources, compliments of Melissa Joulwan, author of the Well Fed book series, including 4 weeks of food plans, no recipe required meal ideas, motivational tips, and more.

Chris is the author of the book «A Bad Idea I'm About to Do» and his first stand - up album («My Comedy Album») debuted at # 2 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart in 2014.

Finally, author Richelle Mead (2:51) gives a very rehearsed interview about the ideas of her book, the experience of seeing it translated to the big screen, and the film's cast and crew.

The following will give teachers an idea of what to expect from this resource: - Descriptive writing of characters and The Island Diary writing Comparing and contrasting characters Argumentative writing Opinion / fact Spelling Speech Research skills: - Leprosy, The Philippines, The Bible and Facts about The Author Drawing activities: - new cover, characters, map Life cycle of a butterfly Themes in the novel Writing a book review Craft: - How to make a symmetrical butterfly

Spoiler alert: The authors distinguish between individualizing and personalizing education a third of the way into the book, providing plenty of time to think about the differences while there's still two - thirds of the book left to settle into and try the ideas on for size in relation to your own school and beliefs.

A «query» is a question or an inquiry, and a «letter» is a written or printed communication addressed to a person or organization; therefore, if you're an author, a «query letter» is a written or printed communication addressed to a person or organization, asking a question about your book or book idea.

We have so many ideas left over that we made a bonus collection of them if you sign up on our Author Marketing email list (about once a month we send you a roundup of tips and suggestions for marketing yourself and your book) and we'll probably make a part two of this post sometime soon.

The above tweet led to a fun interview over the at the Book View Cafe blog, «Weird and Wonderful: Digital Book World and Guy LeCharles Gonzalez,» with author Sue Lange asking me some interesting questions that really made me think hard to solidify some of my ideas about the «Future of Publishing» and what it means for -LSB-...]

For Authors: Getting Involved For more information about donating your book to the book giveaway, check out this introductory announcement post on the book giveaway idea.

Perfect by Ellen Hopkins Margaret K. McElderry Books, $ 18.99 The author of Crank and Fallout has written a companion book to Impuse, about four high - school seniors and their ideas of perfection.

Either way, for a nominal investment — one that does not even pretend to make any promises about finding new readers, despite what some bloggers may already be sharing — an author can come away with a more focused idea of what he may want to change about either this book or future publications.

While I'm not sure about the idea of book videos becoming hugely popular, I do think that video chats with authors will become commonplace.

We'll talk about the biggest obstacles every aspiring author must overcome before reaching her goal; how to focus your idea so your book takes less time to write, requires fewer rewrites, and immediately grabs your ideal readers» attention; and the secret to structuring your book so readers are hooked to the end.

It's a great way to learn about an author's book, their vision and to brainstorm on ideas for different cover design concepts.

The above tweet led to a fun interview over the at the Book View Cafe blog, «Weird and Wonderful: Digital Book World and Guy LeCharles Gonzalez,» with author Sue Lange asking me some interesting questions that really made me think hard to solidify some of my ideas about the «Future of Publishing» and what it means for authors and publishers.

First we talk with the author and learn more about the book and the characters, and we discuss ideas and potential cover redesign concepts.

Malinda Lo's thread goes on to detail her ideas on how publishers, readers and authors can help to make books about queer female teens more visible, but her advice (as she indicates in qualifying tweets) mainly relates to traditionally published books.

We talked about how we want to share the newest ways to market your books as soon as they're invented.Bryan talked about his start on his website, Build Creative Writing Ideas, and Jim discussed the creation of Author Marketing Club.

The last thing in the world that I want to do is write about that dating book — the one where the author now admits he had no actual experience in putting the book's ideas into practice.

In the news, we talked about sales rank metrics, the new pulp movement for indies, an individual author subscription idea, BookBub's new Author Follows feature, the controversy behind the book Girl Online, and Hachette's direct selling efforts on Twauthor subscription idea, BookBub's new Author Follows feature, the controversy behind the book Girl Online, and Hachette's direct selling efforts on TwAuthor Follows feature, the controversy behind the book Girl Online, and Hachette's direct selling efforts on Twitter.

