Sentences with phrase «known as vanity»

These LinkedIn Help instructions can show you how to customize your public profile URL (otherwise known as a vanity URL).

Paying someone to publish your book (assisted self - publishing, also known as vanity publishing) is hardly sustainable if you have a cookbook to publish.

Publishing houses that charge to publish your work are known as vanity publishers and, perhaps more commonly, as self - publishing platforms.

Your username will appear in your custom Facebook URL (also known as a vanity URL) to help people easily find and remember your Page.

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As you may know we are working on our basement so we decided to go to Lowe's to pick out a bathroom vanity and tile.

Maleficent is the summer's first real surprise — a project that looked like a cash grab built on a well - known brand name, as well as a vanity project for Jolie.

Even if you don't know the full Edward Snowden dossier, this is a 134 - minute vanity piece disguised as a expose lecture.

Here, John Boyega — cannily cast as the son of the character Idris Elba played in Pacific Rim — proves that he can pull off the same trick, playing off straight - arrow foil Scott Eastwood or spunky kid robot - fan Cailee Spaeny with a mix of knowing cliché and inspired mock vanity.

Part concert film, part documentary, part performance art and wholly self - indulgent — Dylan plays «Renaldo» while his wife Sara plays «Clara» — the film is the work of an artist whose ambition, hubris and vanity know no bounds, but as the singer - songwriter in question was already at that point a mythical figure a few years shy of his fortieth birthday, who's to say how much is too much?

Although she knew about self - publishing she dismissed it as a vanity club.

A subsidy publisher is also known as «vanity publishing,» or pay - to - play publishing.

But it does not come cheap, and the chances of having a hit are virtually non-existent - it's with good reason that the practice is known as «vanity publishing».

That's because the DIY sector, no matter how many hundred of thousands of ebooks get sold, rarely receives mainstream media attention or plaudits thanks to years of being thought of as either vanity publishing or low quality.

Thank you for the info Vinny, now I think I see, You'd like a blog about marketing from lil» ol' me, Promote only when you are in a happy mood, And never promote your books by being far too rude, Try to make your posts interesting, clever and funny, And try not to part with a large amount of money, Now I feel there is one thing I should stress, Never go and give your cash to a vanity press, Blog, tweet and update your Facebook status as often as you can, Make contact with other authors and befriend your only fan, Be courteous, considerate and always be kind, And you will slowly find, You'll get people interested and make them all see, Especially when you give your book away for free, Sit back, relax and be rather nice, And always think about the price, People will not part with their cash unless the price is low, Particularly for an author they do not even know, Always remember to write purely for fun, Never think that your profit will be a huge great sum, And pray for exposure to the lord above, Because self - publishing is a labour of love,

I don't think anyone disagrees that if HQN divested its corporate ownership of DellArte as a division, and it became, say, a division of TorStar (with profits going directly to TorStar), then HQN no longer is a vanity publisher.

I also know there are a lot of disreputable companies — known variously as vanity or subsidy publishers — whose business model is predicated on charging abusive up - front fees for middling or nonexistent services.

A vanity press, also known as a subsidy press, is where the author pays a fee for the publication of the book.

But because this is 2012, when self - publishing is no longer stigmatized as vanity publishing, I can release the book on my own.

I suspect the «professional» you saw was someone from a vanity press trying to scam you as I know from having had a relative scammed that the movie deal thing is something they say to everyone.

So you know how I've been defining the difference between vanity publishers and self - publishing presses as (A) who's getting the profit and (B) who controls the ISBN?

A self - published book can mean almost anything... from what gets spilled out of the fingers and mind of the author to the presentation from the local printing shop and sometimes looking like it was put together at the kitchen table with a glue - stick; to a vanity press like a LuLu, AuthorHouse / Solutions (known as the publishing predators); or one of the pay the other pay to publish services that claim to offer different types of packages / templates for the author to select from; to Ingram Spark or Amazon's CreateSpace; to the author doing the publishing himself with his name or a «looks like a publishing company» name on it (always recommended).

No longer seen as a practice in vanity, many self - publishers are now fully aware of the challenges they face, and how best to overcome these challenges.

My point is self - publishing these days is no longer seen as a «last resort» or some «vanity» exercise.

It is important to note that you do have to be wary of vanity publishers, and indeed of any independent publisher, as they know that many aspiring authors will approach them after being «rejected» by mainstream publication houses.

I mean the one you use could be a scam or a vanity press for as much as you know.

Certain vanity presses showing up as your publisher will often cause the buyer to put you in the «no» pile automatically.

Of course, some vanity press books were never intended to be commercial (as when a self - publisher I know published his 13 - year - old niece's novel on Lulu as a birthday gift.)

She published with vanity scammers Publish America, as I recall, and is otherwise noted for not knowing, nor being willing to learn, anything at all about legitimate publishing.

A self - published book can mean almost anything... from what gets spilled out of the fingers and mind of the author to the presentation from the local printing shop and sometimes looking like it was put together at the kitchen table with a glue - stick; to a vanity press like a LuLu, AuthorHouse / Solutions (known to many as publishing predators); or any of the pay to publish operations that claim to offer different types of packages / templates for the author to select from as well as claiming to do more personalization and hand - holding than a vanity press operation; to Amazon's CreateSpace and the Ingram Spark (higher quality); to the author doing the publishing himself with his name or a «looks like a publishing company» name on it (always recommended).

Most of us know about the vanity publishers who can easily take thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars to prepare and publish your novel, whether it's well - written and marketable or not — they don't care, as long as they get your money.

Or, as happened recently, Author Solutions — a well - known vanity publisher — WAS taken to court.

Self - publishing — once known as the «vanity press» — has been around for decades.

They should have known better than to take on a lawyer as a client: — RRB - But it also shows that even professional lawyers can be quite badly informed about fraudulent practices in vanity publishing.

Publish America (apparently now known as America Star Books) is another known scammy vanity press.

Authorhouse is what's known as a «vanity or subsidy press», Sally.

The new content, titled Bonfire of the Vanities, also known as Sequence 13, is out tomorrow on both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.

Fondly known as Warty, the Scuttler is a vanity pet you can only get through the Explorer's Pack.

As we know, there's a lot of frustration among marketers regarding the many vanity directories which purport to identify the best or most - super lawyers in a variety of categories, in order to sell them costly ads.

Creating a custom LinkedIn URL (also known as a «vanity URL») is an important part of your online professional branding strategy as it secures your identity in the online space and positions you as «in the know» when included with your resume contact info.

When we decided to start renovating our bathroom last month I knew I wanted a dresser as my new vanity.

I knew we could paint it and make it good as new, using the same technique we used on Ruby's bathroom vanity.

Also known as a drop - in sink, a top mounted sink can be placed in the cutout on the top of the vanity with the rim of the basin sitting on top of the countertop holding it in place.