Sentences with phrase «pretty good author»

Of course that is all fine except that there are some pretty good authoring tools for ebooks, not to mention many fine companies supplying such services.

Not exact matches

«Tinder supposedly makes it easier to have sex on tap, but it's pretty well established that people with a steady partner tend to have sex more often,» says Jean Twenge, one of the study's researchers and the author of Generation Me.

The net worth of former FBI director and now best - selling author James Comey isn't 100 percent clear, but it can most likely be deduced that based on various sources, it's in excess of $ 11 million — potentially by a pretty substantial sum.

Its depressing that the two good figures that the author picked for islam was an individual who although was very talented and entertaining, was still definintly a racist while cat stevens is a tool who thought it was ok to kill a man for writing a book, thats pretty damn scary.

But finally to say that the true author of scripture (God) didn't understand things as well as we do today, is a pretty arrogant stand.

The author said that it lulls us into thinking we have accomplished something good, when in fact, we have done pretty much nothing.

Here's what the authors say about it on their answer page http://www.ptmin.org/answers.htm I thought it was pretty good.

Moreover, the subtitle of the book, «The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II» gives a pretty good indication of the authors» bias.»

Candice is a classically trained chef, former line cook, former tv host, former - model - turned wellness journalist, & five - time, best - selling author of Clean Green Eats, Clean Green Drinks, Pretty Delicious, Cook Yourself Sexy, and Cook Yourself Thin.

the author has done some pretty good research.

Then there is a pretty good chance that you would have come across Author Laura Numeroff's best - selling book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

«Ecologists have long known that everything is connected to everything else, and are pretty good, I think, at sifting out where that matters from where it doesn't,» said senior author John M. Drake, a professor in the Odum School and director of the UGA Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases.

«The assembly of this protein complex has been pretty well - studied,» Bill Söderström, OIST postdoctoral scholar and first author, said.

Given that there are very few bits of hard evidence of obesity prevalence available historically in such a wide range of countries, the authors of the report have made pretty good use of the data, says Lobstein.

«Until the 1990s, we thought that the Van Allen belts were pretty well - behaved and changed slowly,» said Geoff Reeves, the first author on the paper and a radiation belt scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. «With more and more measurements, however, we realized how quickly and unpredictably the radiation belts changed.

«A lot of research has shown that bilinguals are pretty good at accommodating speech variation across languages, but there's been a debate as to how,» said lead author Kalim Gonzales, a psychology doctoral student at the University of Arizona.

Galluzzi: Well, we know from the fact that these kinds of instruments were pretty common in the period; second we have the precise design by the author of how it should be, so it was in [a] sense easy to bring back.

«We can now be confident that the things we've done have put the planet on a path to heal,» lead author Susan Solomon reportedly said, «Which is pretty good for us, isn't it?

Dave Asprey: That is... It's awesome advice and coming from someone who's not just a pretty good scientist, but also a successful author, that's particularly interesting because you've out - performed in multiple fields, which is kind of cool.

Dragon - Raptor is a fanfiction author that has written 14 stories for Battlestar Galactica, Zoids, X-overs, Mechwarrior / Battletech, Cars, Firefly, Airwolf I've personally met some pretty good men for dating.

That's pretty much the one - sentence description of Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl Strayed, the real - life author who did just that and wrote a best - seller about it.

Compared to most authors, onetime New York it - boy Bret Easton Ellis «s works have had a pretty good translation record at the cinema.

Focusing solely on graduates of Harvard Business School and on alumni of a program for gifted minority students called A Better Chance (ABC), the author discovered this time that bourgie blacks, like First Lady Michelle Obama, finally feel pretty darn good about being American.

The authors in our booth had a pretty good experience and, relatively speaking, was not all that expensive for them to be an active part of the show.

Gary L. Stewart is one of the authors for whom too much of a good thing is probably a pretty bad thing after all.

This is unfortunate because indie authors already have a tough time figuring out what makes a «Good Cover» — and if book cover contests like this give prizes to fairly ordinary or even pretty ugly book covers, the bar will not be raised.

