At the moment, I think the best place for writers to
publish first works is in magazines or online.
Since Ernest Hemingway got his break when the enlightened owner of a small book shop
published his first work, the concept of independent writing as opposed to the preferred method of the large publishing houses the (contract or book deal) has always been with us, as has self - publishing which has been around forever.
Twelve days ago,
I published my first work of fiction to Amazon and Smashwords.
Cussler began writing novels in 1965 and
published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt, in 1973.
This isn't even mentioning the people who bashfully told me they'd
published their first works in the last year and had «only» sold ten or twenty thousand copies thus far.
I'm strongly considering
publishing my first work indie.
She learned a lot
publishing her first work herself, but with her second title she wants a more professional look and feel.
I have limited personal experience of the self - publishing ebook market as I recently chose to use Smashwords to
publish my first work in a genre I do not normally write in.
A good friend of
mine published his first work with a Big 5 publisher and got a fat 6 - figure advance.
Some authors self -
published their first works.
Through her mother, Mitchell met celebrated poets, such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Thornton Wilder, many of whom
published their first work in the journal.
Not exact matches
Her
work at the firm earned Bell a «special mention» in the acknowledgements section of O'Leary's
first book, Cold Hard Truth,
published in 2011.
Luckily for you, the barrier to entry isn't too high — my
first two books were
published by a traditional publisher, and I'm currently
working on a self -
published e-book.
«Automakers have been
working to mitigate distraction in vehicles since we developed the
first set of distraction guidelines in 2003 — years before this issue entered the broader public debate and a full decade before NHTSA
published its guidelines for vehicles,» said the Alliance of Automotive Makers, an automotive trade group made up of 12 car and light truck manufacturers including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, GM and Toyota.
«The last lawyer
working on it does now know what the
first one
worked out», the author, and friend of Ingvar Kamprad, Bertil Torekull wrote in his book «Historien om IKEA»,
first published in 1998.
Taleb, who grew up in Lebanon and used to
work on Wall Street,
published his
first non-technical book, Fooled by Randomness, in 2001.
On Sunday, engineer Susan Fowler
published a blog post detailing what she diplomatically dubbed her «strange» year
working at Uber — a tenure that she says included, among other things, a) her manager propositioning her on her
first day at
work; and b) her repeated complaints about the incident ignored and dismissed by the company's human resources department, under the aegis of not sullying the guy's career for an «innocent mistake.»
The Wall Street firm's employees love
working here, hence its presence on the list every year since since it was
first published in 1998.
Parkinson's Law,
first published in The Economist in 1955, states that «
work is elastic in its time.»
(His
first published work appeared in Highlights magazine.)
Walsh's paper,
published in Clinical Psychological Science in April, is just the
first stage of the
work.
Matt asks:»... What I'd like to see from you and the other prophets of social media
publish are the top 10 things I can do immediately that will help me spread the gospel of home ownership and drive brand preference to CENTURY 21...» Interestingly, my response quickly reached the
first page of the Google results for the phrase «Century 21 Real Estate» a company with 8,000 offices worldwide, proof that new marketing
works.
It is with great pleasure and excitement that today I
publish the
first ever episode of «The New Business Podcast» — something I've been
working on in the background for about 2 - months, or so now.
The eurozone's PMI is
published by Markit Economics, with the manufacturing PMI for the previous month broadcast on the
first working day of the following month and the services sector PMI on the third
working day.
He describes this journey in his
first published work after his conversion to Christianity, The Pilgrim's Regress.
First published in 1907, GK Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a classic
work of fiction that was right at home in its era but also way ahead of...
First published in the early decades of the nineteenth century, it is a long narrative poem about a young woman of great beauty and culture, her misfortunes, and the burdens of karma; a
work of genuinely moving brilliance, grim and sad at many points, but also somehow radiant.
• Next month we will
publish «The New Intolerance,» Mary Eberstadt's
first annual First Things lecture in Washington, D.C.. It's a timely reflection on the censorious mentality at work in today's progressive conse
first annual
First Things lecture in Washington, D.C.. It's a timely reflection on the censorious mentality at work in today's progressive conse
First Things lecture in Washington, D.C.. It's a timely reflection on the censorious mentality at
work in today's progressive consensus.
