Sentences with phrase «authors left this day»

With no exceptions, the authors left this day with something of real value.

Not exact matches

The author of the acclaimed memoir Radical Son is described as a «convert» to conservatism and, as in his Marxist days as a leader of the New Left, he continues the policy of taking no prisoners.

Yvonne Staples was not as interested in singing as the rest of her family but she stepped in when her brother Pervis left for military service, said family friend Bill Carpenter, who is author of Uncloudy Day: The Gospel Music Encyclopedia.

by the way don't know how the author came with the names of Moaninho and Martinez, they were never first choice to any ARSENAL fan, but maybe at some point the thought came because anything was / is better of what we have, the DELUDED one must leave preferably by his own accord so we can still look at him with the respect he earned in the Old Days.....

[Update: see the comment at the end of the article for more on this subject — and an important correction...] The author of the French blog Netpolitique left a trackback / comment the other day on my article from a few weeks ago on saturation coverage of the U.S. presidential candidates...

«The results show that evaporation at high temperatures, similar to those at the beginning of planet formation, leads to the loss of volatile elements and to enrichment in heavy isotopes in the left over materials from the event,» said Day, a Scripps geoscientist and lead author of the study.

«Wake up a half - hour before everyone else, take time for yourself after everyone leaves for work or school, or spend your lunch hour alone a couple of days a week,» says Barbara Ann Kipfer, author of The Field Guide to Happiness for Women.

As an author who normally sits around in my jeans all day, you're inspiring me to be more intentional when I actually leave the house.

Mosaic: HBO series follows the mystery of popular children's book author and illustrator Olivia Lake (Sharon Stone) who disappears on New Year's Day, leaving behind a blood - soaked studio.

Whether a One - Day Workshop or in the comfort of your own school, you leave armed with over 25 Action Activities and powerful author techniques so you can incorporate the Seven Steps into your lesson plans the very next dDay Workshop or in the comfort of your own school, you leave armed with over 25 Action Activities and powerful author techniques so you can incorporate the Seven Steps into your lesson plans the very next dayday.

Whether you go down the traditional publishing route or self - publish, the promotion of a book these days is widely left to the author.

By Ron Pramschufer, President, Self Publishing, Inc. - Helping Authors Become Publishers since 1995 Even in this day of e-this and e-that, you haven't published a book unless you can hold it in your hand... flip through the pages, book mark the place you left off and pass it on to a friend after you have read it.

For many authors, completing a 50,000 word work in just 30 days can be daunting though, and in the spirit of creativity, we didn't want to leave those creators without an option.

The only exceptions to this rule are if you only have one day of promotion left for a particular book or you are using one - day promotions to swap reviews with other authors.

We discussed whether marketing and selling books got harder for indie authors in 2014 and, since there are only a couple of days left in the year, we gave some publishing predictions and some marketing trends that we believe could come to pass in 2015.

After arriving in America, John and Adeline continued on their tour of American Universities, leaving their daughter Ursula in the New York City area, after her marriage to the present - day, award - winning author, Captain Hank Bracker.

But if the same author tweets five times a day about the progress of her book promotion campaign («I just sent out 3 email pitches to the media,» «A national radio show producer is on vacation this week and won't be checking his email — that leaves two pitches that might come through,» «Just received an auto response from a producer, so who knows what might happen,» «I received a random phone call from a high school classmate and pitched my book to her,» and «I just sold a coworker a copy of my book»), that's going to get old pretty quickly.

Do publishers (typically) fight for manuscripts these days if they're not written by someone well - known, or could they take or leave most authors?

I've talked to a lot of authors who are actually leaving traditional publishing, which relies much more heavily these days on authors to find their own audience and advertise their own books, but takes a large chunk of their earnings then self - publishing does.

In fact, just several days ago, an indie author recommended a reviewer on Fiverr who promised to leave reviews wherever you needed them.

I think an advanced author (Indie or not) who was making enough to leave their day job wouldn't necessarily be your audience because they would have their «system» down pat.

