Sentences with phrase «more and more authors move»

Among my peers, I'm seeing more and more authors move from traditional publishing to self - publishing.

Not exact matches

Before becoming one of the world's best - known comic strip writers and authors, Scott Adams spent more than a decade in the corporate world, moving into management after being held at gunpoint twice while working as a teller.

Canada has also not moved to align itself with the growing international consensus that the term of copyright protection is more appropriately the life of the author (known as pma, or post mortem auctoris) plus 70 years, as adopted by the US, all EU countries and a number of others.

Gay author Dennis Altman has denied the essentialist view and declared that the homosexual movement is a direct continuation of the counterculture's move toward a freer and more inclusive bisexuality (a position similar to the one held by Foucault).

«When you take concern for helping others and add that to intrinsic motivation, people actually become more creative,» said organizational psychologist Adam Grant, author of the best - selling Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, in an interview with Christianity Today.

«Personally, I don't think it's all that hard to advise people to eat less [watch portion size], move more, and eat lots of fruits, vegetables and whole grains,» said Nestle, the author of «Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health.»

As a professor at Fordham Law School, the author of important books on political and economic policy, a key figure in Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, and a visionary organizer on behalf of banking and business reforms, she understands that the Democratic Party must move toward progressive populism in order to become more than a tepid alternative to Republican extremism.

This may have been an adaptation to new environments and endurance hunting, as early Homo species left the forests and moved on to more arid African savannahs,» says lead author Dr Manuel Will from Cambridge's Department of Archaeology, and a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College.

The study suggests PSC and PBC differ more than originally thought, Konstantinos Lazaridis, M.D., a Mayo Clinic hepatologist and senior study author says: «Moving forward, we can look at what this finding might tell us about the causes of these diseases and how to better treat them.»

«The herbivores created space for other plants and animals to move in and we saw much more diversity and variety in these ecosystems,» said Rebecca Kordas, the lead author of the study who completed this research as a PhD student in zoology at UBC.

The authors conclude that the challenge of over-diagnosis poses a significant issue in this age range when screening is offered on a population basis and suggest a move towards a more personalised approach would be more appropriate.

Using the presence and productivity of former co-authors and potential collaborators as a proxy to measure the quality of the peer environment, the authors show that, «all else equal, scientists are more likely to move (than not) in a given year if the peer environment at home is not very good,» Ganguli says.

We might imagine that the more connected the city is, the easier it is to move around, and the easier it is to find the cafe,» said Tom Wong, one of the authors of a new analysis of the speed of such a search on databases with different structures and degrees of connectivity.

«In the fine liquid film surrounding the hyphae, bacteria can move with much greater speed and direction and cover more distance than in soil water without hyphae,» says Tom Berthold, first author of the study and a doctoral researcher at the UFZ Department of Environmental Microbiology.

«In our study, women's muscle appeared more efficient in neutralizing this protein, and this allows insulin to work better to move sugar from circulation to muscle,» said lead author Dr. M. Constantine Samaan, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine and pediatric endocrinologist at the McMaster Children's Hospital

Planet f initially looks more promising, but modeling the evolution of the star makes it seem probable that it has only moved into the habitable zone recently as Tau Ceti has gotten more luminous over the course of its life,» explains astrophysicist Michael Pagano, ASU postdoctoral researcher and lead author of the paper appearing in the Astrophysical Journal.

«Spiral arms are like traffic jams in that the gas and stars crowd together and move more slowly in the arms» states Denilso Camargo, lead author of the paper from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.»

Adding in strength moves is even more important if you're trying to lose weight, says Osama Hamdy, MD, medical director of the Obesity Clinical Program at Joslin Diabetes Center of Harvard Medical School and author of The Diabetes Breakthrough.

Tom Venuto, one of the most trustworthy experts in the fitness industry, a bodybuilder, and an author comes on the show to talk about what the research has shown are the pros and cons of both eating less and moving more for losing fat.

Jyl Steinback, author, program designer, Eat Right, Move More and Live Well, Scottsdale, Ariz..

Adding just a splash of fruit juice (cranberry, pomegranate, or blueberry are good choices because of their antioxidant properties) can also make water more palatable, says Jyl Steinback, cookbook / lifestyle author and designer of the health program Eat Right, Move More and Live Wmore palatable, says Jyl Steinback, cookbook / lifestyle author and designer of the health program Eat Right, Move More and Live WMore and Live Well.

Like Michael Crichton and Nicholas Meyer — and unlike fellow horror authors Stephen King (Maximum Overdrive), John Farris (Dear, Dead Delilah) and William Peter Blatty (The Ninth Configuration)-- Clive Barker's career move from novelist to director is distinguished not only by a more - than - competent technical job but by a carry - over of the distinctive voice of his prose work.

«This is just more of the move away from traditional broadcasters into new areas such as cable and other platforms including satellite and mobile phone,» says the author of «New New Media,» adding «it won't be too far off that we will see a series that never aired on either network or cable, that began and ended just on the web on this list.»

