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From dispelling myths about part - time workers to developing a home office strategy, our expert guest authors provide up - to - date info and the resources you need to run a successful flexible business.

For by the author's lights, God has left the finches on the Galapagos Islands to fend for themselves, and will intervene but occasionally, and only when absolutely necessary, to get a significantly different species up and running.

«Sometimes kids run into the bathroom and partially void, so it's a good idea to remind them to relax and let all of their urine out,» says Howard Bennett, MD, author of Waking Up Dry: A Guide to Help Children Overcome Bedwetting.

Bentley Browning runs the Stand Up Comedy Novices and Public Speaking courses and workshops and is author of How To Find a Husband.

First author Randal J. Schoepp, Ph.D., recently returned from Liberia and Sierra Leone, where he spent six weeks helping to set up an Ebola testing laboratory and training local personnel to run diagnostic tests on suspected Ebola hemorrhagic fever clinical samples.

At first Feedback thought that in a moment of aberration the authors had hit on the bizarre idea of combing through police archives in order to come up with the biographies of 1086 people who had run away from their parents, spouses or creditors, or otherwise vanished without a trace.

The authors of the study say that more experiments need to be run in order to determine the effectiveness of the vibrations in helping with everyday activities such as picking up objects, and on a test group larger than six people.

This was surprising, says first author Jessica Salvatore, PhD, assistant professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University — since it goes against commonly held beliefs that divorce runs in families because children watch and learn from their parents and grow up to mimic their behavior.

Hundreds of interviews with authors are available, along with reading guides, visitor reviews, advice on starting and running a reading group, and a free newsletter that will keep you up - to - date with interesting and eclectic reading suggestions every week.

Educational Software Company, 2Simple, are teaming up with children's author, Jonny Zucker to run their first ever Serial Mash...

We're pretty excited at how this will open up the ability for authors to be included in various promos that we continually run throughout the year.

Dear Author and Smart Bitches both run regular features on their sites highlighting books that have gone on sale for $ 2.99, $ 1.99, or $.99, because the romance genre in particular is full of readers that burn through so many titles that they are eager to snap up books for as cheaply as they can get them.

The good thing is, if you hit enough home runs as a self - published author, or if one of your books explodes, traditional publishing is still there, they'll back up a truck full of money to your door.

Particularly when any written work is swamped by tens of thousands of books that in another time would only ever be bought by friends and family — purely out of charity for the writer and the knowledge that once all those short - run books are no longer clogging up the author's parent's garage, the parents might actually be able to park their car undercover again.

You (as publisher or self - published author) might have to sell 600 copies just to recover the expense of creating the plates and setting up the press for a run.

Personally, I think the higher royalties is better because they will make more in the long run if the book sells well, but sometimes, authors» financial needs make it important to have a big advance up front.

I always run into something on Smashwords that when I finally get it right and successfully uploaded / catalogued, it feels like I... won:-D I've heard D2D is less of a challenge to get in the formatting, but some authors have said that there have been some screw ups.

I like the Bitchery well enough that I am trying a new thing: I have signed up to sponsor two episodes of the Dear Bitches Smart Authors podcast, which SB Sarah runs jointly with Jayne Litte from Dear Author!

He now runs a course to help other authors and has several free instructional videos up at Self Publishing Formula.

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Ran to my Amazon Author Central account and spruced up my Amazon page profile.

iBooks Author is relatively simple to use, and you should be up and running quite quickly with the usual set of standard -LSB-...]

I think it's up to every individual self published author to decide how they operate their business, and from my own particular viewpoint, no one is going to tell me how I should run my own business, or how I should market my books or how I should spend my own money.

After her lawyer leaked her identity as the author, however, new print runs had to be ordered to keep up with demand.

Some authors choose to put some of their works available for free, still others the copyright has run out on, and others make free eBooks in the hopes you will sign up for their services or pay for other books they've written.

Have an action plan ready to go that includes having your author website up and running, review copies sent out, news releases, your book launch, giveaways and -LSB-...]

