I had readers tell me of retired breeding dogs they'd bought - from apparently reputable breeders - whose problems adapting to living in a regular home, mirrored much of what they read in my book.
I've honestly
had readers tell me that they'd love to read my book, but worry about what their friends or family might think when they see them reading a book about doubt.
Having used coconut milk for ice cream and
having readers tell me it was possible I decided to give it a try.
I had a few readers for my WIP (reworking it now after rejections from publishers), and I always find it amazingly - pleasant to have someone to discuss your work with, an occasion to gossip about your favorite characters or
have the readers tell you what they expect to see in a sequel.
I had a reader tell me that she wants to come visit and find the Grandmother tree I reference in The Roaring Redwoods.
To give you an example, I once
had a reader tell me she had a sheet with all the titles on it, and each time she started a book, she set it next to her to make sure they were being used properly.
Not exact matches
«If it was up to me, I
'd give you the records for nothing, and you could give them to [every
reader of your] magazine,» Dylan
told AARP The Magazine, the report said.
While many
have complained about the series» delay in the past — once prompting fellow author Neil Gaiman to
tell a
reader, «George R. R. Martin is not your bitch» — the reaction to the latest announcement
has been kind.
During a Reddit AMA last year, the billionaire Microsoft cofounder
told readers that he
had just spent his weekend watching his daughter ride horses and enjoying some old - fashioned fun.
Openly admitting to what he
would do differently if he started his career over, Watson
told his LinkedIn
readers:
Many studies show that the brain «lights up» in reacting to imagery, truly transporting the
reader to the events being described (recall any good story you
've read or heard, you know that you placed yourself «there» during it's
telling).
It hit a soft spot, and in a few cases,
readers even
told me they
had decided to look for a different job.
After my comparison of H&R Block and TurboTax came out, a
reader reached out to
tell me that FreeTaxUSA was another good option for people who want to file their taxes without
having their intelligence insulted (his words, not mine).
Meanwhile, here's how to write killer sales emails and how to get your sales emails opened — both useful posts from what
readers have told me.
Similarly, it can't
tell you that your mind will be blown because the headline writer
has no idea what
readers might consider to be incredible and amazing, or what might be simply neat or even mundane.
«I can not
tell you how many letters we get from
readers who
have lost everything to pickpockets, so it really is a mistake to carry around a lot of cash,» she said.
Instead he
tells readers that proponents of a tax haven't thought about its consequences and uncritically repeats every piece of nonsense produced by the financial industry to attack the idea.
By the end of January, he
told readers he
had raised US$ 480,000.
The most
telling was a statement calling men «scumbags» (for those
readers that don't speak American / Canadian English, this is a word that only a woman
would ever use to describe men).
After devouring 96,208 meals at 65 chains, our
readers told us that quality of the food
has become more important in their dining decisions, and convenience of location is less so than in our 2011 report.
Some writers
have told our
readers about their journey to their overseas home — how and why they chose their new retirement destination... how their lives
have changed for the better... and what it is that they love about the place they now live in.
Some
readers will recall that public servants
have been
told to refer systematically to the «Harper government,» but that didn't begin until he
had been the Prime Minister for nearly five years.
As
readers of this blog can
tell, I
've been spending a lot of my time recently focused on cryptonetworks and blockchains, and in particular, working...
The Guardian
has an article that begins by
telling readers how Amazon produces a copy of a designer laptop stand and sells...
I just thought I
would update this post to
tell readers that I already received 2 spam comments, and I haven't even marketed this site yet!
We
have been
telling readers to avoid the long side in futures for the past few years.
Award - Winning Author's New Column
Tells Your
Readers How HADLEY, MA: If you
've been hearing, «I
'd love to go green, but it's too...
In honor of Travel Agent Appreciation Day, we asked
readers to
tell us about some special ways they
have showed how much they appreciate their clients — and vice versa.
If everyone who visits rabble and likes it chipped in a couple of dollars per month, our future
would be much more secure and we could do much more: like the things our
readers tell us they want to see more of: more staff reporters and more work to complete the upgrade of our website.
In an «Ask Me Anything» session on Reddit Monday evening (Jan. 5), Musk
told readers that the details of his Mars Colonial Transporter
would be unveiled by the end of the year, and that the plan
would be different from the Dragon capsules and Falcon 9 rockets SpaceX is flying today.
Now, that may sound obvious to you, but I can't
tell you how many sales pieces I
've seen that just describe a product and then don't really ask the
reader to do anything.
The Toronto newspaper, however, omitted to
tell its
readers that the Times took an optimistic view of the affair, concluding in the same sentence that it «may
have provided the opportunity to reset relations between Canada and India.»
I
've told our Sovereign Man: Confidential
readers about an asset - backed loan earning 13 % a year.
Dear
reader, if you are overcome with fear of missing out on the next stock market move; if you feel like you
have to own stocks no matter the cost; if you
tell yourself, «Stocks are expensive, but I am a long - term investor»; then consider this article a public service announcement written just for you.
We
've been
telling readers at Profit Confidential that since 2008.
Reader question: «We recently applied for a home loan and were
told that we
would not get a final approval until the underwriter reviewed our file.
You
have betrayed your
readers but they don't care as long as they can spew hate to the people you
tell them to hate.
A 16th - Century Bible with a printing mistake
telling readers to
have affairs is set to be auctioned for up to # 15,000 next month.
She
has this very intelligent nephew in graduate school and included him on her list of family members, friends, and associates to whom we sent a sample issue of FT.. Now a regular
reader, he's
telling everyone in the family about his smart Aunt Sarah in Boston.
But before I forget, I wanted to
tell my UK
readers that I
have some great news: Out of Sorts was released early for you!
First,
readers have told me that they are voting for Romney not because Mormonism is proper Christianity but because Romney is the lesser of two evils.
David, I
've been one of those silent
readers for some time now, even as I watched, solely through your own
telling, the tempest that was rising in your former call.
I can't
tell you how often I
've spoken at a Baptist church (American or Cooperative) and
had readers come up to me and say, «I can't believe they let you speak in a Baptist church!»
The NIV, following its usual theological bias, doesn't even bother with a footnote to
tell its unwary
readers that it
has altered «known» to «chosen» (Marston and Forster, God's Strategy in Human History, 230).
anyone who is in the lobby industry or marketing research knows about this business but the majority of the average forum
readers have no clue that the person they are talking with is in character and secretly copying their info and
telling some lobby if they agree or disagree with their agenda.
Nearly all other notices of God's activity are found in the speech of the characters as if to reveal their growing awareness of what the storyteller
has told the
reader; God is present and active, even when God remains hidden from view.
While there are many texts which
tell readers how to receive eternal life by faith alone, the vast majority of the Bible is intended to encourage and inspire those who
have received eternal life to live in light of the free gift they
have already received.
Once
readers start paying attention to the works themselves - to the way they are made, to what they
have to
tell us - they will inevitably stop taking critics who set themselves up in competition with the works very seriously.
• «What Nostra Aetate failed to do was to
tell the truth about the essence of God's Grace and Mercy, the truth about our Salvation,» writes a
reader of our weblog First Thoughts, responding to something I
'd written about our Jewish brethren.
I
have told you I think religion is a sham, just like I think astrology and palm
readers are shams.