So when I see frothing and vitriol from
authors over this fight, I am not surprised.
Not exact matches
But Mr. Malatras has been particularly visible in pushing Mr. Cuomo's education reform agenda,
authoring a long and public letter to the state's Board of Regents and liaising with various interests in Albany as all sides gear up for a post-budget
fight over the specifics of teacher evaluations.
The reason could be that plant defenses against pathogens gradually weaken after a fire, Moritz and Odion speculate — for instance, from stiffer competition among plants as they grow, decreased chemical defenses as they age, or depletion of soil nutrients.The findings suggest that California's
fight against forest fires
over many decades may have precipitated or accelerated the outbreak, and that perhaps controlled burning could be used to halt it, the
authors say.
It may also lead to improved therapies to
fight sleeping sickness; current medications used to combat the disease have improved
over the past decade but still include an old arsenic - based drug that kills between 5 and 10 percent of the people receiving treatment, said the study's senior
author Stephen Hajduk, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.
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FIGHT Aging One thing that never made sense to me
over the years was how the media and other sources have always tried to portray sun exposure as «the sun's deadly rays».
In the movie, Max Irons and Jake Abel both fall for Saoirse Ronan, who's
fighting back against an alien trying to take
over her body — it's all very Body Snatchers, but with a heavy dose of the drama you'd expect from the
author who dreamt up Bella and Edward.
Let's all embrace cloud - based
authoring of modern, collaborative, tech - enabled learning and not
fight over what we call it.
So I've spent five years of my time educating, for free, and building resources to get
over the biggest hurdles (like book design) so indie
authors have a
fighting chance.
The traditional industry is
fighting with all its might and enlisting the help of entities that once had
authors» interests at heart (note the placement of the apostrophe on the plural form of «
author»), but who now cater to the powers that are still trying to hold court
over the industry.
And as polarized as the sentiment
over the Amazon
fight is among
authors / publishers, it's the same among readers.
A petition started by another group of
authors and aimed at Hachette, titled «Stop
Fighting Low Prices and Fair Wages,» garnered
over 7,600 signatures.
Publishers do still
fight over manuscripts from «hot»
authors and you still see agents taking projects to auction, with advances being paid that may never earn out because of
over-exuberance.
How To Be an
Author Publishers
Fight For: And Get a Publishing Deal without Writing a Book Proposal (Chad R. Allen): It's true — publishers often fight over the most desirable (read: platform - backed) aut
Fight For: And Get a Publishing Deal without Writing a Book Proposal (Chad R. Allen): It's true — publishers often
fight over the most desirable (read: platform - backed) aut
fight over the most desirable (read: platform - backed)
authors.
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Sadly the lionshare of the revenue that indie
authors generate are by the quintessential 1 % who are generating a few hundred thousand dollars a month and everyone else is
fighting over the scraps.
Both
authors know the country well; in the bio blurb, it is noted that they «have had many adventures together, including tracking lions at night,
fighting brush fires on the Savuti plains in northern Botswana, surviving a charging elephant, and losing their navigation maps while flying
over the Kalahari.»
There was then an equal response thrown together by Hugh Howey, Joe Konrath, et al, (independent publishing's loudest voices) suggesting
authors take a good look at what exactly is being
fought over and realize that the only thing at stake is
authors rights.
In the
author's words, Red involves a young girl
fighting for control
over her emergence into a wolf shifter... [Read more...]
Specifically, the various KDP Select
authors are
fighting over a pool of $ 500,000, all 30,000 of them.
Sill, I think this is a bad deal for
authors for similar reasons as Gaughran's, but it's not just about having
authors fight over the money pool.
With agents
fighting with publishers
fighting with
authors over diminishing returns, the idea that the pros can smugly assume efficacy of their decision - making processes because they have been making decisions is ridiculously naive.
The last few days have seen frenzied volleys in the
fight over climate science and policy, beginning with a 16 -
author op - ed article in The Wall Street Journal on Friday and, most recently, with a 39 -
author rebuttal published today in the paper.
And
over at the online outlet Mashable (11 April 2018: «Climate scientists
fight false polar bear narrative pushed by bloggers»), reporter Mark Kaufman quoted Jeff Harvey, lead
author of the BioScience paper on the issue, although Harvey is hardly an authority: