Sentences with phrase «great author support»

We provide great author support, offer superior bookstore terms, provide marketing help for authors, and have the best direct - sales website around.

Not exact matches

Another great quote from an unknown author that teaches us that encouraging, supporting, training, and sometimes replacing the most fragile contributor is the best way to refine and improve a team.

Author Paul Meyer argues that despite the challenge of a restrictive definition of nuclear security, Seoul has the opportunity to «brand» its own summit success by supporting practical results to secure vulnerable nuclear material and enlarging the summit scope to address threats to the nuclear order of greater saliency and priority than those associated with putative terrorists.

In the article, the authors contended that since the mass media are supported by great business concerns which are tied to the present social and economic system, the media contribute to the maintenance of that system.

The authors suggest their greatest concern with the current asylum system relates to accommodation and financial support being withdrawn almost immediately after a negative decision has been made on an asylum claim.

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

To support their case — and to highlight the excessive level of police brutality faced by African Americans — the authors present novel data showing that, over the past 50 years, blacks have faced significantly greater risk than whites of being killed by police.

Writing in PLoS ONE, Paul Cross from Bangor University and fellow authors conclude that the impact of beekeeping on income could be even larger if more ongoing support would be provided to beekeepers so that they are able to reap a greater profit or contribution to the household income, from the honey and other hive products, and that they should monitor their success rate over a longer time - period.

«With the right support, you don't need a great deal of instructional experience to introduce the techniques,» said UBC mathematician and educational strategist Warren Code, lead author of the paper.

Greater verbal skills, the authors suggest, could help soldiers better discuss their experiences in order to make sense of them and could help them establish more extensive networks for social support.

Each partner's body is entirely supported by the mattress, NYC - based sex therapist Stephen Snyder, MD, author of Love Worth Making: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long - Term Relationship, tells Health.

According to Kiernan Mathews, the director of the COACHE initiative and the author of the white paper, the joy and relief of tenure can fade quickly in the face of increased teaching loads, greater expectations for service and advising, a more competitive market for grants, and the disappearance of mentoring programs that supported them as early - career faculty.

The author points out that as schools award contracts to computer vendors such as Apple, Dell, and HP, market interests influence the body of research on 1:1 laptop programs, and despite a great deal of research over the five years studied, there remains a lack of understanding of the value added by the 1:1 programs for students» knowledge formation and the teaching practices that support such knowledge formation.

When the authors polled the parent focus groups to see which methods of socioeconomic integration appeal most to them, parents voiced the greatest support for special programs.

Robyn R. Jackson is president of Mindsteps and author of How to Support Struggling Students (ASCD / Mindsteps, 2010) and Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching (ASCD, 2009); [email protected].

Likewise, having great familiarity with the authors of not only the three studies cited in this brief, but also the others cited «in support,» let's just say their aforementioned sheer lack of attention to bias and what bias meant for the validity of their findings was (unfortunately) predictable.

«Considering that many of the world's greatest scientists, authors, actors, teachers and leaders were once English Language Learners one would think the public education system in the United States would be designed to promote and support opportunities for those who need extra help learning the English Language.

I was discussing this with someone yesterday, going back and forth at possible explanations, which included that self - pubbed authors tend to work the review mines harder than their trad pubbed peers, or have more support from other indie authors reviewing, or get higher ratings due to the generally lower price of the work (greater satisfaction due to a price / performance expectation).

While we authors are responsible for building our own brands, we receive a great deal of support and advice from HI on promo, and have a forum in which we can ask questions and get direct answers from the editors, marketing people etc which is available to everyone.

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: Simpson is a great literary favorite, and this winning novel will be supported by a cross-country author tour and plenty of publicity.

The realisation that even the greatest authors get multiple rejections, together with the fact that publishing digitally is now free, persuaded Piper to give her novel, Victim Support, another go, this time on her own terms.

If you liked this post, you might be interested in joining ALLi, which provides great networking opportunities with other indie authors, both on line and in real life, and sharing best practice, experience and moral support.

Indie leaders were recognized in three categories: «Best Practices in Indie Publishing» for publishers who demonstrate great models of publishing standards, «Best Practices in Community Engagement» for bookstores and libraries providing exceptional support to their indie author communities, and «Rising Star» for new Indie authors in 2017 who displayed savvy approaches to content creation, marketing, and distribution in the industry.

