Sentences with phrase «much out of an author»

Because in the end an editor can get only as much out of an author as the author has in him.»

Not exact matches

Apart from a few brilliant authors and composers, not much good has ever come out of Russia; and unless there is a sharp improvement in the outlook for that country it could drag the rest of the world, including Australia, into a crisis to rival that of 2008.

«The retailers need to know how much of the beacons they want to use and figure out whether they should crawl, walk or run (with the technology),» said Schafer, who is a director at the National Retail Federation in the U.S. and author of Branded, a book about retailers and social media.

Rather, the authors postulated, much of the decrease was due to young men carving out more time for one technology in particular: video games.

God is the author of the bible and I find it much harder to take things out of context if we read and study a book line by line and chapter by chapter.

The author picks out exactly the things that tempt us today — thinking too well of ourselves, showing partiality, kowtowing to wealth, talking too much — and warns against them.

Was this author equally appalled about the prayer breakfast earlier this month, when President Obama tried to use biblical phrases like «for unto whom much is given, much shall be required» and «love thy neighbor as thyself» out of context as justification for his tax and economic policies?

They have a shelf life of 8/10 years at the very top if they are lucky so who can begrudge them the opportunity to make hay whilst the sun is shining... am not saying Sanchez is not money driven but the way the guy plays i can mortgage my life he actually enjoys the game, enjoys wining first and foremost then money comes 2nd... like the author of the article rightly pointed out, he was in Messi's shadow at Barca and could not express himself fully, now he is at a club where he is the main man and given a free role and license to express himself and i very much doubt if he will want to go to a club like Madrid (as been rumoured in the dailies today) to relieve the bad experience he suffered at Barca because let us face facts, he is never going to displace CR7 as the main man, so even if Madrid sells Benzema or Bale to make room for him he will be back to the same position he was at Barca, this time he will be playing 2nd fiddle to CR7 so my guess is all the Madrid talks is been fed the press by his agents to drive a hard bargain when contract extension talks resumes.....

I also appreciated the author's choice to write about how the Great Recession may provide the necessary impetus to redirect much of the hyper over-parenting that has come about in the last fifteen years or so — mainly out of privilege.

According to Helen Smith, author of Men On Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream — And Why It Matters, husbands don't fare much better — when men marry they lose respect, they lose out on sex, they lose freedom (well, women do, too), and they could lose it all if they end up divorced.

Bruce Feiler writes a column on contemporary families at The New York Times and is the author of The New York Times bestseller The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More.

I think I have PTSD from my picky eater and I so appreciated the author's comment about how much emotional content parents bring to the feeding of their children, out of love!

Author's note: I looked and I looked, but there's still no product out there to clean mushy, caked - on and ground - in baby food off your floors, much to the chagrin of moms (and their poor knees) everywhere.

But, forget about the poor kids — Margaret K. Nelson, a sociology professor at Middlebury College and the author of Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times is much more worried about the parents — specifically, the parents» marriage:

«We see that mammals and birds are better able to stretch out and extend their habitats, meaning they adapt and shift much easier,» lead study author Jonathan Rolland, a postdoctoral research fellow at Canada's University of British Columbia, said in a statement.

«Our limited understanding of the incredible jaws of these arachnids, together with terminology that is unstandardized and even contradictory, has hindered our ability to classify them and figure out where they fit in the arachnid tree of life because, much like the cranial anatomy of vertebrates, the jaws of solifuges contain most of the relevant information,» said Lorenzo Prendini, a curator in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology and an author on the paper.

The authors are quick to point out that climate change is still detrimentally affecting the habitats of those species, but at a much slower rate than dozens of previous studies forecast.

Asking why the stethoscope has not yet made way for its more technically advanced counterpart, ultrasound, the authors say that while the cheapest available stethoscopes are literally disposable (though many can cost hundreds of dollars), the cost of the cheapest ultrasound devices is still several thousand dollars, making roll - out, especially in developing nations, much more difficult.

«As the authors point out, parasitoid venoms act in a much subtler, more fine - tuned manner than the better known predatory or defensive venoms of things like snakes, spiders or cone shells.»

«It is much more complex than just going out into the ocean and dumping some iron in,» said Kassandra Costa, a graduate student of paleoclimatology at Columbia University and lead author of the study.

Editor's Note: Carl Zimmer, author of this month's article, «100 Trillion Connections,» has just brought out a much - acclaimed e-book, Brain Cuttings: 15 Journeys Through the Mind (Scott & Nix), that compiles a series of his writings on neuroscience.

When examined with the earlier Georgian finds, the skull «shows that this special immigration out of Africa happened much earlier than we thought and a much more primitive group did it,» said study lead author David Lordkipanidze, director of the Georgia National Museum.

Scientists can figure out how much mass there is in a galaxy by tracking how fast things inside move, Pieter van Dokkum, one the authors of a new research paper published in Nature, told Newsweek.

