Sentences with phrase «still hitting the books»

School may be out for summer, but the nation's education - focused technology startups are still hitting the books, drumming up new business and new investments to capitalize on overwhelming demand for innovation from primary and secondary schools and colleges.

and I hope I'll win the autographed copy if not I'm still hitting book store of the 7th!!!!!

Not exact matches

Bestselling author David Bach, who is releasing an updated version of his hit book «The Automatic Millionaire» this December, calls such views «ridiculous» and argues that homeownership is a timeless principle of building wealth that, while boring, still works.

I would like to think I have hit a happy medium here, but I would rather the book be returned or discarded than that it satisfy any reader who hopes only to be entertained for an evening by that living prophetism which proclaimed and still proclaims God's judgment and redemption of Israel, and through her life, of the world.

As one of my favorite vegetarian, dairy and gluten free meals to make in college, this recipe is still a hit in my book.

The official publication date is still December 18th, which is the date my book hits the shelves in bookstores.

Still, the only time he ever had to cancel a booking (as opposed to missing a scheduled performance) was when, in a scene worthy of I Pagliacci, his wife at the time hit him over the head with a hammer.

You need RBI's AND WAR to get a complete picture of a hitter — but OPS is still the best indicator of all - around hitting in my book.

The Giants also had 358 hits, a total that still makes the state record book.

Over the last week there still hasn't been any drastic line movement across the entire betting market; however, we've triggered 4 new Sharp Money moves on the Seahawks +1 meaning that individual offshore books are getting hit with Seattle money to move their line back to a pick»em from +1.

Crook hit out against the government argument that prisoners were still able to acquire books by spending their prison work salary on them in a new statement this afternoon.

Pensioners have been hardest hit by the measures, with many of them still relying on bank books rather than cards to withdraw money.

+ Books: the crinkle books are still a major hit (the tags kept her attention for a good 30 minutes in the car), but my favorite one to read so far is thisBooks: the crinkle books are still a major hit (the tags kept her attention for a good 30 minutes in the car), but my favorite one to read so far is thisbooks are still a major hit (the tags kept her attention for a good 30 minutes in the car), but my favorite one to read so far is this one.

Overall, I will admit that the film was pretty hit or miss with a lot of the humor and jokes for me, but none of that ruined the fact that it was still a fun, colorful, and even quite nostalgic time for a fan of the books such as myself.

The movie's tone is still way too brooding for something that has so much levity at its fingertips, but that brooding is what made Meyer's books such a hit.

It still is an absolute literal translation of the books to the big screen, but the stories weren't as hard - hitting and intense compared to the first movie.

In the book, Jack goes into the bathroom and haltingly stabs the boy to death: «I finally grab his hair and pull his head back with it and he's crying, still arching his back up, trying to twist free, bleeding all over the tub from shallow wounds, and Mary is screaming in the living room and I ram the knife deep into his throat, hacking it open, and his eyes go wide with realization and a huge geyser of hot blood hits me in the face.»

Video game movies are still looking for their first hit and a way to crack it like the comic book movies did it.

Robert Schwentke to Direct «Divergent» Sequel: Even though yet another young adult book - to - film adaptation just tanked, Summit Entertainment is still confident in «Divergent» because even though the film doesn't hit theaters until March 21, 2014, they've already got Akiva Goldsman working on the sequel script and now Robert Schwentke attached to direct it, too.

The Half - Blood Prince hits the right notes at the right times to make the music sound the way it should, and yet, while it is efficiently made and well worth recommending for Potter fans, there is still something hollow to the characters for those who've not read the books.

Back at the end of May, comic book writer Mark Millar revealed that he still held ambitions of bringing his proposed Hit Girl movie to the screen, and now Kick - Ass director Matthew Vaughn has confirmed that development is underway on a solo spinoff for the young assassin, which he hopes will then pave the way -LSB-...]