That's more than enough readers to support a great deal of authors.

Sprinkled throughout this site's user guide and FAQ are statements that are somewhat misleading, such as these (emphasis mine): «We hope that you'll be willing to pay something to support our cause, support the authors who bring us such great books, and do some social good!»

A ton of great authors showed their support and submitted stories.

Sales are great, press releases, interviews, live radio guest appearances are exciting, climbing the ranks and entering the Top 100 Best Selling Authors in Science Fiction multiple times is exhilarating, but nothing beats the support from readers and friends, and fellow writers who share this thrill with me.

Amazon has used its monopsony power, and its ability to threaten punishment, to extract an ever greater share of the total price of a book from publishers, which has resulted in less revenue to support midlist authors and certain kinds of books, effectively silencing many voices.

The YP Publishing provides author support services that helps authors spend more of their time doing what they do best — writing a great book.

Surely it had its own ups and downs, technical glitches, hosting issues, submission overloads and others, but thanks to all of your support, we have reached a level of what you're seeing today — Great readers, great authors and most importantly a great community that shGreat readers, great authors and most importantly a great community that shgreat authors and most importantly a great community that shgreat community that shares.

An exciting concept, proposed by Marcello Vena, general manager of RCS Libri, was that of «co-publishing,» a model that essentially lets traditional and small press publishers lend greater support to self - published authors through collaboration.

Among my favorites are Olive Wellwood, a complicated woman whose writing for children supports her large family (she's based on one of my favorite childhood authors, the writer E. Nesbit); her eldest daughter, Dorothy, whose desire to become a doctor is verbally but not always materially supported by her permissive, counter-cultural family; and Phillip, a boy with the drive and genius to become a great potter who is discovered living in the basement of the brand - new South Kensington (soon to be Victoria & Albert) Museum.

One great thing about this compared to some places is that there are a lot more readers here supporting authors than at other places (for example, on WriteOn it's all for workshopping, so basically everyone there is an author).

Adding author events to your book marketing arsenal is a great way to build your local fan base and plant seeds for future sales and long - term support.

Even then, money, fame and fortune were not guaranteed because even though you had many authors and hundreds of thousands of books available, the reader market was not that great and publishers were really not focusing on new authors, but instead continued to support established and well marketed books.With the introduction of new technology and the drive to store lot of books electronically in case of certain disaster lead to the eBook phenomena.

Because we want to support our authors, this is a great way to get their books into the hands of prospective readers.»

Finding authors that meet these criteria will open up greater opportunities for collaboration and reciprocal support.

While industry (other authors) support is of great value (look to WANA and other similar entities for this), it's more important to build a tribe of readers than a tribe of fellow writers.

Great article from author Jody Hedlund about supporting readers and fans of your work who support your... [Read more...]

I've made my own group here in Houston where we get together and support authors at a local bookstore, enjoy some great food and talk of all things books!

The purpose of this Book Club is to reach out to other bloggers by sharing great books and discussions while showing support for our favorite authors

Now you can make sure the samples that authors hear on Findaway Voices always represent your latest and greatest without having to contact our support team.

Fortunately, I've also been subject to a great deal of kind encouragement and support by my fellow indie authors.

But as a lesson in how to spin, gyre and gimble The Brillig Blogger is indeed a nonpareil and could have a great future in political speech - writing if the «supporting» authors in self - publishing venture follows literary agent - gatekeeping for traditional publishers down the rabbit hole.

Our author support groups are a great way to meet and network with other local authors and to learn all about the world of self - publishing.

We hope you will support our effort not only by taking advantage of these great sales and purchasing our books, but by subscribing to the various author newsletters for which you earn points in the raffle event below.

«It is our great pleasure to support new authors making such great first contributions to Canadian literature.»

Indie Reader was founded to play that important role in support for self - published authors, while still doing much more in terms of helping readers find great books to enjoy.

Forgo the higher price point and the stronger royalty percentages to satisfy reader desires (and if you do the math, authors earn less money with trade pb until the tipping point), or go for the hardcover, get more support and have a higher chance of earning out that advance (or the greater risk of failure if it doesn't work).

RSJ also supports authors and readers by providing marketing opportunities to help get great books into the hands of more readers via online promotion, knowledgeable workshops, and conferences celebrating talented authors of romantic and women's fiction.