Sentences with phrase «authors work with getting»

How do authors work with getting those statistics from BookBaby?

And it really ticks me off when authors I work with get scammed.

Most of the Australian authors I work with get most of their revenues from Amazon.com.

Not exact matches

Eric Abrahamson, a professor of management at Columbia Business School and author of The Perfect Mess, adds that order comes with a cost: «If you stop to tidy up every time something becomes disordered you'll continually interrupt yourself and never get any work done,» he says.

Fredrick Petrie, author of «The End of Work: Financial Planning for People With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over for savings.

As an example, I not only agented this book myself to a major NYC - area publisher, I brought in Jay and his famous brand, I brought in Stephen M.R. Covey for the foreword, and even wrote my own back cover (something most authors never get to do when working with a major publisher).

While this strategy works just fine for large publishers that already have established brands and get thousands of shares on any new article they publish (such as Mashable or TechCrunch), a more pragmatic approach is needed for just about every other business.It's true that getting quality inbound links starts with great content on your client's website, but the missing link is getting journalists, contributors, authors, and editors at quality publications to become aware of that content so that they can link to it when writing relevant stories / articles.

Ultimately I fell into a suicidal depression and got helped in a secular environment (I personally have a hard time with the term secular as I believe all the graceful elements of help be they Christian with a cross on the building or secular w / out the cross have as their origin God and His Son and Spirit even working through people unaware of the Author of the graces they extend).

I am currently working with 5 authors to get their books into print within the next year.

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

But the fuss over her comment and its underlying assumption — that there must be something wrong with him because, busy or not, he «should» have a girlfriend — got me thinking about the work of Bella DePaulo, author of numerous books on the single life, including Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After.

Working with human breast tissue, the new study's authors attempted to induce EMT in normal cells; they figured they would just get fibroblasts, a type of connective tissue that is important in wound healing.

«It was very hard to get sufficient samples,» said Hongjun Yu, a postdoctoral scientist working with Li and the first author of the paper, noting that the proteins make very small crystals with a hard to solve structure.

«Experiencing conflict or making an error is something that normally gets us worked up, perhaps by activating our fight - or - flight response, which can interfere with our ability to focus on a task,» said first author R. Becket Ebitz, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University who conducted this study as a graduate student at Duke.

«By figuring out a way to get genes across the blood - brain barrier, we are able to deliver them throughout the adult brain with high efficiency,» says Ben Deverman, a senior research scientist at Caltech and lead author of a paper describing the work in the February 1 online publication of the journal Nature Biotechnology.

It's simple... author Jon Bensen has narrowed down the 5 Universal Steps that work with any diet to allow you to get leaner, faster... and stay that way for life!

It ended up raining mid-morning which cooled everything down so that by the time I left work early so I could get ready to go to an outdoor concert (American Authors, The Script and One Republic, all of which were amazing) I was chilly even with the cardigan!

Wire Side Chat: Helping «Fake Readers» Become Proficient Life - Long Readers Cris Tovani, author of the best - selling «I Read It, But I Don't Get It,» chats with Education World about her checkered reading past and about her widely acclaimed work with students and teachers in the area of reading comprehension strategies.

Share children's finished work with the author, by getting in touch with me on here, I would love to see their work and maybe share on my website.

Share children's finished work with the author, by getting in touch with me on Etsy, I would love to see their work and maybe share on my website.

Summary: This is an interview with the author, Paul Tough, whose new book «Helping Children Succeed» explores the importance of connection and meaningful hard work that will help children persevere when the going gets tough.

During their work with tens of thousands of teachers, authors Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, and Cathy Williams heard the same message — that they want to incorporate more brain science into their math instruction, but they need guidance in the techniques that work best to get across the concepts they needed to teach.

With rapid authoring tools, you can just make the jump and create the storyboard in the tool itself; this gets your work done faster so that you can meet your time - crunching deadlines.

I was discussing this with someone yesterday, going back and forth at possible explanations, which included that self - pubbed authors tend to work the review mines harder than their trad pubbed peers, or have more support from other indie authors reviewing, or get higher ratings due to the generally lower price of the work (greater satisfaction due to a price / performance expectation).

