Sentences with phrase «of editing books»

I was immediately intrigued, but I was still in the early stages of editing my books and I didn't have a stable income, so for a while I forgot about the platform.

-- How much does your neighbor know about publishing and the ins and outs of editing books in specific genres?

I want to add to this list my own expressions of thanks to those who made what might have been a difficult undertaking a rewarding one instead: Ruth Hopewell, who gave me the privilege of editing the book and consistently aided me in doing so; the Directors of Auburn Seminary, who granted a generous leave for my work on the project in Atlanta; Jim Waits and Elizabeth Smith, who anticipated everything I would need for the work to be done comfortably and efficiently; Lurline and James Fowler, who provided housing and friendship; Channing Jeschke, Candler's librarian, who made available and helped to arrange Hopewell's books and papers; Brooks Holifield, who worked with me on the last and knottiest problems in the text; and David Kelsey, on whose encouragement and sagacity I relied heavily when my assignment seemed most formidable.

We have been home from vacation for five days, and I've spent four of them editing my book.

I am currently in the process of editing another book, China Across the Divide: Domestic Politics and Society & China's Global Relations, which focuses on the intersection between international and local issues, such as growing Chinese consumerism and its affect on global markets, recent waves of immigration to China, and human rights.

In this edition of the EdCast, Malone, director of institutional advancement at the Institute for Educational Leadership, discusses the collaborative process of editing a book with diverse authors who have varying opinions about education reform.

In this edition of the EdCast, Malone, director of institutional advancement at the Institute for Educational Leadership, discusses the collaborative process of editing a book with diverse authors who have varying opinions about...

-LSB-...] choose an editor for a project, you'll want someone who is familiar with your genre and with the kind of editing your book needs.

Ideally, when you choose an editor for a project, you'll want someone who is familiar with your genre and with the kind of editing your book needs.

We'll get to why you shouldn't edit your own book in a minute but first let's talk about the types of editing a book needs and the process before it can be published.

Don't know what type of edit your book or story needs?

Here's how it works: Advance Editions posts half of the edited book online a few months ahead of publication and then opens up a feedback forum for that book in which the author participates.

We've assembled an all - star team of experienced book editors across the globe that take the stress out of editing your book on your own.

LM: I can't stress highly enough the importance of editing your book.

Copy - editing — Copy - editing is the work of editing a book or publication to improve the style, consistency and accuracy of text.

Depending on the length of your book, the level of editing your book needs, and the number of editing rounds, editing can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months.

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.

After attempting (and failing) to edit the book to be politically correct for 2018, Marge says to Lisa, «It takes a lot of work to take the spirit and character out of a book.

(The following is an edited excerpt of the forthcoming book, Security 2020, scheduled to be published next year.)

He is determined to work it out so he can get the book written and edited by the end of March.

Traditional publishing is a slog — find an agent, pitch a book and if it's picked up by a publisher, sign away the rights to your work, then spend years doing edits and waiting for the book to slot into a publishing schedule — and the majority of these people don't score a deal, because most entrepreneurs «aren't in a position to be commercially published,» says Sattersten.

A former columnist for the National Post, Anne is also the author of two novels and has edited a book of writing advice.

She is the author of two books, Steering a New Course and Two Billion Cars (with Daniel Sperling), and has contributed book chapters in edited volumes.

A new book on the Canadian workplace — Work on Trial: Canadian Labour Law Struggles, edited by Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker — provides an engaging and accessible account of various labour battles in the courts over the past 85 years involving human rights, employment fairness and union recognition.

Folks — I presume that Jeff has been quite busy completing final edits and polishing off his new book volume «The End of Growth», and getting ready for his book release, which will occur May 8th, 2012.

She edits and colors such comic book projects as The Lalas, and has provided design, layout, and illustrations for nearly all of Starlight Runner's famous Franchise Mythology documents, including Coca - Cola Happiness Factory, Men in Black Universe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe, Transformers Universe, and several volumes of Spider - Man Mythology documents.

In 2003, I edited the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's classic text, The Intelligent Investor, which Warren Buffett has called «by far the best book about investing ever written.»

The Bible is a book, and was «edited» by humans for the telling of a good «story», as with any «good book» there can be many (mis --RRB- interpretations of the text.

It's a collection of books written, assembled, edited and redacted by other people, FFS.

That's called great editing for a book of fiction.

Considering that story wasnt even created until a few hundred years after the supposed «ressurection», and the fact that the story exists only in your fable book (also compiled, and edited hundreds of years later), I do nt think claiming it to be true is the same as, you know, being true.

A book, written by greedy patriarchal elite, re-written, edited to fit the cultural norms of the day says so... so why not buy it hook, line, and sinker?

Do you believe in modern day prophesy and with it The Book of Mormon can be changed / edited / updated.

I'm so glad that, as a Muslim, I don't have to actually defend the so - called «Bible» which is actually a collection of books edited over and over again by many people.

The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity edited by John McManners Oxford University Press, 724 pages, $ 45 This is a handsome book, and a weighty one, too, at over seven hundred glossy pages.

The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns, Volume I: Commonplace Books, Tour Journals, and Miscellaneous Prose edited by nigel n. leask oxford, 512 pages, $ 200

There is widespread agreement with the view presented in the article on homosexuality in Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics (edited by Carl F. Henry [Baker Book House, 1973]-RRB-, which declares that «those who base their faith on the OT and NT documents can not doubt that their strong prohibitions of homosexual behavior make homosexuality a direct transgression of God's law.»

This book is a collection of selected Middle Eastern folk histories eventually written down by people who lived well after the time of Jesus, and has been selectively edited since that time.

An accomplished preacher and author, he edited a collection of sermons related to the infamous Rodney King riots entitled, Dreams on Fire: Embers of Hope, which became one of the top ten religious books of 1992.

But first, a quick update on the status of the book: Next week I plan to send my first round of edits back toZondervan, which means things will start picking up soon.

I'm in the midst of editing the new book which is slow going in this season.

Although the press kit does not mention it, an excellent book on the events that served as the basis for Moore's novel was published in 1996: Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs, edited by Richard J. Golsan (University Press of New England).

I haven't mentioned Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald, edited by Welty biographer Suzanne Marrs and Macdonald biographer Tom Nolan (the most touching collection of letters I've read in years), or the latest volume in The Complete Letters of Henry James, or Catherine Lampert's superb Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting (which the painter Bruce Herman will be writing about for Books & Culture), or James Curtis's fascinating and beautifully produced William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come.

No, I need to the Spirit to be breathing in my daily work, in labour and breastfeeding, in bedtime soul - talks and lunch packing, in book edits and deadlines, in email and community - building, in budget docs for non-profits and the never - ending prayers for redemption and reconciliation and rescue to break through in this tired world of ours.

The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.

She edits «The Monastic Way,» a monthly periodical of daily meditations, and is the author of several books, including The Story of Ruth, Twelve Moments in Every Woman's Life; The Friendship of Women: A Spiritual Tradition; and Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today.

This collection of books went through a long and sometimes complex process of selection (and in many cases, editing) before arriving at its present form.

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

And say a prayer for all the final editing and production of the big book on Paul!