Sentences with phrase «authors they meet at»

This reminds me of a conversation I had with an old school author I met at a romance convention who asked me when I was going to write a real book for a real publisher in a very snide way.

As a result, I am planning a private event with five authors I met at the Dayton Book Expo for August.

Many will only look at agented submissions or submissions from authors they met at writing conferences.

Another author I met at a sci - fi convention said it was important to have a full pipeline of work, so I started writing the sequel and published my other books in fairly quick succession.

One of the most frequent questions I get from authors I meet at writing conferences is «How do I get my book into libraries?»

I know of many agents who only take queries from authors they meet at conferences.

Not exact matches

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?»

Author Elizabeth Royte writes in her book, «Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought it,» that 92 % of the nation's 53,000 local water systems meet or exceed federal safety standards and are at least as clean and often cleaner than bottled water.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

In his book, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design, author Brian Solis looks at the way brands like Sephora, Intuit, and LEGO revamped their customer experience by first creating a map of the customer journey.

Friday, May 4, 2012 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. University of Nebraska at Omaha Mammel Hall Atrium (67th St. and Pine) Meet and greet authors of books related to Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, investing and management.

Jim Rickards, author of Currency Wars, spoke about a meeting that he had with senior officials at the US Department of Treasury.

But for me the finest and most moving essay was the last one, devoted to one Matthew Shanahan, a man otherwise unknown to the world, who was going blind and whom the author met while he was reading aloud books at a Jewish home for the blind: «Matthew Shanahan was as Irish as Joseph Epstein is Jewish....

Robert Coles, author and child psychiatrist at Harvard, met and had several conversations with Karen Horney when he was a medical student and she was hospitalized in New York City, a few days before her death.

In order to acquaint theological students in pastoral counseling courses with AA and to help them feel more at ease with alcoholics, the author asks his students to attend an open meeting of AA.

The author is fully aware that official meetings and statements do not always reflect the thinking at local situations.

Further, as no one was quoted, it's impossible to know if the single reference to the meeting is nothing more than an aggregate of the author's handful of experiences at the beginning.

And these people scoff at contradictions in the Bible; a collection of literature written over three millenia, by authors who never met each other to compare notes, in various places in the Middle East and around the Mediteranean, in various times.

He was a well - known author, and people traveled from all over the world to meet him and learn from him at L'Abri in Switzerland.

Upon meeting the author for the first time, Mother took one look at Kelly's red nail polish and told her to stop adorning herself in luxuries and to spend her money on the poor, to which Ms. Kelly brazenly replied that that's exactly what Judas said to Jesus.

He addressed the meeting, as did Harry James Cargas, an author and member of the English Department at Webster College in St. Louis.

The author attends a meeting of the Promise Keepers at Oakland Coliseum and reports on the event, as well as the phenomenon of this successful men's movement.

For example, Philip H. Ashby, The Conflict of Religions (New York, 1955), the first work of the first scholar in this field at Princeton, is a discussion «concerning the possible contributions of the religions of the world to the amelioration of the problems of mankind» (p. 192; opening sentence of the concluding chapter); the author is concerned to show that man (sic) can meet the terrible problems that confront him today if he can replace the «conflict» among his various religions with a «combined witness» (p. viii).

Wakefield celebrates this community in New York in the «50s, which began as an essay on Baldwin, at whose Village apartment Wakefield met jazz musicians, authors and intellectuals.

I never would have met Erica Dermer, cat lover, author and blogger over at Celiac & The Beast.

Then, I met Garrett, one of the authors, during an afternoon of wine tasting at IFBC, and since he was toting around a copy of the book, I took a peek, and was genuinely impressed.

I adapted this recipe from one found in The Fishes & Dishes Cookbook: Seafood Recipes and Salty Stories from Alaska's Commercial Fisherwomen — I got to meet one of the authors when we picked this up at our local Whole Foods.

At a meeting in February, Vancouver resident Eleanor Boyle, author of High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat, laid out the science behind the need to cut down on the amount of meat being eaten around the world, explaining the environmental impact of industrial meat production.

Simply removing sodium from foods and / or beverages will likely be met with consumer resistance,» says Darren Seifer, food and beverage industry analyst at NPD and author of the sodium report.

Meet favorite authors and storybook characters, craft, and enjoy family - friendly activities at the Boston Book Festival (Boston)

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Research recently presented at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting suggests that helping teens learn to count their blessings can play a significant role in positive mental health, says study author Giacomo Bono, a professor of psychology at California State University in Dominguez Hills.

As an author of 17 books and booklets on baby loss and death and dying, she has spoken at thousands of meetings, support groups, conferences, inservices, and multiple day seminars.

Dr. Doyle has authored numerous articles, research papers and book chapters covering a broad area of fertility related topics, and is a frequent speaker at medical meetings and conferences.

I managed to meet author, yoga instructor, and birthing assistant Rose St. John through work and she turned me onto her book Fathers At Birth, aimed specifically at giving fathers - to - be the tools, techniques and knowledge they need to best support the mother during childbirtAt Birth, aimed specifically at giving fathers - to - be the tools, techniques and knowledge they need to best support the mother during childbirtat giving fathers - to - be the tools, techniques and knowledge they need to best support the mother during childbirth.

PFC physician and lead author Liyun Li, MD, will present the research findings on today at 6:00 pm at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society (PCRS) in Rancho Mirage, CA.

The author's group, API of Camden County, meets the fourth Monday of each month at 10:30 a.m. in Collingswood, New Jersey, USA, at the Collingswood Public Library in the large community meeting room.

Ruth Yaron, author of Super Baby Food got a chance to meet Martha Stewart, backstage, at the taping of the Martha Stewart Show where Super Baby Food is featured.

While celebrating Earth Day at Honeymoon Island last month I had the pleasure of meeting a wonderfully talented children's author.

Certainly the author has a mindset of empowering pregnant mothers and healthy living which I adore, but her tone is gentle and soothing, meeting women where they are at.

James Frayne is Director of Policy & Strategy at Policy Exchange and is author of Meet the People, a guide to public opinion.

James Frayne is Director Policy & Strategy at Policy Exchange and author of Meet the People, a guide to corporate campaigning.

James Frayne is Director of Policy & Strategy at Policy Exchange and author of Meet the People, a guide to public opinion.

James Frayne is Director of Policy & Strategy at Policy Exchange and author of Meet the People, a guide to public affairs campaigns.

«Given the severe costs that Trident renewal could require... there is now a strong case for a re-examination of whether alternatives to current continuous - at - sea deterrence (CASD) policy could yield significant financial savings while continuing to meet this agreed objective,» the report's author, Professor Malcolm Chalmers, wrote.

James Frayne is director of policy & strategy at Policy Exchange and author of Meet the People, a guide to corporate campaigning.

«All of our coal - fired power plants, none of them can meet those efficiency standards,» said Melanie Hart, one of the report's authors and director of China policy at CAP.

This apparent effect is «something that people have been whispering about at meetings for years,» says lead author Jeffrey Mogil, a pain researcher at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Results from this study, and others related to obesity and pregnancy, will be presented today during an oral presentation by author Kellie Tamashiro, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University at 3:30 pm ET at The Obesity Society Annual Meeting at ObesityWeekSM 2014 in Boston, Mass..

Therefore, authors should feel free to present their data at scientific meetings but should not overtly seek media attention or give copies of the figures or data from their manuscript to any reporter.