When I see a well
known author with 3 - 4 stars, I'm not surprised because they often sell lots of books because they have already established their name / brand.
Leaving Home, a 43 - page story by Jodi Picoult, the well -
known author with 14 million copies of her previous books in print, submitted to Kindle Singles by Picoult's agent Laura Gross Literary Agency and reported among the top 20 bestsellers of all Kindle Books.
If, however, you are looking for a sales staff that can recommend a title by a lesser -
known author with a similar theme to the book you are buying, then you have been H.I.T. (Handsold Independent Title).
I know authors with over twenty different pen names.
And, of course, you probably
know authors with books that will make great gifts.
Young Authors» Publishing Project — 826 matches well -
known authors with a designated school for a semester.
My guess is that the better -
known authors with established series, good reader reviews, and bestseller status were actually being bought rather than borrowed.
I have this idea for a small cottage industry — matching up lesser
known authors with venues needing interest; i.e. older historical homes, etc..
Do radio interview, and lots of «em In the UK at least, you'll be damn lucky to get on the radio even if you're a well -
known authors with a mainstream publisher behind you!
Even though I know a whole bunch of well
known authors with big platforms in my genre, including some personal friends and many I've met in real life, I still feel uncomfortable asking for favors.
Not exact matches
«By asking this question, you can uncover exactly what issues the hiring organization has identified and is currently dealing
with,» says Heather McNab,
author of What Top Professionals Need to
Know About Answering Job Interview Questions.
Only later did many readers notice that the
authors were not in fact the well -
known short - selling firms Muddy Waters and Citron Research, but rather two fake accounts using similar names
with misspellings: @Mudd1waters and @Citreonresearc.
As an
author, I
know that
with every book I write I learn more about myself, both my strengths and my weaknesses.
«When it comes to establishing positive relationships
with your coworkers, the most important thing is to get to
know them first as individuals,» says Dorie Clark,
author of Reinventing You.
It's never been easier to be a self - published
author, but
with democratization comes issues of trust: How do you
know where to start?
Author J.K. Rowling was among the best
known to express her grief, mentioning a man
with a tangential connection to her «Harry Potter» works.
«If you are always the last to
know something, then that's a pretty big red flag that people don't feel as though they can trust you
with information,» says Michael Kerr, an international business speaker and
author of «The Humor Advantage.»
«The retailers need to
know how much of the beacons they want to use and figure out whether they should crawl, walk or run (
with the technology),» said Schafer, who is a director at the National Retail Federation in the U.S. and
author of Branded, a book about retailers and social media.
Melissa Gonzalez, CEO of The Lionesque Group and
author of The Pop Up Paradigm, told me, «A shopping experience used to be an event centered around the store, but
with the rise of digital commerce that's
no longer true.
CMIT Solutions has cultivated its culture of passion
with the support of Lisa McLeod, a sales leadership expert, best selling
author and motivational speaker
known for creating passionate purpose driven sales organizations.
In his new book X: The Experience When Business Meets Design bestselling
author Brian Solis shares why great products are
no longer good enough to win
with customers and why creative marketing and delightful customer service too are not enough to succeed.
If you're in the business of dealing
with web and social media metrics or are familiar
with entrepreneur and The Lean Startup
author Eric Ries, you probably
know about vanity metrics.
As far as I
know, Google
knows who the
author is by linking the page to a Google plus profile usually
with the «contributor to» section of the plus profile and a rel
author link on the webpage.
It seems like the
author actually wants to help you
with you finances and tells you about the best practices you probably never
knew.
Lastly, our good friends at the Incrementum Fund, Ronald Stoeferle and Mark Valek, who our readers
know as the
authors the annual «In Gold We Trust» report, have released the inaugural issue of their new Crypto Research Report this December in cooperation
with Demelza Kelso Hays and several other contributors.
Known for his subtle wit and entertaining stories, this
author without borders has shared his valuable insights, strategies, philosophies, and anecdotes
with enthusiastic audiences throughout the world.
We agree
with Peter Cohan,
author of the Inc. article «4 Ways to
Know You're Selling to the Right Market», on his thoughts on the importance of sell... Read More >>
Tentatively titled «Option B,» a reference to a piece of advice she was given by a close friend after the untimely death of her husband David Goldberg, it has been co-written
with well -
known Wharton professor and
author Adam Grant.
It was Philip Fisher,
author of the groundbreaking Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, who often exhorted his readers to be cautious about trading in the stock of a company they have
known for many years and come to understand well for one
with which they are not as familiar as it introduces different types of risk.
