Sentences with phrase «face book otherwise»

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The Orange Book wing of the party is preventing the liberal democrats from acting pragmatically, and all too often adopting neo-liberal dogma in the face of evidence to do otherwise.

Descriptions of the store include that the books are «all faced out,» to increase interest in ones that might've otherwise been overlooked if they were lined up by their spines, as in most other stores.

In most cases a major Hollywood adaptation all but automatically puts a book in the NYT bestseller list for at least a couple weeks and it's relatively cheap for publishers to put out a new edition featuring the film actors / poster as a cover to draw in even more people who would otherwise have not read the book, especially since a popular film adaptation means the books will be shown face up on tables or in special displays all over the place.

Frankly, it's a terrible habit, and I ruin a lot of otherwise really good books because I'm so nosy, but I feel like when I try to dismantle a Pike book too early, I get a slap in the face — a really good, creepy, twisted slap in the face!

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

According to the book, which I actually read many years ago, Dryden started the company by selling burial policies with a face value of $ 100 to working class families who couldn't otherwise afford life insurance.

Michael Straus, Chairman, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts «Sharon Louden has invaluably gathered together in this book an exceptionally diverse range of artists» experiences in order to illustrate, in a manner otherwise inaccessible, the inherent tensions that artists face in constantly balancing their drive to devote core time and energy to creating new work and their wish to share that work with the world with the complexities, as well as the joys, of their personal and family lives.»

According to the book, which I actually read many years ago, Dryden started the company by selling burial policies with a face value of $ 100 to working class families who couldn't otherwise afford life insurance.