«This pretty much rules out the alien megastructure theory, as that could not explain the wavelength - dependent dimming,» said Huan Meng, at the University of Arizona, Tucson, who is lead author of the new study published in The Astrophysical Journal.

«We just don't put ourselves out there as much as extraverts; and even when we do, we aren't as quick to make friends of strangers,» writes author Sophia Dumbing in her book Introverts in Love.

so much that we reached out to her trainer, Erin Oprea, author of The 4 x 4 Diet: 4 Key Foods, 4 - Minute Workouts, Four Weeks to the Body You Want ($ 26; amazon.com).

«Noting that by the end of the year, half of the Atkins group had dropped out, and those who remained ended up an unimpressive 4 % lighter, Fat of The Land author Michael Fumento commented, «do you really think any of them could sell a single book copy, much less as many as 15 million (for Atkins), by admitting to a 50 percent drop - out rate in one year with a mere five percent of weight loss among those left?»

, Though there remains much work to figure out the degree to which a child's eye dilation can be reliably graphed to their depression risk, the authors are hopeful about the practical applications their results may someday point to, especially because of the test's low cost and ease in performing.

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The author's astute rendering of relationship baggage teased out over the series, is given a much glossier coat in the film.

Unfaithful has so much more waiting to come out — like a perfectly tuned mystery novel, it has the all - knowing compassion of a author - deity and the fortitude to not drop everything at the wrong time.

Those unfamiliar with the late author David Foster Wallace will get just as much out of «The End Of The Tour» as his fanof «The End Of The Tour» as his fanOf The Tour» as his fans.

Villeneuve carves out a much larger corner of author Phillip K. Dick's universe — not quite taking us off - world, but far beyond the teeming streets, towering buildings and oppressive rain of Scott's retro - futuristic noir.

Indeed, it's consistent with much recent work on collective bargaining (including the 2008 study The Leadership Limbo that I authored with Coby Loup), which points out that contracts are frequently less constricting than reputed — but that state and federal requirements, along with timidity and a lack of imagination on the part of district leaders, have contributed to a culture of management passivity.

As the authors of the meta - analysis point out, there are many known, malleable predictors of achievement test scores that have much higher associations with achievement than measures of grit, e.g., study skills, test anxiety, and learning strategies.

For example, a famous author's book will sell out immediately because of how much it was promoted before it was released.

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Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»

Because I'm convinced of two things: that bad books will sink to the bottom fairly quickly and thus don't really pose much of a nuisance to me, and that the only ones who are ultimately hurt by bad books are the authors putting them out.

I consider myself very lucky to have learned so much from a writer as prolific as Selena, one of the best guilty pleasure authors out there with over a million books sold!

I self - publish, so I do pretty much everything myself; but I've heard several traditionally published indie authors say they were surprised to find out that even with a traditional publisher, they were expected to do a lot of the marketing for their own books, particularly if the publisher is small, since they were * not * a celebrity name that could sell itself.

Sue explained that in traditional publishing, authors don't have much say in certain aspects of marketing — the title, layout of novel, interior design — but authors have to figure out how to market their book all on their own.

Take a look at the catalogs of work from these authors and find out how much their paperbacks cost.

Sure there are social media platforms like Goodreads, Wattpad, Facebook groups etc. and then there are the «real» opportunities that are so much harder to facilitate and organize (and pay for e.g. expense vs profit) like community or regional events and networks as you point out above, but I feel really strongly that the most important thing for an author to do in order to build a loyal paying (italics) fanbase / readership is to produce good quality works that are publicized properly and to spend time interacting with those of your readers who you know buy your books because they came to you in the first place.

Mike Shatzkin, publishing expert and founder of The Idea Logical Company, called Howey out, saying he is «a much better author and self - promoter than he is a business analyst,» and warns authors his advice is potentially «toxic.»

Or at least as much of a living as any author can, since many people have pointed out that authors who make enough to quit their dayjobs are few and far between.

THERE»S NO PLACE LIKE HOME A bigger switch comes from New York Times best - selling author Connie Brockway, who offers her first contemporary with Hot Dish, a novel that turns out to be that rarest of breeds, a contemporary romance that isn't chick lit or divorce lit or even (much) of a romantic suspense, but a hot main dish for the savvy reader who knows pure romance can be a hearty meal in itself.

Wow, you really are out of touch with the publishing industry if you think that indie authors aren't investing as much (if not more) money in getting their work edited, covers designed etc that the larger publishers put into their titles.

Publishing industry events have been debating the ins and outs of reaching readers directly for several years, and companies have been exhibiting at these events for that same amount of time, promising both publishers and authors they could reach out to book audiences and seamlessly sell content, wiping out the need to pay fees or argue over how much a book should cost.

So the question is, how much money have you fleeced out of indie authors wanting to be taken seriously?