Sentences with phrase «much book editors»

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Biden's first presidential run was derailed by a plagiarism scandal, and the former vice president will face much more scrutiny after the publication of Breitbart News Editor - at - Large and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer's blockbuster new book, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends.

Nigel Rees, editor of an engaging newsletter that tracks down quotations, reports that Chesterton's fictional Father Brown said things very much like that, but he suspects the source is Emile Cammaerts» 1937 book on GKC, which paraphrased him as believing that «The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything.»

My editor at Macmillan worried that the book might be making too much of the phenomenon, that all the talk about ecology was «a flash in the pan.»

Recently retired Christianity Today editor Harold Lindsell, in his much publicized book The Battle for the Bible, chronicles certain of the tensions presently shaking the evangelical world.1 He would have us know that many «evangelicals» have forfeited their right to use that title any longer.

Here's a secret about food editors: we spend so much time developing recipes and cooking that at night — between the busy day in the office and after - work activities like dance classes and book clubs — the last thing we want to do is cook.

-- Lauren Iannotti, editor in chief, Rachael Ray Every Day «A much - needed book.»

It doesn't seem to appeal to editors much anymore, but it appeals to me and one day when I have shot some more portraits I want to present this facet of my work in a book.»

Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American, talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love, about Lonni Sue Johnson, who suffered a specific kind of brain damage that robbed her of much of her memory and her ability to form new memories, and what she has revealed to neuroscientists about memory and the brain.

In a much - discussed article published in December, The Atlantic editor - in - chief James Bennet summed this argument up well: «When you do nt have to print words on pages and then bundle the pages together and stick postage stamps on the result,» he wrote, «you slip some of the constraints that have enforced excellence (and provided polite excuses for editors to trim fat) since Johannes Gutenberg began printing books.

But the biggest surprise here is that much of Infinity War fairly zips along, as directors Joe and Anthony Russo and their armies of previz teams and editors cut between dozens of competing characters and cliffhangers — they've yanked all the good parts from a colossal Marvel comic - book crossover event and chucked them onto the screen.

The film focuses on Wolfe's relationship with legendary book editor Maxwell Perkins (a bland Colin Firth), who in (a clichéd) New York of the Roaring»20s trims down a much - rejected manuscript that ran over 1,000 pages into Wolfe's classic best seller «Look Homeward, Angel.»

Wilder plays George, a book editor that decides to travel cross-country by train to have a boring time where he can get some much needed rest and relaxation.

Citing the intriguing life story of former New York Times book editor Anatole Broyard, an African - American who spent much of his adult life passing as a white man to achieve career success and broader opportunities, and research on gender stereotypes and math skills and race stereotypes and I.Q. tests, Steele offered three recommendations for making classrooms places where students feel a sense of belonging:

I think I'll need to look into Norlu for design, much thanks for the suggestion — the content editor was a godsend — but my book was also history, so having someone who knew history was also a must...

If you're looking for a book to share with a toddler, try Deborah Underwood's The Quiet Book, which Nonfiction Editor Kate Pritchard liked so much, she said, «I kind of want to use it for my own bedtime reading!&rabook to share with a toddler, try Deborah Underwood's The Quiet Book, which Nonfiction Editor Kate Pritchard liked so much, she said, «I kind of want to use it for my own bedtime reading!&raBook, which Nonfiction Editor Kate Pritchard liked so much, she said, «I kind of want to use it for my own bedtime reading!»

Other top editors, including the venerable Harvey Ginsberg, would squire her books through the process of publication, but while she touches on advances and print runs and marketing plans, Godwin, sadly, doesn't really provide much insight into what she calls the «dance partnership» between author and editor.

When Roger Straus or Lucy Morello brought a new author to Frankfurt, they all jumped, as they did for Rob Routman, the head - turning editor in chief of Owl House — sometimes, it was rumored, without reading all that much (or, let's be honest, any) of the manuscript — because often, or often enough anyway, the books «worked,» i.e., sold copies back home.

Though there are 2 things I discovered about publishing: (a) a book editor is a must and (b) a good cover (but don't spend too much.

Much of the advice Quillen offers, this editor had to learn through trial and error, and certainly this book would have saved many hours if it had been available a year ago.

After working with my editor intensely over the past few weeks, the book is much better now than when I submitted it.

That's not to say that you should go it alone — hiring proof - readers, a good editor and getting a great cover design can help give your book a much better start.

The truth is that no matter how much you try, no matter how well your editor and you edit and polish your manuscript, no matter how eye catching the cover of the book may be, no one can ever predict what will be the next best seller.

