Sentences with phrase «someone in the publishing house»

However, I have had four long - term secular jobs (three in schools, one in a publishing house), and in three of the four places of employment there were control freaks in high places, and they made the atmosphere unpleasant.

My agent and I quickly learned that this title was not doing us any favors, that the word «submission» had a special way of triggering rather heated responses in publishing house board rooms across the country.

There are too few experts in publishing houses who are knowledgeable in a broad, linguistically sound analysis of texts.

Later she gets a job as a reader in a publishing house whose smug and cynical editors are looking for «a Jewish writer».

Those who develop language arts programs at the school level or in publishing houses must understand that the skills they wish to impart are in fact knowledge - drenched and knowledge - constituted.

In the publishing house where I worked, the Head Librarian has been pushing for the digitising of hundreds of precious manuscripts.

Quality control can be a challenge: not because the suppliers aren't good, but because there are many ways to make an ebook, and someone in the publishing house has to be able to brief and monitor what their suppliers are doing.

(I know... to beginning writers this is shocking that only one person in a publishing house reads your book.

I listen and talk to other people in publishing houses every day of the week and we compare notes and trends.

Sam Clair is an editor in a publishing house.

These slush piles often filled entire rooms in a publishing house.

In a publishing house, your editor can — and in Meg's case, did — affect in - house attitudes about your book, producing more attention that can result in more sales.

As a publishing expert with over 20 years of experience in the industry from working in publishing houses and as a freelance professional, I can be an invaluable member of your indie author team.

there's an understanding in publishing houses that a finished manuscript may diverge somewhat from your proposed outline

It's frightening the amount of gate - keeping which still goes on in the publishing houses, and so much of it comes down to the personal choices of those same gate - keepers.

Many do this as a favor to authors they love and work with in publishing houses... so they lower their rates for private work.

Amazon executive Russell Grandinetti gave the most succinct comment about the new world that publishers find themselves in: a wakeup call that should be posted in giant letters in every publishing house and agency.

You learn to evaluate yourself and your books through the same «lens» used by an acquisitions editor in a publishing house.

Besides, I have been an editor over the years and I know that stuff just flat goes wrong in publishing houses that is often no one's fault.

Beyond that, there is the confusion in publishing houses, reflected in the question I got about landing pages, about what's important and what's not.

It's like being in a publishing house where I get say over all aspects of my career, but with help from others with the same individual interest, willing to share their knowledge.»

What I love about self - publishing is the ability to carefully choose those third parties and to work directly with them, instead of being at the end of a long chain of faceless entities in a publishing house, many of whom have not read your work.

Many big publishers like Random House have what are called «imprints,» or divisions in the publishing house with their own brand and specialization.

They have access to decision - makers, people in the publishing houses who may like your book.

(Sometimes bloggers are a part of this list; in some publishing houses, the book marketing department handles the bloggers separately, but in a similar fashion.)

It's important to note that agents who talk about these problems rarely say they see malice at work in the publishing house accounting departments.

To actually get a foot in a publishing house door you will need a literary agent to represent you.

These agents introduce authors to editors who work in publishing houses.

Cathy Lewis, president of C.S. Lewis & Company Publicists, worked as an in - house publicist in publishing houses for seven years before launching her own company in 1994, convinced that she could do a much better job serving authors.

I will still try to get published in a publishing house like Samhain or Amazon, but I will have my basket B close by with my indie publishing as well.

In my publishing house, once the manuscript was in hand, we usually accomplished this in five to six months — and we pushed.

In some publishing houses, outreach to book bloggers and other related bloggers falls to the marketing department; in other houses, bloggers are considered part of the media and sending them information about the books being published falls to the publicity department.

Every publisher and the people who work in these publishing houses is feeling a great deal of pain and stress.

An editor's money is made on sales in a publishing house so it's in their best interest to make the book shine, with the author's blessing.

Work in a publishing house, particularly those few that bring out poetry collections or literary novels.

Once in a publishing house, there was a third barrier to jump: get out and stay out of the midlist and hit the top.

The quality and pleasure in reading those books can surprise those who still believe in publishing house fairy tales that they are the gatekeepers to quality reads.

She is urging publishers to pledge to only publish work by female writers in that year, and she talked about the «gender imbalance that exists in publishing, in terms of reviews, top positions in publishing houses, literary prizes, etc..»

Desktop publisher resume objective 3: to work in a publishing house at the work position of a desktop publisher wherein I would be able to help the magazine in various challenging situations by showcasing my talent and using my diverse experience.

Seeking a job profile which will help me to blend my hardwork, research, experience and knowledge fashion and bring out strikingly honest reviews in your publishing house.

Graphic artist resume objective 1: seeking a job position of a graphic artist in a publishing house which has a modern outlook towards things

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They are used for reproduction in Jersey Standard's own magazine, The Lamp, and the other thirty - eight company publications, and given free to any magazine, newspaper, or publishing house that wants to use them.

In 1994, he sold his magazine business to VNU, the Dutch publishing house.

White House spokesman Steven Cheung told Factcheck.org that the number came from a report published by the conservative Heritage Foundation in April 2016.

Last month, conservative news outlet Daily Caller published a story with a headline that read, «It's High Time Barron Trump Starts Dressing Like He's In the White House.»

Steve Bannon, a White House senior adviser with close ties to far - right groups, told the American Prospect in an interview published Wednesday that he constantly butts heads with Cohn over issues such as trade with China.

If you're looking for more reading material about the Trump White House and its rotating cast of characters, here's a quick guide to some books already published and yet to come in 2018 — some of which might seem like beach or airport reads until you remember the reports are rooted in real life.

In 2018, Penguin Random House will publish Meltdown, the book that resulted from that casual conversation.

Meanwhile, the big publishing houses continued their march towards consolidation — most recently, Random House and Penguin announced a merger in October, and rumors have circulated over a potential HarperCollins - Simon & Schuster pairing — all in an effort to give Amazon (amzn) a run for its money.

The first female — and first American — CEO of Wolters Kluwer in the Netherlands, McKinstry has led a digital transformation of the 175 - year old Dutch publishing house.