Back at the end of May, comic book writer Mark Millar revealed that he still held ambitions of bringing his proposed Hit Girl movie to the screen, and now Kick - Ass director Matthew Vaughn has confirmed that development is underway on a solo spinoff for the young assassin, which he hopes will then pave the way for Kick - Ass 3.

Even if an author's first book hits it big, they still put the time, effort, and investment into it.

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.

Writers in general hit deadlines, but there are always a few writers who think it is all right to miss a deadline by a year and still expect their book to be published.

It's no big surprise when mega-bestselling novelists get renewed book contracts... but it's still nice to know they're eager to keep publishing hits.

For now at least they've still got some new books hitting store shelves as distributors get caught up with their late 2012 releases.

A publisher friend of mine assures me that trad publishers still get greater visibility for their books in ebook stores (unless it hits the Amazon top 100) and you only have to look at what pops up when you go anywhere and you can see the truth in that.

Debra hit on my biggest reason for still preferring paperbacks... the ability to flip back to previous pages easily (without having to memorize the book to do it... because you have to memorize something for the Kindle to find it... oh wait... that's the Ctrl / F thing in Word, sorry).

Still, it was nice to see the Los Angeles Times run an article this morning recognizing crossover hits like The Hunger Games trilogy or Markus Zusak's The Book Thief.

Like say, if we were to rewind 20 years before self - publsihing really took off, walk into a bookshop and buy a book, published by a a mainstream outfit, we could still decide it didn't hit the spot, and was flawed in some way.

But throwing money at your book launch in hopes of hitting # 1 will probably be a mistake, because even if you hit it and can call yourself a # 1 bestselling author, you're technically still just paying for the privilege of publishing a book (AKA vanity publishing).

After another day I submitted the page to Bing again, but as of this post Bing is still not returning the book page as a hit, even if I specifically limit the search to the CreateSpace site.

If I don't rent a stall at the Frankfurt Book Fair, I'll still publish some books next year but I might not do everything necessary to make them smash hits.

If they write a hit, and sell 100,000 copies, they'd make 70 grand off the book and probably sell the screenplay rights, translation rights, and if books are still around, the print rights.

I know I've made sales there because one of my books hit three different Top 100 lists, but it still has no rank.

Except for print (which I've still got for my older books and will have for this June release), they're just not hitting the mark.

Much is «yes,» but still, many of the indies who hit success never really know why it happened — indeed, it seems a trick of the Amazon algorithms, not necessarily talent, that drives books to the top.

My understanding about the kindle pricing is that amazon actually takes a hit to mark certain kindle books (that are otherwise still in hardcover) down to 9.99 as marketing for the kindle.

Denial ran so high that when the self - pubbed book, Her Last Letter by Nancy C. Johnson hit The New York Times bestseller list, the good folks at the NYT were still saying that they'd never include one!

I also noticed that the word length for books in my genre was nowhere near what I had, but still it didn't hit me.

By bringing print runs down and securing sales before the book even hits the shelves, it very low - risk in what are still quite uncertain times.

Pre-Orders placed will still get their books early before the street date, but only a couple weeks earlier before it actually hits store shelves.

Her third book, BITTERBLUE, just came out after a three year wait between her last book, but she still hit the NYT list.

If you're writing fiction, I think you really should do both if you have ability because you're going to hit a different market with print than you would with your books, and print books still sell more than e-books.

sold 44,294 copies in its first month out, hit the Wall Street Journal Bestseller list, was No. 1 on Amazon for all non-fiction books for a few days and is still flirting with No. 1 in its various categories.

I still get hit by self - doubt: maybe the book just wasn't good enough, maybe it didn't deserve to get published at all, maybe I'm just indulging in delusions of adequacy.

Granted, these books are beastly in length (they're hitting between 150k - 160k words a piece), but three years is still a long span.

And, although they've certainly taken a hit, paper books are still very much alive and kicking.

this can save a lot of power compared to normal «low power» modes, and with the right hardware the main computer can shutdown between keystrokes (in a book reader, only waking up when you hit a button to turn a page), but this is still a continuous power draw, unlike the e-ink display the kindle has.