Sentences with phrase «living as a published author»

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One of us lives far away and travels the world as a talented Yoga teacher and published author.

After writing his first book about his life as a vet, author Alf Wight couldn't find a suitable pseudonym under which to publish his memoirs until one night he was watching a game of football and was rather taken with the name of Hibernian's goalkeeper - Jim Herriot.

Worldwide, air pollution claims as many as 8 million lives,» says Prof. Ariya, senior author of the group's new study, published in Environmental Pollution.

Journals depend on their authors, but equally, researchers in the life sciencesespecially young investigatorsneed to publish in «brand name» journals, such as Cell, Nature and Science, to advance their careers.

The authors of a study published November 4 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences now conclude that between 14 and 30 out of every 100 stars with a mass and temperature similar to the sun may host a planet that could support life as we know it.

«These objects need to be considered as potential reservoirs of water and life,» said Prabal Saxena of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, lead author of the research published in Icarus November 24.

Ronnie is a public speaker and teacher, a published author of multiple books, hosts of two popular podcasts, a transformation and peak performance coach, and above all else a man who deeply values life and has devoted his life to uplifting and inspiring the lives of as many people as he can reach through his mission, his work, and his message.

That's as little as one - tenth of the intake among the world's dwindling hunter - gatherer and rural agrarian populations, whose living conditions and dietary intake presumably most closely resemble those of our common human ancestors, said Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology and senior author of a study published Jan. 13 in Nature.

One of us lives far away and travels the world as a talented Yoga teacher and published author.

Thomas John is an internationally regarded psychic medium and clairvoyant, as well as a published author and life coach, who has conducted hundreds of readings around the world.

I now run The Farm Chicks on my own, published my second book, A Farm Chicks Christmas, and document my life as an entrepreneur, wife, mom, author, and Contributing Editor for Country Living Magazine here on my website, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

A regular on our TV screens as a dating expert, Sam Owen is a certified life coach, psychologist and published author who writes on topics ranging from dating and relationships to anxiety.

My passion in life is to succeed career wise, as a published author of two recently published romance novels through my continued education through Full Sail University.

However, when a brutal serial killer begins to dispatch victims, by recreating famous murders from Poe's published stories, including «The Murders in the Rue Morgue» as well as «The Pit and the Pendulum,» the author is thrown into a malicious battle of wits — with life and death hanging in the balance.

I invite local writers — including newspaper reporters, published authors of books, poets, songwriters, bloggers, and journalers — to spend the day talking with and teaching students about their lives as writers.

I usually suggest that authors start by investigating the free or low - cost services with good reputations in the self - pub community: Createspace, IngramSpark, and Lulu if they want to do print as well as ebooks, and Smashwords, Draft2Digital, and the direct - to - ereading - device services (Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing, Barnes & Noble's Nook Press, and Kobo's Kobo Writing Life) if they want to do an ebook only.

Many moons ago, long before I dreamed of seeking fame and fortune as a self - published author, back when I was of that peculiar age when young men choose to live in smelly apartments with other young and smelly men, I had as a roommate the incredible and talented drummer of Charlie's on Acid.

< And in our preparatory column to last week's Issues on the Ether column for our #EtherIssue live discussion, Bringing Tools of the Trade to Self - Publishing, we askwed our readers to talk with us about what tools entrepreneurial authors need most; to what degree those tools can be as much of a burden as a help if they slow down writers with steep learning curves; how well the commercial world seems to be responding so far to the needs of entrepreneurial authors; and what kind of results they're seeing from their own experiences and experiments with new tools.

We asked her a bunch of questions about what she found in regard to author income, books on sale, and whether indie or trad publishing is more likely to get a person to a living wage (which she defined as the U.S. average of $ 32,000 a year).

The «life of copyright» clause has no effect on the rights of authors to request reversion of their publishing rights, so long as they remember to include appropriate terms elsewhere in the contract.

But what's happened in the last few years is it's now possible to make a living from your writing self - publishing, or as I like to say, indie publishing or being an indie author.

Or are you willing to publish a book under the name (perhaps a short story or something), claim it to get the profile, then unpublish that story as soon as the author central profile has gone live?

He has published over a dozen books using Amazon's Digital Text Platform (DTP), and has been featured in numerous articles and blog posts as an author who is making a living off of Kindle.

If making sales were all on us, it would be tough driving the kind of traffic you need to make a living as a self - published author.

Even as self - publishing continues to open doors for authors without the permission of a gatekeeper, there are still some realms of publishing that are not as easy for authors as uploading a Word document to Kobo Writing Life or Kindle Direct Ppublishing continues to open doors for authors without the permission of a gatekeeper, there are still some realms of publishing that are not as easy for authors as uploading a Word document to Kobo Writing Life or Kindle Direct Ppublishing that are not as easy for authors as uploading a Word document to Kobo Writing Life or Kindle Direct PublishingPublishing.

