Sentences with phrase «smaller publishing houses such»

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Each year, the WACC, which provides funding for communication development worldwide on behalf of churches throughout the world, is channeling less of its funds into large shortwave services and large publishing houses, and more into the development of small printing presses, the production of audiocassettes, local drama and music groups, and the use of communication forms indigeneous to the village life, such as story telling, puppets and mime.

But he also wrote for a more general audience, particularly literary novels such as «Foucault's Pendulum» (1988), about three workers at a small publishing house who hatch their own conspiracy theory, and «The Name of the Rose,» a murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the 14th century.

With various software available that allows authors to convert their manuscripts themselves for market, as well as digital publishing services such as Book Baby that will convert the manuscripts to every available e-reader format for a small fee, more and more authors are turning to digital publishing in an effort to forgo the traditional publishing houses.

We receive submissions from independent authors, small publishers, and publishing giants such as Random House, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster, with contestants that range from the first - time, self - published author to New York Times bestsellers like J.A. Jance, James Rollins, and # 1 best - selling author Daniel Silva, as well as celebrity authors like Jim Carrey (Bruce Almighty), Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek) and Henry Winkler (Happy Days).

A question we are often asked by smaller publishing houses, enticed by the idea of this particular market, is where and how do other publishers discover such works.

However, Núñez said she likes the idea of «filleting» content,» in some markets called «chunking» it into smaller, salable parts, as in providing short stories, long - form journalism and academic texts as individual products, allowing readers to create anthologies, or «play lists,» while recognizing that often it is only the larger publishing houses that can make such an investment.