Sentences with phrase «not getting their work published»

Authors are reportedly not getting their work published within a specified time.

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But there's a downside as well: self - published authors don't get the marketing materials provided by the Big Six, and have to work very hard in order to rise through the ranks, establish their personal brand, and attract the necessary readership to succeed.

To be successful at marketing your product or business you not only have to work to get your content shared across the Internet, but you also have to reach out to journalists who can write about you or even publish your work.

I'm pretty sure that if you get up by 5:30 am every day to write for a couple hours before work (if you work), publish three posts a week in your specific niche, and spend another couple hours after work writing, commenting, and sharing for three years, you will no doubt make at least $ 1,000 / month from your site if not much, much more.

When one reads Studs Terkel's book, Working, a series of interviews with more than 100 workers published in 1974, one gets the impression that most people keep working for lack of alternatives, not because they get much fulfillment from theiWorking, a series of interviews with more than 100 workers published in 1974, one gets the impression that most people keep working for lack of alternatives, not because they get much fulfillment from theiworking for lack of alternatives, not because they get much fulfillment from their jobs.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

Work doesn't get done when Fangraphs start publishing a bunch of Mets content.

Someone obviously cared about those results, because I never had any problem getting my work published, but, increasingly, it wasn't me.

On 1 December 2000, ORI published regulations requiring all research staff working on Public Health Service - funded projects to get formal ethics training — not just NIH trainees as was previously the case.

«I think the quality of my science has not changed, but the work that I have to do to get my science published or funded is multiple times harder here.»

Future employers and editors will judge you on the quality of your published work — the more the better as long as it's good — and not on whether you got paid for it.

If someone else publishes this work, Smith will likely be able to get his Ph.D., but he won't have a publication — not a good situation for a young scientist.

Van der Heyden isn't the only European researcher to get such a hard sell from Pan European Networks (PEN), a 6 - year - old publishing company with offices in Congleton, U.K., and Brussels that promises to provide opportunities for «leading figures from across Europe» to get attention for their work or ideas.

«This work shows it is possible to scramble the polarization of light from OLEDs and thereby build displays where light doesn't get trapped inside the OLED,» says University of Utah physicist John Lupton, lead author of a study of the spoked - wheel - shaped molecules published online Sunday, Sept. 29 in the journal Nature Chemistry.

Such work doesn't get published and therefore can't shape evolving ideas in the field.

But biology preprints are catching on, with proponents arguing that they will speed the dissemination of research, help researchers to get feedback on their work quickly, and allow young scientists to get credit for work that hasn't yet been formally published.

Although writers are not paid for their contributions, their work does get peer - reviewed and published, thus making it potentially valuable when it comes time for promotion or tenure, he says.

Animal registries could get around this concern by instituting a confidentiality timeframe, where others couldn't access your registry until after you publish your work.

Dave: One of the things, in fact, I haven't even showed this with you, it's a secret, but by the time we publish this podcast, I think it won't be a secret anymore, is I've been working for a long time to get a stable supply of grass - fed butter so that I can get ghee.

In publishing descriptions of these games we are not in any way claiming credit for inventing them or owning them - our aim has been to collect together games that work and get a great response from students.

In an open letter to Republicans published in the National Review Online, Priebus wrote: «If you're not engaging with the Hispanic community, you better get to work.»

I am just getting ready to self - publish my first book after deciding I didn't want to hand a traditional publisher my hard work so that they could make most of the money off it.

Sure, you can send out review copies and make book trailers (not for $ 150 tho), but if an author's end goal is to attract more readers — or even a publishing contract — they first need to get their work in front of people who can help them, and that's what the IRDAs are all about.

And they don't encourage authors whose works aren't good enough for traditional publishing to go get printed by those vanity presses.

Those who try indie and don't get any traction with their work will eventually either give up or go back to trying to break into traditional publishing.

I chose to do self publishing because I didn't want to give up writes to my novel, since I'm in the process of getting a movie script done and start working on the first movie based on the novel.

Brower says she loves working with authors «who aren't afraid to get out there and promote their book once it is published.

