Sentences with phrase «pulled out of the author»

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So they pulled out all the stops by experimenting with an in - store cafe, free Wi - Fi, monthly book swaps, a children's play area, entertainment, more than 200 in - store author readings a year and community forums on topics of interest to customers.

Malkiel (left), the Princeton economist best known as the author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street, now in its 12th edition, took to the op - ed pages of the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, saying investors who would «pull their money out of the stock market today to invest in bonds are making a huge mistake.»

When you ask why your interpretation is wrong, they innundate you with a list of other passages pulled out of context and numerous quotes from authors and pastors who agree with their position.

After telling her daughter Mae about her biological father, Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches from the Dating World author Rachel Sarah sometimes pulled out photos of him or offered to point out where he lives on a map.

Wrap cords neatly and put these items away out of reach to ensure that your child doesn't accidentally tug on a cord and pull an item down onto herself, warn Signe Larson and Kevin Osborn, authors of «Bringing up Baby.»

«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.

This is the result of a study carried out by researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), first author and PhD student Christopher Pull and Professor Sylvia Cremer as the senior author, along with collaborators at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Würzburg.

You can pull out as many as you want, but if you don't get the roots they'll come back,» explains first author Dr Petter Woll of the MRC Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford.

Jeff Bridges is an executive producer, so he deserves what he gets as an alcoholic author / mentor with an out - of - nowhere ending that feels pulled from a soap opera.

I realize many author's returns are higher each month, and mine have been too from time - to - time, but this promotion pulled all of my books out of a rut.

They were done trying to help indie authors, and they chose the worst time of the year to pull the rug out from under us.

Best - selling author H.M.Ward pulled all her books out of KU and called for a rethink to the scheme after seeing her income plunge by 75 % over two months despite getting a Kindle Select All Stars cash award for both months.

All the Bright Places tops the list in Best Young Adult Fiction; the latest book in the Throne of Glass series, Queen of Shadows, edged out strong competition in Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction; and another Young Adult Fantasy contender, Red Queen, pulled out a win over in Best Debut Goodreads Author.

First, if you're one of the authors who pulled their books out of other retailers» platforms to enroll in KDP Select, you might have forgotten you even have a Smashwords account.

Stein pulls out his composition notebook — his «famous author notebook,» he calls it — and flips open to a page covered with illustrations of dinosaurs eating one another's heads, an unexpected preview of his next picture book with Candlewick.

Find reviewers who have reviewed similar books, and pull their emails out of Amazon (I mention some tools in Book Marketing is Dead, you can also join Author Marketing Club).

According to the Alliance of Independent Authors, Flipkart's decision to pull out of the e-book business means that Amazon Kindle is now the largest online reading platform in India (though Flipkart is obviously trying not to give Amazon, one of its biggest rivals, more business, as its choice of Kobo shows).

I've pulled together a short list of websites that every author should check out prior to signing any contract with any publisher — traditional, self - publishing, vanity press, or co-publisher.

Some of the popular authors are pulling out of -LSB-...]

I also heard from an author negotiating with one of the then Big Six that the publisher was interested but wanted the YA novel pulled out of YA and wanted a rape scene added.

In the video, you'll see a first - time author's excitement as he opens the CreateSpace package and pulls out the two proofs of his book.

Some of the popular authors are pulling out of the program.

Rich - and - famous authors who pull out aren't doing anything wrong, of course.

They refuse to pull their heads out of the sand and adapt to the changing times — and to give authors a reason for signing away 75 % or more of the money from the author's labor.

Authors outraged by Clean Reader's mutilation of their work took to blogs and Twitter, and created such a backlash that their book suppliers pulled out and «Clean Reader» folded.

After 20 years experience in the writing industry, author Colleen M. Story extends a lifeline to pull you out of the sinking swamp of «busyness» and back into the flourishing creative life you deserve.

What new authors should understand is that there's a lot of noise in the market and to stand out you have to come up with the right title, subtitle and approach to really pull readers in.

Price promotions are one of the most powerful tools that self - publishing authors can pull out of their marketing toolkit.

And Edgar Award - winning author Phillip DePoy pulls out all the stops in the series debut, making full use of Marlowe's legendary rapier wit (and actual rapier wielding) in this frenetic and satisfying historical mystery / thriller.

She will pull her hair out trying to find an author she has heard of before, then after 10 minutes gives up.

doc format • Pull out some key facts from your book or good opening paragraph from the book • Images of the book that people can download, include captions, author etc. with each image • Videos about the book that people can embed • Press Release • Press mentions • Quotes and testimonials about the book • All the contact info for the author and where to buy the book

However, if most indie authors, especially the best sellers, were to pull out of Kindle Select, then Amazon would probably rethink their terms.

And these so called top ten authors whose names Amazon seems to have pulled out of a hat?

While it's important to seek out some reputable endorsers and reviewers who have a large group of readers, I don't think self - published authors realize the number of readers they need to pull off a self - published book that sells more than 25 - 50 copies.

I know most authors don't have a lot of cash lying around for book promotion (I don't either actually, but promoting my own books is a business expense, because people trust me to figure stuff like this out and share the results with them, so I kind of have to pull it off).

I have been hearing this too and several authors including Joe Konrath have pulled out of the program.

My author son pulled up the CreateSpace site and showed me a roster of artists, their samples spread out like a smorgasbord.

She pulled an ARC (Advanced Reading Copy) out of her bag and proceeded to tell me the story of how she had met the author at an event.

The indie - author intarwebz have been buzzing this week with the news that Joe Konrath is pulling all of his books out of KDP Select.

If so, we need to make sure people know this thing can be way, WAY off, and every author needs to be prepared to dig into their files and pull out solid data to back up claims of sales.

Amazon has laid out five arbitration demands in a complaint filed with the American Arbitration Association (obtained by TechCrunch, see below), accusing the involved parties of offering services to boost the number of pages read in books, fraudulent customer reviews, creating fake user accounts to download e-books and inflate the numbers and other schemes to boost the amount of royalties authors and publishers were able to pull from Amazon's self - publishing platform.

If you don't than please pull out of KU and tell as many other authors to do the same.

Anecdotally, I can say that authors are doing it, and Amazon isn't pulling books out of the catalog.

Time is at a premium so even though there are ton of books, magazines and blogs out there about how to market books, reading through them takes time and pulls an author away from doing what they love in the first place.

Filling out an Author Template, Part 1 will be helpful in reminding you of the pertinent points relating to your qualifications to write the book; Author Template, Part 2 will help you pull together information about your potential media platform you'll want to highlight in the book proposal.

As a web and marketing professional with a decade of experience, I've pulled the recommendations below from my research and experience building professional websites, and a review of the best author websites out there.

Until these publishers either pull their heads out of the sand, tear up their current business plans and start forward - thinking instead of not thinking, and until they start treating their authors as partners in the venture, things will continue to look dark for them.

I have noticed some author friends pulling out of KU, but I don't think I'm ready to, just yet.

Authors suddenly had a way to get books, because Barnes & Noble had pulled out of the U.K. completely.

For a lot of authors, that will be places you already are, but you want to pull back that presence into an outpost strategy, rather than go out on any new ones.