Canada has also not moved to align itself
with the growing international consensus that the term of copyright protection is more appropriately the life of the
author (
known as pma, or post mortem auctoris) plus 70 years, as adopted by the US, all EU countries and a number of others.
Reconnect
with contacts from college or previous jobs to let them
know you need work: «Everybody finds jobs through networking,» says Lori B. Rassas, an employment attorney and
author of «Over the Hill But Not the Cliff.»
If you search for the phrase «social media and SEO» you'll still be inundated
with quite a few «low authority» websites that have been written by
authors who
know how to max out their search rankings without necessarily gaining an organic following based on their expertise.
all things were created by nothing
with nothing and for nothing... that takes more faith than i have... i prefer to believe in Jesus Christ — the one and only who rose from the dead — the most astounding historical fact ever recorded; Christians don't have all the answers but as the
author Don Miller noted: «I can
no more understand the complexity of God than the pancakes I made for breakfast can understand the complexity of me»
But I believe as the
author says that in the end... people
know what is right and what is wrong and may also realize, unfortunately, that people do the best they can do
with what they have, even though it may be flawed to the max.
In The Wisdom of Stability,
author Jonathan Wilson - Hartgrove writes, «Life
with the God we
know in Jesus Christ is lived in community
with other people.
To recite areas of research in which an
author is ignorant is surely
no worse, perhaps less so, than to charge an
author with knowledge of which she pretends but in fact does not possess.
So, I have a Ph.D. in Theology / comparative religions and published
author (
known to personally debate
with your good and misguided church propagandist Mr. Turley (LDS managing director of famil and church history) because I wanted to «understand.»
Having sold 20 million albums, Richard Melville Hall, better
known as Moby (a nickname derived from his ancestor Herman Melville, the
author of Moby Dick), is one of a handful of DJs credited
with propelling dance music into the mainstream during the 1990s.
When I see my life as a story,
with all the richness and depth of art, the beauty and serendipity and redemption, the synchronicity of forces beyond my
knowing, I understand finally that I am not necessarily the
author.
Some of the points raised by the numbered critique are excellent, but true the tone becomes less useful and condescending
with some of the points (and I love that Hayward raises the point that this is
no doubt the way the
author feels he has been treated).
CNN: Anti-Obama mail piece: «We are
no longer a Christian nation» Focus on the Family, the Colorado - based social conservative organization founded by evangelical
author and radio host James Dobson, is targeting Iowa voters
with a mailing that quotes President Obama as saying «we are
no longer a Christian nation.»
FYI, just wanted to let you
know that your comment of «If little Ricky has another side beside trying to legislate his version of «morality» and his moronic obsession
with gays and his anti-gay hysteria -» feeds the
author's argument.
Or, you could take all that and trade it for the story of someone who slept around, did drugs, got divorced four times, murdered somebody, landed in jail, found Jesus, got paroled, and then became an internally
known Christian
author and conference speaker even though they lived most of their life
with no thought for Jesus.
There can be
no doubt that the
author of these words also had in mind the purpose of a novel, perhaps one that would help break the spell of current assumptions in order to surprise us
with the complicated truth about ourselves —
with more dreams than we have dared to dream in what passes for our philosophy.
We all got a problem
with our own cultural supremacy, but if we really want to learn how to preach a fuller Gospel that really invites people to revel in the fact that they are alive and they are created in God's image, then we have to take the truth that we
know is owned by the
author of truth and we have to go and begin to participate
with people who have a gram, a grain of that golden truth.
Conservationist Norman Myers,
author of The Sinking Ark: A New Look at the Problem of Disappearing Species (Pergamon, 1979), estimates that
with the advent of technology between 1600 and 1900, an average of one species of bird or mammal (little is
known about reptiles, amphibians, fishes, invertebrates and plants) disappeared every four years, compared to one every 1,000 years during the «great dying» of the dinosaurs.
I
know I come late to this discussion thread, and I do agree
with the
author's points.
Third I agree
with the
author of the blog, Muslims in America want people to get to
know them, then go out and get involved more.
I honestly and truly try my absolute hardest to always reference and footnote and give credit to other
authors, thinkers, writers, bloggers, and theologians when I
know that what I am writing originated
with them.
The first, ascribed to Peter, exists in part in a papyrus fragment which describes the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus and breaks off when the
author says, «But I, Simon Peter, and Andrew my brother, took our nets and went away to the sea, and
with us there was Levi, son of Alphaeus, whom the Lord...» This gospel was
known to and criticized by Serapion, bishop of Antioch, about 190.