Sentences with phrase «authors go about the business»

Most aspiring authors go about the business of finding a book agent entirely wrong, without realizing it.

Actually no, you've proven yourself in your article and in your comments to be completely ignorant to how most self - published authors go about their business.

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«When people are surprised on Twitter, they are going to tweet about it and that's how things can spread very quickly,» says O'Neil's boss, Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likable Local, and author of Likeable Business (McGraw - Hill, 2012).

-- Phillip Stutts, CEO of Go Big Media and author of Fire Them Now: The 7 Lies Digital Marketers Sell and the Truth About Political Strategies That Help Businesses Win, who has contributed to more than 1,000 election victories of senators, governors, representatives, and two U.S. presidents

Futurist, change management specialist and «X: The Experience When Business Meets Design» author Brian Solis sits down with The Young Turks» Cenk Uygur to talk about the past, present and future and how more and faster change is coming, and the only question is whether you're going to be a part of that change or a victim of it.

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I went there to hang out with some bestselling science fiction and fantasy authors to soak up their best advice about the business of writing.

At the point when RWA's behavior crosses over from the mere setting of standards for individual authors» benefit, into trying to force Harlequin to adopt a business model that pays all its authors a minimum advance of $ 1000, you cross from rule - of - reason antitrust territory (translation: plaintiff loses) into per - se illegality (translation: plaintiff wins), at which point all questions about market effect go out the window.

Agents are in the business of selling books, so a manuscript evaluation can give an indie author great feedback on what will make his book be more successful as he goes about selling it himself.

You know that content marketing is important to develop and grow your business as a self - published author, but how should you go about moving forward with a strategy that really works?

According to this attorney roundtable podcast on the Smart Passive Income Podcast (which is well worth a listen, or going to the site and downloading the transcript for free, to because 80 - 90 % of what this show talks about setting up a business structure applies to indie authors), some of these policies are junk.

Barbara talks about going from author to CEO of a creative business, as well as branding, writing in a series, connecting with readers and what's coming next in the indie world.

The things you say about some of the authors you have had to deal with reminds me of Robert J. Ringer who self - published 3 mega-bestsellers and then decided to go into the business of publishing other authors» books.

In this session, we'll discuss how foreign rights work and how you can go about creating these revenue streams for your author business.

The best way to go about choosing a design for your author business card is by process of elimination.

I mean, considering the fact that the biggest offline seller of books in the US Borders is facing huge financial issues, and the predictions that have been made that Amazon's e-Book business is going to make $ 2.5 billion in 2012, why should the Author's Guild be concerned about some minor issue of Text to Speech on the Kindle!

I initially started writing it for my own authors to help them understand more about the business of writing and just really give them some steps and some information and things that they can go on and do while they're waiting for their books to get published.

Jackie Miles, author of Roseflower Creek, operates her own business in addition to writing and going across the country speaking about abused children.

David: I've been blogging about Author Solutions for a while, but the post I wrote in May — The Author Exploitation Business — went a little viral with over 10,000 views.

One other friend of mine left he was in the real estate space wrote a book with with a major publishing house and then a few years later stopped he left real estate and went into a really strong personal development business and the publisher went up well you're not promoting this book anymore and they took his book word - for - word and put somebody else's name on the cover of it and just put a new introduction on it no credit to anybody he had worked because he had two co-authors help him with it because he's dyslexic so they essentially were the ones that wrote it and he provided a lot of the content and the publisher gave those other authors no credit took his name off and put somebody else's name on the front and then the publisher was 100 % within their rights to do it so you know there's a lot of things that I challenge people to kind of think about what's important and if you're putting all your expertise into this book you want to make sure that somebody's negotiated a heck out of it giving you a contract that actually makes sense for you and your business.

I think eventually I'm just going to take the ball, run with it, and just create one... I'll still have my blogs, but as far as a social media presence, I'm really going to just put Steve Scott, author - preneur, something like that where it's just... if you want to learn about habits or you want to learn about Kindle business publishing, that sort of stuff, then they can find me all on one central location.

Then I became my own publisher, started working with several of the largest publishing houses in the world, dozens overseas, and went on a hectic travel circuit to six continents where I spent more time talking about the book trade and business of being an author than I did hawking my own books.

If a publisher sees a low royalty is going to be reported to an author, the publisher can make a business decision about whether it's worth $ 2,000 to keep the rights going and simply increase the royalty paid by $ 2,000.

They might have gone on to say that no laws were broken, or to make a case about why it was entirely appropriate for Mann to facilitate the destruction of this portion of the IPCC review / writing record — after all whose f**king business is it if IPCC Lead Authors toss the rules and engage in unrecorded, backroom re-writing of key sections of disputed text with the help of partisan authors whose involvement as contributors or reviewers is not revealed in the Authors toss the rules and engage in unrecorded, backroom re-writing of key sections of disputed text with the help of partisan authors whose involvement as contributors or reviewers is not revealed in the authors whose involvement as contributors or reviewers is not revealed in the report.

The former revelation suggested some researchers were involved in massaging the truth, sceptics claimed, while the latter exposed deficiencies in the way the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — authors of the report — go about their business.

``... while the latter exposed deficiencies in the way the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — authors of the report — go about their business...»