I ask this because I think you make many great points about hiring experts so the author can devote more time to their craft, it seems presumptuous to jump into deciding to leave a day job.

I think it's important to remember that publishers, authors, and readers are all in this together... the book industry isn't and never has been truly profitable for anyone, and I for one (as a reader) hope that the future doesn't leave us without committed publishing people willing to work 60 hour weeks at $ 35K / year (or whatever crap salaries the publishing world pays these days!)

However, self published books are still dealing with the stigma left from the days when all the self published books were by authors who weren't good enough to be traditionally published.

I left my day job in September 2011 to become a full - time author entrepreneur, and I haven't regretted it for a moment.

What I learned, was that readers were more likely to give an unknown author a change if the price was at the $ 0.99 mark so following on from the free promotion I left the price at that level where downloads at the moment seem to be roughly two or three a day.

I'm Dave Alfvin, author of the book «Left For Dead,» which has done quite nicely in its first 120 days, making it into KINDLE»S top - 100 in True Crime 12 days in a row.

Back in the old days, circa 2009 when Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing was in its infancy, authors were publishing books left, right and center, barely able to keep up with the sudden demand for ebooks, which quickly led to the initial Tsunami of Crap populating Amazon's earlier online offerings...

I'm seriously looking at leaving the 12 - hour days and going freelance as a virtual assistant to authors later this year.

This post looks at my author - journey since I left the corporate day job.

FROM USA TODAY AND BARNES & NOBLE # 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY KINDLE EDITION ON SALE FOR A LIMITED TIME Three top secret research scientists are presumed dead in a boating accident, but the kidnapping of their families the same day raises questions the FBI and local police can't answer, leaving them waiting for a ransom demand that will never come.

That's still a really nice advance in these days where debut authors often don't get any advance at all, but I'm not sure I'd have had the courage to leave behind a regular paycheck if I didn't know that a full year's salary was in the bank.

With just one week left until the general deadline closes to register as a host for the first annual Indie Author Day, more than 150 libraries have already signed up.

Almost any author who is trying to sell books these days has run into the trolls and sock puppets who seem to spend their days leaving nasty or idiotic reviews (for books they obviously haven't read) for no particular purpose except to wield the power they probably don't have in their real lives.

They changed my life and enabled me to leave my day job and become an author entrepreneur.

On the other hand, if the Big Five only have, say, ten thousand authors in total and they also make $ 1,000,000 a day, that will leave each individual author with $ 100, or three times as much.

After much hard work, I left my job as a business consultant in September 2011 to become a full - time author - entrepreneur, and I've never gone back to the day job, so it is possible!

The Rights Holder (author, publishing house) sends in a book, it's assigned to a contracted narrator who comes into the studio and records 3 - 5 days in a row, then leaves, the sound techs work their magic, and voila!

It was the first year I cracked a six - figure income as an author - entrepreneur since leaving my day - job in Sept 2011.

The author talks about taking time out of her busy day to soak up the tree's magnificent colors when the leaves change in the fall.

This author had one dog who until the day he died at ten would chew certain objects if left in his area of reach — like remote controls.

Nomadic Matt is a blogger who left behind his office job to travel the world and just happens to be New York Times, best - selling Author of «How to Travel the World on $ 50 a Day

As a student at Middlebury College, May Boeve had already left her mark — she was part of the group that convinced the campus to go carbon neutral and had protested the neighborhood's burning of tires — but before graduating in 2007, she and nine other students teamed up with author and professor Bill McKibben for one final environmental project: Step It Up, a day of local climate change rallies that spread to 1,400 locations in 50 states.

The author has identified 40 significant areas that couples face together including trust, sex, finances, communication and many more, all of which provide multiple opportunities each day to leave couples feeling either distant or connected.

The author examines the day to day impact of child labour on those in school, finding that, as well as leaving children too tired to learn, child labour robs them of their interest in learning.

The author, Heather Cameron always dreamed of moving to a farm, then one day she and her family left the city and made their farm dreams come true!