Sentences with phrase «stories of authors»

As with most small businesses, it may take authors who self - publish years to grow their business to the point of making a living, but I am hearing many more stories of authors finding this sort of sustainable income than I ever heard from mid-list authors in traditional publishing.

They like the stories of the authors they like, regardless of whether they try other authors or not; they will wait for new books in those series from authors they like and sometimes for those books at prices that work for their budget.

You've probably heard stories of authors whose books took them years to write.

Sadly, there are many stories of authors who have mistakenly sold all of their book's rights for a few bucks and that's just wrong.

In this campaign, there are stories of authors who have promoted organ donation and saved countless lives, helped raise awareness of domestic sex slavery, even helped changed laws.

I must say I hear a lot more stories of authors who were scammed by paying for bogus «systems» «programs» guaranteed to get you tons of reviews or high rankings.

I've heard stories of authors who have gotten sucked into self publishing contracts which robbed them of their copyrights and / or their ability to publish their work elsewhere.

Not only that, there are countless horror stories of authors being ripped off by vanity self publishing companies that cost the earth and deliver a poor quality book product that doesn't sell.

In the days of traditional printing we've heard many stories of authors struggling to get their works published and others getting their works rejected.

Of course, we've all heard of success stories of authors whose first books have burst onto the publishing landscape, seemingly «overnight.»

You often hear of the success stories of authors switching from a major publisher to self - publishing, but there are more failures than successes.

Simply put, our story lives through the stories of our authors.

Yes, I've heard so many stories of authors thinking the way to success is a huge, buzzed - about debut, and something about that idea always felt «off» to me.

Everyone in the scientific community knows stories of authors who shouldn't have been, and non-authors who should have been, Sabeti says.

The last point that emerges from the White Rose leaflets and the story of their authors is that these were Germans who loved their fatherland.

This is story of an author lisa lee.

Rebel in the Rye, which tells the story of author J.D. Salinger, falls into the pernicious trap that ensnares many a bio-pic: trying to present too broad a chronology in too limited a time.

In that pursuit, drawing from various short stories of the author of The Man In The High Castle and whose work Blade Runner is based on, the Bryan Cranston, Ronald D. Moore and Isa Dick Hackett EP'd series with individual writers and directors for each stand - alone episode rolls around the notion of what it is to be a human being amidst pervasive digital technology and what is real.

We've heard countless horror stories of an author self - pubbing with the advice of a «professional» and ending their journey as a writer in heartbreak with an abysmal product and even worse sales.

This unique memoir tells the 1970s coming - of - age story of author Josh Wilker, «played out» through his baseball card collection.

From Dyslexic to Published Author: The Inspiring Story of author Cynthia Ward.

However, what I did not expect was the story of the author and her journey from writer to acclaimed and beloved author.

Jami mentions the sad story of author Merritt Tierce that's been circulating in booky circles lately.

It's the incredible story of the author learning to train a goshawk — a highly fickle and fierce bird, trained to hunt — in the months after her father's passing.

In the Classroom: Family Pictures / Cuadros de familia is the story of author and illustrator Carmen Lomas Garza's girlhood in Kingsville, Texas: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, picking cactus, and confiding to her sister her dreams of becoming an artist.

The Healing Of My Wounded Inner Child by Jan Frazier - This is the true story of the author's tumultuous childhood.

This one was well done, I enjoyed the narrator and I enjoyed the story of the author walking through the five - day process.

Years ago, when Neal Pollack released his first book, «The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature,» he did a reading in the bathroom of a train station; 15 people showed up to the reading, but the story of an author doing a reading in a bathroom went viral and helped sell more books.

Kakukaku Shikajika by Akiko Higashimura — This uniquely stylized autobiography tells the story of the author's time spent in an art class with an eccentric teacher.

In the New York Times this past Sunday, David Segal related the story of an author whose work was pirated and distributed under another individual's name.

Yes, rather than the typical story of an author — even a well - known and highly respected bestselling author like Grunberg — going digital with the publication process, Grunberg is part of an experiment he helped establish to monitor his brain activity while he writes his most recent novella.

A spare yet powerful novel based on the stories of the author's mother, who escaped to the U.S. from Nazi Germany at age 12.

Neither the comforts of Booksellers Week nor the endlessly traveled story of the author - who - started - a-bookstore-in-Nashville-so-there seem to have afforded Smith any particular cover in chasing authors around the Internet.

In this episode, Shawn expanded on the awesome goal - setting episode from last week, and shared the story of The Author Hangout podcast and how that directly relates to you as an author in growing your own traffic, subscribers, and sales for your books.

For your virtual book tour, you can share tips from your book, record a mini book reading, discuss aspects of your topic, share details about your character development, tell the story of your author journey, and much more.

-- Booklist «Readers will relish the countless stories of the author's misadventures, but Kohnstamm brings more than just anecdotes: He offers a solid understanding of the mechanics of the travel - writing industry and a unique ability to illuminate that world to readers.

About Blog Story of the author who was diagnosed with Cushing's disease caused by a pituitary adenoma.

About Blog Story of the author who was diagnosed with Cushing's disease caused by a pituitary adenoma.

Not exact matches

The author admitted to fans of the story — both in written and televised form — that there may be some aspects of the novels that are spoiled by seeing the acted adaptation first, but also acknowledged how the story differs between the two mediums.

The authors tell the story of a cluster of tiny fabricators in China's Chongqing province that, without centralized coordination, managed to produce cheap, quality motorcycles that have decimated Honda's global market share.

Lane Shefter Bishop, author of Sell Your Story in a Single Sentence, is a multi-award winning producer and director whose many accolades include an EMMY.

Gary is the author of Playing With The Enemy, the story of his father's remarkable odyssey through World War II and the hardships of his off and on minor league baseball career with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

For a decade author JT LeRoy captivated the literary world with his sordid stories of his childhood.

Nick Morgan, author of How to Tell Great Business Stories, said «in a world where people have a lot of choices, the story may be the deciding factor.»

Yet to my withered hippocampus, a story I wrote two years earlier often seems the work of some other person; the knowledge I gathered in authoring it has ebbed away.

Well, it is largely determined by the author's ability to keep the «flow» of the story going and to deliver during pivotal moments, the same way a good prosecutor may begin to bare down on a witness that starts to show signs of «cracking».

That's the lesson from Stacey Tisdale, CEO of financial media firm Mind Money Media and author of «The True Cost of Happiness: The Real Story Behind Managing Your Money.»

The debut from author Santi Balmes and illustrator Lyona tells the stories of two little girls — a human named Martina and a monster named Anitram (get it?!)

An enduring masterpiece of investigative journalism by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, it includes a new afterword by the authors that brings this remarkable story of greed and double - dealings up to date twenty years after the famed deal.

Some of the authors mentioned in the New York Times story worried that they'd sell fewer books if the company put higher price tags on them.