Sentences with phrase «made by our publishing house»

The other day, for purposes of replying to an angry teacher who used textbooks made by our publishing house, we asked our resident botanist to respond and he wrote a long statement.

Not exact matches

On the legislative and policy front, Bill C - 11 has passed the committee stage and seems likely to race toward royal assent by the summer, last week's unveiling of the telecom policy (including policies on the forthcoming spectrum auction and foreign ownership) puts to rest a major issue associated with the digital economy strategy, the CRTC recently published its final anti-spam regulations with Industry Canada expected to follow with theirs shortly, the open government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward next week.

In a submission to the House of Lords Constitution Committee's inquiry into the passage of legislation through Parliament, the CIOT proposes: · The Finance Bill Public Bill Committee takes oral evidence from tax experts and others; · More effective liaison between select committees and the Finance Bill committee; · Increasing the resources available to Parliament for scrutinising tax matters; · Using technology to make it easier for those outside Parliament to comment on Bills, e.g. an online facility to input comments by clause numbers, so MPs can see who says what against each clause; · Asking the Office of Tax Simplification to publish simplification assessments of new tax proposals.

The Electoral Commission must publish any report made under subsection (1) as soon as practicable after it has been presented to the House of Representatives, but in any case not later than 10 working days after the report is received by the Minister.

His new book — Meet the People — on what makes campaigns work and what this can teach businesses and other public - facing organisations is being published by Harriman House.

2 p.m., the Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services will assemble to make decisions on bills directing the Department of Correction to provide a list of all inmates waitlisted for placement or transfer to alternative housing, to expand its report on «enhanced supervision housing,» to publish «their rules and regulations regarding the use of force by staff on inmates,» to post quarterly reports detailing the visitation of incarcerated individuals, the department's grievance system, and the demographic of incarcerated individuals in city jails, and to create «an inmate bill of rights.»

The news follows a report published by the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee in September exposing «the shocking scale of sexual harassment and sexual violence» in schools, and recommending that «PSHE and SRE are made statutory subjects» to address the problem.

Cameron has made it clear that he wants to reduce the cost of politics and has set out plans to make the House of Commons «smaller and more efficient» by cutting the number of MPs by 10 % and publishing details of their expenses online.

In the official government response to the Review, published on 1 December, David Lidington, the Leader of the House of Commons, echoed the remarks made by Baroness Evans:

This is in line with a call made by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in a report published in September.

The government made its position clear in its response to a report published in April by the House of Commons Select Committee on Trade and Industry.

As a fiction editor at a publishing house, we are treated to scenes where Ana is scolded by her husband for not changing her work email address to her newly married name, and her editorial notes consist of «make the font size two points bigger.»

His first book, Making Every Geography Lesson Count, is soon to be published by Crown House.

Instead of self - editing, and making my own cover, and throwing it onto KU, I started my own company, and I decided that I was going to release a book that was competitive with and indistinguishable from a release by a major publishing house.

The media makes a big deal about those who have scored by self - publishing and have gotten million - dollar contracts from the big houses.

Probably (1) get bought — or at least read; (2) make you money; (3) if self - published, get snagged by a «big house» and do more of [1] and [2]; (4) establish you as an «expert» or «authority» in its topic field; (5) get potential readers to want to know -LSB-...]

Traditional publishing houses are sweating, and authors who went through the grueling process of courting them, and waiting (and waiting and waiting) are now feeling the sting, as people who do it themselves are surpassing them by making more money for their efforts.

Okay so by that logic, people who have novels published my major publishing houses that don't yet make a living from their writing are not authors either, right?

Even with those two facets, most titles don't ever make it to the silver - screen — even if published by Random House or any of the others.

While some would say being published by a major publishing house makes one a legitimate author and being independently published or self - published means you are not I would say that is like saying only a person who has a recording produced by a major studio can be claimed to be a singer.

Just like I would never trust myself to diagnose my cat's health issues, I would never allow myself to declare victory with a completed manuscript until it has been edited by a professional editor (yes, PAYING someone makes a difference), printed by a publishing house, and marketed either by myself or by a marketing agency.

The issue is solely whether they can earn sufficient from their writings to make a living, NOT whether these earnings are intermediated by a publishing house.

Actually, I thought I made it quite clear that I did find fault with your entire argument by stating that I believe the term «author» applies to anyone who publishes a novel, whether it be through a publishing house or self - published.