As a matter of fact, an Indie writer has more chance to live off his writing alone than a mid-list traditionally published author.

Especially not when you consider that classic authors such as Twain, Poe, King and Dickens all went through the self publishing route at one point or another and considering that many people, both through traditional publishing methods and non-traditional ones can struggle to «make a living» through their work.

It is the height of absurdity to say that someone who can't possibly make a living, largely because of onerous contract terms such as non-compete clauses, publishing with for example Hachette is an author but someone who self - publishes isn't.

Lost and alone in Victorian London, Alyss is befriended by an aspiring author to whom she tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life only to see it published as the nonsensical Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

As a fellow indie author who makes a living from my writing and publishing, I know that you want a home online — an author website — that:

As self - published authors we reject the Big 5 like Obi - wan rejected Anakin, but so many still hope that Darth Vader will just let them live.

Plenty of commercially published authors see no profit on their books, once they've factored in their hourly rate for writing the thing — they earn their real living from work associated with their books, such as journalism, merchandising and the after - dinner speaker circuit.

We provide award - winning creative development, worldwide distribution through Ingram, superior marketing guidance, as well as a holistic, life - giving, and collaborative publishing experience that makes our authors smarter, and our books works of art.

By Ron Pramschufer, President, Self Publishing, Inc. - Helping Authors Become Publishers since 1995 A few years back President Bill Clinton made one of the few statements that I agreed with over his eight year term as President and that was that anyone over the age of 50 owed it to his family to record their life experiences and pass it on to the next generation.

Many authors (and companies) who are publishing an eBook treat the day the book goes live on bookseller sites as a publication date.

This section explores other aspects of life as a writer, such as the importance of forging community, the financial realities of being an author, and how to achieve your writing and publishing goals.

Author Tony Horwitz is disgruntled with the world of ebook publishing and his prospects of earning a living wage as a full - time aAuthor Tony Horwitz is disgruntled with the world of ebook publishing and his prospects of earning a living wage as a full - time authorauthor.

He'd done the research, found a niche, and wrote a book, a book he admits isn't the best, in order to make a living as a self - published author.

She publishes a book about every 7 months and is making a nice full - time living as an author because she's very proactive with marketing her work, and she's participating in a lot of multi-author boxed sets and anthologies, as well as joint author promotional efforts.

Everything that it is known about those authors the book MAGICAL MYSTERY TRAVEL and their works as»» Percyfaw Code»», de Scriblerius, made available by limited time as e-book in an apparent strategy of marketing of enormous success in the web and»» The Traveler»», Twelve Hawks published amid the style of Hollywood hype where disembarked in the list bestseller of the newspaper The New Times.The mysterious to Thomas Pynchon's same style, Philip Roth, JD Salinger, B.Traven, Cormac McCarthy, authors C.S. Scriblerius and Twelve Hawks «live out of the grating», meaning that you chose roads no so conventional in the market editorial, using like this other means for popularization of their works, and, hindering of they be tracked.

It's a little known fact that the terms of service for both Amazon and Barnes and Noble prohibit openly discussing exact sales figures, even for self - published authors; Kobo's terms of service can not be discussed as they pertain to this article because the Writing Life terms of service forbid even disclosing what's contained in the terms of service.

It regularly features interviews with published authors, transcripts of panels, essays on the writing life, industry tidbits, legal advice, and member news, such as awards and recent publications.

I know a lot of self - publishing authors who are having trouble supporting their families and they see their book as their golden ticket: publishing advice can turn into financial planning advice, and I don't gamble with people's lives.

Or am I very happy and content with living a quiet life where I can do as I please (be an indie - author) and I don't have to change what and how I write according to what other people expect (traditional publishing)?

In her musings on what indie authors learned in 2014, Kris names 2014 as the «year of the quitter,» when many authors discovered that writing is hard, publishing is hard and making a living with your writing is hard.

As I tell have to remind aspiring authors: the first thing everyone needs to remember everyone in the publishing ecosystem needs to make a profit and a living.

Successfully self - published: Pressbooks author Inglath Cooper Inglath Cooper is living the dream as a full - time writer with 19 titles published on Amazon.

Almost anyone can self - publish a book, but the difference between creating a potential book (one that can be ordered if anyone ever hears about it) and creating an actual book (one that people are actually reading) is knowing what to do after your plans for publication are in place... and while your topic is still hot, and you're still interested in using your book as a vehicle for building brand, increasing your credibility, making money, or fulfilling your life - long dream of being a real author.

The Write Life (TWL): You have background as a bookstore owner, you've worked in publishing and you're an author yourself.

Yvonne is steadfast in her commitment to self - published authors who dare to dream big and feels that by introducing undiscovered literature to the world marketplace as bound books and eBooks, Quality Press can change the lives of millions of people in the United States and throughout the World.