Sentences with phrase «book i'm working on»

In learning Old Testament Hebrew, the first book we worked on was Genesis.

The first book I worked on was called A Guide to the Brown Ticks of the World, and I have to confess to always being slightly jealous of one of my fellow trainees who spent her time on Three Spotty Monsters and The Runaway Chapati!

The Internet is a factor in her business, too: With one book she worked on, the author lived in Britain, the substantive editor was in California, the copy editor in London and the printer in India.

Also, remember, our cover designers are asked their opinions of ALL the books they work on.

I have to point out, however, that not a lot of the books I work on for my clients fall into that category and typically have a few formatting features that require more attention to detail.

Note: You don't need to have a Kindle or other brand of eBook reader to read an eBook (although these free books work on those devices)-- nearly all of these books are available in both text and PDF versions and many are available in a format specifically designed for smart phones.

That's hard to say... The books I work on are so diverse that each and every author and book bring something really special to it.

For me, the book worked on many levels, and I was truly pleased with the results (Beth C).

PubML ™ books work on all popular platforms, scale to fit any screen, and there are no per - book fees or commissions.

Every book we work on goes through a series of rigorous checks to make sure that the text and formatting are error - free.

I have a book it works on & a book it doesn't.

If we could define the audience that clearly for every book we worked on, it would make our jobs so much easier!

I'm not creating a page just for it, but rather for my writing «brand» — this way, I can promote Poo Bah, and also the other books I work on, to the same set of fans.

Of course, there are books I'm exceptionally proud of having edited, and books I'm less connected to — I am fully committed to doing the best job possible on every book I work on, but there are some I loved, and some that were just doing the job.

The two are in truth quite similar because both options still give you complete control of your book but the difference between the two is that having your book published through a self - publishing company gives you the option to have your book worked on by a team of highly skilled people and marketed by a company that already has marketing connections.

A world in which we are so focused on our authors, so passionate about the books we work on, on the industry that we rightly treasure, yet often I wonder if this is at the cost of a broader perspective.

BiblioCrunch helps authors sift through the madness and we make sure that every book we work on is high quality.

In the article, Jay Armstrong interviewed artist Jackie Morris about a book she worked on with Robert Macfarlane.

If you've read my book Working on the Road: The Unconventional Guide to Full - Time Freedom, you'll know that the possibilities for earning a location independent living are broadening every day.

The first comprehensive analysis of the warming limit / carbon budget / carbon «slug» (I haven't used that term before) approach was a book I worked on with Florentin Krause and Wilfred Bach that was first published in 1989, republished in 1992 as Krause, Florentin, Wilfred Bach, and Jonathan G. Koomey.

Not exact matches

Schultz talks affectionately about his father in his book, «Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time,» saying that Fred was an honest man who worked hard, played ball with his kids on the weekend and loved the Yankees.

Amazon's dominant position in both book publishing and book selling means that it would be incredibly dangerous for the company to start picking and choosing, on moral grounds, which authors it chooses to work with.

I worked with [the young Canadian actor] Lyriq Bent on Book of Negroes.

As a home - office journalist juggling a book deadline and domestic duties, I rely on regular runs along Ottawa's Rideau River to put work and parenting pressures in perspective.

«Working on the rap genius book homie!»

A thought - provoking post on Business Insider gathers evidence from Newport's book and elsewhere that the Microsoft founder was — in his youth at least — a true master of deep work.

«When people want it now and we happen to be on the chat box just hanging out — watching TV maybe, or working — and a chat comes up to book a client meeting next week, then great, we'll jump on that opportunity.»

Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and psychologist Steven Kramer, authors of the incisive The Progress Principle, pored over 12,000 daily work diary entries and were surprised to find out that making progress — even small wins — on meaningful work is the most powerful motivator,» reports the book.

There has been plenty of important research on each of these management qualities, such as Mark Murphy's book Hundred Percenters on motivating employees to greatness; or ex-Googler Kim Scott's «radical candour» approach to providing feedback; or the work of Brené Brown, whose landmark 2010 TED talk is called «The Power of Vulnerability.»

She wrote one of the first business books on using the Internet for business, and loves working with clients to enhance their marketing.

On April 27th, he is launching a campaign for Synergist to raise money for the company using their own platform, an industry - first for a socially driven company.Jared has also worked for 2 Silicon Valley start - ups and is currently writing a book about other inspiring young entrepreneurs and innovators.

McGrady, who worked for Diana and the royal family from 1993 until she died in 1997, shared a few tidbits about the princess in his book, «The Royal Chef at Home,» his second cookbook that is set for release on September 1.

When McConlogue leaves to go to work, Leo spends 3 - 4 hours on his own, practicing writing code and reading one of the three javascript books McConlogue gave him alongside a Samsung Chromebook.

In her book, Put Your Intuition to Work, intuition expert Lynn Robinson explains that some of the greatest business leaders rely on their intuition to make important decisions.

By 8:30 a.m. (the time I usually ended up rolling out of bed), I had read several chapters of a good business book, listened to part of a podcast, spent time in prayer, done some P90X Yoga, and worked on a side - project that I'd been «too busy» to work on for years.

It could eliminate perhaps the last remaining gripe about how physical books are superior to e-books because you can resell them (okay, paper books also have a certain smell — perhaps Amazon is working on that too?).

Corporate Culture / Team Culture: Removing the Hidden Barriers to Team Success Not so much a step - by - step guide to making teams work as it is a first step, this book (from AMACOM, 800-538-4761, 1997, $ 22.95) focuses on whether a company has the culture to support teams.

Uber, which allows users to book and pay for a taxi by smartphone, says its more than 30,000 London drivers enjoy the flexibility of being able to work when they choose and receive on average more than the minimum wage.

Duff chronicled the spectacular rise and fall of his career on Wall Street in the book, «The Buy Side,» and is currently working on his second book, a Wall Street novel.

While much of the credit for counterinsurgency goes to Petraeus (and Gen. James Mattis), who literally wrote the book on the subject, it was Mansoor who edited the work.

Book review: How Gen. David Petraeus developed a new strategy on counterinsurgency and convinced his superiors it would work.

«Before the internet and globalization, you could drive a business on a few successful market launches,» says Ken Tencer, CEO of Spyder Works, a Toronto - and NYC - based business consulting firm and co-author of two books on innovation — The 90 % Rule and Cause a Disturbance.

As of Friday, homeowners searching for contractors on Google will be shown results that are «HomeAdvisor screened and approved» and come with profiles, price estimates and the ability to «book now» or schedule an appointment to compare estimates for work.

Her new book, Business as Unusual (Thorsons), was published in the United States in January, and she's already working on another manuscript.

MENLO PARK, Calif., April 24 - Facebook Inc on Tuesday released a rule book for the types of posts it allows on its social network, giving far more detail than ever before on what is permitted on subjects ranging from drug use and sex work to bullying, hate speech and inciting violence.

«Find a way to read around your schedule and your life situation,» says Foroux, who suggests you could read on the train, while waiting at the doctor's office, while breastfeeding your baby (I can personally testify you can get through quite a lot of books this way), or during breaks at work.

Part of the reason is that many controllers don't really understand how the role of CFO differs from that of working heads down on the books.

He burst on the scene with his book The 4 - Hour Work Week and has gone on to publish three more.

Why the book is interesting today is that it still is important and the most authoritative work on how to value financial assets.

In my years as an entrepreneur I've made enough mistakes to fill a book (which I'm working on), but here are five of the larger ones: