Sentences with phrase «thing about an author»

Another good thing about these authoring tools is that they will convert your content into SCORM, Tin Can and / or LETSI compliant formats.

Angry Games... this whole thing about an author signing away rights for life is pure bs.

I've been hearing a lot of good things about author Aliette de Bodard, and so I snapped up her Obsidian and Blood books from Angry Robot.

Steve Z said: «Angry Games... this whole thing about an author signing away rights for life is pure bs,» and «This is one of the most blogged falsehoods I see on indie sites.»

The great thing about an author blog is that you can be as creative as you want and not follow anybody's rules.

I bought this book awhile ago and after reading a few untoward things about the author dismissed it.

«The thing about author websites is pretty simple, in my mind.

We hear the good things about authors who self - publish that have gone on to sell thousands of books.

The interesting thing about authors who release these novella - length or alternate POV stories is the readers» reactions.

But here's the thing about your author name: if they don't know who you are, your name is meaningless.

When an author submits a book proposal to a publisher, that publisher will likely examine a variety of things about the author that do not have much to do with the author «s manuscript.

The best thing about author pages on goodreads is that you can gather statistics about your books, and you can interact with your audience.

I can't resist pointing out that they'd be just as sound without knowing the first thing about the author!

Not exact matches

Daniel Pink, author of «Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us,» has found that we're motivated by three things:

When I first got involved in the American Society of Journalists and Authors, I quickly learned a few things about freelance writers.

It's good to give employees these options because «one thing you don't want to do is require people to report only to their supervisors, because unfortunately that may be the person who they have a complaint about,» says Lisa Guerin, an attorney specializing in employment law and the author of The Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations: How to Handle Employee Complaints & Problems.

In this video, Greg Rollett invites Linda Zander, author of Super Sized Success, to open up about core drives, core values and finding that one thing that will fuel you through the good times and the hard times.

«When people are surprised on Twitter, they are going to tweet about it and that's how things can spread very quickly,» says O'Neil's boss, Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likable Local, and author of Likeable Business (McGraw - Hill, 2012).

The difficult choices at the poker table are akin to author Ben Horowitz's classic example of executive decision - making in «The Hard Thing About Hard Things.»

As he geared up to sing a song he had apparently authored («My Chinese Dream»)-- karaoke style — to a few dozen reporters in a conference at a hotel on Central Park South, one thing about this eccentric Chinese millionaire seemed clear — Chen Guangbiao isn't afraid of the limelight.

Steve Bass writes PC World's monthly «Hassle - Free PC» column and is the author of «PC Annoyances, 2nd Edition: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things About Your Personal Computer,» available from O'Reilly.

Richard Florida, the urban studies theorist and author of «The Rise of the Creative Class» recently cited three particular Boulder ingredients that could help explain its start - up density: «talented people and a high quality of life that keeps them around, technological expertise, and an open - mindedness about new ways of doing things, which often comes from a strong counterculture.»

«The thing that is the most noticeable about Stormy, especially on Twitter, is that the usual methods that the internet has of shaming and mocking have little to no effect on her,» Brian Watson, author of «Annals of Pornographie, How Porn Became Bad,» tells Ad Age.

Reading the account of how this professor expressed himself about the author's experience with the dying begs the question in my mind, - How many religious scholars and clergymen are as truly enlightened about life, death and the nature of things as they self - satisfyingly claim to be doctored in religion?

Another interesting thing to consider is, do you think the authors believed in the God they were writing about?

However, I was definitely confused and also uninformed about the implications or logical conclusions of Calvinism, such as the fact that if Calvinism is true, God is the author of sin, since He, according to Calvin, predetermined every single little thing that has ever happened in history, including the sins of every man, including Adam!

The thing that interests me about this article as that the author is expecting someone to fix the church for Millenials so they will return.

That's one of the things I was pointing out to someone who read a book on necromancy (long island medium) and was totally sold on everything the author wrote and was now at «peace» from reading about the endless cycles of death — i.e. soul coming back as such... dying then coming back again as another.

I worried about buying another book that aimed at reducing things to a simple minimum, but the associations of the author along with the price gave me reason to hope and means to see.

I think the author points out some interesting things that open - minded people might consider when they think about their own beliefs and why they should care about what other people do in their own homes.

All of these things were going to happen no matter what, but God took the blame for all of them by inspiring the biblical authors to write what they did about Him.

If understanding, the thought is that the bible authors were encouraged to write these things about God but that they're not true.

Great stuff Jeremy - your book «Skeleton Church» changed my perspective on a lot of things about the church - I am an aspiring author hoping to be published someday

As author Penny Lernoux has noted: «When the Alliance for Progress was finally buried at the end of the 1960s, about the only thing that the Latin American countries had to show for it was an enormous foreign debt: 19.3 billion dollars compared to 8.8 billion in 1961 when the program was launched» (Cry of the People [Doubleday], p. 211).

Maybe the Holy Spirit is at work around the world to bring multiple authors and pastors and theologians to similar ideas about similar things all at once, and so when I read something in someone else's book that sounds a lot like something I have written, but they don't give me credit, it is not that they «borrowed» from me, but because both of us were listening to what the Spirit has been whispering to minds all over the world.

The author is right about one thing that is required besides faith and that is humility.

Hey, This is the second ridiculous thing I've heard about this author, so I wanted to make something clear.

One other nice thing about being a published author, is that it proves that you are an expert in your field, which gets you invited to speak at conferences, which increases your visibility and platform in the fishing world, which then allows you to get more books published.

By the way, I'm the author of the book 300 Times 0 who studied for 16 years to be an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi so I would hope I know a thing or two about Judaism.

A comparatively small number of these units of narrative can properly be described as «tales» about things that Jesus did, in which our authors spread themselves in picturesque or dramatic detail.

Delivering the Sermon: Voice, Body, and Animation in Proclamation by Teresa L. Fry Brown (a couple others that I haven't read yet but have heard great things about from this author are: Can a Sistah Get a Little Help?

The author closes with a chapter stating that while he does not judge or condemn those who see things differently that he does, he hopes such people will not condemn him either, but will allow him (and others) to face the difficult questions about church that need to be asked.

One of my favorite authors, C. S. Lewis, says that the most important thing about Jesus is that He is God.

The author doesn't know the first thing about hermeneutics or exegesis, which is basically a fancy way of saying she doesn't know how to read and interpret things in context.

One of the things I found most fascinating about this book, is the connection it made with the author's blog.

I have no idea how the author of Fables feels about abortion, and that's a good thing.

And as I reflect on whether or not it's worth all of this work, I realize there are a few things about the writing life that they didn't tell me at the Young Author's Conference:

«The history of American evangelicalism is critical in understanding how many things Clinton stands for that contradict the deeply held values of politically engaged evangelicals since the 1960s,» said Kristin Du Mez, a historian at Calvin College and the author of a forthcoming book about Hillary Clinton's faith.

The author's understanding is no less a proposal (the creative aspect) about something than the interpreter's; but both, one no less than the other, also presume precisely to be proposals about some objective thing (the receptive aspect).

St. Augustine's enduring conception of the two cities here receives contemporary development and application as outstanding authors, most of whom are also First Things contributors, address economics, the academy, natural law, politics, and marriage: Robert Jenson on the Church's responsibility, Robert Louis Wilken on what Augustine really meant, Carl Braaten on natural law, George Weigel on not despairing about the ambiguity of politics, Robert Benne on Christian engagement in economic enterprise, and Gilbert Meilaender on the virtue of marriage.