And often the author has grandiose ideas about world - wide exposure for their children's book, novel, memoir, or informational book through national TV, the NYT bestseller list, and so forth.

Susan Kaye Quinn author of 18 Debt Collector novellas said «I never intended to write Debt Collector in the first place — the idea came to me in the midst of writing another book — and originally, I thought I could get away with writing a novella about it.

For more about the actual book design process, please go to The Book Cover Design Process page where I discuss the process of working with authors to take ideas and turn them into great book desibook design process, please go to The Book Cover Design Process page where I discuss the process of working with authors to take ideas and turn them into great book desiBook Cover Design Process page where I discuss the process of working with authors to take ideas and turn them into great book desibook designs.

She says authors should start thinking about publicity at conception of the idea, and while they're writing the book.

It's no less true for an author: selling a book to someone ill - suited to your writing (or even «meh» about it) is great for that 64 cents (the royalty a paperback pays), but not so wonderful, as the reader who feels was ripped off is going to take it out on your reputation (because most readers have no idea how little of that cover price goes to the author.

If these ideas can be met and done well, no matter whether an author has a budget of $ 200 or $ 2,000, a book trailer can be successful, i.e. move a viewer to get excited about the book, share the trailer with friends, write an on - line review of your book.

I even saw one book of this ilk on the market where I guesstimated that only about 10 percent of the content was the author's original ideas and stories.

Authors have all sorts of ideas about the things that they should do to successfully market their books.

Because the purpose of Spirit Authors is to offer self - publishing and marketing advice to authors, Shelagh came up with a brilliant idea that, instead of me interviewing Pat about her book, Shelagh would do an audio interview with me about the process of creating the book blurb and back coveAuthors is to offer self - publishing and marketing advice to authors, Shelagh came up with a brilliant idea that, instead of me interviewing Pat about her book, Shelagh would do an audio interview with me about the process of creating the book blurb and back coveauthors, Shelagh came up with a brilliant idea that, instead of me interviewing Pat about her book, Shelagh would do an audio interview with me about the process of creating the book blurb and back cover copy.

Interview (Starts at 6:03)-- Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO of The Idea Logical Company in New York, spoke with me on April 23rd by Skype about why there was so much hand wringing at the recently concluded London Book Fair, what's ahead for authors and readers if Amazon's dominance of the book business grows, and how his father, the late Leonard Shatzkin, who also had an illustrious career in publishing, probably would have been more inclined to applaud Amazon's disruption than is Leonard's Book Fair, what's ahead for authors and readers if Amazon's dominance of the book business grows, and how his father, the late Leonard Shatzkin, who also had an illustrious career in publishing, probably would have been more inclined to applaud Amazon's disruption than is Leonard's book business grows, and how his father, the late Leonard Shatzkin, who also had an illustrious career in publishing, probably would have been more inclined to applaud Amazon's disruption than is Leonard's son.

Frank Vitale, self - published author of The Metropolis Organism, which is available for purchase through PayPal's file sharing platform PayLoadz, had a lot of fun creating his book about the idea of a city as a living organism.

You complain about indie authors with no idea of how to market their books, that's fair, but at the same time I talk to more and more aspiring and even newly published authors whose publishers and prospective publishers all want THEM to do the marketing campaign.

Half the characters in the book make comments about why she is with her husband, an older, overweight food critic with nearly the same name as the author — and from what we are actually provided in the book, I have NO idea why they are together.

It's sort of a book about nothing, or everything: In search of writing ideas, an author takes a walk with his dog around the neighborhood.

Steve and Barrie talk with Dave Chesson about Amazon's search algorithm and how to generate and validate a book idea and the tool he created to help self - published authors to streamline the process.

Author Susan Norris, who wrote the book Rescuing Hope, talks about this idea in the video below.

The Nonfiction Writers Conference is hosted by the Nonfiction Authors Association, a vibrant and content - rich educational community for experienced and aspiring writers to connect, exchange ideas, and learn about writing, publishing, promoting and monetizing nonfiction books.

In addition, he tells us about his author journey, from the idea stage to contacting Xlibris to ultimately holding the first copy of his book in his hands.

It was a great dream to have but I had no idea how to go about making it a reality, not becoming a big shot author, as that's a long shot, but publishing a book.