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Ever notice how sometimes you'll see small author headshots next to their content in a page of Google search results?

Not exact matches

3) The discussion about scaling vs. keeping it small is a very interesting one: I liked that the author presented real - life cases for either scenarios for food for thought instead of advocating one or the other (e.g. presenting a single «formula» as the golden rule that all shall follow)-- I can see how this particular decision can be case sensitive and there really is no «right» answer as long as it works for the entrepreneur!

When we read about Paul struggling mightily so that Christians in small churches will learn to live in Christian harmony, perhaps we see an alternative vision of church — one in which all the theological muscle of the author of Philippians is marshaled merely to get Euodia and Syntyche to get along (Phil.

Later «sources» began to be appreciated for what they were, in no small part because it was seen that the Yahwist was not an author in the modern sense of the term, but one «under the influence» of traditions handed down to him.

You can see the real danger perhaps most clearly when the Indian novelist Arundhati Roy, universally admired author of The God of Small Things, writes in the Manchester Guardian that Osama bin Laden «is nothing more than the American President's dark doppelgänger.

Author of Through Your Eyes: My Child's Gift to Me, Ainsley Earhardt, shares how having a child has taught her to see the wonder in the small things.

«Joining the single currency and the EU has allowed smaller countries such as Slovenia and Lithuania to see the world beyond their own small communities,» author Joan Costa Font said.

Corresponding author, Professor Ivan Parkin, who is Professor of Chemistry and Head of UCL Chemistry, said: «Our work aims to characterise new materials at a very small scale so we can see how best to use them to improve our daily lives.

«We have shown we can use room - temperature, plastic electronic devices that allow us to see the orientation of the tiniest magnets in nature — the spins in the smallest atomic nuclei,» says physics professor Christoph Boehme, one of the study's principal authors.

«We are seeing upticks in small clusters of childhood illnesses,» says the lead author of the Disneyland study, Maimuna Majumder, an epidemiologist and doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Is there any chance that the products of the small group exercises can be made available for public comments, crowd - sourced if you will, and revised as the authors see fit as a result of this feedback?

Using LOS magnetograms, the authors observed a small region of transient polarity - reversed magnetic field in the main sunspot of NOAA 11429 on 13 March 2012, which corresponded with flare brightenings seen in intensity images.

The study's lead author John Jerrim of the UCL Institute of Education said: «Maths mastery shouldn't be seen as a silver bullet; there is no escaping that the effect of the programme was relatively small, though welcome.

For example, the author of the lesson plan may have modeled a strategy for examining the primary sources by projecting a source for the whole class to see and think about together before moving into small groups.

When you're just starting as an indie author, there's a tendency to look around and see success stories — authors who have built an immense following, who have a bulging mailing list, who have enough followers on social media to found their own small country.

An author can print their books (we recommend in the hundreds, not the thousands, to start — see small run book printing for a more in depth discussion).

Over the last two years since I jumped into the blogging game, I have seen at least half a dozen cases of well - known authors doing something equivalent to sticking their foot in it and pissing readers off either in small numbers or large.

Whether it's a small indie press that sees value in an author's work or an author using a contemporary platform to self - publish, it takes a truly entrepreneurial spirit to achieve successful independent publishing.

As authors moved towards circumventing traditional publishers or small presses who required that a book be accepted in order to be published in return for payment (one hopes), we saw the advent of vanity presses and assorted publishing opportunists.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

The biggest problem, as I see it, is that the community itself needs to be more accepting of all authors — big press, small press, self - published, aspiring — and understand that we aren't a threat to one another, that we all work toward the same goals.

Last but not least, I saw the news break last night courtesy of James Nicoll's LJ that SFWA has opened membership to self - pubbed and small press authors.

I see many authors publishing their numerous books thru various small presses.

From what I can see, small publishers are sometimes better at working with an author, but I've also noticed, in looking at some of the titles they publish, that they don't seem to be doing significantly better commercially than comparable self - published titles.

As an indie and small press published author, I'm used to seeing posts from editors and agents claiming that you haven't earned the title of «author» until you've been traditionally published.