Catching Feelings This darkly comedic movie follows a professor and his journalist wife who get more than they bargained for after an acclaimed, hard - partying author moves in with them.

Authors McShane, Hatfield, and English found authorizers are requiring more and more paperwork from prospective founders, moving chartering away from outcomes - focused accountability.

Sponsored by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson and authored by Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla, D - Concord, AB 484 would end the standardized tests that have been in place since 1999 and move California forward in implementing... read more

«This book pioneers new ground as the authors move the literature on the marketization of education into a more nuanced analysis of how branding discourses and practices, and the managerialist and neoliberal economic theories they are based on, have entered the logic of public schooling.»

Presented by David Horton, author of Leading School Teams, this webinar for busy teams and busy school leaders will explore three easy ways to get teams moving, focused, and making improvements to impact student learning.N MORE

You would think, from the authors» refreshingly honest description of how little we know about giftedness, that they would recommend we move on to programs with better data and more support, such as ensuring that every fourth - grader can read.

«When chronic absenteeism is included in the accountability measurement, we would expect that schools will monitor chronic absenteeism more closely and employ measures to reduce it — including working to move students just above the threshold for chronic absenteeism to just below it,» authors of the report said.

As more authors move toward indie publishing, I feel there will be a growing need for designers, editors and other publishing professionals to help them reach their goals.

Past moves have included adding whole new sales territories in foreign countries, and only revealing to authors that their books were available in Mexico, for example, when they found... [Read more...]

An eBook that allows an author to change section, to move up plot points depending on reader input, to change the entire setting based on a reader's location — that is a wholly different genre than that of regular books, and is obviously where we're heading (some of the more adventurous of us).

If more top - selling authors forge ahead with similar self - publishing moves, that could weigh further on publishers, which depend on their big money - making best sellers to pull in the majority of profits, and help fund lesser - known writers.

In what appeared on paper to be a bold move that cost the publisher and the author a great deal of money,... [Read more...]

She is the author of Simple Abundance, Peace and Plenty, Something More, Moving On, Mrs. Sharp's Traditions: Nostalgic Suggestions for Re-creating the Family Celebrations and Seasonal Pastimes of the Victorian Home (published in paperback as Victorian Family Celebrations) and The Victorian Nursery Companion.

This morning, Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store, spoke about the horizontal and vertical shifts of Amazon, beginning with the initial bookselling in 1995 and moving into other offerings beginning in 2007, including ebooks and e-readers, grocery, fashion, and more.

New authors are constantly discovering selfpublishing and are slowly moving away from traditional publishing, although many still consider a traditional deal to be more prestigious and better for book store distribution and marketing.

Baen Books is the only close to big publisher who I know is doing it right: all e-books are sold at a maximum price of $ 6.00, the author gets more dollars out of that price than he does out of the hard copy sales, and there's no DRM locking the text down and keeping the user from moving what he has purchased to whatever platform he wants to put it on.

Most MG authors will tell you they sell as much (or more) in print as they do in ebook, but it's hard to move large numbers of print copies if you're not in bookstores (and with POD prices high relative to mass market print runs).

Title: I» s Genre: Drama, Romance Author: Masakazu Katsura Synopsis: Torn between his physical feelings for Iori and his desire for real love, Ichitaka's life gets more complicated when his childhood friend Itsuki moves back from America and ends up living in his house!

Meet Sarah Jane Gunter today, Wednesday, 3 p.m. Frankfurt Book Fair In a move that answers a constant question both from independent authors and from... Read more

It's frustrating to see a very happy author who loves the cover and know another cover would have moved more books off the shelf.

Good post Joel and (intended or otherwise) a really good introduction to the importance of metadata, which authors need to understand as more of their works move into the digital space.

More of a horror / comedy, the manga is a single 120 - page book, following the «autobiographical» tale of the author's girlfriend, and the two cats that move in along with her.

- Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand «With a deft, sure touch, Ann Leary moves easily and confidently between comedy and pathos, painting a rich portrait of a wealthy, eccentric Connecticut family whose conflicts and loyalties are far more complex than they first appear.

Let me say that I have moved to reading self - published books for the past two years and quite frankly, I find the ideas in them more refreshing than ANYTHING I have read from a «best seller» One author who is self - published, I purchased over 15 books from them at once after reading the first one in a series and I have not been disappointed with ANY in the series.

Many of the same professionals who work for major publishers also freelance for self - publishers, and I know of more than one bestselling author who's moved to self - publishing and found professional editors and cover designers and formatters who are better than the ones they worked with at their publishers.

As more and more authors and publishers move to POD (Print on Demand) as a printing, fulfillment and distribution option, they still need review copies to be used for PR, marketing and personal use.

I wrote for traditional publishers for twenty years, up until 2016, and now I have moved into being an indie author to give myself more freedom.