Sentences with phrase «money than the author»

There are times when I wonder whether all the people writing books, setting up blog tours, and providing other services for aspiring self - published authors are making a lot more money than the authors.

But shouldn't the author that is able to provide more entertainment to their customer make more money than the author that loses their reader after a while?

Except that the production costs of a motion picture are a couple orders or magnitude higher than for a book, and even the guy who empties the wastebaskets makes more money than the author.

Not exact matches

Fredrick Petrie, author of «The End of Work: Financial Planning for People With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over for savings.

By prioritizing their emergency fund, Cherie Lowe, author of «Slaying the Debt Dragon: How One Family Conquered Their Money Monster and Found an Inspired Happily Ever After,» and her husband Brian gained the momentum they needed to pay off more than $ 127,000 in debt.

The authors» conclusion — Entrepreneurs think they are better than their resumes show and realize they can make more money by going it alone.

Author of six internationally bestselling books, including the recent New York Times # 1 best - seller MONEY: Master the Game and UNSHAKEABLE, Mr. Robbins has empowered more than 50 million people from 100 countries through his audio, video and life training programs.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

Unfortunately, most e-publishers are pretty hush - hush about the amount of money their authors receive in royalties, but it's safe to say that it's probably more than mainline publishers offer, but not as much as you'd get from publishing your book yourself.

Recognizing that money was essentially a social and legal institution, a creation of the state, the author urged the government to finance the railroads by printing its own money rather than borrowing from private banks and investors.

Despite the equity, some people — including Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad — consider homes a liability, since they absorb rather than generate money.

The author of this uninspired piece lacking in true research and zero enlightenment would do well to take a journey in solitude so he may hear the true word of God for himself, rather than an interpretation meant to please a mass audience who will feel obligated to part with their hard earned and hard to find money....

Drawing on her personal experience and those of 30 + adoptive families, Julie is the author of Adopt Without Debt: Creative Ways to Cover the Cost of Adoption — a hands - on guide that contains more than $ 80,000 worth of creative fundraising tips and ideas, plus loads of interesting and, yes, fun ways to save money for your open adoption.

At the same time, having children, as All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood author Jennifer Senior notes, causes more conflict between couples than anything else — money, work, in - laws, chores, annoying habits, communication styles, and sex.

I have a similar quibble with the article's section on fundraising, in which the authors note that less than 5 % of the money raised for the 2006 election will come from online sources.

Money Doesn't Necessarily Buy Health The study's authors highlight the fact that per capita spending on health care is 89 percent higher in the U.S. than in Canada.

So, even at that price, conservationists could save more whales for less money than they do now, the authors conclude.

If youre in way over your head (as in, your minimum payments each month total more than 20 % of your take - home pay), seek debt counseling, says Farnoosh Torabi, author of You're So Money.

Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before, notes that while after a certain point money doesn't necessarily make us happier, feeling out of control and not having enough money is strongly correlated with unhappiness and anxiety.

David Bann, the study's lead author, suggested that pupils from private schools are more likely to have extra money to invest in extracurricular activities than state schools, which could help them develop healthy habits that benefit them late on life.

Following these findings, Leeds Building Society enlisted the help of Consultant Psychologist, and author of Willpower For Dummies, Dr Frank Ryan, to provide advice and guidance to those who are wanting to save money and to help people train themselves to become savers rather than spenders.

As senior - level administrators are both the stewards of the pension system and the recipients of the highest net benefits, the authors conclude, «There is no reason to expect school administrators or their organizations to support reforms that would provide a more modern and mobile retirement system for young educators» and suggest that districts could be recruiting young teachers more effectively by putting money in upfront salaries rather than in end - of - career pension benefits.

The option of shifting retiree health benefit costs to the federal government by requiring retirees to enroll in Medicare Advantage plans would save the state more money than eliminating the state - funded retiree health benefit altogether for new hires, according to the report that was authored by legislative staff at the Program Evaluation Division.

