Sentences with phrase «authors hostage»

Some agents have a nasty habit of holding books and authors hostage.

Keep thinking, and I'll tell you about Borders closing and how B&N now holds publishers and authors hostage.

(Learn more about where to purchase your ISBNs at http://1106design.com/2016/04/isbns-lccns-and-copyright-oh-my/) The company never releases the design files to the author (only the PDF, maybe), and will happily hold the indie author hostage for more money should changes ever be required to those files.

Not exact matches

And the timing was pretty much perfect, since the Wish Realm Rumpelstiltskin (Robert Carlyle) was holding Henry (Andrew J. West) and his family hostage while the Wish Realm's Young Henry (aka the Author) took his revenge on Roni (Lana Parrilla).

The Blu - ray gives us a new chance to ignore it all over again... hopefully marking the first steps in weaning ourselves off of the author's toxic prose that have held us all hostage for far too long.

Nick Lake, author of Hostage Three and the 2012 Printz - winning In Darkness, recently described this effect to me using the metaphor of a tunnel.

Amazon isn't holding our books hostage, the way Hachette is holding their authors» books hostage.

and don't miss the part about «Writing by Hostage,» a writing technique she employs with the help of a fellow author.

Like, maybe, the authors you're holding hostage?»

Edgar Award - winning author Stefanie Pintoff first introduced readers to Special Agent Eve Rossi and her team of misfit good - guys - with - bad - backstories in Hostage Taker, and they're back in City on Edge.

While all of the essential elements are there, such as a loved one held hostage to force the main character's hand, a high - ranking government official with a lot to lose, plus a tribe of varied bad guys, it would be easy to think you've read this story somewhere before, except for the fact that the author does a great job of drawing the reader in through a very readable voice.

Five years in the works, from the best - selling author of Black Hawk Down, comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam.

Yet unlike the old days, when most prospective readers were effectively hostage to book reviews as a means of learning about new books or even reading tantalizing excerpts, the internet allows you as an independent author to publish excerpts and sample chapters to your heart's content, demonstrating first - hand that your work has those qualities that your intended readers are interested in.

Publishers had all the power and readers and authors were held hostage.

Non-responsive publishers can hold an author's work hostage by refusing to send a written reversion of rights or acknowledgement of contract termination.

These are books that turn on the lights for authors who need to know the ins and outs of any particular profession — how an airline pilot would react to a hostage takeover, or what goes on in a lawyer's world after she sends a process server out to say, «You've been served.»

We won't hold your author website hostage.

Amazon's attempt to stop customers buying Hachette books as a way of putting pressure on the publisher also prompted outrage from almost 1,000 authors, including Donna Tartt, Salman Rushdie, John Grisham and Stephen King, who signed a petition demanding Amazon stop using writers as hostages in its negotiations.

«It doesn't change the fundamental problem that Amazon controls 50 % of the book market in the US and was willing to throw its weight around and take books hostage and hurt authors whenever they run into a negotiating problem.

«None of us, neither readers nor authors, benefit when books are taken hostage.»

In a letter written to Amazon by the Association of Author's Representatives (AAR), a trade group representing literary agents, AAR likened Amazon's tactics to hostage - taking and extortion.

Mark Goulston, M.D. is the author of The 6 Secrets of a Lasting Relationship: How to Fall in Love Again and Stay There, works with high - powered couples, and is a former FBI hostage - negotiation trainer.

Today, we're excited to sit down with Chris Voss, former head of the FBI's Hostage Negotiation Team and author of Never Split the Difference, to learn the stories, strategies, and tactics gleaned from decades of negotiating with the world's most dangerous criminals.