Sentences with phrase «in a publishing house so»

An editor's money is made on sales in a publishing house so it's in their best interest to make the book shine, with the author's blessing.

Not exact matches

In an article for Bloomberg View published shortly after the election, Cass Sunstein, administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President Obama, called the idea «pretty dumb» and said it would be extremely difficult to implement and require so many exemptions as to leave its scope narrow.

So far as book publishing is concerned there were practically no Jews in the business prior to 1915 and today Viking, Simon & Schuster, Knopf, Covici, Friede, and Random House do not rank in size of annual list with such non-Jewish houses as Macmillan, Scribner's, Harpers, Houghton Mifflin, Appleton - Century, Doubleday, Doran, and the like.

He credits the growth of his business, in part, to the stabilization of print and new practices in the publishing industry, such as Penguin Random House's so - called rapid replenishment program to restock books quickly.

House prices in 31 of the 41 world's housing markets, which have so far published statistics, rose during 2014, using inflation - adjusted figures, the 2014 Global Property Guide...

He has had his material published by a newly founded publishing house in Jena, and so it is rumoured will bring out eighteen more books.»

There is so much that has been going on in my world, with publishing a book, going on holiday to America (which was awesome) and then throw into the mix, moving house, that's why I have been a little quiet online of late.

I love it so much that I wrote a cookbook called The Gluten - Free Almond Flour Cookbook, which was published by Random House in 2009.

«Following the 2015 election, the chair of the all - party group, Stephen Lloyd, was not re-elected as an MP, and so, as vice-chair of the Group, I called an AGM for the group on 1stJuly, and informed all officers of the group who served in the last parliament, as well as all other MPs and members of the House of Lords, in accordance with the strict parliamentary requirements for publishing proper notice of such meetings.

In a submission to the House of Lords Constitution Committee's inquiry into the passage of legislation through Parliament, the CIOT proposes: · The Finance Bill Public Bill Committee takes oral evidence from tax experts and others; · More effective liaison between select committees and the Finance Bill committee; · Increasing the resources available to Parliament for scrutinising tax matters; · Using technology to make it easier for those outside Parliament to comment on Bills, e.g. an online facility to input comments by clause numbers, so MPs can see who says what against each clause; · Asking the Office of Tax Simplification to publish simplification assessments of new tax proposals.

As the UK's most trusted media outlet, the BBC is vital to the public debate, which is why the criticisms, published this week by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee in its Communicating Climate Science report, are so important.

Her new book Your Story: How To Write It So Others Will Want To Read It will be published by Hay House in 2017.

I love it so much that I wrote a cookbook called The Gluten - Free Almond Flour Cookbook, which was published by Random House in 2009.

Forty - seven years after The Washington Post published the so - called Pentagon Papers, there is another paranoid bully in the White House, press freedom is under real threat and the US capital is awash with lies, slander and allegations of «fake news».

How do you see the laying - off of so many in - house editors in the past couple of years affecting the work you both do, and how these new independents with publishing contacts and skills will play out in the workforce — both as literary agents and as independent editors — in the next few years?

You already know how amazing this idea is Hugh, so I won't add to that... I'm just posting to say if you ever decide owning a publishing house is in your future, I'd be happy to send my resume as a marketing / publicity manager your way!

Kimberly: It might not be my place to say this, and of course I respect any decision you may make, however, I honestly feel that your standard of writing is excellent and your style so unique that you would be able to get this published easily in a main stream publishing house.

Simon & Schuster, meanwhile, sounded pretty excited about being able to ride on the coattails of an established author that it has had to spend virtually nothing on so far — an executive for the publishing house said in a prepared statement:

We agree that self - publishing (1) can be a means of getting your words in print, (2) it will let you can control your tome's contents and design, (3) if you can market well, by self - publishing you can sidestep the big - house foot - dragging, (4) when your book is complementary to your greater purpose of displaying your expertise (as, for example, using your book to secure related speaking engagements), or (5) when self - publishing is the best (and perhaps only) way to get your words and ideas past the older, established houses so potential readers and buyers have a chance to see and decide about the merits of your independent offering.

My house is made with sturdy wooden walls that I paid for with four years of publishing income while my husband stayed home, so perhaps you should let us grown - ups that are actually in the industry discuss these issues.

In the meantime, I'll just keep doing that indie author thing that upsets you so much: writing and publishing, sans a New York publishing house.

But Ron Rash is a real in - house favorite here at BookPage, so when we heard that he was publishing a new book with Ecco in April, we had to spread the news.

I don't believe in vanity publishing so I struggled to get published by a professional publishing house.

It's only in relatively recent publishing history, you know 30 years or so, that the same publishing houses actually brought out first a hard back version and then the paperback.

I had a work background in business and journalism and graphic design so many of the publishing pieces I could do in - house.