She was the co-lead author of It's More Than Money; Tying Earning to Learning: The Link Between Teacher Compensation and Student Learning Objectives; Focus on Literacy: Professional Development Audit; Catalyst for Change (the summative Denver report on performance - based compensation); and New Directions in Christina (the summative report on systemic reform in Delaware's largest district).

He has been the lead or co-lead author of numerous evaluations (including It's More Than Money, Catalyst for Change, and Pathway to Results, the first comprehensive, longitudinal evaluative studies of the impact of performance - based compensation on student achievement, teacher effectiveness and systems change) and articles, and provides briefings to members of the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Department of Education, state legislatures and departments of education, and the media.

According to the report, 10 out of 20 states reviewed allow tax filers to bring in more from combined state and federal credits and deductions than they donate, a loophole that the report's author said makes their donations more like money laundering than philanthropy.

It's important, because some authors make more money from subsidiary rights than regular book sales!

However, if you want to make the most money (especially on Amazon, which only allows authors to receive 70 percent in royalties if the book is priced at $ 2.99 or higher — $ 1.99 and $ 0.99 books only allow authors a 35 percent royalty rate), then $ 4.99 appears to be the best price point for selling a good amount of books (though far less than with a lower price point) while making the most in profit.

I make more money than some of the traditionally published authors that I'm friends with.

An author can get an amazing cover (see Damonza.com, for example) for less than one - third that amount and devote the remainder of his or her hard - earned money with other professionals who help him or her develop, edit, print, and market his or her book.

For authors and publishers with deep pockets — specifically, for those authors who have more money than available time — it might very well be a reasonable investment to engage a news clipping service during the course of a book promotion campaign that includes print media outreach.

But for most of the indie authors and small publishers I work with, money is at a greater premium than time.

In response to literary agents who said no major publisher would ever offer a single royalty rate that brought authors more money than the current standard, Rasenberger said that the goal is to get a conversation going.

There are fewer ways for Indie Authors to find an audience than there were a year ago, and every day there are more predatory companies seeking to make money off of us.

That's more than $ 1,200 worth of Bestselling Author Coach ™ training... for just $ 297 (with a 100 % money back guarantee).

Because it's cheaper to give away books than it is to invest time and money authors already have in short supply in a hardcore marketing push that might or might not pan out.

Yes the royalties are higher than one would expect to earn from a traditional publisher but it hardly offsets the amount of money spent by the author getting their book to press through one of these publishers.

If a beginning author can make money off e-books (even with poor grammar or plot holes), then I'm sure other beginning authors using correct grammar and applying multiple proofreading sessions will have even more opportunities than that to still earn a living writing.

They frequently cite that most of the Amazon bestsellers are written by indie authors and that they are earning more money than writers who get a traditional publishing deal.

And I don't see where you get the idea that it is easier to make money going indie than it is traditional, -LCB- to join these organizations you have to earn «x» amount of money over a single calendar year, where the specified amount for indie publishers is a * multiple * of the requirement for traditionally - published authors minimum income, because it is easier to make money by going indie, -RCB- because it is actually harder.

But that would require more time and effort and money than many «authors» are apparently willing to devote to their own work.

Frankly I want to tear my hair out because I'm seeing dozens of indie authors selling more than me and making more money that I am.

Some self - published authors spend more time on a book than some traditionally published authors and they end up making more money too.

I think you'd be disappointed to discover multitudes of self published authors outsell and make far more money than traditionally published authors.

I make more money than most traditionally published authors.

If this is where the art of the written word is headed — if the amount of money earned is the mark of a «real author», rather than the skill and creativity of the writing — then I am not only saddened, I am disgusted.

Apparently more people are noticing that Amazon doesn't care about authors or readers or anything other than making as much money as possible:

(Whereas an indie author makes money if the ROI is more than 0 %.

So, the question begs, other than the obvious, which is to make more money off of gullible authors, what is the reasoning behind producing this information - that - isn't - quite - disinformation - but - not - really - accurate reports?

Every one of you has it in you to make more money tomorrow than you did today in your author business, but if you start today, the fruits of your labors will show up in two or three months, just like planting your garden, success is nurtured, planted now to bear fruit later.