Our job as author / publishers is to ensure our books are where the readers are, and today, the readers have chosen Amazon.
Do you consider it part of
your job as an author or is it a passion project?
Our job as authors is to find readers for our stories.
Your first
job as an author, of course, is to create great books for your readers.
A year ago I would have dreaded the marketing phase, thinking that
my job as an author is to only write.
Also, no matter how you publish your book, you need either the aptitude for some of the tasks necessary to create a successful book, tasks publishers no longer do for authors, or the willingness to learn them, become good at them and actually embrace them as part of your daily
job as an author.
One of the very cool things about
my job as an author assistant is the connections I make with fellow lovers of books.
So
your job as an author (other than writing the best, most honest book you can) is to find your specific target market and share your work with them as much as possible.»
When your manuscript is finished and off to the printer, your job as a writer is done, but
your job as an author is just getting started.
It's
your job as the author (not the book cover designer's) to research your title and make sure nobody else is using the same title.
So if you missed book promotion opportunities in 2007, keep in mind that — in 2008 — part of
your job as an author or publisher is to keep an eye on pop culture, and figure out how your messages tie into the news.
This ups it, but for the better, because the current payout is reasonable, meaning that if readers plow through the books (and I've done
my job as an author and written something compelling enough to make them want to), I make as much as a sale.
But if you want readers, it's part of
your job as an author these days.
Camille Di Maio takes us on a journey from Real Estate Agent to her dream
job as an author published by Amazon's Lake Union.
If you got to this point, I hope you already have an idea about branding and why it plays an important role in
your job as an author.
Most of us think that
our job as an Author is to write books: marketing is the job of some other lowly creature like a salesman.
Our job as authors / publishers is to convince readers that our books are wonderful.
Not exact matches
If the work was commissioned or created
as part of the creator's
job, the employer is considered to be the
author.
After all, being known
as someone who regularly gets the
job done without complaint is one of the fastest ways to get promoted, says bestselling management
author and CNBC contributor Suzy Welch.
And while on - the -
job napping is still considered a faux pas in many companies, Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post cofounder and
author of «The Sleep Revolution,» predicts that in the next few years nap rooms will be
as universal
as conference rooms.
While most discussions of this topic focus on potential lost
jobs or apocalyptic scenarios, these
authors — Accenture's Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson — see the glass
as decidedly more than half full.
And where Gladwell drew criticism for being a dilettante, Ranadivé — the founder and CEO of real - time software company TIBCO — has been working in this field for some time, both in his day
job and
as an
author (it's his third book on the subject).
«Bosses micromanage for many different reasons, but no matter how good their intentions, taking a heavy - handed approach typically hurts employee output,
job satisfaction and,
as a result, retention efforts,» said Max Messmer, chairman of Accountemps and
author of Motivating Employees For Dummies ® (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).
«On our reckoning, since NAFTA's enactment, fewer than 5 % of U.S. workers who have lost
jobs from sizable layoffs (such
as when large plants close down) can be attributed to rising imports from Mexico,» wrote its
authors, PIIE senior fellow Gary Clyde Hufbauer and research analyst Cathleen Cimino - Isaacs.
As a life coach, business coach,
author and motivational speaker, Melissa provides step - by - step guidance on how to become the CEO of your life and how to free yourself from your day
job to create a life and business you are excited to wake up to.
It never occurs to the
authors to ask whether all the things the White House does are properly
jobs for federal,
as opposed to state, government, or whether these responsibilities even belong to government at all.
The
author, professor of systematic theology at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, does a splendid
job of introducing the series, addressing such topics
as natural law, principles of human action, the determination of the moral good, and the connection between virtues, gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the Beatitudes.
Tandamonium
As an agnostic, a wife of an Active Duty Marine for over 20 years and mother of two Active Duty Marines, I thought the
author did a great
job getting to the nuance of the reason behind the decision and also on giving some insight into Anabaptists.
