After spending three
days meeting authors and publishers, and giving them publicity suggestions, I realized that while a lot of you are attending writing and publishing conferences, some of you aren't maximizing the benefits.
Not exact matches
Ricardo Semler, a Brazilian industrialist and
author of «The Seven
Day Weekend,» suggests not requiring anyone to turn up to
meetings.
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.
Hoffman was baptized Catholic, said the Rev. James Martin, a Catholic priest and prolific
author who
met the late actor while consulting for an off - Broadway play, «The Last
Days of Judas Iscariot.»
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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.
While celebrating Earth
Day at Honeymoon Island last month I had the pleasure of
meeting a wonderfully talented children's
author.
By restructuring my
day and using the productivity - enhancing strategies that I will show you below I was able to
meet my ambitious deadline and write a thesis that led to three first -
author publications.
Nine years after
meeting Celine (Delpy, Three Colors: White), Jesse (Hawke, Training
Day) is a best - selling
author, whose latest novel is a fictional account of that night in Vienna where the two fell for each other.
«Speaking of Classroom Management» — An Interview with Harry K. Wong
Meet Harry K. Wong, the
author of The First
Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher, and learn the secret to your success in the classroom.
day, students «
meet» their favorite
authors online at scheduled times.
My primary concern lies with the goal of the book; as indicated by the
authors, «this book and supporting materials are designed to equip you with the competencies needed to
meet the challenges of teaching online in five
days.»
The
author spoke candidly about the many social crimes inflicted on children in poorer neighborhoods, and the disparities in funding and facilities that children and teachers he
met during his research deal with every
day.
In early August, Kristen Buras,
author of Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space: Where the Market
Meets Grassroots Resistance, helped organize a two -
day conference in New Orleans on community - centered education research.
I have been the featured
author of Walmart and Sam's clubs for Literacy
Day, traveling to multiple of their stores
meeting with children and promoting reading and literacy in the United States.
A cynical Wall Street analyst falls in love with a British billionaire, only to learn that they have
met before: In the trenches of World War I. Swooningly romantic and well grounded in both history and the world of modern -
day finance (the
author has an MBA).
It was a pleasure to
meet Tim online, and I'm looking forward to
meeting him in real life at the end of the month, when we'll both be delegates at The Bookseller magazine's
Author Day in London.
I first
met superstar
author Catherine Ryan Hyde in her pre-Pay it Forward
days when she got some terrible critiques at a local writing group.Her story was brilliant.
Tickets for that (at $ 8 each) sold out within a couple hours, but they know they have to adhere to the space limitations and readers have a whole
day (I'm thinking it's 10 - 4) to
meet, talk with, and have their books signed by
authors.
Meet indie
author rockstar Colleen Hoover posted at 30
Day Books, saying, «A crazy beautiful story of how writing, indie publishing, and Amazon have dramatically turned someone's life around.
Looking forward to a terrific
day meeting readers and other indie
authors.
It will be an opportunity to
meet the
author of the children's book, First
Day of School: Do You Want to be My Friend?
Many of the top publishers and
authors will likely stay the few extra
days in New York to
meet with the fans and professional companies that exist to market their services to libraries can take the chance to tear down their booths and flee for their lives.
Three
days of awesome hospitality and wonderful accommodations were the perfect recipe for all us readers, and I for one had a great time
meeting mentors, fellow
authors, fans and many new friends.
If you are lucky you may stumble on what you need in a few
days or weeks, or if you are like me you can spend years attending local
author meetings, book publishing
meetings, reading everything Google has to offer, and still not have a clear idea of what steps to take to get your book out there.
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Many of the most successful
authors have gotten their start in journalism (either online or in print), and they'll often say that the sheer discipline they learned from
meeting deadlines every
day made it possible for them to write their own work at the end of the
day.
Indie
Author Day, a nationwide event sponsored by BiblioBoard, is designed to bring local indie writers together to
meet and learn from each other.
