Sentences with phrase «ego over the author»

The developmental editor's job to be helpful and supportive, make specific suggestions which the writer is free to accept or reject, and never put their own ego over the author's.

Not exact matches

Equal Partners vs. Ego Trips vs. Agents Who Just Roll Over: Few agents treat authors like gods, saying or doing anything to try and please their clients or prospects.

Now my publishing / artist ego (the one who suffered over 10 years of rejections and strife to become a published author) immediately reacted.

That said, an over zealous, pushy author with a swollen ego is a definite turn off.

Working with his boss, the flamboyant Homer Stern, Paul learns the ins and outs of the book trade — how to work an agent over lunch; how to swim with the literary sharks at the Frankfurt Book Fair; and, most important, how to nurse the fragile egos of the dazzling, volatile authors he adores.

At Lulu, anyone is empowered to publish and sell their work to customers all over the world and our author - ego cards and cutouts really drove that point home — that and the fact that people love to get their photo taken.

There is a cliché left over from the Romantic era that authors are all emotion - overwhelmed, ego - driven creatures incapable of real analysis.