I tell my clients to (temporarily) disregard the feedback in literary agent rejection letters, because, if I'm working with the author in a long - term program to help them get literary agents reading their work, I know their writing is at a high enough level that they should give the manuscript a chance before making radical revisions and / or hiring an editor.

Steampunk (and Harlequin and Amish romance) author Shelley Adina joins us today to talk about managing multiple pen names and genres, keeping a long - running series fresh (and selling), paying for foreign translations of indie books, and working the cons to get in touch with more readers (and take trips you can write off on your taxes!).

Once the publishing process is complete, you'll work with an Author Services representative who will guide you through the promotion process, helping you get your book into readers» hands.

She wrote a book called The Indie Author guide, which she has made available totally for free on her website (not exactly the behavior of a money grubber) I've read the book and it's filled with tips on how indie authors can get their work out affordably.

I think this kind of positive energy is absolutely key for indie authors today: you have got to believe that you can make it and persevere in your work with that belief until things begin to pick up.

This webinar will arm authors working with or without an agent with the knowledge and negotiating skills to get the most out of their book deals before, during, and after signing.

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Because agents get so many submissions, and rarely have competition (because authors don't know how to do it) it's easy for agents to treat you as though you're lucky to be working with them.

I actually paid to become a Winner Circle member specifically to get access to the book club directory component to see if it was helpful before recommending it to the authors I work with.

If you're like most authors (including my coaching clients who work with me to find a literary agent), you probably already know it can be difficult to get an agent.

Brower says she loves working with authors «who aren't afraid to get out there and promote their book once it is published.

Having worked with traditional publishers and self - published several of her books, Massey has great advice for indie authors on independent publishing, book marketing and strategies for getting a book into bookstores, libraries and reviews.

We deliver essential book development, book printing and binding services with one aim: to help first - time and veteran self - publishers get to market while retaining their authors» rights and full control over their work.

At the end of the day, I feel like the authors I worked with, got their money's worth and I will offer it again next year.

I don't believe that makes you less of an author for choosing to take what is arguably a harder route if you choose to do it right rather than rushing in excitement (commission editors and proofreaders, commission an artist, no advance to help with these costs, harder to get work onto bookshelves etc).

The minute someone gets defensive about any of this, doesn't think there's always more to learn about writing or publishing, is content with the mediocrity of a couple hundred sales of their work on Amazon, or thinks they can beat the tried - and - true system of years of hard work and dedication it takes to be a respected author, I know I'm talking to a hobbyist.

Wow, you really are out of touch with the publishing industry if you think that indie authors aren't investing as much (if not more) money in getting their work edited, covers designed etc that the larger publishers put into their titles.

Now if we can get Amazon to quit messing with prices that authors have set in order to artificially pump up sales then we can get a real feeling for how this is gonna work in the new economy.

Another author said «I had pretty much quit my day job to get a Master's Degree, but knew I'd have to go back to work as soon as I was done with classes.

Hank is a great interviewer (so check out his site), and I was particularly happy that we not only got to talk about my Victorian San Francisco Mystery Series but that I was also able to introduce his listeners to the history behind the Paradisi Chronicles — the open source science fiction universe I have been working on with six other authors for the past year.

Whether it's optimizing your online listings, advertising your book on social media, or designing a sell - sheet, we work with our authors to get the right message out to the right audience.

Authors that Mark Malatesta has worked with have gotten 6 - figure advances, been on the NY Times bestseller list, been licensed in more than 30 countries, and won countless national and international awards and honors.

Many authors lack a large author platform, so you got ta work with what you have to get your book in front of readers.

Authors who don't invest in themselves and their work quickly get overwhelmed with the lack of progress and can give up.

The alternative is where an author puts their own money into getting their work out there — the quality of which has nothing to do with what the publishing process is labeled and everything to do with the skill of the producer and their team (if any).

But I'd so much like to catch authors before it's too late to get a book publicist really excited about a project: before a major book publishing house has given up on promoting the book (or lost interest in selling the book) or before an author has committed to working with a print - on - demand company whose imprint would make a book about 95 % more difficult to properly promote than it has to be.