Sentences with phrase «like at least some authors»

Brute economic power for sure, and risks abound, but at this early way station it looks like at least some authors are profiting.

Not exact matches

It's not one book like I always thought - It's an ancient collection of writings, comprised of 66 separate books, written over approximately 1,600 years, by at least 40 distinct authors.

The EV authors were putting on paper what I had been thinking about for at least the previous 10 years, and I wanted to connect with them personally because I was (pretty desperately) looking for a group of Protestant Christians with whom I could seek God, hoping to find anything like what they were advocating and describing near where I live in the Coastal Range of northern California — the pickin's were and are really slim.

For EL James (the book's author), it's like feminism never happened, or at least only a warped version of it happened.

CNN, please choose authors with responsibility, or at least put an actual scholar side - by - side with someone like this.

I much prefer transfer stories like «Arsenal should sign Vidal, and here's why...» At least then there's an actual argument to the story and it's more likely to be creative, informative and interesting as opposed to a comical «rumour» that started in the author's head 5 minutes before it was posted.

I understand that not all hospitals and nurses are like in the above story, but «as a NICU nurse, you'd think that you'd have enough compassion for the author somewhere in your rant to at least offer her condolences.

Plus I'll record our conversation if you'd like that so you can listen to it later — most authors tell me they listen to their recording at least 2 or 3 times.

But none in the traditional publishing arena, because, however lousy one reader or another may think a trad - pubbed book, at the very least SOMEBODY liked it besides the author.

At the very least, it looks good to outsiders if you have a blog, Facebook page, Twitter account, etc. already (that get comments, likes, activity, etc.) as they always seem to want to see authors who have already started «building a platform.»

For newbies you are right as every new author needs to write, write, write for at least four years, time it takes to get a PhD in Letters before even submitting material to an agent or editor, but once any writer KNOWS intuitively that his or her novel is as good or better than James Patterson (pretty easy to better this guy) and he or she has had the novel vetted by a good independent editor / ghost writer like myself, the ebooks are the way to go, period.

We like to try to offer this opportunity to our authors and follows at least once a month — so if you want to share your self - publishing story, check out our guest posting guidelines!

For a self - published author, marketing may seem like a daunting task — it's at least half the work of self - publishing!

(You can take that statement however you like...) The likelihood that a first - time author would tell a publisher, «You need to pay me at least $ 1,000 or no deal,» when offered a long - sought - after contract is pretty slim.

If every bookstore and library had a section like this that someone cared about maintaining, it would give tens of thousands of aspiring authors at least a small chance of being discovered.

But with authors like Hugh Howey, Colleen Hoover, and H.M. Ward scorching the charts, indies have clearly arrived, and the market's embraced them — or at least, some of them.

Most novelists do not have the capacity nor inclination to do something like this so I feel that this number — 23 % of authors NOT being sure if they could attribute sales to Facebook ads — is understated by a factor of at least two or three.

Interestingly, comments from authors on sites like The Passive Voice and Author Marketing Experts have demonstrated that self - published authors, at least ones who see themselves as professionals, are siding with Amazon on this rule, with many pointing out that it is not a new rule, and it is also bad business practice to piggyback one's work off the marketing clout of another author, especially without permiAuthor Marketing Experts have demonstrated that self - published authors, at least ones who see themselves as professionals, are siding with Amazon on this rule, with many pointing out that it is not a new rule, and it is also bad business practice to piggyback one's work off the marketing clout of another author, especially without permiauthor, especially without permission.

At the very least, you'll need your own author website (easily and cheaply set up through WordPress or Blogger) and a mailing list (using a facility like Aweber or Mailchimp).

If the book happened to be chosen and accepted from the slush pile of manuscripts, the author (in reality the agent since old school publishers don't really like to interact with the actual author) was notified, and small check was sent as an «advance» for what the publisher hoped to at least earn out that advance.

Although I still may not like the book (and may even think it terrible) I am at least guaranteed that it will be readable unlike self - published work where there is no guarantee at all since the author has no one he must report to before clicking the publish button.

However, agents and editors who seek authors with a platform do sometimes say quite pointedly, and even arbitrarily, «Well, we need to see at least 10,000 Facebook likes and 100,000 blog visits every month, or it's not worth us considering.»

But it's getting more and more possible for midlist authors to find an audience of appreciative readers and make a living or at least pay some bills as self - published authors and it's because of the rise of eBooks and online distributors like Amazon.

