Don't let anxiety over what might happen with the first book interfere with the writing
of subsequent books.
But both of them are employing what I'd call «investment marketing»: doing things on behalf of their books that build their capabilities to do more on behalf
of subsequent books.
What do you do to promote your permafree title and keep the sales
of subsequent books rolling in month after month?
Content concerns, for which I dearly wish there was a rating system, or something, as well as with indie books, I am tired
of the subsequent books in the series being half or less the length of the first.
Offering free copies of a new book to groups is sure to generate some interest, and could be the start of a valuable relationship for the release
of subsequent books.
I try to parlay those lessons toward the success
of each subsequent book project.
And during that research, I found the subject
of a subsequent book, Claudette Colvin, who, as a 15 - year - old, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman nine months before Rosa Parks became famous for the same act.
According to legend (i.e. a poorly sourced claim on the internet), Salinger made a contract rider diktat that none
of his subsequent book covers could have cover images after one sales - savvy cover designer transformed a seven - year - old girl to a blowsy, busty blonde.
Not exact matches
I'll leave the final word to Kennedy, who in
subsequent editions
of his
book addressed the rise
of new - fangled sales channels like email and the web: ««What works» does not change significantly whether carving it on a rock, having it put on papyrus by a calligrapher, or posting it on a web site.»
It was in Kindleberger's
book that I also first learned about the impact
of the Franco - Prussian War
of 1870 - 71 and the
subsequent reparations payments on global financial markets (which I discuss extensively in a February blog entry) and in unleashing the final stage
of a global liquidity bubble that ended with the various panics
of 1873.
We composed a blend
of five key valuation metrics — including forward price - to - earnings ratios and price - to -
book value — and examined how strong the relationship was between starting valuations — or valuations at the time
of purchase — and the variability
of subsequent U.S. dollar returns over time.
We've consistently predicted the good deflation
of excess supply, but in our two Deflation
books and
subsequent reports, we said clearly that the bad deflation
of deficient demand could occur — due to severe and widespread financial crises or due to global protectionism.
Although Maritain's
books on art were influential when they first appeared, the relative lack
of subsequent scholarship on Maritain's treatments
of poetry and art is understandable.
The
subsequent story
of the ascendancy
of ressourcementas the normative context
of aggiornamento, under the leadership
of John Paul II, was central to the argument
of my 1987
book, The Catholic Moment.
For high school girls, the
subsequent books in the series are among my favourites — especially Anne
of the Island.
His first publication treated the theme
of idolatry and a
subsequent book the nature
of the religious canon.
Most
of these issues are addressed in
subsequent posts and
books.
As to whether or not we must affirm that the flood encompassed the entire orb
of the earth, the text would seem to teach this and
subsequent texts would tend to corroborate this, but there is some flexibility with regards to the first eleven chapters
of the
Book of Genesis, as expressed in the encyclical «Humani Generis»
of Pope Pius XII:
Whitehead suggested the direction
of needed change in that
book and developed it much more fully in
subsequent ones.
Moreover, unlike McGrath's biography, which follows Packer's life in chronological terms — from his birth in the English village
of Twyning in 1926, to his education at Oxford and teaching tenure in Church
of England theological colleges, to his move to become professor
of theology at the newly - founded Regent College in Vancouver and his
subsequent prolific output
of articles and
books and sermons — Ryken's biography aims to be a thematically organized portrait.
After personally pocketing $ 180m from the sale
of PayPal, the shape
of Musk's
subsequent investment suggests those comic
books had indeed left a lasting impression.
The
book went through numerous
subsequent expansions over the course
of John Calvin's life.
Similarly, the virtuosic exegetical performances offered by Hays in this
book will, I think, inform and illuminate their
subsequent readings
of the Gospels and provide fresh inspiration to read and reread the Old Testament.
In the
subsequent book, On Interpretation, he inquires into the relationship between multiple terms in the form
of propositions.
In an earlier
book (Unbaptized God, 1992) Jenson rightly criticized the «incomplete exorcism»
of pagan elements in Hellenistic Christian theology, elements that have been influential throughout all
subsequent Christian history.
The
book moves back to the judge's childhood and youth, marked by his dead mother's absence; his father's stroke, damaged speaking ability, and death; his courtship; and his professional advancement built on his father's political connections, while moving forward to encompass his wife's stroke and
subsequent decline and his effort to sustain his self - sufficient mode
of existence while mourning her death.
Steve Chalke's provocative
book «The Lost Message
of Jesus» and his
subsequent article in September's Christianity has provoked much criticism.
I will summarize four themes
of his
book as it originally appeared, and then indicate some
of the criticisms it has evoked and his
subsequent reply to his critics.
Perhaps the best summary
of that dialogue was the conference and
subsequent book, edited and introduced by Sheila Greeve...
