Sentences with phrase «even big authors»

Contact information for even the biggest authors is almost always available.

Not exact matches

Rumors swirled in 2014 that the «Lean In» author might be eyeing a political run, perhaps for U.S. Senate or maybe even something bigger, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Adam is the author of 7 books including Lead The Field, 21 Ways to Build Your Business with a Book and Book The Business: How to Make Big Money With Your Book Without Even Selling a Single Copy, the # 1 book on marketing for authors that he co-authored with marketing legend Dan Kennedy.

You know, even when two experienced authors who are fantastic on their own try to collaborate, the result can be a big mess, i.e. Stephen King and Peter Straub.

Beth Kobliner, author of MAKE YOUR KID A MONEY GENIUS (EVEN IF YOU»RE NOT), and expert on kids and money, calls attention to one of the biggest problems in financial literacy today: the money gap.

Even on big sites such as Huffington Post or Daily Kos, different authors tend to cover their own favorite topics, and if you don't know who writes about what, it's very hard to...

For instance, if the last author is a big name, readers could easily assume that the senior scientist provided the intellectual firepower, even if the first author did the heavy lifting, Stemwedel says.

The biggest worry, the authors say, is that the true impact and economics of sand mining isn't even clearly understood.

But even the authors acknowledge some big caveats.

Even simple differences such as how big they are at birth correlate with differences in how they respond to drug treatment,» said senior study author Bree Aldridge, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and adjunct assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Tufts University School of Engineering.

Sequencing virus genomes from even a fraction of people infected in an epidemic and comparing mutation patterns can give researchers valuable information about how big the epidemic is, how long it has been spreading and where transmissions chains start and end, said Dr. Trevor Bedford, a Fred Hutch evolutionary biologist and one of the paper's authors.

Dave Asprey: Mind Share for people listening, this is my dear friend JJ Virgin's group of highly influential health authors and celebrity types where we get together once or twice a year usually about 100 or so, 150 people, and talk about how we can better serve listeners, people like you, in just in getting information that's impactful that's out there that maybe is missing because all of us are sort of just tired of or even disgusted by some of the things that big industry is telling people to do.

It consists of a long litany of detailed criticisms of the study, questions the motives of the researchers but concludes they are probably not part of a Big Food conspiracy because the authors are members of the alternative medicine world (even though, the article critically notes of the group to which the authors belong, «Its website indicates it supports vaccination for both children and adults»).

Dan Slater, author of «Love in the Time of Algorithms» points out, «We all know that people have already been using Facebook for dating, and that Facebook is the biggest online dating site in the world, even though it doesn't think of itself as an online dating site.»

She even references words of wisdom from Paul A. Falzone, author of «A Singles Guide to Finding the Right One» and CEO of The Right One and Together Dating, says, «It's not 100 % necessary to stay off the Big Three.

Dan Slater, author of Love in the Time of Algorithms, says «We all know that people have already been using Facebook for dating, and that Facebook is the biggest online dating site in the world, even though it doesn't think of itself as an online dating site.»

Curiously her screen daughter in that best picture winner Jean Arthur, an even bigger star, shares her same birthday (for the year of 1900) 1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (an early step in creating the cinema) 1903 Author and screenwriter Nathanael West is born in NYC.

With a degree in Finance, a love for learning and an even bigger fascination for enabling education in the world, Dimitris is authoring the blog of TalentLMS with a creative...

With a degree in Finance, a love for learning and an even bigger fascination for enabling education in the world, Dimitris is authoring the blog of TalentLMS with a creative note.

I believe all we can do as authors is to create compelling work to the best of our abilities, targeted in genres that are large enough to sustain us if they it breaks big, and to love what we're doing even if we had to pay to do it.

Most authors, even big names, never check money owed them with the overseas publisher as to how much they are supposed to be getting.

A lot of self - published authors and bloggers don't seem to even be aware of anything but the «Big Five» and Amazon.

A recent article in the New York Times entitled «New Publisher Authors Trust: Themselves» reveals that even big name authors have chosen to self - pAuthors Trust: Themselves» reveals that even big name authors have chosen to self - pauthors have chosen to self - publish.

Even if an author's first book hits it big, they still put the time, effort, and investment into it.

Back when my first novel was published in 1997, authors went on book tours, scheduling talks and signings at bookstores, groceries, and even stopping at drugstores and big - box retail stores to sign books on the shelves.

