Sentences with phrase «never met an author»

After all, if we were to come upon a crossword, although we had never met the author, we would not dispute for a moment that there was one.

But I've never met an author like that: every author I've ever met has finished a book, and then spent years trying to sell it.

I've been fascinated with this subject, and even wrote a little about it but I've never met an author who paid for a book review.

A solution like that designed by Pubsoft would certainly build a community of readers that can help spread the word about an author and their works — and that should lead to better sales and better author relations (I've never met an author that wasn't in favor of more royalties).

I've never met an author who could do that for themselves.»

We have never met this author, we all just loved this novel as it is set right here in South Carolina in a town that everyone in Clemson (University) loves.

Not exact matches

The professor at Arizona State University's business school and author of The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, asks her clients, «What are the things you would never do at this company to get a client, to keep a client, to make sure you met your numbers for the quarter?»

These are the citizens of Free Agent Nation, as author Daniel Pink called it in his influential 2001 bestseller, and they've never met a challenge they didn't like.

This week, when I asked for a book recommendation (http://on.fb.me/O7k7tQ), introduction to a public company CEO (http://on.fb.me/P9x6vR), and received an intro to an author I interviewed (http://on.fb.me/P9xb2C); it was generally the weak ties in my network who I had never met or hadn't connected with for years that gave the most support.

And these people scoff at contradictions in the Bible; a collection of literature written over three millenia, by authors who never met each other to compare notes, in various places in the Middle East and around the Mediteranean, in various times.

The author of Revelation never met Jeebus, and Paul didn't either.

So by the author's logic, if a person is single for whatever reason throughout adulthood - let's say a person has not met their life partner or someone is severely disabled - then they will never know the highest level of spiritual intimacy?

''... book made up of 66 books written by 40 authors (most who never new of or met each other) over thousands of years.»

However, one point of many facts about the Bible, (do the statistical math) find another book made up of 66 books written by 40 authors (most who never new of or met each other) over thousands of years.

I never would have met Erica Dermer, cat lover, author and blogger over at Celiac & The Beast.

I'm going to chalk this list up to the author having never met a child in his / her entire life... it's the only explaination for these ridiculous «kid friendly» lunch suggestions.

Dating guru Liz H. Kelly, author of Smart Man Hunting, advises using a secondary e-mail address, never giving out more than a cellphone number and always meeting in a public place.

And without telling her mother she has invited three men she has never met who could be her father: businessman Sam (Pierce Brosnan), author / sailor Bill (Stellan Skarsgà ¥ rd), and decidedly un-spontaneous banker Harry (Colin Firth).

* Most authors never meet their agents face - to - face because they live in different parts of the country.

But luckily I found it a few months later, and this blog now gets an average of 12,000 hits a month on its four monthly posts and I have a blog partner, Ruth Harris, who is one of my favorite best - selling authors — someone I'd never have dreamed of meeting three years ago.

I have never met an American conservative who has even heard of, let alone read, either of these authors.

While these are excellent tools when used properly, authors should never overlook opportunities to meet the reading public face - to - face.

I believe too many authors — especially newer authors or frustrated authors who have never been published by a licensed [read: commercial / trade] publisher — are easily swayed into thinking that ASP press will let them succeed where they have only met with rejection before.

I recently had an author who I'd never met, never chatted with in even one Goodreads thread, send me a direct Goodreads message asking me to become their fan on Goodreads and check out their book.

In this captivating historical romance, by best - selling author Wendy Vella, the Duke of Stratton is shocked to learn he has a fiancée he's never met.

That is an incredible feeling as an author — to have my work enjoyed by people I would've never met otherwise, and have no obligation whatsoever to write to me, support me or tell others about my work.

Here's a neat trick: a dual - authored story about two prospective college roommates who never meet over the...

People I'd never met used my fiction as a way to psychoanalyze the author, going on about my tormented psyche, insisting I was obsessed with violence against women, as if they knew me, as if assuming something about me magically made it true.

I have never «Met» an author whose book I have reviewed, Not face to face... but we have all a commonality of interest... «We love the written word» or the audio word, or the word that popped into our scrambled brain a lifetime ago.

Books are carried across continents, translated into local languages, given or shipped or lent to people who the author has never met or will never know.

You never know who you'll meet when you're on vacation — from new readers to fellow authors to publishing industry insiders!

Empty Promises Although results are not guaranteed, and will never in fact be realized (I have yet to meet an author who has turned a profit from a book published with a vanity press), vanity presses imply:

I've worked with publishers and authors all of my career and I've never met a Simon Legree.

People might take a chance on a book by an author they've never heard of, but they are much more likely to support an author they've met in person where they enjoyed the interaction.

How many authors never get a chance to send out their books because they don't meet some Publisher criteria?

But I've also represented several authors I've never met.

In addition, I had the incredible privilege of meeting Don Shelby — legendary Twin Cities news anchor and author of The Season Never Ends — which, as you can see by the look on my face in the picture to your right, was one of my personal highlights.

(BTW, I never hear about him anymore...) I'm a non-fiction author and have loads of offerings beyond books: retreats, private sessions, meetings, etc..

Award - winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley, whose bestselling fiction «tackles some of life's toughest situations» (The Florida Times - Union), unravels the secrets in a mother's past that turn her daughter's life upside down — by revealing the family she never knew existed.Her dream of studying dance at Juilliard is within reach, but Olivia Dawson turns down the opportunity, choosing instead to stay with her ailing mother in the Houston projects where they barely make ends meet.

I've met several authors you've never heard of that sell tons of eBooks on Amazon every year.

Some of the authors in AR4 were paid for their effort by Big Oil, others were paid by Big Environment, most were on public money working for an interested department, but I've never met anyone who worked for the IPCC on a grant of the National Science Foundation or suchlike.

For example, in early June, while on an unrelated business trip in Philadelphia, we had the opportunity to meet the three authors of the Drug and Device Law blog, whom we have known in the digital world for 18 months but had never actually met in person.

On 49th Shelf, you'll find books you'll never forget, meet people whose lists and reviews you'll admire, and learn more about the authors who intrigue you.

About the author: Holly Priestner, Director of Talent Acquisition at Keller Williams, has never met a stranger, literally.