And now, I'll leave you with a link to a clip from the «Today Show,» where Matt Lauer shows the Lost Symbol cover and describes Brown as an author whose books are «pretty well read.»

Authors who are interested in establishing themselves as both better writers and as serious career - minded artists can benefit greatly from attending writers» conferences and workshops, but the cost of attending is often pretty prohibitive.

From a business standpoint, Amazon is doing a pretty damn good job of giving any author a good chance to find and sell to readers.

However, those authors were ones I got to know through their blogs and Twitter, so I had a pretty good idea of their potential for quality.

All three earned back their production costs AND — I haven't drilled this down to the dollar yet but it's looking pretty good — helped me cross the threshold overall into profit for the first time in my author career.

Since I know a lot about writing and painting, the fickle worlds of publishing and fine art, and have gotten pretty damn good at internet marketing, platform building, and online sales, it's really easy for me to help struggling artists and authors figure out what their problems are and get them earning enough money to quit their jobs and focus on being creative geniuses that change the world.

As it turns out, most of them are either by authors who have never been a part of the program and are speculating about whether it's a good idea or not, or by people who are blogging their epic quest to get as many nominations as possible during the 30 - day window (which I think is a bit silly, since the decision is mainly based on the publishing team anyway — Beauty's Songbook scraped by with only two days in «Hot and Trending» and pretty much no support from my fans).

For newbies you are right as every new author needs to write, write, write for at least four years, time it takes to get a PhD in Letters before even submitting material to an agent or editor, but once any writer KNOWS intuitively that his or her novel is as good or better than James Patterson (pretty easy to better this guy) and he or she has had the novel vetted by a good independent editor / ghost writer like myself, the ebooks are the way to go, period.

Successful authors basically get told by publishers to write pretty much the same book as their last best - seller, with the serial numbers filed off; they call that «nurturing.»

I'm pretty sure what would be best for Jane and Dear Author is for us all to simply stop indulging in banter with either (or any) of its personas.

If a self - published book sells 5,000 copies in its first six months, an agent or publisher is not going to let first rights issues stand in their way (always assuming that the book is well - written [I've known self - pubbed authors who've managed to sell large numbers of really pretty bad books] and the sales suggest a market that could be tapped, rather than one that has been exhausted, as with some niche products).

And there have been some pretty big authors that have grown out of these just as there have been huge indie authors who have gotten print deals as well.

Okay, I'm a pretty trusting person, but when a royalty statement says Author A sold 8 copies each of three books and this is exactly what they sold the previous royalty period as well... well, I start getting suspicious.

Indie authors can compete with this, but it takes a bit more than the art direction of your friend Sam's kid who is pretty good in art (or, to get on a very brief tangent, your high - school English teacher and niece Jackie as the sole editor).

Add to this that most authors have very little business sense or experience in online marketing: so even the author websites that look pretty good, don't help sell any books.

the rest of the authors pretty much get ignored and would be best off getting a good editor and going in alone in the electronic publishing field.

A lot of selections are pretty bad, but I wonder if an audience exists for stories that are so bad they're good, sooo bad they are a chore to read and to figure out what the author was trying to convey — much like the absurdly bad films we love to cringe at.

Incidentally, no other retail ebook platform offers anywhere close to this many book categories, meaning when the book is uploaded elsewhere by the author or publisher, the options to describe the book accurately for better discover can be pretty limited.

It makes plain where there's not enough plot, which is often a problem - authors tend to have a pretty good handle on the beginning and end of a book, and the middle is a wasteland where forward momentum goes to die.

Pretty good for a small - time indie author.

A good author with a solid plan can write a pretty good book in a single pass, but that doesn't mean it's ready for immediate release.

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Although the general spirit of that proverb is true, a pretty book cover, doesn't guarantee a good read awaits you inside, as an author we are judged by our cover.

After many years of helping writers build their author platforms and decades of being plugged into the publishing industry through Writer's Relief, we've certainly seen more than our fair share of author websites — the good, the bad, and the not - so - pretty.