Sentences with phrase «authors taking hold of»

Most of the day was dedicated to authors taking hold of their careers, navigating through the logistics of self - publishing and going indie.

Not exact matches

Take it from David Allen, the author of Getting Things Done: «Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.»

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

What bothers me most is that so many of the Scripture references that are used to support the pledges are taken out of context and really have little or nothing to do with the author's theories.I believe God will hold this man and those who abuse God's Word accountable.

CNN: My Take: The danger of calling behavior «biblical» Rachel Held Evans, a popular blogger and author of «A Year of Biblical Womanhood,» writes about her discomfort seeing the bible «edited down and used as a prop to support a select few political positions and platforms.»

IN PLURIMIS (On the Abolition of Slavery) Pope Leo XIII Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on 5 May 1888 The words of St. Gregory the Great are very applicable here: «Since our Redeemer, the Author of all life, deigned to take human flesh, that by the power of His Godhood the chains by which we were held in bondage being broken, He might restore us to our first state of liberty, it is most fitting that men by the concession of manumission should restore to the freedom in which they were born those whom nature sent free into the world, but who have been condemned to the yoke of slavery by the law of nations.»

Author ReShonda Tate Billingsly made The Huffington Post news when she posted to Facebook a picture of her daughter posing with a hand written sign that read, «Since I want to post photos of me holding liquor I am obviously not ready for social media and will be taking a hiatus until I learn what I should + should not post.

Senior Field Manger Diane Held was the author and says taking the farmland out of production endangers the upstate economy.

«For decades, conventional wisdom held that large Jupiter - mass planets take a minimum of 10 million years to form,» said Christopher Johns - Krull, the lead author of a new study about the planet, CI Tau b, that will be published in the Astrophysical Journal.

The senior author Dr Sean Sweeney, of the Department of Biology, University of York, said: «These findings shed light on the events occurring in neurons as dementia takes hold.

While Weinstein doesn't see corporate publishing going away, ever, he does think the business is at «an enormous transition point» and that the outsourcing major publishers have been doing for years — forcing agents to do more editing, going with outside PR, telling authors they need to take hold of their own marketing — will mean that more agencies, and others, will jump into the publishing fray.

Takes a little bit of pressure off some of the authors who do have quality work out there because they may be awesome authors but not so good at marketing, and publicity is the biggest thing holding them back.

Author in Progress: A No - Holds - Barred Guide to What it Really Takes to Get Published is a book of over 50 essays by Writer Unboxed contributors, guiding writers through the process of creating a novel, from pre-writing, through the writing process, and beyond to publication.

What is definitely true is that the share of the reading market held by commercially - minded publishers (not just commercial «for profits», but also university presses) will diminish as both successful self - published authors and hundreds of thousands of others who don't succeed (and maybe don't even care) take their content to market on their own.

Now, with the online capabilities of cloud - based storage, the authors» concerns seem to take hold.

My hope would be that online or independent authors would stay away from it — and be repudiated for it — precisely because it could taint all online / independent authorship as that avenue of publishing takes hold.

But part of the issue is that «the big five» are so closely held that many newer authors who do indeed take writing seriously don't have the old alternatives to big pubs — newspapers or magazines — to put out their stories in serial form (remember Charles Dickens?).

The reason traditionally published authors & the traditional publishing side has such disdain for self - publishing is not because anyone & everyone CAN do it, but because MOST of the ones who DO IT have self - published either unpublishable garbage OR have taken a manuscript with great potential & published it without decent editing & revision (both of which seriously hinder the enjoyment of the reading audience - not an issue if you're a hobby writer who just wants to entertain family & friends, but a serious issue for anyone who thinks that that sort of thing can hold its own against carefully revised & edited work).

Well, this is just practice, so...) or one of the many very good self - published authors that have taken a big portion of the market share and are holding fast.

Whether self - publishing takes hold or not, it may be too late for any individual authors not named J.K. Rowling or James Patterson to avoid the power of Amazon.

He doesn't hold back when a company is clearly taking advantage of authors.

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Frugality guru and author Jeff Yeager notes that America has become a nation of spenders; this is a relatively recent trend that took hold in the early 1980's.

Because carry and value require longer holding periods to harvest the factors» returns, the authors take the extra step of setting those strategy portfolios» monthly weights to the trailing average of the prior -12-months model weights.

It takes in some perspectives about where some investors are finding value today — although some of these areas would require the need for, as the author puts it «a strong stomach and the willingness to hold on when things go from bad to worse.»

Now I think that willard has made a strong case criticizing the way that this paper's authors take Held's comment out of context — but even still, the question of whether or not a counter-convention study should face a higher bar is an interesting one, IMO.

There is a new vision of sustainability taking hold, particularly among young people; It is more urban; as author Taras Grescoe put it, it is a mix of 19th century transportation (bikes, walking, trams) and 21st century communication (smart phones, twitter).

The Vitamin Shoppe (North Bergen, NJ) 6/2007 — 1/2010 Assistant Category Manager • Assisted Category Manager with product development process and item lifecycle • Developed and implemented product launch and comprehensive marketing strategy • Set email blast schedule, product events, coupons, and web - based sales efforts • Determined product development costs, retail price, and vendor information • Authored ingredients, usage directions, warning messages, and all label information • Oversaw website product copy, high - res images, and collateral materials • Negotiated partnerships, hold harmless agreements, and other vendor matters • Managed product inventory, purchase orders, merchandising, and invoices • Authored and presented reports regarding product development, marketing, and sales • Trained retail stores in product placement, promotion, and technical customer support • Analyzed opportunities for company category and product sales growth • Proficient in use of JDA, BCC, WMS, ATG, Take Stock 6.0, and ACT software

Alexianer GmbH, who is the holding company of the hospital where data collection took place, provided support in the form of salaries for authors JDR, MP, DL, and DV, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.