Sentences with phrase «lot up to the author»

Getting your book recognized is a lot up to the author, the author has to do the work.

Not exact matches

Its many authors made up a lot of weird stuff to put in there.

Author Shauna Niequist once wrote, «We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story.»

btw, about the issue of taxes on the rich that the author talks about, it has just come to notice that a lot of rich americans are giving up their citizenship to save on taxes.

I first want to say that most authors don't mind leaving un-updated information and books out there for purchase, but as for me, after doing lots of research of the new and exciting science of nutrition, I couldn't sleep at night knowing that people were reading information that I put out there that wasn't up to my current standards.

Even if you both are on the same page about having kids, and how many, there're a lot of other issues that are going to come up; just ask Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or Jancee Dunn, author of How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids.

It occurred to me last night as I was sitting in the hot tub and watching the sun set over the desert, that if I could travel back in time twenty years and whisper in my teenage ear: You're going to be an author and have a wonderful husband and a firebrand, amazing child and you're going to get to travel a lot and one night you're going to find yourself alone in a hot tub in the desert, looking up at a glowing pink sky, I would have thought, That's a pretty f-ing cool life.

Debbie Koenig, author of Parents Need to Eat Too, swears by roasting veggies to make baby food, explaining that roasting coaxes delicious flavors and textures out of any veggie, pairs well with lots of recipes, and mashes up easily if you're feeding it to a younger child.

By Elizabeth Pantley, author of The No - Cry Sleep Solution for Newborns Your newborn needs lots of sleep (up to eighteen hours a day!)

«My research team and I have spent a lot of time on Palmyra around this particular feature, but it wasn't until we were able to light up that world and extract data that we discovered this huge rush hour of sharks in the evening,» said lead author Douglas McCauley, an assistant professor in UCSB's Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology.

«There is a lot more that needs to be done to determine where these findings fit within the T2D picture, but this study opens up a new direction in T2D research, identifying a potential new pathway that we don't yet fully understand,» says Eric Lander, president and founding director of the Broad and a co-senior author of the study.

Also, I'm half Turkish and have an Armenian husband, and I love you have lots of middle eastern flavors incorporated into your staples — just like us Will continue to watch your blog, thanks for all your efforts, I know it's tough to keep up with (from a now - defunct food blog author.)

Mostly, it reveals an author in J.K. Rowling — who was setting up a genuinely extraordinary ending to her dip in the archetype pool — engaged in a lot of self - pitying sobbing over grandiloquent gestures, group hugs, and an epilogue set 19 years hence that brazenly sucks, simply because she didn't have the muscle to pull the proverbial trigger.

Now, however, with digital book formats and the ability to publish on your own through a couple dozen different outlets that all share revenues on about a 70:30 split with the author, maybe there's a lot more work to do as an author, but at least the system is set up to reward you the right way.

The other 6 authors in this group who'd published 9 - 10 titles in the past year had incomes ranging from $ 0 (3 of them) up to $ 3000, better odds than those with just 1 or 2 titles, but still not a lot.

I got lot of discouragement that I will not be able to write a book but I never got discouraged and never gave up and see today I am a published best - selling as well as Hot # 1 new release author in a category!

What is the difference between what Harlequin is doing here and what scammer agents do when they reject an author but then steer them to Papa Jack's Editorial to pay a lot of money to «clean up» their submissions... and Papa Jack is another business owned by that agent?

Then I'll finish the 21 Day Bestselling Author Platform course, get up to 1000 YouTube videos (I'm just over 200 now but I can do it quickly... 20 videos a day for 40 days), improve all my sites, make more templates and tools, and do a lot of content marketing.

That means you don't have to put up with a lot of vague generalities like «Many authors believe that in this digital age, social networking is the key to self - publishing success.»

People tend to get a bit more riled up over issues affecting kids and they'd probably be a lot more sympathetic to childrens» book authors than they would be to most genre authors.

Self - publishing ebooks is opening up a lot of doors for many an aspiring author, trying to make a name in the genre of their choice.

Pam Dover [00:15:05] Another thing a lot of authors are using print on demand for is to get their book out into the marketplace, and they're being picked up by some of the larger trade publishing houses.

Authors can use it to put on their resume, snag an agent (which happens a lot after they've already been offered the contract), and hope to move up in the world with their next book.

Applications like iBooks Author from Apple can do a lot of the technical work for you but the most important parts are creative and planning, and that is all up to you.

Book marketing budgets at traditional publishing houses can be fairly small and a lot of the efforts end up being grassroots and fall to the author directly.