In my
book Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation, I point out that in the original Hebrew version the word for «the Lord» that calls Abraham to sacrifice his son is very different than the word for the angel
of God (YHVH) who tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GO
of God (YHVH) who tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father
of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GO
of our people is NOT because
of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GO
of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice
of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GO
of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all
subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE
OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GO
OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE
OF GO
OF GOD.
Her
book Political Theology grew out
of that lecture and
subsequent discussions.
His idea
of a «new synthesis», proposed mainly in his
book Catholicism: A New Synthesis and developed in his many theological and philosophical essays, was an attempt to grapple precisely with the issues we have spoken
of: the post-Cartesian «turn to the subject» (that is: the loss
of faith in the objectivity
of knowledge and the
subsequent exclusive concern
of philosophy with the self and the subjective idea as the norm
of «truth») and the philosophy
of evolution with its implications for a dynamic rather than a static universe.
This
book particularly addresses the events
of 11 September 2001 and the
subsequent U.S. declaration
of a «war on terror.»
With his
subsequent usher textbooks, autobiography (There Is life Beyond Name Tags, Dude
Books, 2001), magazine (Badge and Bulletin, the only ushering magazine including a centerfold portrait) and cultlike following, Glibface had almost singlehandedly brought ushering into the sunlight
of ecclesiastical celebrity ~ To his fame are credited such innovative strategies as parhug valets; tour guides, computerized seating readouts - for latecomers, and Roy Dude University's School
of Usherology.
Before we elaborate the modes
of congregational idiom and the narrative forms they assume, a task that will occupy all the
subsequent chapters
of this
book, we must dispatch two preliminary matters: a definition
of the congregation as one among several forms
of religious association and some comments on the relation
of the congregational form to specifically Christian witness and mission, a discussion that forms the last section
of this chapter.
The «Dumb Ox» 8
of the thirteenth century may have been shy and quiet and slow, preferring the solace
of his
books and his writing to the demands
of oration and teaching, but his effect on all
subsequent theologizing was profound and rather all - encompassing, particularly insofar as the Roman Catholic Church is concerned.
Despite the
subsequent appearance
of this
book, I had to leave my own contribution in its original form.
By this we do not mean just the temporal development that historical criticism discerns in the redaction
of these codes, the evolution
of moral ideas that may be traced out from the first Decalogue to the Law
of the Covenant, on the one hand, and from the Decalogue itself through the restatements and amplifications
of the
book of Deuteronomy to the new synthesis
of the «Holiness Code» in the
book of Leviticus and the legislation
subsequent to Ezra, on the other; more important than this development
of the content
of the Law is the transformation in the relationship between the faithful believer and the Law.
``... more and more students
of this gospel are coming to believe that the inconsistencies were probably produced by
subsequent editing...» There are more, similar statements, which for me raise questions about that entire
book.
Yet viewed against the background
of the stark alternatives proposed in Strauss»
book, Buber appears to be much closer to liberal German «Jewish thought than many
of his
subsequent interpreters, and perhaps even Buber himself, have recognized.
In describing and accounting for the lives
of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the
book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance
of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy
of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise
of what has been called the New Right out
of the ashes
of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election
of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the
subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was,
of all things, a Democrat; the rise
of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his
subsequent launching
of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war
of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
In the second edition (1970)
of Kuhn's
book and in
subsequent essays, he distinguished several features which he had previously lumped together: a research tradition, the key historical examples («exemplars») through which the tradition is transmitted, and the set
of metaphysical assumptions implicit in its fundamental conceptual categories.
These essays are written by well - known missiologists within each
of these disciplines, and serve as the springboard for
subsequent responses by other missiologists and theologians comprising the remainder
of the
book.
Variety says it's still unclear which characters from the
books, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevators, will be in the movie, but
of course, if this movie is successful, it could lead to
subsequent movies.
Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades
of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark
books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny
of Man; the founding
of the Fellowship
of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader
of the Fellowship
of Reconciliation to critic
of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration
of Christianity and Crisis; the founding
of the Union for Democratic Action, then later
of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the
subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study
of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute
of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.
For more in - depth studies on Our Lady
of Guadalupe I recommend my own
book: La Morenita: Evangelizer
of the Americas (San Antonio: MACC Publications) and
subsequent articles on this subject in Concilium.
After this conflict, Europe was too exhausted to fight over religion, and, as Gregory argues in his
book, this «fundamentally shaped the
subsequent course
of Western history.»
In the course
of the
subsequent controversy Lessing developed a viewpoint that later became very influential, namely, that faith can not be grounded either on a
book regarded as inspired or on facts regarded as historical.
This
book of essays by American, Israeli, and European authors examines both the original accords and how they have been observed and ignored in
subsequent years.
Moreover, an understanding
of the chapter is much enhanced by comments made in
subsequent sections
of the
book.