Sentences with phrase «authors got that number»

Not exact matches

Leader - Chivée is one of the individuals I was fortunate enough to interview for a series on the year ahead, Big Ideas for 2018, where I asked a number of my favorite award - winning marketing experts, authors, and other thought leaders — as well as some of Firebrand Group's own digital strategy and branding experts — to recommend one «Big Idea» that companies can take advantage of to get ahead in 2018.

The problem gets even worse when you read a number of articles by the same author.

The professor at Arizona State University's business school and author of The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, asks her clients, «What are the things you would never do at this company to get a client, to keep a client, to make sure you met your numbers for the quarter?»

Finnegan is one of the individuals I was fortunate enough to interview for a series on the year ahead, Big Ideas for 2018, in which I asked a number of my favorite award - winning marketing experts, authors, and other thought leaders — as well as some of Firebrand Group's own digital strategy and branding experts — to recommend one «Big Idea» that companies can leverage to get ahead in 2018.

«If you want to get people to believe something really, really stupid, just stick a number on it,» says author and NYU journalism prof Charles Seife.

Traditional publishers will even get in on the game, only publishing an author who commits to buying a certain number of their own books.

In it, we asked a number of our favorite award - winning marketing experts, authors, and other thought leaders — in addition to some of our own team of digital strategy and branding experts — to recommend one «Big Idea» that companies can take advantage of to get ahead in 2016.

The authors did a tremendous number of interviews and got some very straight goods from the players involved.

And ideally would get less than $ 15M per — but I am predicting a future that is authored by the idiots in the front office — so I expect his deal with look something like $ 19M — $ 18M — $ 17M — my hope is that they don't throw in the fourth season at $ 20M and / or they don't match some nonsense max contract from Brooklyn (or whoever)... as I note, I see Lavine is a net negative player who could put up impressive numbers on a bad team — good for the tank.

As study author Geneviève Beaulieu - Pelletier says, «These numbers indicate that even if we get married with the best of intentions, things don't always turn out the way we plan.»

«We were surprised by the large number of concerns mothers had, and we were very concerned by how particular concerns were strongly related to giving up with breastfeeding» - such as worries about babies not getting enough nutrition, said Laurie A. Nommsen - Rivers, the study's senior author, from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Author Olwen Rowe (Babywearing Consultant) One of the questions I've been asked a number of times is «What if I've been to a sling meeting and I still can't get my baby comfortable in a sling / carrier?»

-LSB-...] So to get the real story on which big - ticket baby gear items are okay to buy used and which you should really buy, I checked in with a number of reliable sources, including car seat experts, breast pump manufacturers and the authors of my go - to baby gear book Baby Bargains.

During the Labour leadership contest last year, the authors say Mr Balls was furious when Mr Miliband got secret phone numbers of key union leaders and persuaded Unite to back him, not his rival.

Not an easy number to track down, but finally we got our answer from Clifford Holliday, author of Internet Growth 2006 (published by the telecommunications consultancy Information Gatekeepers).

«It's scary to consider these numbers because at first glance it looks like sports are getting more dangerous and athletes are getting injured more often,» said Joseph Rosenthal, clinical assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at The Ohio State University and lead author of the study.

The authors argue that resources could be better spent getting good information to the public and collecting more data on the numbers, patterns, and behaviors of both sharks and people.

«For the first time this will enable large numbers of patients to be sequenced to get to the bottom of thousands of genetically controlled diseases,» says Dramanac, who is also the lead author of the Science paper.

This could explain an increase in the number of people in Europe (where the study was conducted) getting sick from swimming or eating tainted seafood, say the study authors, and it could make infections more likely in other warm climates as well.

You see, there is another site I found that gets the sessions to around 12 - 15 sets, and when emailing that author about my personal push / pull / legs routine in which I did a ton more sets (interestingly, almost the same number as this article), they said that I should definitely turn it down.

Because so many digital media limit the number of characters an author can use at a time, students are becoming more creative to get the most out of their limited space.

The authors determined that teacher diversity numbers have only gotten worse since 2012.

Among the bills that charter schools are watching closely is AB 401 by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D - San Francisco, which would place a cap on the number of allowable charters in California and won passage to the Senate earlier this month - a similar bill by the author got this far last year before failing in committee.

