Sentences with phrase «authors find their voice»

With extensive experience in both the ABA and CBA markets, she understands the importance of helping authors find their voice and shape their message.

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«I think anyone can relate to how hard it is to find your unique voice,» author and creative entrepreneur Adam J. Kurtz tells CNBC Make It.

I find the most effective op - ed articles make a single point, embrace the author's personal voice, and then offer specific recommendations.

Within two weeks, one of the most influential voices in American nutrition — author and New York University professor Marion Nestle — found Fed Up With Lunch and reported on her Food Politics blog that «an intrepid school teacher, Mrs. Q, has vowed to eat school lunches every day for a year.

The authors found that driving performance degraded regardless of secondary texting task type, but manual entry led to slower reaction times and significantly more eyes - off - road glances than voice - to - text input using both smartphones and Google Glass.

The corresponding author of the study, Casey A. Klofstad, said these findings suggest that perceptions of speakers based on their voices can influence hiring preferences for female job candidates.

Lead author Dr Ben Alderson - Day, Research Fellow from Durham University's Hearing the Voice project, said: «These findings are a demonstration of what we can learn from people who hear voices that are not distressing or problematic.

«It's striking that we find these same features when we look at the voices — and remarkable that the same assessment system applies to both voices and faces,» says Pascal Belin, a neuroscientist also at the University of Glasgow and one of the authors of the paper.

Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).

Adding authors from different backgrounds allows students to find themselves in resources and their voices in shared experience.

«We care about these findings in part because we fundamentally believe that social media platforms afford exciting opportunities for civic voice and participation,» says Weinstein, the study's lead author.

I believe that every child is an author, and that it's my job to give them the tools to find and use their voice.

The reason for this is that it has taken me a while to find my author voice.

I recently read some of the WPA's slave narratives and found the author's depiction of these characters to be true to those voices.

Get a preview in an interview with BookPage, in which author Beth Hoffman writes how she found her voice as a writer creating «story ads» for her interior design studio.

Finding the perfect book idea and taking it from idea to published book means a months - long process and beating the self - defeating voices that snag even the most experienced authors.

Critically acclaimed and award - winning author of YA novels and nonfiction, Christine is dedicated to helping people of all ages find their own unique voice in our noisy world.

I think the most important thing for an author to do is find their voice.

At the same time, as technology makes self - publishing ever easier, the industry will hear new voices from around the globe and from places that have been underrepresented in the past, giving readers a greater variety of indie titles than ever before, but making it more vital for authors to find a way to stand out from the pack.

That is why I think websites like Wattpad are so important for struggling writers to find their voices amongst the deafening noise of major publishers and literary agents who are so focussed on risk aversion and unwilling to give talented independent authors a chance.

JKS will work with the author to find their right voice and messaging to share through social media communications.

Like many other authors who are discarded or ignored by mainstream publishers for one reason or another, I had found a voice in the writing community and had discovered the confidence to self - publish, which up until that point, would have found it difficult to do so.

It can help you find your voice as an author and help you find new things you never thought you would write about.

When not writing during spare hours on weekends, David is a senior editor at Scholastic, and the founding editor of the PUSH imprint, which is devoted to finding new voices and new authors in teen literature.

I'm a fan of both — I tend to have a longer attention span for reading than watching a video, but it's also interesting to hear an author's voice and see what they look like, even if I sometimes find myself fixating on their fashion choices (love the ruffles, JR, but what's with the shades?).

News items include Overdrive celebrating an historic milestone, Smashwords and Findaway Voices partner up, how authors can gain insight into Canadian readers, the rise in popularity of «Up Lit» novels, why Britain's Book Industry Communication organization is calling for authors to stop using promotional content in subtitles, and how Amazon is making it a little more difficult to find reviewers and land publishing deals.

I found out about a company called Word Branch (http://wordbranch.com), who describe themselves as «an independent publishing company that represents talented new and up and coming authors who need a venue to make their voices heard.»

Now, as an independent consultant, Howard helps indie authors and publishers find their voice.

«It's a great opportunity to meet authors who, like me, have struggled to find a voice and then get it heard.

«It is wonderful to see so many authors (and actors) finding success on ACX, giving new voice to their work and expanding their audience too.

I've dog - eared the section on fear of judgment to revisit when I find that I'm holding back, reluctant to «let my [genuine] author voice run free.»

Women's fiction author Maria Duffy (@mduffywriter) found both her voice and her agent on Twitter, and has since launched two books with Hachette Ireland and sold foreign rights to both Italy and Brazil.

You'll find big names like Stephen King and George R. R. Martin alongside up and coming new voices and midlist authors.

But it can be hard for a fiction author to find the right «voice» in a blog and compete for reader attention with all the helpful «how to» blogs out there.

However, my strong point is finding the author's voice and telling their story exactly how they want it to be told.

I know that I am still finding my author voice one year into blogging.Continue Reading

I know that I am still finding my author voice one year into blogging.

So to find your author voice, keep writing and putting your work out there.

Not only that, each author has included a reflection on the process of composing the particular piece included valuable advice for those hoping to find their own writing voice.

Findaway Voices is an audiobook production service from Findaway built to empower authors and narrators as they perform their crafts and find a global audience.

Agent Nat Sobel, one of the most forward - thinking and outspoken agents in the business, voices his opinions on what authors should do for themselves, the dangers of MFA programs, and what he finds in literary magazines.

As more and more authors found out about, and voiced concerns over, Amazon's «bullying» tactics, Amazon tried offering to pay the authors 100 % of its sales of their books while the price war continued.

They find nothing about Author B, but a diverse collection of posts by Author A that allows readers to get a feel for the author and their Author B, but a diverse collection of posts by Author A that allows readers to get a feel for the author and their Author A that allows readers to get a feel for the author and their author and their voice.

As an indie author, I get to be 100 % true to my voice, and that's a freedom I never found in the traditional NY publishing world.

If you tuned out the voices of the entrepreneurial author community because you once found them vengeful and sneering, it's time you started listening again.

You'll find an updated version in your My Account section of Findaway Voices (authors only).

Much in the same way that it takes some trial and error to develop your voice as an author, it will also take some time to find your online voice on your platform of choice.

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Richard Levesque presents Listen Up: Converting My Book to Audio posted at Richard Levesque, saying, «I've been interested in releasing audio versions of my books but don't have the time or know - how to do it myself; fortunately, I ran across ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange), another arm of Amazon, and found that they offer a variety of ways for content creators to connect with audiobook producers, including a path in which there is no money paid upfront; instead, any royalties earned are split between the author and the voice artist.

There are several senior editors discussing how they try to find the author's voice and make sure that the finished product as a book will definitely represent the author rather than their editorial management.