Sentences with phrase «much editing your book»

How much editing your book receives is entirely up to you.

Not exact matches

While much of the credit for counterinsurgency goes to Petraeus (and Gen. James Mattis), who literally wrote the book on the subject, it was Mansoor who edited the work.

When I self - published, I paid a service, which took my document and pretty much handled everything, including editing, book cover design (upon my approval, of course) and even posted and got it approved through Amazon.

I've been pleasantly surprised by how much freedom I've enjoyed throughout the writing and editing process, and I can say with complete confidence that the book you will read is the book that I wrote.

This «book of extraordinary audacity,» the dust jacket claims, was not compiled by Grayling so much as «made» using the very «techniques of editing, redaction, and adaptation that produced the holy books of the Judeo - Christian and Islamic religions.»

All Year: The Bible (There are many translations available at biblegateway.com)- Anchor Bible Commentary Series - The Women's Bible Commentary, Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe - Living Judaism: The Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick - Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament, Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Cravien, and Ross Shepard Kraemer - Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick - God's Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

Between book writing and editing though, my family is lucky to have meals this week at all, much less those made with love!

The experience, including the opportunity to live and work in France, is so much more than just book editing.

Ricardipus: So everyone - how much were you edited for the book?

Dave Eggers — Writing a dating profile is much like writing an article... helped San Franciscans increase their chances of a lifelong match by editing their online dating profiles at a National Independent Bookstore Day event at Books Inc. in the...

At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.

Genre - juggler Ang Lee was a curious director to take on such a project, and while he played around with the effects as much he could, he was far more interested in the underlying psychology of Bruce Banner's rage and the formal constructs of a film literally based on a comic book movie, with editing flowing between on - screen panels — everything short of speech bubbles.

Since the writing response area in this book report set is not very lengthy, it does not take me much time to help my students edit and revise their first drafts.

If the book does NOT have all of those things, then the buyer needs to see some other proof that the well - designed, beautifully - edited, fantastically - written, much - needed book won't just sit on their shelves.

Being involved in every stage of putting together a non-fiction book proposal, offering substantial editing on fiction manuscripts, and coming up with book ideas for authors looking for their next project is as much a part of the work at DGLM as selling, negotiating contracts, and collecting monies for their clients.

For a guy who has edited Toni Morrison, Nora Ephron, and others, he comes as across as a seriously uninformed dick who delights in «mansplaining» everything that is wrong with a wildly successful genre (that earns enough money to pretty much keep the rest of the industry flourishing and off life support because there are only so many painfully precious lit fic books one can read before wanting to go to a poetry reading and sarcastically catcall the people at the mic) that is dominated by women who for the most part seem to know what they are doing and drive 90 % of the innovation in book marketing and sub-genres.

Rebecca, not counting the time it took to edit your book, how much time so you estimate it took to get your book ready for publishing at CreateSpace?

Amazon does not allow an author to have a Page until they have a book available for purchase on Amazon, and then they automatically add an Author Page but it will not have much information until you edit it.

Just as Amazon gives authors quite a bit of control over their Author Page, they also give authors the opportunity to edit much of the information that appears on their book's Product Detail Page including the Product Description, About the Author, From the Author, From the Inside Flap, From the Back Cover, and Reviews.

Some of the more poorly written books, if the story is good, stand as much chance of gaining readership as any mediocre tale, perfectly edited.

I much prefer to listen to the professionally narrated and edited version of a book than have the robotic voice of Alexa read to me... but, as an author it's worth noting the trend of listening to content is only going to continue to grow.

«Charging $ 100 for editing services isn't much different than selling a book for.99 cents.

Write a good book, edit it to perfections, find your audience and you are very much an author doing what author's do.

I'm not buying this comparison: ««Charging $ 100 for editing services isn't much different than selling a book for.99 cents.

They have made things much more difficult for those of you who ARE talented writers, who HAVE gotten the necessary editing, and are taking care to self - pub quality books.

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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 I'm out on the road talking to authors, I often pull out my soap box about editing and how much it costs to edit your book.

Because they did little if any screening of manuscripts, much less editing or proofreading, these companies (and the books they printed) garnered a reputation for a severe lack of quality.

IBPA members receive a 10 % discount on all of BookBaby's eBook and Printed Book services, including editing, design, conversion, POD and much more.

Given my comfort with that, I'm hardly going to edit profanity out of a book I'm reading, much less one that I'm writing.)

I don't have much then to pay for getting my book edited, proofread and even formatted but years down the road, I now understand how not to confuse cost with value.

Because they did little if any screening of manuscripts, much less editing or proofreading, these companies (and the books they printed) garnered a reputation for a severe lack of -LSB-...]

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.

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.

A high - quality book — professionally edited and designed — has a much greater chance of business or commercial success.

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

I know we missed so much in that process and wish we had the resources to get profession editing and a professional book cover, but that was not an option.

Maybe you've actually gotten a good deal, if they are paying for the editing, formatting and book design (saving you thousands of dollars) but it doesn't matter much if the book doesn't sell.

I was struck by how well - edited and generally thought out that book was, and as I learned more about David's journey, I thought his story would make an interesting blog, especially considering how much I harp on quality and consistency.

With this program, you can be made available on Amazon and the rest of the Thor outlets, as well as have some books for under the tree, all in not much more than a month, without editing, and two months, with editing.

The truth is there is too much competition, and unless your publisher is doing brilliant content marketing, building a genre specific email list, helping you build your amazing author website and boosting your optin offer, counseling you on social media strategy and long term book sales, you've basically signed away a big chunk of your sales in exchange for editing, formatting and design.

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.

We can design your book cover Edit or typeset your manuscript Provide professional illustrations Publish your book using many different models Design your website Produce a book trailer Distribution option Online marketing tools so much more

Editing services are packaged separately from publishing; Breezeway Books does offer a «free edit assessment» to let you know how much work, if any, your book will need.

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.

The best self publishing companies are able to provide a wide range of self publishing services including marketing, format, book covers, professional editing, graphic design, distribution services and much more.

A series of travel books on Spain and the UK cost as much to research as they earned, and I briefly returned to publishing to launch and edit a magazine for private pilots, Flyer.

I think it's out of ignorance (and I mean that kindly, as I was equally ignorant just a year ago) about how much it actually costs to put out a damned good book that has proper editing and high quality manufacturing.

And since editing is often the largest publishing cost (often over $ 1000, whereas cover design, formatting and everything else together can be had for much less) editing is the biggest decision and largest investment you will make self - publishing your book.