Sentences with phrase «published authors because»

Although the ASJA membership committee has, for some time, been wary of opening the floodgates to self - published authors because of questions of how to ensure quality control, new ASJA President Russell Wild elected to pursue the issue as one of his key priorities this year.
It also shows potential readers that an author is «present» and makes them seem more approachable which is a necessity for self - published authors because their relationship with their readers is imperative for growing their fan base.
He said self - published authors had an «advantage» over traditionally - published authors because they retained control of their own price levers, manipulating r.r.p, and by extension, their own royalty.
Large book PR firms sometimes don't take on self - published authors because they feel that top - tier media is more skeptical of self - published authors and their expertise.
This applies particularly to self - published authors because traditional publishers do a lot of marketing for authors.
Social media and blogging have been godsends to self - published authors because they are cheap ways to reach many readers.
I want to support self - published authors because I want to be an author, and I admire their bravery.
I can't pluck out the names of modern self published authors because I don't have the time for any modern works.
It is much easier to notice a successful self - published author because they are so few at the moment that they are always headline news within the book community.
Are you tired of putting off your dream of becoming a published author because you just don't know how to write a book?
As I said in my last reply: «It is much easier to notice a successful self - published author because they are so few at the moment that they are always headline news within the book community.»
I hesitate to recommend InDesign to self - publishing authors because of the price, but if you already own it you owe it to yourself to use the best layout program available.
I heart how easy it is to be a self - publishing author because their services are so easy to use.
The whole idea of going «mainstream» is so that your book can educate, entertain, horrify... whatever... which means you need to work three tiems as hard as the commercially published author because you're a team of one.Conversely, the commercially published author has a team of hundreds.
If you have been putting off becoming a published author because you can't make that decision, please contact us and we will help you move forward in that process.
It is easier to transcend a traditional publishing house to being a self - published author because you have a working knowledge of the steps involved in writing, editing, publishing and marketing a book.
Instead of publishing folks saying, «You get to be a published author because we think we can make money on you,» we have authors saying, «we're choosing you to publish us and we will share the rewards of our success together.»
Thank you for sharing your experience as a self - published author because, self - publishing ftw!
I personally think it's easier to compete as a self - published author because we have the flexibility to make changes.

