Sentences with phrase «even good authors»

A query letter is a vital document for writers seeking traditional publishers or literary agents, and one even good authors often get wrong.

Even the best authors get denied by traditional publishing houses.

I personally edited over 2 million published words and even the best authors need guidance — not because they are bad authors, but because novels are large works and it is amazingly difficult to sustain the same degree of quality over 80, 90, or 200 thousand words.

Even the best authors work with a publishing copy editor prior to publication because it ensures a well - written, clear, readable and polished book.

She cleans up the typos, grammatical errors, and stylistic inconsistencies that even the best authors can't always catch.

Even the best authors do!

Not exact matches

The study's authors say that getting people to think favourably of your accomplishments might be better achieved «by modest self - representation, or even self - denigration, than by outright bragging about one's positive qualities.»

According to David Randall, the author of Dreamland, even a short nap «primes our brains to function at a higher level, letting us come up with better ideas, find solutions to puzzles more quickly, identify patterns faster and recall information more accurately.»

According to bestselling management author and CNBC contributor Suzy Welch, there is one simple mistake that even the most well - prepared candidates make: They use an interview to answer questions instead of to have a conversation.

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

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.

Some women — even businesswomen — are good listeners and empathetic, which Belinda Parmar, author of The Empathy Era, has said, drives profit.

Even the most ferocious and the most laid - back authors actually share a good deal more common ground than either would care to admit.

«If you've got too much text on the screen, you can't compel an audience in any emotional way at all,» says Altman, author of the just released Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Still Suck & How You Can Make Them Even Better.

One of Canada's leading scholars on deindustrialization and the author of Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969 — 1985, Concordia historian Steven High, assumes that deindustrialization did occur to some extent, but that nationalist worker activism forced politicians to legislate advance warnings of shutdowns, better packages and, in some cases, even slowed plant closures.

When a couple of Canadian economists published research (pdf) last December showing that using an alternative methodology yields much better productivity growth rates, StatsCan was quick to reject it, even though one of the authors, Erwin Diewert, a professor at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics, is widely regarded as one of the world's finest brains in the field.

The authors said even employers who do a good job of putting women and minorities into leadership development programs don't always give them room to mess up.

We were even featured in a recent business book by a well - known author and business speaker,» said Clothier.

A pick and choose Catholic like the author should consider finding another faith, or even better, just becoming an «if it feels good do it» follower.

But I believe as the author says that in the end... people know what is right and what is wrong and may also realize, unfortunately, that people do the best they can do with what they have, even though it may be flawed to the max.

[101] Sanders points out that the author would regard the gospel as theologically true as revealed spiritually even if its content is not historically accurate [101] and argues that even historically plausible elements in John can hardly be taken as historical evidence, as they may well represent the author's intuition rather than historical recollection.

The author is trying to intimate that this is not true, and thus he is misleading, even deceiving his readers in the interest of good PR.

LOVED both of these, and I'm loving them even more now that I've gotten to know the authors better.

Also, even if the author didn't believe in a god and just meant «goodness» this would still, I think, be talking about a «faith» that good would win out.

'' [the author] addresses the question I asked earlier, «Is it ever morally justifiable (or even morally good) to act to end another human being's life?»

A non-drinker, non-everything good Independent Fundamental Baptist Free Methodist Presbyterian, sometimes not even a church goer, daughter of a religious author girl.

Instead of such a self - defeating hermeneutic, it would seem better to hold to the unity of Scripture in its parts and whole, even while continuing to seek the individual author's intention and historical context for those clues that would allow us to maintain Scripture's integrity.

The author points out that the former works out very well, as the current standard of living in developed countries is way beyond anything even princes could have dreamt of just a century ago.

gave me a chance to rediscover Jane Austen, not least because she is my mother's favorite author: For not only does the Oakesian matriarch own all six of the Austen novels in the elegant Oxford edition, but Park Honan's marvelous biography, Jane Austen: Her Life, occupies a prominent place on her bookshelf as well ¯ which I gobbled up (naturally) even more avidly than I did the novels.

Another well - known pastor and author writes similarly that «the proof of salvation is not listening to the Word, or having a quick emotional response to the Word, or even cultivating the Word so that it grows into life.

Even Mark Mathabane, the mild - mannered tennis player turned writer who is author of the best - selling autobiography Kaffir Boy, offended the government with the simple, powerful story of his boyhood, and he, too, now lives in the U.S.

It is not to say that God can not bring some good out of tragedy but that is very different than being the author or even an endorser of such pain and suffering.

The authors do not go with the traditional answer to the problem of evil that since God is in control and since God is good, we must call all evil things that happen good, even if they appear bad.

From a Mexican perspective, the author is convinced that one can only understand his religious symbols correctly from within and not by mere observation — even the best and most critical — from the outside.

This sounds good from the perspective of modern Christianity David, but couldn't it also be the case that in the primitive polytheistic world of the author, they felt that worshiping «their god», and «only their god» was of greater value than even human life?

Even those who have never studied philosophy will recognize his name as the author of «Ockham's Razor» — the principle (still used in the sciences as well as in philosophy) that, as a general rule, the simpler of two explanations should be preferred.

Even so, the Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev, Petro Mohyla in the 1640's, made contacts with Rome and was the author of yet another proposal for renewing communion with Rome, on what he considered slightly better terms.

Whether they believe it was written by God / god or a human author (let alone translated from one language to another over many years and the interpretations of those words taught / passed down over many years with many different understandings which formed with even the best intentions by men and women who were products of their time and place?)

However, to the author's point, we as Christians grieve the Lord when we argue for 2nd ammendment rights with the same — or even more rabid — fervor than sharig the good news of Jesus to those around us!

Most are unaware of the original malintent of the powerful men who were the authors and who are now the keepers and interpreters (even many of these keepers and interpreters on the lower rungs of the bureaucratic ladder are good but ignorant people).

I made Bon Appetit's Strawberry & Rhubarb Crumble (May 2010, p. 132) for my stepson's graduation party; he loves strawberries, is off to the U.K. for the summer and it was a recipe from British cookbook author Tamasin Day - Lewis, so I thought it was a good fit for the party even though it wasn't particularly diabetic - friendly.

Using their well - honed technique, the authors provide recipes for every baked good you can possibly dream of using whole wheat, spelt, barley, and rye, even lentils.

Actually mine came out good, used king author GF flour and even thought it had xanthum gum I still added 1/2 tsp extra.

What would be even better is if the authors would participate with discussions.

Don't let the title of this article deceive you, the original author of the piece really does appear to believe that Liverpool's squad of 2012 is better equipped to take on the season than United, he even dares to suggest... Continue Reading →

As study author Geneviève Beaulieu - Pelletier says, «These numbers indicate that even if we get married with the best of intentions, things don't always turn out the way we plan.»

Rather it seemed the authors were predisposed to see their actions as problematic, even though discerning questions might have revealed the mothers had good reason for them.

«Parents who get a preemie parent buddy cope better, even if it's just a short conversation once a week,» says Jennifer Gunter, ob - gyn and author of The Preemie Primer.

Beth Kobliner is a commentator and journalist, author of the New York Times bestseller Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties, as well as Make Your Kid a Money Genius (Even If You're Not), a new book for parents coming from Simon & Schuster in February 2017.

Even Dr. Spock, the late pediatrician and best - selling author, cautioned in his first book that men are subject to «clumsiness» around babies.