When EC fired most of its editors, its cover artists, and much of its administrative staff in August 2014, I decided it would be a wise choice to request reversion of rights on every eligible EC book.

So, if you just finished a book and are making up excuses to not mail it to editors or not get it out indie published because you had too much fun writing it, because it came too fast or too easy, or it needs a massive rewrite, you really have issues with Book as Event thinkbook and are making up excuses to not mail it to editors or not get it out indie published because you had too much fun writing it, because it came too fast or too easy, or it needs a massive rewrite, you really have issues with Book as Event thinkBook as Event thinking.

Whether it is one of the big six houses or one of the dozens of often cash - strapped small press, the thing is that you wrote the book and apart from having it «professionally edited and hopefully not changed too much by the editor, then printed, it's all down to you to make your book stand out among the millions of books currently available.

With the cliche of putting «money where your mouth is,» writers will never pass a single milestone event of others loving their book that much as when an agent / editor invests in their work.

The book ended up being well - received, yes, but in hindsight, a good editor could have made it so much stronger.

As a writer with limited, flawed and drastically influenced writing skills that interfere with readers desire to read my book (wife and editor say I write to much like a cop.

This relatively affordable step can help you get your manuscript in much better shape before you have the whole book edited, so the editor may be able to spend less time on it, and therefore charge less, or at least concentrate on other issues that might otherwise have been buried under grammatical errors.

Editors who acquire books in publishing companies are doing much less if any developmental editing.

I learnt so much from the editors who helped me with both books.

For developmental editing, I'm not sure reading books they've edited would be (necessarily) be a good way to judge — you don't know how much of that was the original author's work and how much the editor's.

Reach publishers, agents, distributors, printers, booksellers, librarians, book buyers, authors, journalists, rights executives, editors and so much more from a pool larger than any other all in one location.

From the line editor: «I can't remember when I've enjoyed a YA book so much.»

Most authors recommend using a professional editor in order to make your book the best it can be, but the cost will depend on the level of your writing, how long the book is, how much editing it needs and the editor you choose.

I feel much better when people hire an editor, but it's not cheap to secure the services of a good one and even the best editor can only do so much with a book.

(The book features so much firepower that Stephenson enlisted what he calls a «ballistics copy editor.»)

After much discussion and determined lobbying for our personal favorites, the editors of BookPage have reached a consensus on the year's best books.

And although they may hope your book will be successful, they aren't incentivized to work extra hard to make it a success (Perkins could spend 2 years on a project and still make a windfall on the successful book — freelance editors will put in as much time and effort as they've been paid for.

I've heard from other writers whose NY editors wanted them to change their book so much that it would've ended up in a completely different genre.

This awesome compendium of resource links covers the how - to gamut: publishing ebooks, audiobooks, or print books; writing, editing, formatting, and conversion software; advice blogs; blogs where you can publicize your work; where to find editors, proofreaders, book interior designers, cover designers and artists, publicists, cover art and images, and much more.

Having worked as an editor, project manager and sales manager in Ireland and the UK, he knows exactly how much coffee it takes to turn a manuscript into a finished book (quite a lot!).

While it's important for you to do some of that research yourself, an experienced professional editor has already done much of it and can steer your book in a way that will appeal to both readers and publishers alike.

You'll have a much better chance approaching a different agent or editor — or writing a new and even better book!

But right now, I would love to turn my book over to an editor and have them wave a magic wand and fix the core problems that I know are still there, and I'm getting too frustrated with it to go through it a few more times and fix it... even though that's exactly what I need to do, and even a great editor can't help much with those things.

I'd much rather pay a self published author $ 3 - 4.99 for his work which has been properly edited by a professional independent editor than pay publishing companies $ 10 - $ 20 for the same book where the author gets less and fat cat executives who feel that selling another million vampire novels is more important that trying a new idea that may or may not get huge quick enough to pay for that second jet for their company.

When we got back from New Orleans, we checked out the book — and our children's editor liked it so much, she included a review in our September issue, and an interview with Auxier in the August 10 issue of our children's e-newsletter.

Former Gawker editor Emily Gould (who now is the co-proprietor of Emily Books) is known for her frank - to - a-fault writing — and the much - written - about (by Gould as well as others) flop of her 2010 memoir / essay collection, And the Heart Says Whatever.

Self - published authors can hire freelance editors to comb their books for typos and grammatical mistakes, but when it comes to structural editing — telling the author the third quarter of a novel is too windy or insisting that the current ending needs to be tossed out entirely and redone, things no writer likes to hear but some writers need to — an editor - for - hire is much less motivated to displease her client even when demanding major rewrites would make for a better book.