I find it disappointing that the
author, while doing a fine
job of pointing out the shortcomings and weaknesses of post modernism, offers
as an alternative the flawed and rightfully declining faith - without - evidence world of organized religion.
This is the sense of the prologue
as it is used by the
author of
Job.
Job's answer to Zophar's third speech has not been lost: in chapter 28 the
author employs (it is unimportant whether he wrote it or not) this exquisite poem on wisdom
as his own answer, not only to the friends, but to
Job as well.
@jf well your information about the New Testament is about
as accurate
as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth of Christ, Your interpretation of God at His worst shows a complete lack of understanding
as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts of the New Testament were written in
as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language of the day.Most of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three of the
authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus
as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading
Job your own self, particularly the section were
Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»
The
author of the book of
Job faced this question squarely, 6 and resolved it
as best he could dramatically, but no resolution is really possible, given the presuppositions of the time.
A big - haired, wiry Canadian of Anglo - Jamaican descent, his day
job as a staff writer on The New Yorker is overshadowed by his fame, success and influence
as an
author.
The
author believes that power instead should be in the hands of those who have othergoals than economic gain in view
as part of their primary
job description.
The
author of the book of
Job affirmed that «Man is born to trouble
as the sparks fly upward.»
Simon Hughes, best known
as the
author of a slew of books on Liverpool Football Club, has hence branched out here to attempt to grasp the DNA of football in the region — and what a fine
job he does.
(In addition to her
job as parent, Karen Walant is a psychotherapist and
author of Creating the Capacity for Attachment.
Funnily enough,
as parenting expert and
author Sarah Ockwell - Smith explains, these behaviours are actually a positive sign that parents are doing a good
job.
As part of his commitment to fight for our
jobs and our future, Tom
authored the bipartisan Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act (RAMI), which was signed into law.
This biography of Theresa May is,
as the
author admits, something of a hurried
job.
The report's
author, Cebr economist Daniel Solomon, also revealed that for every 1,000
jobs created in infrastructure construction, employment
as a whole rises by 3,050
jobs.
I want to do my best
job to avoid this by keeping the advice of the
author in mind and create sub-folders organized by content or how it helps answer a specific research question; I'm becoming savvy with using online file stores and their tagging tools seem to be very helpful,
as well
as other features.
Whether that is because most scientific researchers are extremely nice and forgiving people, or the more likely possibility that contributing
authors confuse my
job as managing editor with that of the editor - in - chief (who has the power to decide what gets published and what does not), I am not entirely sure.
For Leicht, the
author of books such
as «Middle Class Meltdown in America,» the study of high - tech development over a couple decades has been part of his broader research focus on economic development and
jobs - related issues.
Star professors may have larger networks of collaborators not just,
as the
authors suggest, because they have more students and postdocs than lower - ranked competitors, but because more of those students and postdocs win academic
jobs that permit them to participate in collaborations
as independent investigators; the rest just disappear from academe.
Necessary
job skills such
as team building and teamwork are only learned
as a happenstance to on - the -
job training,» says John Fetzer,
author of the book Career Management for Chemists: A Guide to Success in a Chemistry Career (Springer, ISBN: 3 -540-20899-2).
Authors Marisa Allison, Randy Lynn, and Victoria Hoverman — all of whom have experience
as adjuncts — conducted an online survey of GMU contingent faculty, asking more than 300 questions about working conditions, course preparation, career aspirations, personal finances, motivations for teaching,
job satisfaction, future plans, and more.
Attending conferences and visiting academics are also a crucial part of the
job, both
as a sales and marketing opportunity and also editorially, to meet current and potential
authors, and to get an invaluable feel for the needs of academics and the current hot topics.
The article,
authored by Linda Wang, tackles important questions such
as whether it is a good strategy to apply for
jobs that require lower qualifications; what doing multiple postdocs says to an employer; how you can improve the visibility of your resume in computer databases; and how an applicant's social media presence can backfire.