Sentences with phrase «set than writing a book»

Writing a blurb requires a completely different skill set than writing a book.

«Writing a good press release requires a completely different skill set than writing a book, and so many authors find themselves completely lost when it's time to actually sell the book.

Not exact matches

As YouTube star Mamrie Hart — her popular channel You Deserve a Drink has more than 1.2 million subscribers — set about writing her second book, which some could argue is an even scarier prospect than writing your first, her M.O. was to seek out adventure.

As he wrote earlier in this chapter, any use of the test as «a substitute for searching conversation» about world view / setting and the other dimensions of narrative explored later in the book was in his view more likely to yield a mechanist reduction than a deepened symbolic understanding.

Though I have written this book in part to set forth what I think is a neglected perspective among scholars, researchers, and consultants who study congregations, at the end of the ministerial day it matters less whether private analysts understand the narrative features of the congregation than whether the congregation itself understands those features.

In his elder years, famous as a poet, he wrote, «I set a higher value on my name as appended to the Anti-Slavery Declaration of 1833 than on the title page of any book.»

Headline definition, a heading in a newspaper for any written material, sometimes for an illustration, to indicate subject matter, set in larger type than As I am curremtly reading Victor Schwab's book How to write a Good Advertisement I would highly recommend adding these headlines to a person's swipe file.

In this third book, he set out to write something more practical than what he had written before.

The sheet includes: Literacy section with key words and definitions Write on the sheet starter Lesson objective (The above a set in a box to allow pupils to cut out and stick these into their book) Three sets of questions to aid differentiation by task rather than outcome A set of extension questions Plenary questions to check understanding Homework questions (differentiated) Additional info on how to check if answers are correct and where this skill would be used in real life.

On episode 122 of the WRITER 2.0 Podcast I spoke with Michael Anderle, who set out to make $ 50,000 per year by writing 20 books, and ended up doing a lot better than that.

> Map out your writing empire, including all the things you love to do > Start setting up and implementing the systems and structures you need to support your empire (including an author website, if you don't already have one) > Overhaul your writing life so you're aligned with and set up for the success you want to create > Get your nonfiction eBook written and published (at least one, but possibly more than one, if you're up for it) > Grow your following > Sell more books

Even more than the ever - present writing ability of an author who has the ability to put her readers in the setting, whether it's a dark alley or Diagon Alley, this is one book that might hit too close to home for the world famous author herself.

In a new introduction written for this edition, New York Times columnist Gail Collins calls the book «a very specific cry of rage about the way intelligent, well - educated women were kept out of the mainstream of American professional life and regarded as little more than a set of reproductive organs in heels.»

But as of this writing, Amazon is offering the book for pre-order — something that many mom - and - pop independent bookstores aren't even set up to do — for less than $ 13 for the hardcover; the Kindle edition is priced just over $ 11, while Barnes and Noble and Kobo are offering the ebook edition for pre-order for more than $ 16.

There are times when I wonder whether all the people writing books, setting up blog tours, and providing other services for aspiring self - published authors are making a lot more money than the authors.

More than plot, more than setting, more than writing craft, the compelling character is the one that makes the difference between an okay book and one that stays in the readers» memories for a long time.

The scouting is very tiring and requires a completely different set of skills than writing a book does.

* About the Don Camillo books: Starting in 1946, Giovannino Guareschi wrote more than 300 stories about the hot - headed parish priest Don Camillo, and his battles with the communist major Peppone, all set in the Po Valley of Northern Italy - if you're not familiar with these stories I do suggest you look them up, all appear to be out of print now but you can find plentiful used copies at Addall.com and Amazon, and probably in your local library).

Amy Krouse Rosenthal, author of the popular 2009 picture book Spoon, has written another funny, sweet story that, according to the subtitle, is less a sequel than a «change in place setting.»

Still, as ways to connect with new readers go, a Kindlegraph signing is certainly a lot less effort than setting up a book event, while offering some fun possibilities (to test out the service, I offered to write haiku Kindlegraphs for buyers of my book).

2017 Goal Setting for my writing and publishing goals is pretty straight forward: I need to publish more books in 2017 than I have published between 2013 and 2016.

To do so on the traditional route, you would have to set your goals to write a lot of books, far more than one hour per day, actually, or plan on taking a lot of years.

The tagline should be more about the type of books you write, or maybe the thing that sets you apart — your USP — in the genre rather than a single book you're working on or that's coming out most recently.

To do so on the traditional route, you would have to set your goals to write a lot of books, far more than one hour per day, actually, and plan on taking a lot of years.

Marketing is within your skill set, and no one is more suited to market the book you wrote than you.

«We hope to capture a set of readers who perhaps don't read on paper, as well as a new generation who will grow up reading and writing on computer screens in school and will have different reading habits,» said Maru de Montserrat, agent at International Editors Co. and president of ADAL, «It's important to meet that demand, rather than waiting for readers to take matters into their own hands and create a black market of scanned books.»

You'll find more specific, step by step information on how to publish in the book I wrote with bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde, calle HOW TO BE A WRITER IN THE E-AGE, It costs less than a cup of coffee and, it will help you avoid the pitfalls and traps set for new writers and stay safe.

Stacey Aaronson, founder of The Book Doctor Is In, provides the key elements to set you on the right path in writing a top - notch nonfiction book, so you can avoid the common pitfalls most aspiring writers fall into, allowing you to have a smoother, more focused, and more enjoyable writing experience than you ever thought possible — resulting in a book that shines as it deserves to, reflects well on you as an author, and that your target audience will appreciate, embrace, and want to share with othBook Doctor Is In, provides the key elements to set you on the right path in writing a top - notch nonfiction book, so you can avoid the common pitfalls most aspiring writers fall into, allowing you to have a smoother, more focused, and more enjoyable writing experience than you ever thought possible — resulting in a book that shines as it deserves to, reflects well on you as an author, and that your target audience will appreciate, embrace, and want to share with othbook, so you can avoid the common pitfalls most aspiring writers fall into, allowing you to have a smoother, more focused, and more enjoyable writing experience than you ever thought possible — resulting in a book that shines as it deserves to, reflects well on you as an author, and that your target audience will appreciate, embrace, and want to share with othbook that shines as it deserves to, reflects well on you as an author, and that your target audience will appreciate, embrace, and want to share with others.

It took another five months to get my ass in gear, set up the infrastructure to do so (find a cover artist, create a website, interview editors, create a Facebook and Twitter presence, decide what to even write about as my preferred genre), and then produce the first book, which I released in early June — Fatal Exchange, which still reads well, I think, if a bit grittier than my later work.

If you get the writing bug and publish more than one book, you are set up with raving fans to promote the next book without starting from scratch.

Every other step in this guide has, in fact, been setting the table for the most important thing you do other than writing: building your audience and promoting your books.

I maintain a blog on writing and publishing, which you can view here, and I've written and published more than 50 books across a range of topics (including 9 self - published titles, Growth, Cage Life, Crows and Other Beasts, Hey, Little Sister, Pancakes on Sunday, Cruxim, Creche, Creed and the Dark Guardians box set).

I can relate to this feeling: I've been blogging for over seven years, but one reason I wrote a book is I think it's more likely to stand the test of time than a set of blog posts.