Not exact matches

«If people know that their fellow co-workers are watching out for theft, they will think twice before stealing because there are higher odds they will be caught,» says Terrence Shulman, founder of the The Shulman Center for Compulsive Theft, Spending & Hoarding and author of Biting the Hand that Feeds: The Employee Theft Epidemic (Infinity Publishing, 2005).
So, I have a Ph.D. in Theology / comparative religions and published author (known to personally debate with your good and misguided church propagandist Mr. Turley (LDS managing director of famil and church history) because I wanted to «understand.»
«These mirror neurons are involved when someone views pornography because what they view, they vicariously experience and learn from,» neuroscientist and author William Struthers wrote in his published study, «The Effects of Porn on the Male Brain.»
This is not because I am an experienced eBook author (though I did just publish my first eBook), but because I am trying to learn more about the process, and wanted to share what I learn with you.
Obvious that the «author» only got his opinion published because of that «coincidence».
A number of you also pointed me toward a recipe published in and Food & Wine and Fine Cooking by cookbook author Pam Anderson, who should not be confused with Pamela Anderson, formerly of Baywatch and Tommy Lee, and I make that clarification because I was, myself, briefly confused.
The lead author is Patricia Janssen who published a similar study in 2002 and then was forced to publicly retract the conclusion that homebirth is safe because the homebirth group had two perinatal deaths and the hospital group had none.
Some blogs (like Australian blog Solidariti, last updated on May 20, 2009) stopped publishing because their authors moved on to better things, but other sites (National Journal's «Under the Influence,» last updated June 5th, 2012, or Tech Daily Dose, which preceded it on October 22, 2010) were killed by higher - ups.
Because the catch of fish in these areas was lower, such measures would protect many species but wouldn't cut into the total catch as deeply, the authors argue in their report, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Whether that is because most scientific researchers are extremely nice and forgiving people, or the more likely possibility that contributing authors confuse my job as managing editor with that of the editor - in - chief (who has the power to decide what gets published and what does not), I am not entirely sure.
«There is lots of good science going on, but it is initiated and funded outside GP - write, because there is no funding yet,» says Seattle, Washington — based biotech investor Robert Carlson, an author of the GP - write paper published in Science.
In fact, some researchers say the original paper should not have been published, because the fossil was not officially deposited in a museum or other repository, so the authors couldn't guarantee that future researchers could access it.
Many of them condemned the journal for giving Nowak a voice and suggested that the paper was published only because its authors came from Harvard.
In their Essay the authors argue that the Ebola and Zika responses highlight openness challenges for effective data sharing and that three major impediments limit data sharing: there are no established standards for data users to credit data providers; scientists may doubt that sharing data will advance their scholarly stature as much as publishing primary research; and scientists may not be able to share data effectively because of inadequate technology, standards, or human capacity.
«A lot of diabetes in the elderly goes undiagnosed because they don't have the classical risk factors for type 2 diabetes, such as obesity,» says Evans, director of Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory and senior author of the new paper, which was published November 18, 2015 in Nature.
«Mercury is the perfect test object for these experiments because it is so sensitive to the gravitational effect and activity of the Sun,» said Antonio Genova, the lead author of the study published in Nature Communications and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Before taking this «rare» and rather drastic step, however, the editor will contact the authors to resolve the issue through lesser means such as «retraction [or] correction,» because «publishing a notice of concern [is] the least good» alternative, Lundberg says.
«It's a bit of a complicated story because it's a cycle,» said Valier Galy, lead author of the new study, published in Nature.
On June 30, following on work published in the scientific journal Nature by STRI post-doctoral fellow, Scott Mangan, a group of 50 researchers from 12 countries published a paper in Science (lead author, Joe LaManna, Washington University in St. Louis) showing that close plant relatives make bad neighbors and that the negative interactions between relatives are stronger in the tropics, which may explain why tropical forests are so rich in species diversity: Because plants do not do well next to their relatives, there is more space for non-relatives to fill.
The new results, which were published in Physical Review X this week, are noteworthy because the methods do not only appear to work; the authors can actually prove mathematically that they must work.
«Our study suggests that highly polygynous, predominantly Maasai, villages do poorly not because of polygyny, but because of vulnerability to drought, low service provision and broader socio - political disadvantages,» said David Lawson, a population health lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and lead author of the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
CRYAA, CRYAB, and similar proteins are known as «undruggable» because their activity can't be measured, says Jason Gestwicki, a biochemist at the University of California (UC), San Francisco, and a senior author of the new study, published online today in Science.
The advantages of a preprint journal club over a journal club reviewing published papers are 1) lab members read the latest material (often posted within the previous week or two), 2) they feel that reviewing a paper is not an empty exercise (because the paper is already published), but something that actually helps people, 3) they learn about improving manuscripts, and 4) authors get more feedback.
A review of previous studies on artificial sweeteners published in the journal Neuroscience supports this idea, with the author of the review noting that «artificial sweeteners, precisely because they are sweet, encourage sugar craving and sugar dependence.»
«This may be because, while the muscles are working hard, the trampoline makes the activity less jarring,» said lead author John Porcari, PhD, professor of exercise and sport science, in an article published on the ACE website.
The author of an article published in Integrative Medicine in 2015 noted that increased calcium supplementation — needed by older women to reduce their risk of osteoporosis — may become problematic because it can lead to deposits on artery and blood vessel walls.
«Increasingly, you're going to see open education projects become the leading publication outlet for educational material, because they're so flexible, they're so easy to maintain, and authors can have such a big impact by publishing their material with open access,» says Richard Baraniuk, founder of the open source content library Connexions.
I don't like giving advice on how to become a published author, because there is just too much bs out there about being a successful writer, written mostly by unsuccessful writers.
This isn't a bad thing as self - publishing offers many advantages, and in a lot of cases, successful self - published authors are offered contracts with publishers because of their existing author platforms as they've proven their appeal.
Therefore, one argument stated, a self - published author can absolutely have a logo, because they are their own imprint, and just as valuable as any other publishing house out there, so they deserve to brand and market that.
I know that when I communicated with Author Central a few years ago, they were much more responsive to me as the author than they were to my publishing house (I'm guessing because they're courting authors to use them directly for print - on - deAuthor Central a few years ago, they were much more responsive to me as the author than they were to my publishing house (I'm guessing because they're courting authors to use them directly for print - on - deauthor than they were to my publishing house (I'm guessing because they're courting authors to use them directly for print - on - demand).
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