Sentences with phrase «thing an author wants»

The last thing an author wants to do is put off a potential reader because of an unattractive cover.

Not exact matches

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.

Most authors he's spoken to generally want three things: to do a good job telling their story, to get to the widest audience possible and to earn a living doing so.

And if you want to take things a step further you can add a related idea from author Laura Vanderkam that works for similar reasons — stop saying you don't have time for things.

The author (s) of this story lacked perspective on their calendar, or maybe they wanted to debunk astronomical principles of order in favor of making the statement that God made all that is in the universe in one «work» week a nice juxtaposition between divine and human potential to get things done.

I think all the author was saying was that it isn't «the great apostasy» or even mere self - indulgence (we want an in - church barista type thing) that is turning some people of faith — both young and old — away from corporate «traditional» gathering.

The author explained that he wanted to pick the most horrific thing he could think of, the killing of an innocent, so that we would understand what a huge thing God forgave and what God was enabling Mack to deal with and forgive.

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

In America many Christians who insist on a literal interpretation of anything in the Bible are often ready to say «but, in this case, Jesus didn't really mean...» when both Jesus and the author of this Gospel labor to convey «You aren't supposed to try to take the live of other things on Earth... that's the whole point, I want you to take on life that only I can offer!»

The author also states «Yet the spiritual - but - not - religious outlook sees the human as one that simply wants to experience «nice things» and «feel better.»».

In the context we see that they had been taught the foundational doctrines — six things back in Hebrews 6:1 - 2 — but had rejected them, and the author wants them to go back and learn them again.

These are the things that the author of Hebrews wants his readers to move on from.

They are knowingly attempting to inject their religious world view on everyone and anyone because they believe they know how best to live and don't give a rat's ass about anyone elses freedoms or rights, but if you want to call that «doing their best» then you can take your message back to it's authors, the vile disgusting things, the wh.o.re of Babylon, the putrid decaying evil of Joseph Smith and shove it down his dead and crumbling corpse.

The article, in which the author tries Gwyneth's elimination diet and ends up with a rash on her face, is one of the funnier things I have ever read, and therefore, I wanted to share it with my mom when I met her for dinner one night last May.

10 Things Every Birthmother Wants Adoptive Parents To Know — what a birthmother thinks about, wishes for, and hopes for when placing their child for adoption by author and birth mom, Patricia Dischler.

«The last thing you want is for another 10 years to go by and to realize you have nothing left in common,» says Heidi Poelman, author of The Two - Minute Marriage Project.

«People always have things in mind but want to know the alternatives,» says June Rifkin, author of «The Everything Baby Names Book.»

The Yahoo! Labs scientist and author explains why the «law of the few» is bunk, why history is full of failed hedgehogs, and why we can't make good predictions about just those things we most want to predict

«For years we've been scouring the literature,» said lead author Steven Alvarado, assistant professor of sociology, «and we haven't found anything about how or if MESA is effective on the things it wants to be effective for: increasing the STEM engagement outcomes of minority and other underrepresented students.»

«Rewards help you remember things, because you want future rewards,» said Professor Charan Ranganath, a UC Davis neuroscientist and senior author on the paper.

«We want to see lymph node metastasis become a thing of the past,» said Michael R. King, the Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor of Biomedical Engineering and senior author of the paper, «Super Natural Killer Cells That Target Metastases in the Tumor Draining Lymph Nodes».

«Look where you want to go, not where you don't — your body will follow your eyes,» says Lisa Jhung, author of Trailhead: The Dirt on All Things Train Running.

«Again, the last thing you want to do is ask your muscles to work at their highest levels and to have your technique fail because you're already partially exhausted from your cardio,» says exercise psychologist, clinical personal trainer and author Jodie Hopkins.

one thing the author might want to add is this: To gain muscle, make sure you're in a calorie surplus.

Don't Quit (Author unknown) When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.

According to the author, POF wants to keep things simple when it comes to the profile and searching.

5 Reasons Not to Read Online Dating Advice What a strange title for an article, I write online dating advice so why would I encourage people not to read it?Clearly I believe there is some good dating advice on the internet or I wouldn't waste my time writing dating advice and tips but I want people to think about what they are reading and who the author is before they take anything they read as gospel.Here are 5 things to carefully consider before you take the advice of dating «experts».1.

If a student wanted a visit with an author, they only had to do one thing — read one of the author's books.

I think that all authors have to look at what their goals are, what their assets are — we have a lot of books, so we have a lot of flexibility in the different things that we want to try.

They get a little bit of traffic because so many people are looking for book marketing, and then they make money by offering the thing that authors need and desperately want.

As an author you'll want main pages to include things like your author bio, your books, ways the media can contact you, etc..

However, the basic reason is that authors get bored easily and want to try new things, new genres, new plots.

A good cinematic book trailer is the type of thing that potential readers will want to share with their friends, literary websites will want to write articles on, and brands the author as a professional with a multimedia digital marketing campaign, a force to be reckoned with.

Among other things, she said she wanted the kind of fame only top - tier authors get:

When you try to land reviews for your new book, the last thing you want is to be just another random new author reviewers have never heard of.

I decided I had nothing to lose by self - publishing, (and being in my fifties, I didn't want to wait years to begin my author career), so I published it on Amazon in 2013, and it was the best thing I ever did.

I know a lot of self - published authors want to make the claim that these things are irrelevant.

* * * Get Better Terms: There's usually at least one thing that an author wants to change about their author / agent contract.

> Map out your writing empire, including all the things you love to do > Start setting up and implementing the systems and structures you need to support your empire (including an author website, if you don't already have one) > Overhaul your writing life so you're aligned with and set up for the success you want to create > Get your nonfiction eBook written and published (at least one, but possibly more than one, if you're up for it) > Grow your following > Sell more books

You may use all or none of the above, but the important thing to keep in mind about building and growing an author platform is the end goal: You want to create a network that helps readers discover your books.

Since you want to get picky about it, Two things I noticed right away, you are not AN writer, you are A writer and AN author.

I think you have no business saying things like that about self published authors they are indeed authors and you have no right putting them down at all you just want to be noticed online for who knows what reasons maybe for being stupid if you ask me

I agree with the idea that free and 99cent books can cause «kindle book overload fatigue» — that's the last thing an author would want!

Some authors would want to purchase those services, and that's great, but I wanted to show them how they could do a lot of these things by themselves and produce a professional product that would stand spine to virtual spine with any traditionally published book.

However, as publishers make a grab for perpetual e-rights, etc., and as they screw up publishing of ebooks, I then wonder if I want to hold off on traditional publishing until I see how things settle out in terms of authors keeping or getting back rights.

When this independent introvertedness is part of your very being, you may want to convince yourself that you can do this whole author thing without getting anyone else involved.

Typically, a platform that sells books will want to know ISBN of each format, title, subtitle, author, illustrator, narrator, description, category, keywords, BISAC categories, language, publication date, release date, age range, and maybe other things unique to the platform.

And should writers want to read one of their own doing a point - by - point refutation of the horrors, our dependable colleague and author David Gaughran's Why Amazon's Purchase of Goodreads Is A Good Thing offers a lot of sensible solace, ticking off the points, as I've done, that are being flatly refuted — fully on the record, remember — by the players involved.

The LAST thing they want is for their authors (especially the lowly mid-listers, whom they despise) to have any taste of success.

Stores want a «sure thing» around major holidays so getting a «yes», as a new author, may be difficult.