Sentences with phrase «books as authors»

And it wasn't so much books as authors, the many books those authors had written.

Dedicated independent authors can now sell as many books as authors from the Big Five.

Reading the bible literally does not mean taking every single word and applying it to every single situation; rather, it means to read each book as the author originally intended.

«Publishers can now take advantage of OverDrive's EPUB3 support to create enhanced eBooks using open standards that display children's picture books as the author and publisher intended, as well as to add interactive elements within the page to further engage the reader,» said Alexis Petric - Black, OverDrive's Director of Publisher Services.

Here I'm going to show you how to create a self - hosted WordPress website to promote yourself and your book as an author.

Initially, I did not like the book as the author does seem to jump from subject to subject.

Marketing your books as an author is always a priority, but when the weather turns nice,... Read the Post

Rating and reviewing books as an author can be tricky, but as an author, reading and thinking critically about books you've read can help you become a better author.

Remember, no one is as passionate about a book as the author.

It's no doubt a much strategy to think of social media as a «Help & Be Helped» vehicle for promoting your book as an author, rather than a mere «broadcast» vehicle — in the style of older traditional media.

DANGER, AUTHOR... DANGER, AUTHOR... DANGER, AUTHOR Heads up authors... when you sell your book as the author / publisher, you may no longer be at the top of the list of buy choices!

Authors may use pen names for their books and only this name will appear on the book as Author's name.

It's not so much a book as an author — M.B. Beaton, author of the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series.

Amazon book launcher said it had no issues w my book and now they say it's not working with resizing font etc, after being on Kindle for over a month or more, which makes me livid that my first book as an author had issues and now they are just now letting me know.

Not exact matches

Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby, and author of Anything You Want (When you buy any version of the book you can get 200 musical downloads as a gift from Derek).

«People read each other's intent as soon as they see each other,» says Nick Morgan, speech coach and author of new book «Power Cues: The Subtle Science of Leading Groups, Persuading Others, and Maximizing Your Personal Impact.»

Best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad — the No. 1 personal finance book of all time — Robert Kiyosaki has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about money.

An author who sets out to write a book as a lead - gen device for marketing clients is by definition a lousy marketer.

I'm a self - published author, and while writing more books is great, I also need to focus on selling the one that is already out there to as many distribution platforms as possible.

And as author David Rock observes in his book Quiet Leadership, advice can be challenged and debated; that's far harder when people reach a conclusion based on their own answers to open - ended questions.

As a professor and author of the book, «Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation,» Sue uses his research to educate businesses and corporations about the intervention trainings they can do to prevent these issues from reoccurring.

But as bestselling author and Oprah - anointed happiness expert Shawn Achor pointed out on in an excerpt from his new book on the TED Ideas blog recently, that sort of praise — well intentioned as it might be — actually does more harm than good.

He is the author of two books: BIG LIKE: CASCADE INTO AN ODYSSEY, a travel memoir of an almost regular guy who gets totally unstuck in Tokyo — a «funny as hell non-fiction book about wanderlust and traveling abroad»; and TESTOSTERONE PIT, a short, edgy, humorous novel about car salesmen, their customers, managers, and shenanigans at a large Ford dealership.

In fact, many authors wait until their book is at the rough draft stage to finalize what they will use as hook material.

I view reading a book as a conversation with the author.

If as an author your plans are to write the book and expect others to sell it... do not write the book.

In July, Amazon tried to make peace with Hachette authors by offering them 100 % of digital book sales for as long as talks with Hachette dragged out — a proposal that Hachette had already turned down in negotiations.

When I became an author, my first shoestring book tour basically consisted of all the places I had lived on the West and East Coasts as well as the Midwest and South.

«Customers are buying into the concept and the message of the company as much as they are buying the product,» observes Debra Lynn Dadd, author of the book Home Safe Home, and a SoapWorks endorser.

From my experience as an author coach, another big hurdle to overcome is that little voice in our head that keeps asking «Who am I to write a book?»

For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

And they use the author's name as a verb that can refer either to purging or meticulous folding: «Waiting for kettle to boil... So I Kondoed my recipe books,» Elaine Colliar, a family - finance columnist for Scotland's Sunday Mail, proclaimed in a recent Facebook post,» reported the WSJ recently.

Carmine Gallo is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of such books as «Talk Like TED» and «The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs.»

As an author, I know that with every book I write I learn more about myself, both my strengths and my weaknesses.

Traditional answers often focus on various sectors and involve more or less hand - wringing about their rise and fall, but according to the author of a forthcoming book on entrepreneurship and economy, there is another, better way to view our economy — as one single ecosystem, a sort of one - sector economy that interacts as a unit much like a forest and which should be nurtured as it grows and recycles itself.

Head of content at MarketingProfs, and author of some of the more compelling digital - centric books out there, such as Everybody Writes and Content Rules.

«China has engaged for a very long time in the theft of our intellectual property as well as practices like forced technology transfer,» said Navarro, author of several books anti-China books including «Death by China.»

It's hard to believe that an author who has made a career of the «leadership» racket — with book titles such as Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters; and Reinventing Leadership: Making the Connection Between Politics and Business — would now be calling for its end.

The Harry Potter book series and film franchise, worth well over $ 21 billion, continues to attract avid fans — even as many as nineteen years after author J.K. Rowling penned the first novel.

I would read great books and read profound articles and just think to myself — «How I wish I was as creative as the author who wrote that great book.»

He has shared his sales and business expertise as a motivational speaker and author of five books: Sell to Survive; The Closers Survival Guide; If You're Not First, You're Last; The 10X Rule; and Sell or Be Sold.

She's released a series of workout DVDs such as Bodyshred and Body Revolution, authored a handful of bestselling books about weight loss, and in 2014 launched a women's and children's activewear brand called Impact.

It is unlikely you will find success as a book author if you haven't written a few dozen blogs first.

'' [They] come into the world as their parents» sole princess or prince,» wrote Jeffrey Kluger, author of the book «The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us» in an article for «Time.»

In their book The Power of Moments, authors Chip and Dan Heath give more insight into what is required to deliver these types of experiences, defining moments, as they describe them:

Barry Farber is rated as one of the top speakers of the year by Successful Meetings Magazine and is the bestselling author of 11 books on sales, management and personal achievement.

The authors of both books recognize that the chances of a product or idea taking off phenomenally are enhanced by social groups that «provide the resources for their members to learn,» as Brown and Duguid put it.

«Social Security is about as complicated a fiscal system as is humanly possible to design,» said Larry Kotlikoff, an economics professor at Boston University and author of the book «Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security,» set for release in February.

He's also the author of the new book EQ Leader: Instilling Passion, Creating Shared Goals, and Building Meaningful Organizations Through Emotional Intelligence, as well as the best - selling The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success.

As the CEO of the Author Incubator, Lauria and her team provide aspiring authors with guidance on how to write and publish their own books — whether that's through self - publishing or through her company.