While enjoying this thrilling young adult title, participants can visit our Big Library Read website to share their thoughts with readers across the globe on our discussion board and even chat with the author herself!

, Shriver goes on to admit that she sometimes has trouble including female writers when asked to name her favorites, in part because «The big names in the literary pantheon are repeated over and over again... [I] n the glare of a spotlight and frantic to remember any author's name at all, even women like me are going to remember Philip Roth — just as, asked to name a soft drink, I'm going to remember Coca - Cola.

THERE»S NO PLACE LIKE HOME A bigger switch comes from New York Times best - selling author Connie Brockway, who offers her first contemporary with Hot Dish, a novel that turns out to be that rarest of breeds, a contemporary romance that isn't chick lit or divorce lit or even (much) of a romantic suspense, but a hot main dish for the savvy reader who knows pure romance can be a hearty meal in itself.

The mindset inherent in this strategy is to ignore the real problems of the business — inadequate fiscal controls, antiquated business processes, and a painfully slow business cycle that means slow revenue realization for the publisher (and even slower for the talent that actually manufactures the product, which is another factor that encourages authors to forgo going to the Big 5).

The Big (i.e., irrelevant commercial) Publishers, the Random Houses and HarperCollinses and Simon & Schusters and Hachettes, wheeled and dealt multimillion - dollar con - tracts among themselves, though increasingly the agents were holding on to their authors» foreign rights, stalking the halls and booths like hyenas, or even, egregiously, like the upstart McTaggart, setting up their own stands with spiffy little tables and printed catalogs several inches thick handed out by demure young people, aping the publishers themselves (the nerve!).

Even if you're not a big follower of industry news, you probably know that huge advances for literary novels are few and far between these days, so this is major news — particularly in the wake of a Wall Street Journal article about low advances for literary authors in the e-book market.

Traditional press gives more of a name brand backing to your novels, but often even the big five publishers depend on the authors to market their own books.

Also keep in mind that the earnings per author, even with these three big deals, will * not * be personally significant to any individual author because the almost $ 100,000 we're talking about here will be spread across thousands of authors.

I suspect that editors and advertisers will be the big winners, because they get their money even if the author doesn't sell one book.

I'm delighted with Skyscape and wouldn't even consider a Big 5 option if it were offered — I'm quite sure my terms are better, especially for a new author.

(And by the way, I'm rooting for * any * platform or company that gives authors a fair shake, whether it's Amazon, iTunes, B&N, Kobo, small - to medium - size presses, some new distribution system being dreamed up right now in someone's back bedroom, or even any of the Big 5 publishers willing to significantly change their contract terms and treat authors more equitably.)

To suggest it's a level playing field for indie authors is to ignore the facts, even within the US, let alone in that big wide world beyond.

Even for authors whose work is published by one of the big publishing houses, with all their clout and distribution, social media matters and reviews are crucial to online sales.

I'm not sure we all realize that even the big - name, traditionally published authors have red - pen - brandishing editors.

Further, editors can be asked to use a very light copy - editing hand with big - name authors whose style is well established, even though it's quirky.

I think $ 14.99 is stupidly high for an ebook, and I'm very reluctant to put down that kind of money for one, even for my top favorite authors, even though I have disposal income and a real big yen for ebooks.

But with indie publishing running so much of the industry now, the playing field is really evened out and a lot of the big mojo that used to hit the bestseller lists is being seen in fiction — which often doesn't report to these lists, or authors are selling lots of copies of all of their books, as opposed to one, singular title.

The bigger publishers even have author portals with lots of important and useful information.

Even if the Big 5 remain standing, the power is shifting to authors.

But... even if authors just pick one thing on the list to do for others, it would make a big difference.

More and more, the indie author market is giving traditional publishers a run for their money and the big New York houses are going to have to innovate even more than they have in the past.

Even the biggest names out there know that marketing is simply part of the game, though you may get more of a straight answer from successful self - published authors.

But, warning: even this new form of book publishing hides a business underneath, namely the big deal of self publishing platforms, that nowadays earn much money by the high number of self published authors.

And if an author were a big enough author and a publisher wanted them badly enough and they felt it was an issue, it would be negotiation point... but I have to tell you in the 23 years I've been at Kensington I've never heard of an agent even bringing this point up once.

So, even with overhead, big publishing still makes twice more than authors.