Sentences with phrase «of writing a book about»

Every now and then I'd talk about my dream of writing a book about my experiences in Dayton, and one day my husband Dan said, «Why don't you stop talking about it and just do it?

You might remember I'm in the middle of writing a book about just that.

I have a lot more to say about this topic — so much so that I'm in the middle of writing a book about it.

So, instead of writing a book about myself, I'd rather tell you more over a beer or glass of wine.

For awhile now I've been thinking of writing a book about starting an online business: I usually talk about writing, publishing and book marketing — but those topics are closely related to branding, positioning, building an online platform, making products that people want to buy and letting them know about it

For awhile now I've been thinking of writing a book about starting an online business: I usually talk about writing, publishing and book marketing — but those topics are closely related to branding, positioning, building an online platform, making products that people want to buy and letting them know about it And there are SO many people who dream about...

I'm in the process of writing a book about book description and given your expertise, I would be delighted to have your endorsement.

Just say: «hey, I'm thinking of writing a book about (blah).»

I am also in the process of writing a book about formatting for the Kindle... more on that later.

She is in the process of writing a book about her travel adventures and unusual career choices.

Not exact matches

This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

I've read almost every single one of Sarah Dessen's books, and her writing is so personal and relatable and I feel like you can feel that especially in «The Truth About Forever.»

The idea of a paperless office seemed like a joke, and there was even a book written about it, «The Myth of the Paperless Office,» which theorized that certain human characteristics made going paperless an impossible feat.

The couple had 12 children, two of whom wrote a book about their family's life called «Cheaper by the Dozen.»

For example, if you were an author writing a book about how to drive traffic to a website, you need to find an example of how your business suffered when it didn't have traffic to its site.

She also wrote a book about the creation of Monopoly.

In their book, the Heath brothers write about «moments of elevation... experiences that rise above the routine.

«Some of the most significant ideas come about when someone sees a problem in a new way — often by combining disparate elements that initially seemed unrelated,» writes marketing and strategy consultant Dorie Clark in her 2015 book, «Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It.»

But it takes a lot to move from talking about writing a book to actually doing it — and this is the biggest leap of all.

We get sent hundreds of business books a year, all in the hope that someone here reads one and decides to write about it.

Brenda Bryan, a former Seattle yoga and doga instructor, wrote one of the best - known books about doga: Barking Buddha: Simple Soul Stretches for Yogi and Dogi.

Or as Rabidoux, who's writing a book about our housing obsession, puts it, «the majority of new homeowners are still renters; they've just gone from renting space to renting money.»

(Disclosure: I wrote a book about West Point's class of 2002, in which Bush's speech plays an important role.)

Founder Adam Robinson is passionate about recruiting; not only does he have over 20 years experience in the industry, he has written a book about the power of predictive hiring.

New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell wrote extensively about Kenna in his 2005 book Blink, arguing Kenna's music - a cross between rap and the British new wave music of the 1980s - failed to gain widespread acclaim in the U.S. because it didn't fit into any familiar category.

I dreamed of one day writing for INC, and this dream only grew once I started to write books and speak about entrepreneurship around the world.

We talk about grit all the time here at Spartan Race but Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth is the woman who literally wrote the book about it (or at least she will be when Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance is published May 3 by Scribner).

Once you go through the process of testing your content you'll have much better ideas about exactly what book you should write.

The cofounder of the online - dating site OKCupid wrote a book called «Dataclysm» that used data from his dating site to answer questions about love, dating, and relationships.

In his 2017 book «Climate of Hope,» cowritten with veteran environmentalist Carl Pope, Bloomberg wrote that he understands that there are certain executives unmoved by warnings about the effects of manmade climate change, but that they'd be unwise to ignore the business opportunity.

«One could describe it as if Ikea grabs you by the hand and consciously guides you through the store in order to make you buy as much as possible,» Johan Stenebo, a 20 - year veteran of Ikea, wrote in his 2009 book, The Truth About Ikea.

Custom auto designer George Barris wrote about the car in his 1974 book «Cars of the Stars,» describing a series of accidents it was involved in after Dean's death.

'' [They] come into the world as their parents» sole princess or prince,» wrote Jeffrey Kluger, author of the book «The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us» in an article for «Time.»

«In most of the Western world, salary just isn't something people feel comfortable talking about,» writes researcher David Burkus in his 2016 book «Under New Management: How Leading Organizations are Upending Business as Usual.»

Believe me I know about this - I wrote a book about my interminable failures in my career and telling people off was one of my biggest faults.

He said in the interview that he is so determined to get his side of the story out that he is writing a book about what happened at the investment bank although he does not yet have a publishing contract.

Billionaire Mark Cuban, for example, has poo - poohed much of the doom and gloom and said that «TV is the new TV,» while media gadfly Michael Wolff has written an entire book about how television isn't being nearly as disrupted as other media industries.

The man known for his ability to see into the future has written a book that's largely about the limits of our predictive powers.

She shared a recent conversation she had with Sheryl Sandberg about her new book Option B, in which the Facebook COO writes about resilience in the face of her husband's sudden death.

And it would be hard to compile any list of the best business books of the year without mentioning Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty - First Century — which «sparked a fantastic global discussion this year about inequality,» Gates writes.

Over the last 15 years, I have discovered valuable secrets about the publishing industry that have helped me in writing my own books — secrets that have then helped me to sell hundreds of thousands of copies of those books.

Although an accomplished writer of memoirs, she couldn't or wouldn't write the book that Western publishers wanted about her father.

The experiment, which Westen wrote about in his book «The Political Brain,» showed that, when people begin to feel their worldview is under attack, the parts of their brains that handle reason and logic go to sleep, while the parts of their brain responsible for our fight - or - flight response light up.

While some of the 4,229 passengers have already filed lawsuits (which they are unlikely to win), Christina Peaden of Galveston Texas, used the journal she kept while on board to write a book about the experience.

He was part of a New York City dinner circuit that includes people who believe the US should go back to the gold standard, rich people who don't think they should have to give back to society in the form of taxes, and anyone interested in either of those ideas who wanted to write a book about them.

He was smart and enjoyed the adventure of doing business in unlikely places — in 1996, he wrote a book about exporting.

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For example, there's a scene in the book's fifth chapter in which Lyons discusses an article Shah has written on LinkedIn about the wisdom of bringing a teddy bear named Molly to meetings as a stand - in for the customer, so that staff will always remember to keep the customer top - of - mind.

In my domain of business, strategy, and leadership I've also noticed a gap in women authors and I thought it was worthwhile to compile a list that was not books targeted at women but books about strategy and leadership that happen to be written by women.