Guy's last name and author title are both pretty long, so he couldn't fit as much space between the letters, but he makes up for the cramped letters by adding a lot of extra spaces in the middle, and to the sides of the subtitle and blurb lines (look at the subtitle on the very bottom.

And one of the things I think is important to remember is that right now, there's a lot of confusion out there for authors, so one of the reasons why I wrote the white paper is this is a way to sort of frame up what options you have.

These pages for authors interested me a lot because they felt more up - to - date than query letters.

I think you bring up a lot of points that many self - published authors refuse (and need to) to hear.

(Even if your goal is to be picked up by a big - time publisher, these days they ask a lot more of their authors so this applies to you, too.)

If authors decide they'd rather pay a lot of money (hundreds to thousands of dollars) to get their book printed — to say nothing of how the authors would then have to market, warehouse, distribute and sell the book — instead of work to write a story that publishers would actually pay the authors for, that's up to the authors.

And if you don't think your book cover is one of your most powerful tools — you have a lot of catch up work to do on what it means to be a successful author.

All kidding aside for a moment, Kat and I do a lot of brainstorming to come up with new and innovative ways to help indie authors spread their names and brand beyond their existing social network capacity.

Peter and I want to help more authors and combined our talent to put on a series to you authors make a lot more money from your content, without a huge start up cost.

At that point, a lot of authors give up, because they aren't willing to be flexible and pivot.

If you choose to use an author services company to help you do these tasks, it's likely to cost a lot more, so weigh up what your goals are and what you're willing to learn to do yourself before you commit.

[image error] As an author, I get to make a lot of stuff up.

To be fair, readers often struggle to come up with the exact title or author name of a new book generating buzz, so expecting them to remember the publisher as well might be asking a loTo be fair, readers often struggle to come up with the exact title or author name of a new book generating buzz, so expecting them to remember the publisher as well might be asking a loto come up with the exact title or author name of a new book generating buzz, so expecting them to remember the publisher as well might be asking a loto remember the publisher as well might be asking a lot.

As a result, both Susan and Glenn had already established their «author platform» for their first books while Bolko had a lot of work to do to catch up — book marketing is not an overnight ordeal; it takes time to build your promotional platform so you can successfully call upon it when necessary.

Beyond control, authors give up a lot of potential income as a result of those services, but in my case I didn't have or want to take my time for all that.

This «highly recommended» 232 - page book will get you up to speed quickly on what's happening in the world of self - publishing; how authors are finding their readers online; and lots of tips for creating great - looking books.

Email Marketing for Authors will show you: • What's email marketing and how authors will benefit • How to set up an email marketing account • How to prepare email marketing messages • Email permissions and legal compliance • Where to feature your sign - up links to get new reader subscribers • Lots of ideas for building your email marketing list • How to run stylish email marketing campaigns • How to sell books through email marketing without spamming your readers • How to retain your subscribers and keep them engaged with your email marketing mAuthors will show you: • What's email marketing and how authors will benefit • How to set up an email marketing account • How to prepare email marketing messages • Email permissions and legal compliance • Where to feature your sign - up links to get new reader subscribers • Lots of ideas for building your email marketing list • How to run stylish email marketing campaigns • How to sell books through email marketing without spamming your readers • How to retain your subscribers and keep them engaged with your email marketing mauthors will benefit • How to set up an email marketing account • How to prepare email marketing messages • Email permissions and legal compliance • Where to feature your sign - up links to get new reader subscribers • Lots of ideas for building your email marketing list • How to run stylish email marketing campaigns • How to sell books through email marketing without spamming your readers • How to retain your subscribers and keep them engaged with your email marketing messages

I also set up a blog on wordpress.com, where I thought I would post a lot about historical fiction, but it ended up almost exclusively being about my journey as a self - published author (which turned out to be much more successful than I could have ever predicted.)

A lot of self - published authors use print on demand after their initial first run has sold, and they want to have X-amount of books on hand, without taking up a ton of space in their homes.

We've been adding authors and readers quietly, getting the system ready to scale up, and even though we know there's still lots to do, the system is already providing value.

In the final analysis, a lot of what you end up with depends on how many skills, and how much knowledge and creative thinking, you bring to the table as an author / publisher.

Although the podcast covers a lot of things some more advanced indie authors might already know, it's still a valuable podcast to check up on.

What new authors should understand is that there's a lot of noise in the market and to stand out you have to come up with the right title, subtitle and approach to really pull readers in.

This is why many indie authors end up devoting a lot of time to consumer - facing marketing and publicity: trying to find the readers for their work through online and offline channels, without going through any kind of gatekeeper.

Authors with social - media savvy can generate a lot of attention leading up to a virtual book tour.