Sentences with phrase «in wannabe author»

Traditional publishers are taking notice and are now gearing up to offer their own «self - publishing» opportunities... Expect to see all of this push into a higher gear — after all, there is money in wannabe author's pockets.»

Expect to see all of this push into a higher gear — after all... there is money in wannabe author's pockets.

Not exact matches

In this edited excerpt, the authors profile the owner of a helicopter service to give wannabe transportation service entrepreneurs an inside look at a profitable business.

If fans had wondered when — as all high - profile SNL cast members eventually do — Fey would set her sights on feature films, their curiosity would soon be answered when it was announced that Fey would be writing and appearing in Mean Girls (2004), an adaptation of author Rosalind Wiseman's popular book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence.

Reactions have ranged from outrage and disgust that once again self - published authors were being treated as amateurs, wannabes, and «aspiring authors,» to anger at indie authors for trying to liken their plight to the civil rights movement with Howey's choice of title and comments along the lines of, «It's like shades of Jim Crow when blacks had to sit in the back of the bus...» [1.

I laugh at these traditional - published authors / wannabes who are willing to wait years to see their works in print.

Yet, I've seen some authors and readers turn their noses up at indie publishing, saying it floods the market with sub-par books and the writers are wannabe hacks who couldn't cut it in «real» publishing.

Steve is also an aspiring «PhD wannabe» (his words, not mine) whose knowledge of literature runs from an entrenched understanding of the classics to those works of literary fiction developed by independent authors in more recent times.

But... given that there is a huge supply of author wannabes waiting in the wings to fill the small numbers of slots, maybe they won't have to change... just find an author who is willing to concede to their demands....

Joe sez: Some people believe the ease of self - publishing means that millions of wannabe writers will flood the market with their crummy ebooks, and the good authors will get lost in the morass, and then family values will go unprotected and the economy will collapse and the world will crash into the sun and puppies and kittens by the truckload will die horrible, screaming deaths.

It is a competitive market, indubitably, but what draws the attention of wannabe - published authors is definitely the prospect of owning it and not having to see another rejection letter in the mail.

Evy Journey, SPR (Self Publishing Review) Independent Woman Author awardee, is a writer, a wannabe artist, and a flâneuse who, wishes she lives in Paris where people have perfected the art of aimless roaming.

In my mind this is exactly the same type of exploitation of wannabe authors as Harlequin's, and almost on a par with charging a reading fee.

An agent's job is to sift through the thousands of mostly - unreadable manuscripts that wannabe authors send him every year and forward the ten or twenty that he thinks stand a chance to whichever publisher (s) he thinks will be most interested in them.

The author is well meaning, but in my opinion, is a dog trainer wannabe, and would do more harm than good for her dog.