Sentences with phrase «other traditional authors»

I've read other traditional authors when I made the jump to full time is having that year worth of bills paid.

Not exact matches

The traditional Christian belief was that the Bible was literally the word of God, dictated to the evangelists and other authors by the Holy Spirit.

Without taking a strong stand on the controversial question of whether inter-species relationships ought to be governed by justice — in other words, the question of whether we owe anything to animals as such — the author establishes all sorts of interesting parallels between evolutionary biology and traditional theology in this area, as well as challenges from one to the other.

The evangelists are genuinely authors, authors using traditional material but nonetheless authors: they write for a definite purpose, they give their work a distinct and individual structure, they have thematic concerns which they pursue, the characters in the story they each tell function as protagonists in a plot, and so on... If the evangelists are authors, then they must be studied as authors, and they must be studied as other authors are studied.

I recently read the book «Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, «A's, Praise, and Other Bribes» by Alfie Kohn, a noted author and outspoken critic of traditional education, including grades, test scores, and homework.

Some other papers, published in traditional subscription - based journals, are made freely available on an author's website or through an institutional or government archive, often after a 6 - or 12 - month «embargo» imposed by the publisher to protect subscription revenue.

These «other» lncRNAs are essentially set aside; in most of their analyses, the authors compare / contrast the three lncRNA categories described above with traditional mRNAs.

At Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in New York City, Loren Fishman, MD, author of Healing Yoga, regularly uses yoga alongside traditional treatments to treat scoliosis, rotator cuff syndrome, and other neuromuscular problems.

«This is just more of the move away from traditional broadcasters into new areas such as cable and other platforms including satellite and mobile phone,» says the author of «New New Media,» adding «it won't be too far off that we will see a series that never aired on either network or cable, that began and ended just on the web on this list.»

(p. 222) It does not seem unfair to expect the authors to provide evidence, other than the fact of differentiation, to support these assertions, or to say what is being done in traditional public schools that better prepares students for life in a democratic society.

The study's authors speculate on four potential explanations for the large negative effects that their program evaluation found: misalignment of private school curriculum to the Louisiana State Standards; differences between serving scholarship students with achievement gaps and traditional private school students; success of other education developments, especially in New Orleans; and the overall quality of private schools willing to participate in the program.

Based on these two principles and other lessons from the authors» analyses, this section outlines recommendations for state leaders and policymakers and for traditional and alternative teacher preparation programs.

The authors recommend that the state allow schools to use «well - designed» portfolios, comprised of work from each of five different subject areas to include research essays, art work and other sophisticated projects that can't be captured on a test in place of traditional exit exams.

Furthermore, the authors note, as the charter movement gained momentum and other states passed similar laws, a more market - driven vision of charter schools emerged that emphasized competition as an incentive for traditional public schools to improve, rather than the idea of charter - tested innovations that could boost public school practices broadly.

Using one case study from sports (the Vancouver Giants hockey team) and one from education (Hackney Schools Borough in London, England), the authors illustrate how the six components of uplifting leadership combine the hard and soft skills that are often set against each other in traditional leadership practice: counterintuitive thinking combined with disciplined application; dreaming with determination; collaboration with competition; metrics with meaning; pushing and pulling people into change; and long - term sustainability with short - term success.

«This finding about the importance of tutoring is in line with other recent evidence pointing to dramatic gains from intensive tutoring on its own, suggesting a good place to start for effective and practical reform at traditional public schools,» wrote the authors, Julia Chabrier of J - Pal North America, Sarah Cohodes of Teachers College Columbia University, and Philip Oreopoulos of the economics department at the University of Toronto.

The author proposes a better model for achieving excellence, which is to focus on excellence for all students in not only the traditional three R's (reading, writing, and arithmetic) but also the other three R's (reasoning, resilience, and responsibility).

Amazon's suite of services for independent authors makes it possible for me and many other authors to bypass traditional publishing companies.

The indie writers who are now wanting to go with a traditional publisher because — duh — they will get this huge advance and will be sent on tours to sign their books and will soon be playing poker with other best selling authors ala Castle.

Horizons will make it possible for thousands of authors, whose manuscripts Harlequin or other traditional publisher can not publish, to see their books in print.

