You can disagree respectfully, but choose your words carefully when you're wearing
your author hat.
With
my author hat on, I have to say, I totally see where Wendig and other authors are coming from on this.
It's about taking
your author hat off and replacing it with your relationship hat.
Meanwhile, with
my author hat on, my reactions are mixed.
You're comfortable wearing
your author hat.
Put on
your author hat and make notes and an outline.
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With the indie
author hat comes a great responsibility.
Meaning that once your book is written, and in production, you put
your author hat down and...
And wear only
the author hat... most likely, you would rather be writing.
Meaning that once your book is written, and in production, you put
your author hat down and become the business strategist and operator.
It's time to take off
the author hat and put on the marketer hat.
Not exact matches
Billionaire, innovator, philanthropist,
author, Bill Gates has worn a lot of
hats — and inspired millions of people.
Space Small business owners «wear so many
hats, they usually have pretty limited support staff, and they're idea factories,» says Julie Morgensten, a productivity consultant and the
author of Organizing from the Inside Out.
In addition to wearing their writer's
hat, self - published
authors need to do just about everything that goes into packaging, marketing, and selling books, like building an
author platform.
For all the details, head over to the blog of Tahmina Watson,
author of The Startup Visa: Key to Job Growth and Economic Prosperity in America, for an detailed but readable summary of the 155 - page proposal (
hat tip to Feld's blog for the pointer).
This explanation makes sense to the bloggers behind The Drachma Startup, a blog chronicling the
author's efforts to start a company in crisis - stricken Greece that deserves a
hat tip for pointing the way to Sorenson's study.
David Dark,
author of The Sacredness of Questioning Everything, seems to appreciate Colbert as well, for he begins his chapter on «Questioning Our Offendedness» with a «tip of the
hat» to the comic genius of the caricature that is Stephen Colbert — a caricature that highlights how «we develop a built - in resistance to any information that refuses to fall in line with our preconceived notions.»
Anne K. Fishel,
author of «Home for Dinner: Mixing Food, Fun and Conversation for Happier Families and Healthier Kids,» plays the
Hat Game with her holiday guests.
I'm posting from Mom 2.0 Summit this morning, where I'm wearing my
hats as a consultant (helping a client with their conference presence), blogger (I'll be speaking on the state of the blogging union), and
author (Asha and my work was nominated for two Iris Awards!).
The mannequins wearing
hats experienced an average of 18.9 percent less heat loss than mannequins without
hats, states
authors of «Head Insulation and Heat Loss in Naked and Clothed Newborns Using a Thermal Mannequin,» published by Medical Physics Online in June 2002.
At the beginning of the second year, says Paul McGhee, a developmental psychologist in Wilmington, Delaware, and
author of Understanding and Promoting the Development of Children's Humor, your toddler understands the humor in, for example, «using a pillow as a
hat, or running it across her teeth like a toothbrush.»
This months virtual book club for kids
author is Dr Seuss apart from reading The Cat in the
Hat as a child I really haven't read anything by Dr Seuss...
Nielsen, 64, wears many
hats: professor,
author, Public Design Commission president and co-founder of Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects.
The Dr. Seuss museum in Springfield, MA has agreed to replace a mural showing a Chinese character with chopsticks, slanted eyes and a pointed
hat after three
authors said the depiction was racist and refused to attend a museum event in protest.
During the period studied by the
authors, 19,000 barrels per day of oil were also captured by an inverted funnel, or «top
hat,» that was placed directly above the wellhead, which decreased the amount of oil that escaped into the sea.
Oliver Sacks is a clinical neurologist and the
author of several best - selling books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a
Hat.
«Everybody assumes that [agricultural] research as presently configured will just pull this rabbit out of the
hat and produce more food than an entire previous history of humanity,» said Val Giddings, the lead
author of the paper and a senior fellow at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
The
authors also assessed the availability of sun protection gear, including sunscreen, shade structures,
hats and sunglasses, from which they calculated a Sun Protection Availability Score.
«In the ongoing arms race between white
hats and black
hats, researchers and developers are constantly coming up with new security extensions,» says Dr. William Enck, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State and a senior
author of a paper describing the new framework.
In fact, the decline in
HAT in countries such as Gambia and Nigeria may be mainly due to the reduction in wildlife habitats and populations in the last decades, the
authors write today in PLOS Computational Biology.
Senior
author Yaniv Erlich, according to what I've read, once worked as a «white
hat» — a hacker paid by corporations to identify their IT weaknesses.
With it came a temple (the small mountain she climbed each day), a set of rites (a song she sung combining positive affirmations from her favorite
authors, followed by meditation and reading at the summit), and a hallowed set of clothes and talismen that accompanied her on the journey (a walking stick, a leather belt for strapping things to, a headscarf or large brim
hat, a white blouse and flowing skirt to protect her sensitive skin from the sun but also conjure up her days as a farm girl, and a spiritual text to extract a message from).
At first this seems like a polite tip of the
hat to the
author, essayist and public intellectual who died nearly 30 years ago.
That's right; Wilson got to wear the garb of a self - important
author of western novels (meaning a cowboy
hat and fringe jacket), a snug red beanie with a Team Zissou uniform, full facial bandages, and a hotel concierge suit.
Of four super-networks reviewed in the study, a pair of them, KIPP and Uncommon Schools, generally had a strong academic showing, the
authors found, while the other two, Responsive Education Solutions and White
Hat Management, did not fare as well.
I wear (as many of us do) many
hats: parent, trainer, facilitator,
author, and learner.
Top: The girls and the Drophead: Sue Spender, Patty Bryant, Erica Amestoy,
author (in
hat), and Karen Shocknek.
The post Twitter: Big
Hats are Only for Cowboys appeared first on Carole Jelen, Literary Agent, Helping
Authors Build Audience.
At Self - Publishing Relief, we know how many
hats an
author must wear during the self - publishing process — and we're sorry to say there's one more... the intimidating lawyer
hat.
There are other people I've heard get riled up because an
author had different political views, views on publishing, dared to have a sense of humor (swan
hat anyone?).
Wear a distinctive
hat in your
author photo and then always wear it when you appear at signings or shows.
A tip of the
hat to my pals in the
author platform class I'm in.
Nick Lake wears two publishing
hats, as publishing director at HarperCollins Children's Books U.K. and as
author of the Printz Award - winning YA novel In Darkness.
By Ron Pramschufer, President, Self Publishing, Inc. - Helping
Authors Become Publishers since 1995 This was a real case that came up this past week and is very typical of some of the problems an
author faces when he puts on the Publisher
hat.
S.E. Hicks,
author of Charlie the
Hat
SPR talks to
author Christine Osborne, SPR Awards Winner for Non-Fiction about her book, Travels With My
Hat.
In addition to political thriller The Hidden Light of Mexico City, Carmen Amato is the
author of the Emilia Cruz mystery series set in Acapulco, including Cliff Diver,
Hat Dance, Diablo Nights, and the collection of short stories Made in Acapulco.
Warning that «Indie publishing is hard work, you have to wear every single
hat,» Freethy took a moment to praise the retailers who work as partners with independent
authors, enabling their success.
I've been lax lately, with blog posts, social media catchups, and anything else which might remotely be called the
author platform business
hat.