But I've seen more authors leave their small - press after the first book than I've seen stay with them (and be happy) for multiple titles.

On the one hand, I'd like to see retailers like Amazon tighten their grips on this type of behavior, because the spam issues is small for our authors / genres but growing; on the other hand, I wouldn't want to see retailers turn into gatekeepers and increase their controls of content and implement varying forms of censorship.»

What's funny is I see a lot of authors who are struggling along on one small advance per year, unable to quit day jobs — and these people are the ones digging their feet in hardest against these disruptive changes in the market.

And this may interest those who have felt that Smashwords may be more dependent on subscription than Coker says it is, despite a 2013 deal that saw 225,000 Smashwords titles from 70,000 authors and small publishers go to the Scribd service.

They should look at the best sellers lists from Amazon — which, whether they like it or not, is the gorilla in the book selling market — and see how many of those titles come from indies and small press authors.

Large publishers can't compete against that (a traditional mass market paperback sold for $ 8.00 earns the author about 40 cents), which is one of the reasons I firmly believe the future of publishing lies in the hands of indie authors and small publishers, and in the years ahead we'll see more and more big - name authors go indie.

As I began to see more and more major problems with Amazon and how they treat all authors and small publishers my public criticism of Amazon grew on this site.

Only a very small percentage of authors — even authors making six figures, or more, annually — will ever see his / her storie (s) turned into a Hollywood blockbuster.

I was invited to be on two panels with immensely talented authors: Black Women in Speculative Fiction, seen below, and The Pros and Pitfalls of Small / Self - Publishing.

Even so, in its current form, BookExpo is much less inclusive then it used to be and the value proposition for smaller independent publishers and self - published authors is becoming harder and harder to see.

Sakura Publishing is a small, indie press that loves authors who possess passion and a drive to see their manuscripts become published works of art.

Not sure, though Booktrope authors aren't indie, and many have been accepted, just not me or many nonfiction books (that I've seen) by small press, mid-size (as Booktrope is), and / or hybrid authors.

As far as I can tell, the oft - touted rarely seen midlist self - published authors is as small as the upper echelon of millionaire authors.

You see, Sell Your Book on Amazon was the first Kindle edition Outskirts Press released — I use my books as «guinea pigs» for all our author services, because if our services work for me, they can work for our authors, too — and it's no small secret that Kindle isn't the best when it comes to converting specially - formatted books.

While a select small number of authors may have seen book giveaways as a clever promotion to boost the sales of their next book, it is rare.

We find small errors all the time, but the main criticism I see about ebooks is that they are poorly edited or that the author didn't pay attention to his own details.

It is interesting to see the opportunity that e-books have given small time authors but also the additional concerns it raises.

I could see a small bookshop doing well with indie authors and presses, and offering PoD for old volumes and back lists.

I've seen a lot of big name authors, and small ones too, hating on Kindle Unlimited.

Then revisit that list often, solicit outside opinions, and research other similar authors both big and small to see the keywords they emphasize.

Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say with this is that there is a small group of authors and editors out there who are pounding their chests in social outrage over what happened years ago (see some of the posts about the 1930 - something letter from Walt Disney denying employment to a woman because there are no female animators in the studio at that time) as well as what two gentlemen had to say about events that happened thirty or more years ago all in an attempt to prove they are still relevant.

For those who have a long - term Facebook marketing budget (even if a small one) and a really refined / strategic approach, I can see huge benefits, but many authors I know aren't in that position.

While it is equally important to see how Big Five published authors are continually releasing their bestselling titles and earn a laudable status, several graphs signify the increasing popularity of eBooks not only published by indie authors, but for the ones done by small or medium publishers, and Amazon imprints.

And the fraction of all Big Five traditionally - published authors who will ever see their book in a supermarket, Costco, or airport bookstore is infinitesimally small.

Yeah, as we see with some of the small publishers whose authors» work has been removed in this unfortunate incident, the lack of a more discerning and patient response (as Orna Ross is pointing out in her good comment below) is so regrettable, even as some of the pressures on Kobo and its good people are evident.