I'm not convinced a judge will buy that DA itself is not an «information provider» responsible for the development of the blogpost in question when the discussion of publishing houses is so central to its mission that Jane says «I can not, in good conscience, maintain a blog about this subject without being free to report on all publishing houses.»

But I'd so much like to catch authors before it's too late to get a book publicist really excited about a project: before a major book publishing house has given up on promoting the book (or lost interest in selling the book) or before an author has committed to working with a print - on - demand company whose imprint would make a book about 95 % more difficult to properly promote than it has to be.

But I was blessed to have the offer so I teamed up with an agent, we put together a good quality proposal, I had designer, a graphic designer actually put it together real nice, it wasn't just a simple word document, and she pitched it to 16 different publishing houses in the U.S. and we got four offers.»

I used to consult publishing houses in norway for translation rights, and you're one of the people I would have love to have gotten over, but the vast majority of fantasy readers in norway are at least semi-fluent in english, so there's not much pull there unless you have a major breakthrough like Pat Rothfuss or a movie / TV deal like George R.R.Martin or John Scalzi.

Derek, There has been a lot of negativity aimed at self publishing and indies in recent days, mainly by those connected with the so - called establishment publishing houses and by some on the fringe.

I guess RWA might restrict it to romance titles, so that Random House can't drag in every title they publish (and that assumes that they are deemed to have a vanity press, which is not a clear cut thing).

The so - called mommy - porn trilogy started in the e-book and print - on - demand arena, and it launched a bidding war in the established publishing houses.

They say the Gatekeepers (agents, slush readers, and first - line editors) are there for a reason, ensuring that new product is of the highest possible quality, that they've ensured that booksellers aren't loaded down with crap (and said brick and mortar booksellers are in complete agreement, only accepting books from major, established publishing houses), and that they and their staffs produce a truly professional final product, handling editing, design, and marketing so the author only has to worry about the words.

She said that when it was finally rejected (because it was too similar to another book being published by a big name house), «we realized this was a concern we were likely going to run into elsewhere, so Hoover made the choice, in consultation with me, to go the independent publishing route and be the first to work with our agency in this capacity.»

A chronic entrepreneur since opening her first salon at the age of twenty, Bernadette Marie established her own publishing house in 2011, 5 Prince Publishing, so that she could publish the books she liked to write and help make the dreams of other aspiring authors comepublishing house in 2011, 5 Prince Publishing, so that she could publish the books she liked to write and help make the dreams of other aspiring authors comePublishing, so that she could publish the books she liked to write and help make the dreams of other aspiring authors come true too.

(as it is called) is a further attempt to weaken the strong grip that the traditional publishing houses have maintained over the distribution of literature, allowing for the middleman to be cut out, so to speak, in the writer - to - reader relationship.

So it seems not a whole lot of action was happening to the major publishing houses in the United Kingdom, but a lot of action was happening in France.

A couple of interesting aspects of the deal, notably Amazon's snagging of multiple rights to publish it in both English and German, point to the publishing house's intention to remain a force in the industry, despite performance so far.

Besides its strong showing in the publishing industry as joint owners of Penguin Random House and its 250 or so imprints, Bertelsmann has a long history of growing a huge customer base.

I have one little story in a traditionally published, non-fiction book (Doreen Virtue's Angel Words published by Hay House), so you could say I've dipped my toe in traditional waters.

Some authors could be picked up, Ogorek believes, from the ranks of writers who'd paid the publishers to produce their books under in - house self - publishing imprints: so called «farm teams» of authors willing to underwrite the costs of getting their books into print.

Traditional houses tends to react late when it comes to what's hot in the market anyway so why not publish our own while they're deciding whether or not a particular trend is hot or not?

Given that the big publishing houses are located in NY and rub shoulders with the media, is it so surprising that there may be a bias in anything it publishes?

These things struck terror in my little teenaged heart, so when I submitted that first book, it was to a couple of publishing houses that took unsolicited manuscripts — just so I could avoid having to SUMMARIZE the awesome that was my story.

If the publishing houses are / were so concerned about the plight of independent bookstores, why didn't they take this fight to Borders and Barnes & Noble when those behemoths began discounting in such a way it was destroying the independents?

Though I apologize for making it so difficult for «good» writers to do even better, I don't for the multi-national media conglomerates that constitute the «big five» publishing houses and their stock holders, nor do I for the self - publishing companies and the «massive problems» (mentioned in another of your blogs) they're having with the influx of self - published titles to their online bookstores — a problem, I might add, of their own making.

So what I'm going to do, in a very rambling fashion, is pretend that someone just put me in charge of a major publishing house.

BUT — I also find better discounts in print than ebook, so ebook is NOT always the best value when it comes from a traditional publishing house.

It's frightening the amount of gate - keeping which still goes on in the publishing houses, and so much of it comes down to the personal choices of those same gate - keepers.

Many do this as a favor to authors they love and work with in publishing houses... so they lower their rates for private work.