Like Margaret Atwood's Longpen, it loses a lot of the personal connection that makes book signings popular — and at least with the Longpen there was a videoconferencing element so the reader could at least see the author «signing» the book.

While this year's event didn't bring a new first - ever touch screen e-ink reader like Kobo sprung on the crowd last year, this year's surprise package might be just as innovative, at least for authors and publishers.

i have always wanted to read at least one of scott s books and now i would like to even more the author done a super job researching and making the story real.

Like an ocean voyage long stalled by calm seas, the question of «agent - assisted publishing» for authors was all but dropped a couple of years ago, at least in many polite industry conversations.

Editors (and agents) can see what the book is supposed to look like, at least in the author's vision.

I think an author's website is kind of like a portal of their world, or at least the world they are sharing with the public.

So maybe if Hachette, and the other publishers want this author's loyalty, they need to be a lot more like Amazon... at least about payment.

Typically, you want to begin building your author platform at least six months before your first book even comes out — start your blog, comment on others» blogs, set up a newsletter, and grow your presence online and in readers» circles like Wattpad by posting excerpts of your work.

«If you are an author and would like to have your book promoted (for free) on our site, please fill out the form below: your book must be free in the Amazon Kindle Store and must have an average user rating of at least 4 out of 5 stars for consideration.

I'd like to point out that authors work at least six days a week too.

Any interior art (like an «about the author» photo) should be black and white and at least 150 dpi.

I know some people love to use social media to say nasty things about celebrities, but if you care about your writing career, you need to act like a grownup online — at least when using your author name.

Your photo is a recognizable part of your author brand, so make sure that it is fairly recent, or at least really does still look like you.

I like trying to persuade authors of the value of platform — at least when built organically — because it represents a meaningful investment in your lifelong career as an author.

Since starting my review blog, I've been amazed to realize that when interesting questions like those posed by Jacqueline come up, the answers for me are usually the same as the answers a self - published author would (or at least should in my opinion) give if presented with the same basic question.

Include suggestions for how the author could improve it (think constructive criticism, not author bashing — we're all real people), but also list at least one thing the author did well or that you liked about the video.

When an author engages me personally on facebook, I look for their book and buy at least one (no matter what the cover looks like).

Without these forces doing most of the heavy lifting (these forces are also partly behind the success of businesses like Amazon, at least the second one if not the first, enabling the retailing giant to develop a business model that undercut existing retailers and took advantage of almost infinite shelf space to appeal to huge swathes of customers) authors and self publishing would still be clamouring for attention not demanding a place at the table.

Despite articles with titles like «Amazon set to pay self - published authors as little as $ 0.006 per page read,» it turns out that for now at least, Amazon seems to be paying very close to what they would be paid if someone bought the book.

One of the many reasons I'm so impressed with Hugh is not because I'm «pro self» or anything, but because when established authors share (data, experience, knowledge) it helps the mountains of newbies like myself make better decisions and come into the game knowing (at least some of) the rules.

«Some authors don't feel like they have enough to say about themselves; but just the fact that you've written a book makes you important enough to have at least a 3 - 4 line bio!

While it does mean we have more hoops to jump through as authors and publishers, those hoops are at least easily navigable if you know a little HTML coding and have a working knowledge of programs like Sigil and Calibre.

Authors like Stephen King, who refused to release his most recent novel in ebook format (at least initially) are refusing to acknowledge the changing nature of readership.

And the real danger (for me at least) is that all my cover designs are pretty good, so if the client chooses one and his team likes it (but recommends some big changes like «make the text bigger and darker and bolder») everybody will be pretty happy — except me, because my really brilliant work won't get seen, and the author won't sell as many books (two things that are bad for my business).

The authors make some interesting revelations as to how windfall can come through other means like inheritance and divorce settlement and the fact that most people do receive a windfall at least once in their lifetime.

Both authors even admitted that their reconstructions aren't statistically valid (and that was kind of their point...) and McIntyre, at least, has stated that he regards many studies since then the same way he does the original 1998 paper because they basically use the same datasets and analysis (And I should add that he seems less opposed to the more recent studies, especially those that don't use data he finds suspicious...) They've stated their a priori reasons why they don't like the data they don't like.

The author should at least change the wording to wave - like or some other term to suggest undulating.