Plus, you'll get mostly poor quality work, and the work that isn't poor is likely to have been stolen from somewhere, which will open you up to lawsuits when your book is published.

In the excitement of getting the written word published, new authors sometimes don't edit their book, and if they do work hard to get people to buy the book, they end up getting bad reviews because of the lack of editing.

Self - publishing works for those of us who do not have the popularity to get the attention of traditional publishers.

It doesn't matter if out of 1000 self - published only 10 are good, you're still advocating that those 10 do not exist nor have the right to have their readers call them Authors (and prefer their work to the drivels that get published today)

Now that finding and reading relevant older articles is about as easy as finding and reading recently published articles, significant advances aren't getting lost on the shelves and are influencing work worldwide for years after.

The minute someone gets defensive about any of this, doesn't think there's always more to learn about writing or publishing, is content with the mediocrity of a couple hundred sales of their work on Amazon, or thinks they can beat the tried - and - true system of years of hard work and dedication it takes to be a respected author, I know I'm talking to a hobbyist.

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.

interesting but totally wrong you must of forgotten your start when you became a writer or what every your are, myself I'm amatuer writer trying to make it anyway I can and if that mean to self publish do to the funding I'm limited too to get started I guess that mean I'm fake granted I have two poetry books published on Amazon, Kindle and LuLu also a third one coming out in Apr also a short story coming out this Mar and also working on a Gothic Novel I guess that means I'm a fake and not an Author

At the same time, electronic publishing has allowed brilliant authors who are controversial and can't find a traditional deal, or, did not care to wait years to publish, an opportunity to share their work and get paid more equitably for it.

Getting published by a traditional press might give a writer a bit more «legitimacy,» but the writer still has to put as much if not more work into the process, especially post-publication when the book is suppose to sell and make the publisher a lot of money.

Announcing (and I don't doubt her) that the only way to get back to her own creative work was to put what she's learned about marketing into a book — there were questions from her fans everywhere but in her fortune cookies, apparently — she has, indeed, published the mercifully explicit title, How To Market a Book.

Once, it was basically a kinder term for vanity publishing; then it was a trick entrepreneurial authors could use to get their work out there (after investing some time and money); but now, it's very much a frictionless Long Tail scenario... If you're a new author, why not just publish to Kindle and iBooks and see how you fare?

I gave you advice based on 45 years in all sides of the publishing industry, based on being published since 1967, based on being a writing teacher, based on working with writers who get on the NYT best sellers lists, and based on working on issues involving online promotions including in regard to Amazon with Amazon and with publishers I have worked with, about how you should and should not send out these requests.

I have to admit that when I started thinking about self - publishing, I thought that it might not be worth the effort because I wouldn't get much on the return; that is, without a publisher to promote me, who would bother buying / reading my work?

I constantly tell self - publishing authors that they're not going to get anywhere without a lot of hard work — and that's true.

They don't know where to begin, how to publish their work, or how they can possibly get noticed in the sea of 3 million competing titles.

If traditional publishing isn't working for you, you can roll up your sleeves, publish your own ebooks and print - on - demand books through CreateSpace or Lightning Source, and get to work.

If the above is not interesting for you, or if you are only now venturing into self publishing your work, forget about Lightning Source, you'll get lost soon.

I'm trying to get an answer that you and all other publishing executives refuse to answer (mostly because I believe that you don't want authors to hear it, as they'll start to question exactly why you need to control the hard work they've created for an extremely unreasonable amount of time).

I know I'm going to make some people mad when I say this, but 95 % of the authors who self - publish or work with a vanity press only do so... because they don't know how to get a real publisher (or they're afraid they won't be able to).

Since self - published authors can't always get someone well known in their genre of choice to recommend their book, it helps to have people who are willing to give thoughtful and honest reviews of your work regardless.

1) The Big Five: Since publishing has gone from being a gentleman's business to being owned, run and operated by corporations, you have a much better chance of getting your book published if you are Snooki from Jersey Shore hawking your new diet manifesto than if you're an unknown (or even established but not famous) writer who's written a brilliant work of literary fiction.

But if it's working for you, and you don't intend to traditionally publish, it can be OK if you're getting readers.