Finally, an author can make 70 % on their work, rather than the traditional 3 % offered by publishing houses.

The majority of authors who are accepted by publishing houses will never make a living at it.

It should look like it was produced by a big New York publishing house, yet many self - published authors make the mistake of cutting corners and skipping over critical steps in the publishing process.

What makes this even more interesting is Louise Hay, who founded Hay House and made it the leading new thought publisher, actually started by self - publishing her books.

Balboa Press, a division of Hay House, specializes in publishing self - empowerment books by authors who aspire to make positive impacts on the world.

«Not every author can make the NY Times bestseller list» says Mark, «but every talented author deserves to reach as many people as possible... whether it's with a traditional publisher like Random House or through self - publishing supported by smart book marketing.

Balboa Press, a division of Hay House, specializes in publishing self - empowerment books by authors who aspire to make a positive impact on the world.

Not just books, but * authors * have been treated as fungible widgets for decades, a process that has gotten worse as the old publishing houses got bought up by soulless corporations that make the «Zon look like a feel - good co-op run by gentle hippies.

You can also self - publish with either the hope of making a success outright or, like a startup venture, the hope of doing well enough to be noticed by a big house and picked up.

The young adult publishing space is saturated by traditional publishing houses with a huge budget, who can make really awesome websites and things to get traffic.

Authors have divided themselves into two camps, the making a living wage by self publishing crowd of which I belong, and the gatekeepers like James Patterson and Scott Turow who have made a shitload of money with traditional publishers who have eleveated them to a position of being «overlords» of the literary world and encouraging greedy publishing houses to bar the door to new aspiring writers who are not represented by agents.

Consumers do not distinguish between e-books published by traditional houses and independently published options when making buying decisions.

As the stigma of self - publishing vanishes, more and more self - published books are making it big and getting picked up by traditional publishing houses.

Last year, in 2013, I've made the ranks of the Top 100 Best Seller Authors in Science Fiction a few times and I've been contacted by two Independent publishing houses to feature my work.

Why It Makes You Look Self Published Standard fonts such as Times New Roman have been carefully chosen by traditional publishing houses and the media for decades.

She said that when it was finally rejected (because it was too similar to another book being published by a big name house), «we realized this was a concern we were likely going to run into elsewhere, so Hoover made the choice, in consultation with me, to go the independent publishing route and be the first to work with our agency in this capacity.»

Yes, the Man Booker Prize not only goes to a book published in the UK by a «formal» publishing house (don't worry, just in case you're confused and think your book is eligible, the rules are nice enough to state further down that you're not welcome), but also expects the publishers of the six books whittled down to the shortlist to foot the bill for advertising to the world that this book made it to the finals.

Despite the fact that many people would love to have a book published by a major publisher such as Random House, I made the decision to turn Random House down.

It would be churlish of me to mention names but I recently made myself read a series of «thrillers» by best - selling authors published by mainstream houses.

Over a year ago, traditional publishers like Harlequin made headlines and raised eyebrows by announcing the formation of imprints within their publishing houses that were dedicated to ebook - only works; the benefit to these imprints was twofold.

Possibly due to the fear spread in the industry by the loss of the Border's chain, traditional publishing houses have worked harder than ever before to make the shift to digital.

Random House reached a similar deal back in March for the English - language Bond backlist outside of Canada and the U.S. Barnes & Noble, which has vowed never to stock titles published by Amazon, is going to have an interesting decision to make once the physical Bond books are published by Amazon, since Barnes & Noble stores currently stock Fleming's novels.

And I also weighed all the wonderful pluses that came with being traditionally published by a Big 5 house — including having a «team» behind me every step of the way, having the «clout» and prestige of having finally «made it,» being able to reach a wider audience through print distribution.

The first book is an excellent example of an ugly cover made by a traditional publishing house to appear in print.

Making a general, sweeping statement like that of Grodin creates the illusion that all eBooks are too expensive, when in fact it truly relates only to a portion of the market that is getting smaller by the day — that of major publishing houses.

They would be doing far more service to aspiring writers by printing articles to inform them that it is not a publishing house's job to make a horrendously written MS readable & that any writer lacking in basic grammar & punctuation skills would save time, MONEY & tears by learning them (yes I know this post is probably riddled with errors - but it's late & I'm not looking to find an agent with it).

Today, these houses don't make it easy by claiming to be a «self publishing company.»