Virgilio Pacioni OSA, Visiting Professor at the Augustinianum, Patristic Institute of the Pontifical Lateran University, is to be congratulated for this remarkable
work,
first published in Italian in 2004.
When
first published, Whitehead's reflections about God were favorably received neither by his colleagues in the sciences nor by the religious thinkers who read his
works.
For instance, one of Hamann's
works composed in French is a sardonically fawning open letter to Frederick the Great (whose superstitious servility to the mythology of Enlightenment reason Hamann particularly detested) called To the Solomon of Prussia, a text so savage and unrestrained in its mockery that no one would
publish it when it was
first written for fear of the state censor.
In making this abridgement of a devotional
work by Kuyper
first published in the U.S. in 1918, James Schaap, professor of literature at Dordt College in Iowa, has adapted Kuyper's daily meditations by trying «to deliver the essential Kuyper to the ordinary people he respected.»
In 1991, McGinn
published the
first title in a projected five - volume
work, The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism (Crossroad), the
first comprehensive history of Western mysticism in English.
His
first two
published works were short - story collections, The Prince of Darkness (1947) and The Presence of Grace (1956), whose contents could be divided evenly between the merely excellent and the truly extraordinary.
We best begin with a
work written for lay folk,
first published by the Home University Library in 1911, called An Introduction to Mathematics (IM).
He
published many
works, but his magnum opus was Church Dogmatics of which the
first volume appeared in 1932.
Bonhoeffer's
first popular
work was
published in 1937.
I think it is possible to discern the beginnings of a fourth period in some
works published since the
first world war.
The five - year project was completed posthumously by the director's colleagues and
published in two volumes: the
first, a report written by Underwood; the second, a collection of «
working and technical papers.
This development in my thinking started late, beginning in the «70s, and
first entered my
published work in The Nature of Doctrine (1984).
Some department chairmen and laboratory directors have a reputation for
publishing papers with their own names appearing
first, when all the ideas and all the
work were those of other professors or graduate students.
Dr. Myrdal, an economist, is the author of An American Dilemma — a classic
work on race relations in the U.
first published in 1944 — and of An American Dilemma Revisited, A sequel nearing completion.
In 1922, some nine years after Einstein had
published his
first paper on General Relativity, Whitehead was compelled by the differences he had with Einstein's view to come forward with his own
work, The Principle of Relativity, in which he formulated a theory of gravitation more in keeping with his own philosophical outlook.
Neither of us, I think, was quite certain just what contribution I might be making to the enterprise, but I was a reasonably educated and reasonably pious» though hardly properly observant» Jew who had
worked for many years as an editor, and since Religion and Public Life had recently begun
publishing First Things, I suppose it was thought that I was qualified to add some, albeit hardly scholarly, expertise to the enterprise.
Peters» book (a revision of his
first book on this theme, based on twenty - five years of
published work) makes especially clear how in all three monotheistic religions early moves, strategies, and interpretations proved utterly determinative for all later developments.
Schweitzer's
first published work to deal with this theme was The Secret of Jesus» Messiahship and Passion, now more commonly known as The Mystery of the Kingdom of God, which appeared in 1901.2 However, his far more influential
work appeared in 1906, The Quest of the Historical Jesus, 3 which is still read and quoted.
Jonas
first applied it, not to the Gospels, but to Gnosticism, in his Gnosis und spatantiker Geist, a
work published as early as 1930, with an important preface by Rudolf Bultmann.
The Loser Letters, Eberstadt's
first published work of fiction, draws on a long satirical tradition from Juvenal to The Screwtape Letters.
When I
first saw the title of this book I assumed it would be a pamphlet along the lines of those very useful booklets
published by the Catholic Truth Society, setting out Catholic doctrine in simple terms for the interested reader without the time or inclination to read more weighty theological
works.
C. H. Tawney's English translation of this
work was
first published in 1880.