Whether you are discussing the book in class and someone forgot what year the author was born in, or you've run across a word you previously never knew existed, WiFi enables you to switch screens and look up whatever information you desire, without losing your spot in the book.

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A lot of self - published authors use print on demand after their initial first run has sold, and they want to have X-amount of books on hand, without taking up a ton of space in their homes.

Whether you're trying to decide if you're ready to launch your author business, or you're already up and running and need guidance to streamline or improve, our conference will answer all your questions and save you time, money and effort as you go.

Fortunately, there are other ways to promote your book in various major metro areas including pitching phone and Skype interviews, and conducting a virtual blog tour (most book publicists routinely set up virtual blog tours for authors — and, if you're considering a book publicist who doesn't know what a virtual blog tour is, then run in the opposite direction as quickly as possible!).

«We empower authors to meet publishing professionals, create relationships, share royalties, and build great teams that run like start ups,» explained Sanders in an interview with GoodEReader at Tools of Change this week.

The author of the mega-bestseller Born to Run returns with another fascinating story sure to make runners want to lace up their shoes and hit the road — and sure to give armchair travelers another setting to dream about.

Ask these same 500 authors what happens if they try run a promotion on one of the other sites to try build up business and have a price cheaper than on Amazon, even for one day.

I could probably come up with at least 10 major benefits of running an Amazon book launch campaign, including how it helps you sell more books long after the bestseller campaign is over, to getting approached by foreign publishers looking to do editions of your book in other languages (this has happened to several indie authors I know, after they hit the bestseller lists on Amazon).

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Lisa sent this note and schedule, below, to those of us who subscribe to her newsletter and who signed up to be notified of this coming week's events in the The Author's Adventure Summit 2017 (which runs May 8 — 19, 2017).

-LSB-...] by Tim Dorr / Flickr Note from Jane: This Thursday, I'm teaching a 2 - hour live class on how to get your author website up and running with WordPress.

And since to the best of my knowledge various EBMs are being run by indie bookstores, whether or not those individual stores will do business with authors by remote is entirely up to those stores.

A separate article that ran on the same day by Matthew Ingram for GigaOm, although quoting the Times piece in different regards, summed it up for indie authors quite well, especially in terms of the fact that social networking sites are just that: places to network and connect.

So it's important to have an author website up and running that will appeal to this important audience!

It works best in the long - run for authors to build up their readership than focus on short term things like bestseller lists.

And for Indie Author who only creates ebooks, Amazon's Matchbook program is the perfect incentive to get print versions of their books up and running.

For two years, we have run Indie Author Fairs — pop up bookshop that allow authors to showcase their books and interact directly with readers.

To set up a book signing, certain steps need to be taken as an indie author to make sure things run smoothly — the responsibility falls squarely on your shoulders to initiate and run the evenTo set up a book signing, certain steps need to be taken as an indie author to make sure things run smoothly — the responsibility falls squarely on your shoulders to initiate and run the evento be taken as an indie author to make sure things run smoothly — the responsibility falls squarely on your shoulders to initiate and run the evento make sure things run smoothly — the responsibility falls squarely on your shoulders to initiate and run the evento initiate and run the event.

Amateur author: Looked for recipes on Pinterest - 3 hours Confirmed ingredients and directions on other websites - 2.5 hours Made a quick run to Sprouts to pick up missing ingredients - 2.25 hours Rush hour traffic - 30 minutes Quick conversation with neighbor - 1 hour Mixed ingredients while talking on phone - 32 minutes Baked - 165 minutes Burnt dinner somewhere between 65 and 165 minutes Got takeout - 1.5 hours

Put yourself in a blogger's shoes: Are you more likely to give consideration to an author who sends you a note telling you exactly why a conversation about his book is perfect for your blog or a mass e-mailed message that went to countless other bloggers, too, who will end up running the same mass - produced content you'll use?

If you're unfamiliar with Amazon's free Author Central tool or don't know how it works, don't worry; I'm here to break it down and make it easy for you to get up and running.

I've recently built up a team to help authors design author websites, run successful book launches, and even do content creation, social media management and custom author platforms.

One of the easiest ways for an author to get a site up and running is to use Blogger or WordPress.