Sentences with phrase «many ugly book»

It is probably the ugliest book cover I have ever designed, but if you compare it with the cover from John Piper's book on the right, you'll see why I created the cover as I did.

I remember flipping through the college directory — affectionately dubbed the «ugly book» — and rating the guys based not on looks, but on spiritual aptitude.

While I'm not sure the syllogism above would withstand severe logical examination, it crystallizes my own more diffuse reflections on the failure of two well - established writers in two unusually inept and ugly books, Live From Golgotha, by Gore Vidal, and Jesus: A Life, by A.N. Wilson.

The trick is taking off the ugly book covers.

Vanity presses under new disguises these days tell a writer that they will produce a writer's book for a set amount of money and then ship the writer thousands of really ugly books for the writer to try to sell or store in their garage.

This is unfortunate because indie authors already have a tough time figuring out what makes a «Good Cover» — and if book cover contests like this give prizes to fairly ordinary or even pretty ugly book covers, the bar will not be raised.

And because nobody wants it, or because they're scared off by the ugly book cover, the author can't make any sales.

Writers (often horrid writers, but not all) would spend thousands and thousands of dollars through a scam vanity press to get a garage full of really ugly books.

We can all agree that ugly book covers are inevitable.

Also if the website is ugly or has hundreds of ugly book covers from other eager author desperate for visibility, stay away.

Looking back at the Uglies books — specifically the second installment, Pretties — provides one complicated perspective.

Unluckily, there are too many ugly book covers out there that no self - respecting author or reader should accept.

That's why we have accepted the challenge to change that and hereby declare the death of the ugly book cover!

Because of this, I may be missing readers and income — but I just don't like ugly books.

An ugly book cover, or no book cover, sends the message to the prospective reader that you're amateurish, lazy, or sloppy.

Not exact matches

In our book, they're guilty of committing the ugliest Twitter marketing sins of 2014.

He wrote this book here and the book says: He made us all to be just like Him,» so... If we're dumb... Then God is dumb... and maybe even a little ugly on the side.»

«It says in the book He made us all to be just like him, so if we're dumb, then God is dumb... and maybe even a little ugly on the side.»

Yet, once again, contradiction rares its ugly head, in their book of hate, murder, intolerance... their god can't decide on anything.

Some bits are rather too American: in the clothes section I at first wondered what «jeggings» were (latest fashion: a mix of jeans and leggings - rather ugly, actually, and the author of the book thinks so too) and talk of «dates» made me think at first of dried fruit rather than of young men.

And the Lord sayeth, «After thou marriest a total goober who I already have smote fiercely with my ugly stick, make thy face look rubbery and phony, so that others might see thou and, pityingeth thou, buyest thine book.»

A common complaint about the past 50 years of church architecture is that it is remarkably unattractive — «ugly as sin,» to cite the title of Michael S. Rose's book.

And why ugly children's books should be banned.)

You'd think one honest look at the ugly bloodstained cacaphonous shit - hole that is «The Holy Land» would give just a few of these people pause, and make them wonder whether their magic book had a fib or two in it, but... nope!

The debate surrounding the release of Rob Bell's new book about heaven and hell has taken such an ugly, polarizing turn that one would think there are only two positions available to Christians — Calvinism or universalism.

Can you not defend the ugly parts of your «holy book»?

I had some trouble cooking them and they turned out a little broken and ugly, but you can't judge a book by its cover.

It also appears as if the books are expecting a healthy Carey Price to help Montreal bounce back from an ugly 82 point season and contend again this year.

I said last week the primetime games were shaping up to be monsters and if the books didn't win at least won it was going to be ugly.

Things turned a bit ugly as the Arsenal goalkeeper was booked for his troubles and according to Twitter, was spotted uttering some x-rated words in response to the match official.

All of which means commitment only goes so far, and it seems to reach an ugly yet not surprisingly predictable end when someone's schtupping someone he or she's not supposed to (and because we're only asking the engaged couples to answer a teeny - tiny portion of the questions in our book, we haven't even gotten to the good stuff, like asking them to define what infidelity means to them: Watching porn?

But divisive attempts to change the rule book will disrupt that unity and look pretty ugly to the country.

It is all in the book - the good, bad and ugly.

Researchers at Murdoch University and Curtain University, both in Western Australia, combed through 14,248 journal papers, books and conference proceedings about 331 Down Under mammals and found an overwhelming bias against investigations of «ugly» species.

This book forces us to confront the uncomfortable, often ugly realities of human nature, but Bloom uses a conversational style and deeply personal examples to make it more palatable.

You may well ask: What is the point of introducing fictitious characters with ugly names into a serious book?

So it was a great book, because it teaches you — like when a refrigerator is «obsolete,» it's actually the plastic parts that have gotten messy and ugly and need to be replaced.

So I was just Melissa Ambrosini's podcast, she's amazing, and she wrote a book called «Mastering Your Mean Girl,» which is all about like healing that, you know, mean girl we all have inside of ourselves that's like calling us fat, and ugly.

This ugly truth was revealed in the book Dataclysm by OkCupid co-founder Christian... Asian men, black...

My name is Ras - Nasty im very cool calm and collective with great morals and values that give my life meaning and purpose i love working out reading books and watching football i am spontaneous and outgoing im not a pretty boy but also i am not ugly i am content with myself not coincided but very...

The discussions here offer a haven for engaging film beyond history, but Jones» doc proves to have an ugly, specific idea about its audience that the book doesn't.

May 2, 2018 • Broadway's original Aaron Burr sits down with host Linda Holmes to talk about his new book, how it feels to hear ugly things about your career, and what he wants to do now that he couldn't before.

Don't try to cut costs on design so you'll have a bigger book marketing budget later you plan to use for advertising — ads will fail if the book cover is ugly.

If you can't give your book away for free, it's probably because you still haven't gotten 10 + reviews, or your cover is ugly.

The only things America Star Books is still entitled to is the ISBN number (there are countless numbers of those), the cover design (which was ugly anyway) and the page layout.

Sad to watch real books vanish only to be replaced by ugly Nooks and Kindles.

Things have changed quite a bit since then and, while inspiring stories of success still abound, the hard, ugly truth is that there are now more independent authors, and more books getting published on a daily basis than ever before, which further reduces the odds of any one book making it big.

It's difficult to tell someone their baby is ugly — but it's even more difficult to present a less than professional looking book on any of our featured spotlights or main pages.

I haven't stayed up late to finish a book in a long time, but that is exactly what I did for ALL THE UGLY AND WONDERFUL THINGS.

From a pessimistic perspective, however, the company took a $ 170 million hit on its Fire Phone, and was embroiled in an ugly, public fight with book publisher Hachette.