Case Study: Amazon Best Selling Book in Just One
Day — With Facebook Ads:
Meet a contrarian
author, H. Ann Ackroyd of TransomPress.com, a Historical Fiction writer.
While those personal
meetings at
Author Day are reserved for those who are registered and attending the conference, Friday's online Twitter conversations with the PFD agents are open to all.
It's almost become a job title, a name tag, if you will, that I wear when I go from the sedate, 8 - 10 hour
day at the keyboard with little human contact to the plane - jumping, speech - giving, always - smiling publicity hound that is what most readers see when they
meet their favorite
authors.
The signing will be limited to the first 100 customers who purchase a Kazue Kato title at that location on July 1st, who will receive a wristband for a guaranteed spot to
meet the
author at the autograph session later that
day and receive an exclusive shikishi art board.
Authors Terita and Aleesa St. Julian offer their advice and encouragement to other aspiring authors after having a positive experience self - publishing Aleesa's book, The Day I Met Walt, with WestBow
Authors Terita and Aleesa St. Julian offer their advice and encouragement to other aspiring
authors after having a positive experience self - publishing Aleesa's book, The Day I Met Walt, with WestBow
authors after having a positive experience self - publishing Aleesa's book, The
Day I
Met Walt, with WestBow Press.
Being an
author is being a freelancer who doesn't charge based on the work involved; a freelancer who accepts payments based on rules and schedules defined solely by the buyer, rules that are based on their accounting and which the freelancer has little recourse to double - check; a freelancer who subsists on a fraction of minimum wage and a host of
day jobs; and it's being a freelancer who is bound by contracts that last their lifetime plus the lifetime of their children (or until a specific set of requirements have been
met that, requirements that are set and monitored exclusively by the employer).
It seems that more and more people have access to creating a book these
days, whether it is through the large number of publishers both big and small, a print - on - demand service like CreateSpace or Lightning Source, or any of the independent presses that are springing up to
meet the needs of
authors who are tired of... [Read more...]
It seems that more and more people have access to creating a book these
days, whether it is through the large number of publishers both big and small, a print - on - demand service like CreateSpace or Lightning Source, or any of the independent presses that are springing up to
meet the needs of
authors who are tired of playing the publishing game.
Then follow up the next
day with an email, a hand - written note or a phone call reminding the
author that you've
met and enclose the proposal for endorsement.
For many
authors there just is not enough time in the
day to
meet that daily word count and manage all the other aspects of being an
author (social media, for example).
I found more
day - by -
day diaries from attendees — the
authors they
met, the lines they waited in, the breakfasts that disappointed — than I did recaps of trends, lessons learned, or predictions.
I don't look down on them, just not my cup of tea — heck, I've found female romance
authors are some of the sharpest, funniest people I've ever
met, and I'd rather hang out with them than the literary crowd any
day.
Second, I might
meet the actual
author some
day, and that would be awkward -LSB-...]
I spent a couple of
days in Stockholm last week, and did three events in just over 24 hours for Lava Forlag,
meeting authors at all stages of the journey.
Porter Anderson's weekly round - up of publishing buzz offers a first - hand account of last week's Foyles
meetings to imagine the «bookshop of the future,» looks at O'Reilly's
Author (R) Evoution
Day and more.
Some of these are specifically for the purpose of
meeting agents (such as the «
Meet the Agents»
day sponsored by the International Women's Writing Guild); others are aimed at publishers (Publishers Marketing Association University) or journalists (American Society for Journalists and
Authors) but attended by literary agents.
You'll see a lot of
authors who insist that you must have the discipline to
meet that minimum word count each and every
day.
Even before the rise of indie authorship, most traditionally published
authors still had to maintain
day jobs to make ends
meet.
Not long after, the events manager at a local library invited me to their Indie
Author Day event, where I
met a dozen or so other indies.
Let this
author's story inspire you, he doesn't stop each
day until he
meets his daily book sales quota.
Over two
days of focused Masterclasses, you will hear from and
meet with New York Times bestselling
Authors, World Class Film Makers and Award Winning Game Narrative Designers.
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