Sentences with phrase «subsequent books better»

But, more than that, they taught me about writing; finding problems that made subsequent books better in the first place.

Not exact matches

MarketCap / GVA is better correlated with actual subsequent S&P 500 total returns than price / forward earnings, the Fed Model, the Shiller P / E, price / book, price / dividend, Tobin's Q, market capitalization to GDP, price / revenue and every other valuation ratio we've developed or examined in market cycles across history.

We've consistently predicted the good deflation of excess supply, but in our two Deflation books and subsequent reports, we said clearly that the bad deflation of deficient demand could occur — due to severe and widespread financial crises or due to global protectionism.

Perhaps the best summary of that dialogue was the conference and subsequent book, edited and introduced by Sheila Greeve...

These essays are written by well - known missiologists within each of these disciplines, and serve as the springboard for subsequent responses by other missiologists and theologians comprising the remainder of the book.

Lammy is perhaps best known for his response to the London riots and his subsequent widely - praised book on the subject.

Daniel Goleman, author of the best - selling book Emotional Intelligence, describes chronic stress and the subsequent feelings of loss of control as a «neural hijacking» in which the emotional brain takes over.

Subsequent career: Well, aside from the Laura Dern - starring «Enlightened,» and leaving the perenially empty director's chair on «Pride and Prejudice and Zombies» White has recently signed on to adapt «The Good Luck of Right Now» the forthcoming book from «Silver Linings Playbook» novelist Matthew Quick.

It's best seen outside of all the hype (and the subsequent anticipation for later books, which from that buzz, feels like it might lean more towards «Twilight» than «Harry Potter»).

The plot of the book, of course, has little to do with the subsequent tale (Tolkien made cosmetic changes to the novel to align it better with the sequel — nothing too drastic), but The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug goes out of its way to connect these long - winded cinematic adaptations to the ones that preceded it.

In urban schools learning is offered in disconnected jolts.The work of the day is unconnected with the work of preceding days or subsequent ones.Life in urban schools is comprised of specific periods and discrete days each of which is forced to stand entirely on its own.If homework is not done, or books not taken home (behaviors which are universal for males and almost so for females by the completion of the upper elementary grades), everything students are taught must be compressed into isolated periods of «stand alone» days.Teachers and principals, as well as students, survive one day at a time.

Jane Friedman, too (http://janefriedman.com/) has also suggested that in much genre fiction (Romance in particular), authors spend their energy being prolific — they assume that each subsequent book will be better than the last, because we improve with practice.

It also help sets the stage better, in my opinion, for the subsequent books in the series.

Working with a book publicist prior to the launch of your first book is a smart move, because if you know how to hire a publicist, and then learn from her on your debut release, you'll be well positioned to self - market your subsequent releases.

This is very important: You can use that list to announce and promote your subsequent books to them, and that will give your next title a good crack at the bestseller lists on its publication date.

Kingdom of Shadows was the first of these books to appear on the New York Times bestseller list; the subsequent books appeared there as well.

Content concerns, for which I dearly wish there was a rating system, or something, as well as with indie books, I am tired of the subsequent books in the series being half or less the length of the first.

Maximizing your book discovery and subsequent sales relies on a few best practices.

With the release of each of her subsequent, well - received books — Man of My Dreams, American Wife and, now, Sisterland — she has stumped those wanting to relegate her to any one category of writers.

Over time, the numbers tell you how many people go on to buy subsequent books after trying the first, so you've got a good idea how many buyers you're going to have each month if you can get X number of new people to pick up the first book.

If your first (and second, third, etc.) book does not sell well, the chances of you getting subsequent deals decrease exponentially.

She would never read the subsequent books I wrote during this time, and eventually, I got fed up mentioning perhaps it was one of those that might be better to pitch.

Although the results of my first ad were impressive, subsequent ad results haven't been quite as earth - shattering, partly because as a group, my series of books is doing better.

He also helped me with a suggestion for my first books synopsis, achieving a far better result than I, which I subsequently used, the basis of which has helped me with other synopsis written for subsequent books.

I love to research controversial topics and dig down to their roots, but the list I develop for one book might not work for some of my subsequent works, except perhaps for those who merely love the writing as well as the topic.

That book, and the two subsequent books under that pen name have sold very well.

More common than not is what's known as the «death spiral,» where subsequent books do less well, so bookstores order fewer copies of the following book.

Besides, a paid review can help an author sell ONE book but it won't sell subsequent books if the first one wasn't truly good.

It will be a lot of effort for the first book, but many will volunteer to review subsequent books as well if you ask.

His subsequent book, The Intelligent Investor, which Warren Buffet celebrates as «the greatest book on investing ever written», introduced the world to Mr. Market — the best investment analogy in history.

A Maximum of 3 bookings per person is enforced - all subsequent bookings will be converted into normal Best Available Rate bookings (and will apply the corresponding Terms and Conditions) and the guest will not receive an AMEX Prepaid Gift Card

This richly illustrated book of the inaugural exhibition of the newly renovated Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art offers a comprehensive study of James» life and work, highlighting his inventiveness as well as his influence on subsequent fashion designers.

His subsequent books on Paul Nash (2013) and Stanley Spencer (2014), the latter completed during Andrew's recent illness, were equally rigorous, each book taking an original slant on the paintings of a well - known artist.

His subsequent book The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate — it covers some of the same ground as The Global Carbon Cycle — was written with the general reader in mind and is probably the best book of the three to start with for those new to the subject.

Svensmark's overstatements (and associated book sales) regarding GCR theory do not look like suppressed breakthroughs in retrospect, given subsequent evaluation of the claims did not go well.

When news of the fraud came to light, Berkley Books announced that it would cancel the book's Feb. 3 release, a move which has sent those involved in the book deal as well as a subsequent sale of movie right scurrying to their lawyers to «protect their interests.»

But I will for sure be sharing many tips for how I balance my life in this first book as well as even more in subsequent ones.