Sentences with phrase «few authors meet»

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Together, Kid President Robby and Brad have met President Obama, music star Beyonce, actor Nicolas Cage, and author Nick Hornby, just to name a few.

Over the past few months, it's been really exciting to meet and correspond with established authors I have admired for years as well as new authors just breaking into the market.

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.

Yet authors Martin Robinson and Dan Yarnell write in Celebrating the Small Church: «It is unlikely the activity of a few larger churches, no matter how creative they might be, will be enough to meet the missionary challenge of our age.

«Most of the country is either meeting the EPA standards now, or is expected to meet them in a few years as new power plant controls kick in,» said senior author Joel Schwartz, professor of environmental epidemiology.

I met many other authors who shared their stories on what they have learned about the book publishing process and made a few friends along the way.

While the authors shame all states for minimizing teachers» test - based ratings before these systems had a chance, as also ignorant to what they cite as «a robust body of research» (without references or citations here, and few elsewhere in a set of footnotes), they add that it remains an unknown as to «why state educational agencies put forth regulations or guidance that would allow teachers to be rated effective without meeting their student growth goals» (p. 4).

Next, the authors acknowledge that the sources of «effective teachers and school leaders» are insufficient to meet the need of the expansion plans at a time the number of California teacher preparation programs is declining and a prime source of the charters for new teachers — Teach for America — is producing fewer candidates.

Dan and I first met a few years back after I interviewed him for a company I was working with, and over time it has become abundantly clear we share common ideas on how authors can market their work without being that sleazy salesman.

A few years ago, a group I called «Mean Girls - meets - Lord of the Flies» terrorized authors on Goodreads and Amazon.

He was one of the few authors I've met who had actually been on Oprah.

But as startups began to recognize the self - publishing and digital platform spheres were overloaded with options for authors, a few other companies began quietly meeting the needs that other companies had overlooked.

As part of the release of her fifth novel FOUND, Melissa has offered to share a few of her book publishing experiences, some marketing tips and the things she's learnt along the way: In 2013 I attended a writer's workshop in my beautiful coastal hometown of Merimbula, Australia, and met an author who was at the forefront of self - publishing Read More

A recent article in The Guardian by We Need to Talk about Kevin author, Lionel Shriver (who I was lucky enough to meet at a literary festival a few years ago) rightly said: «If all modern literature comes to toe the same goody - goody line, fiction is bound to grow timid, homogeneous, and dreary.»

Once we know that, there might be other solutions available that eliminate the need for the advance criteria while meeting the objective of a viable career option for the many (the author group) as opposed to the few (individual authors).

But luckily I found it a few months later, and this blog now gets an average of 12,000 hits a month on its four monthly posts and I have a blog partner, Ruth Harris, who is one of my favorite best - selling authors — someone I'd never have dreamed of meeting three years ago.

Over the last few years, I've had the opportunity to meet many aspiring authors.

A few weeks ago when I gave the key note address at the West Coast Writers Conference Indie Author Conference, I had the opportunity to meet Kathy Ide.

In the first few months of your author - marketer career, you should be like a door - to - door salesman: identifying people who'd potentially be interested in your work and going to meet them.

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.

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.

Almost every author I have met who managed to get a few books up indie published stopped cold after two or three.

During the con, I caught up with a few of my Wicked Ink Books co - authors / publishers and met some new, dynamic authors like Amalie Howard, Brianna Shrum, and Ellie Ann, and bloggers like Sisters in Geek.

That led some authors to produce very short books so that the ten percent minimum was met by just a few pages.

I had the absolute pleasure of meeting Leah a few months back at two book events (with three other very talented authors).

A few weeks ago I presented at a writing conference in the Ozarks where I met a very successful self - published author named Ashley Fontainne.

Here are a few organizations that can help you network and meet other self - published authors:

But then the opportunity to meet with a few fellow Phoenix authors in person appeared; first was with Joanna Meyer, a newly - agented writer, Marissa Fuller, a longtime friend from Twitter, and finally, Amy K. Nichols, traditionally published and an author invited to Phoenix Comicon 2015 (her debut, «While You Were Here,» is fantastic).

When I was at the Florida Writers Conference this past October, I met more than a few authors with books in the conference bookstore.

I've heard quite a few people say that although they love all the free books and the chance to meet their favorite authors, they come back time and again for the fun connections and friendships they've made with so many readers, and authors alike.

I've met and know a few published authors.

In the few years I've been writing books, I've met many new authors who released their first book expecting it to be an instant chart - topper, and they were so utterly crushed when it didn't, they quit.

A few years back, author Joshilyn Jackson posted a story on her blog about meeting an author who was without a doubt his own biggest fan.

An interesting mix of emerging authors: predominantly YA and sci - fi, but have been thrilled to meet a few literary fiction writers as well.

I know more than a few authors who are upset at how their books have been priced in the past, and have yet to meet one whose traditionally published who has final say over what their work sells for.

It was so lovely to meet with fellow authors and I came away so inspired knowing that I am just a few steps behind them.

But if you can strike up a relationship from a standing start, prosperity will naturally follow... Ben Kench - author of Selling for Dummies, the UK's bestselling book on sales technique - let me in on a few top tips for meeting people and being remembered.

Again, thanks to the folks at RealClimate for letting me post, since I am not an actual scientist.Tim Ferris, a popular astronomy and astrophysics author that I've read extensivly, and like a lot personally, once said to me at a Commonwealth club meeting, here in San Francisco, a few years ago, that maybe species extinction and loss of human life is part of the natural cycle of the planet cleansing itself.At the time, (although he is still one of my favorite cosmology and astronomy authors), I felt the comment was arrogant, and off base.Now I'm not so sure.

While attending a bar function today, a local appellate justice I have met a few times before recognized me, introduced me to his companions as the author of an appellate blog, and confessed -LRB-?)