Yes, and the other thing to keep in mind is that, in traditional publishing deals, authors receive the «thinnest fraction» of their book's total sales revenues.

I looked at traditional publishers who might be a good fit for my book and read every blog post I could find about other author's experiences.

Internet media coverage, as well as inclusion in blogs and other sites, is an ideal complement to traditional media because when a book or author is featured online, that coverage virtually never goes away!

She encourages her authors to have one foot in traditional print publishing and the other in the digital - first arena, and is a huge advocate of utilizing secondary rights — she has sold film / TV, audio and foreign rights for her clients.

As we wrote at the time, this example makes the point that authors already have a lot of the tools for marketing their work, and in some cases — as with Hocking, Locke and other self - publishers such as J.A. Konrath — this can make them so self - sufficient that they no longer need the support of a traditional publishing deal.

And what about hybrid authors that go the other way, start self - publishing and then go traditional?

Some authors are even selling the rights to some of their books to traditional publishers while keeping control of others, or selling print rights and keeping those to e-books.

In other posts, I have suggested for some time that agents and traditional publishers are watching self - published authors for titles that may make sense for them to pick up.

I am one of those — a hybrid author who has used traditional publishers and self publishing — and the reasons others cite line up with my own,

I launched a traditional publishing company with my first book back in 2003 (when «self - publishing» was a bad word), and then went on to publish other authors using a royalty model (authors do not pay for * anything *).

After getting turned off by the world of traditional publishing, she took back control and decided to publish subsequent books under her own company imprint, which was already producing books for other nonfiction authors.)

As an indie author, you can also make edits to your book cover, your price, and other important details based on reader feedback before you move to a final version, and this is not something traditional deals typically allow.

I have other friends who take the hybrid route, publishing with both traditional publishers and as indie authors.

* Survey participants were required to have met the following criterion: They had authored one or more published books including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, short stories, educational books and scholarly works, in formats which included traditional print publishing, ePublishing, self - publishing, multi-platform works or other equivalent book - length publications (including other digital platforms and related performance works).

Half of the authors were published through a traditional publisher, and the other half started their own publishing company.

I have other author friends, multi-published, who have been dropped and can't get another contract from a traditional house.

After writing a post on the 3rd pointing out ways that my publisher, Penguin - Random House, and other traditional publishers could improve, I was surprised to see something new in my email inbox: an author newsletter.

While we also cover social media, virtual book tours, public speaking, and other tactics, I want participating authors to benefit from the fact that legitimate, traditional media outlets still carry a great deal of weight with book buyers.

Plenty of authors publish themselves and are then picked up by a literary agent or traditional publisher, and others have left their traditional publisher to publish their own work.

This description of traditional publishing (or what some now call legacy publishing) is still a viable path for authors today, but now there are three other distinct paths an author can pursue to get published: DIY, General Contractor, and Publishing Package.

Authors and many others throw around terms like «POD publisher,» «traditional publisher,» and «self - published» with lack of understanding of what terms really mean.»

And then the other thing is the understanding that nowadays, in the traditional sense of things, an author needed to make it — especially in fiction — in the first 90 days with that book, or it was going to be remaindered on the shelves.

The founders were largely authors who wrote traditional Western fiction, but the organization swiftly expanded to include historians and other nonfiction authors, young adult and romance writers, and writers interested in regional history.

I do believe self - publishing can also make a lot of sense, especially if the author is willing to engage in the marketing process and other services a traditional publisher offers.

I love traditional publishing but the more I watched other authors take that leap, I knew my time was coming to jump too.

In traditional publishing, often your editor will ask other authors at the publishing house to read and endorse your book.

Others say traditional publishing is a scam, they use their authors, and only the top sellers get anything out of the relationship.

6) Besides speed - to - market, what other advantages will Cursor offer established authors that make it either a better option than, or viable alternative to, traditional publishing?

Just as Marc has an aversion to self - published novels, there are many others who feel similarly and the only way to reach them was to join the ranks of traditional published authors.

(Actually, the authors who will really make money in this new world are those who can write fast or who have backlists they own and sell to both traditional publishers and have other projects up at the same time to take advantage of this promotion.)