In addition, it's getting harder and harder for traditionally published authors to wrest their rights back from publishers, which is undoubtedly cutting down on the number of backlist titles being newly self - published.

So I'm getting asked on a number of fronts what I think about Bertram Capital selling Author Solutions to Pearson, another publisher with ties to Indianapolis.

I would estimate that the average annual income for self - published authors is slightly lower now and, having seen a number of authors quit over the last couple of years in order to get full time jobs because of financial problems, it hasn't gotten any easier to make ends meet on just book royalties.

Before I get to this year's numbers, a bit of background and explanation: This year, rather than asking authors to email me responses to my questions, I used an anonymous Google form survey, which had both advantages and drawbacks.

Every once in a while, I get an email from an author with Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) access who wonders why their numbers are different between NovelRank and KDP.

This has prompted a number of companies to meet the unscrupulous needs of authors to get noticed and has created a firestorm of epic proportions.»

In the beginning, the get - rich - quick authors who slapped up worthless content gave the entire notion of self - publishing a bad name; but even with the fading away of those types of «authors,» even the number... [Read more...]

I'm on a number of free book email lists and I can get five free books a day, all because the author hopes to make some money eventually by getting noticed.

«I couldn't get a publisher, so I «had» to self - publish,» are words that a number of dedicated, successful authors have had to carry like a yoke around their necks for far too long, and just as some of that public sentiment is beginning to shift, Yiannopoulos has moved forward with plans to self - publish Dangerous next month.

It is a very paltry % of indie authors that write good books, get ISBN numbers, hire an editor and have great cover art.

Anna is also a contributing author to a number of books, including We Got Issues!

But the contract also has royalty periods where a short time after the end of a certain period of time the author should get an accounting from the publisher of the numbers of books sold against the advance in that period of time.

I get the impression that there are a number (i.e. N) of authors enrolled in this program.

Soon enough, a huge number of authors are finally going to get fed up with the publishing industry and just self - publish electronically.

There are advantages and drawbacks to each method, but they exist because there are a significant number of authors who find each of these paths a satisfying way to get their work published.

Plus I know a number of authors who got their agents through a referral from a fellow blogger.

Successful authors basically get told by publishers to write pretty much the same book as their last best - seller, with the serial numbers filed off; they call that «nurturing.»

For example, if an author had a book up and wanted to see how many copies the book sold in January, the author might have to wait until June to get some of those exact numbers.

That number has been tossed around as a golden review count for authors to shoot for, and many authors will go out of their way to buy, beg, borrow, cheat, and steal to get to that number of reviews as if it will guarantee their book to sell.

I'm guessing that this is going to make not one iota of difference in the way Samhain pays the authors that it promotes to Samhain Gold; Samhain then gets to send editors to conference (comped)(provided that they take pitches only for the Samhain Gold line), and we have a very simple test for allowing e-publishers: If you believe you can guarantee decent royalties for a good number of authors (although not for all of them), you're in.

As an (as yet) unpublished author, your committment to quality to your reader and the reader's experience has got to be the number one priority and I congratulate on achieving just that.

MD — I've discovered that a lot of the people who say you must have X number of reviews to succeed are outfits that sell review services Yes, it's important to get some pre-launch reviews, but I think authors obsess about them too much.

Imagine that she'll have a print run of 8,000 copies (based on a number of authors I've talked to, this is about right — if you're getting more books printed than 8,000, and your advance is $ 3500, you're being seriously low - balled on the advance figure), and she'll sell 6,000 of those in the first year at 8 % of the cover price of $ 7.99, giving her $ 3835.20 in print earnings.

Best thing I can tell you is to have fun looking at what everyone else is doing... especially YA fiction authors... and you'll start getting ideas... to do it YOUR way... but building social media numbers by simply following other people... can be easier for a fiction author than spending too much time writing blog articles just to try and build a following.

In How to Get Honest Reviews, I partner with Shelley Hitz to share 7 proven ways authors can legitimately increase the number of reviews written about their books.

Then there are a number of authors who begin their blogs with the intent of writing their books post by post and getting feedback from their readers along the way.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Recently I've gotten a number of questions about BookStoreMarketing.net, a service that promises to promote authors» books to bookstores via a printed catalog, a promotional email, or both.