Sentences with phrase «thing as vanity»

There is no such thing as vanity publishing anymore, just writing that is good and writing that is bad.

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There is no such thing as a «liberal» Christian, it does not exist, except in the vanity of their minds.

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preëminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.

When asked how this squared with the environmentalist message of the Vivienne Westwood label, he suggested that people should only buy the things they really want, waiting a day between the initial impulse and the actual purchase (This made sense as it isn't vanity per se that is the root of fashion's environmental problem, but overconsumption.)

It came with a package that included lots of little things, such as vanity lights for the sun visor mirrors and cloth trim for the third - row seat.

B.J. Novak is most often recognized for his role as Ryan, the Dundler Mifflin temp, but his first collection, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories, is anything but a vanity project.

Thank you for the info Vinny, now I think I see, You'd like a blog about marketing from lil» ol' me, Promote only when you are in a happy mood, And never promote your books by being far too rude, Try to make your posts interesting, clever and funny, And try not to part with a large amount of money, Now I feel there is one thing I should stress, Never go and give your cash to a vanity press, Blog, tweet and update your Facebook status as often as you can, Make contact with other authors and befriend your only fan, Be courteous, considerate and always be kind, And you will slowly find, You'll get people interested and make them all see, Especially when you give your book away for free, Sit back, relax and be rather nice, And always think about the price, People will not part with their cash unless the price is low, Particularly for an author they do not even know, Always remember to write purely for fun, Never think that your profit will be a huge great sum, And pray for exposure to the lord above, Because self - publishing is a labour of love,

[Sidebar: Assisted self - publishing / vanity publishing is ** not ** the same thing as self - publishing.

The truth is there are a whole lot of things to be afraid of out there in the publishing world: bad contracts, fee - charging agents, vanity publishers that masquerade as publishers — but this isn't one of them.

I suspect the «professional» you saw was someone from a vanity press trying to scam you as I know from having had a relative scammed that the movie deal thing is something they say to everyone.

Zoe, the thing with vanity and subsidy publishers is that the services they offer are very over-priced, and beyond the convenience of having it all in one place, offers no real advantage over doing it yourself as a self - publisher.

There is no such thing as «vanity publishing.»

What I've seen with indie - published e-books is that they've taken the place of traditional «vanity» publishers, and as with the typical output of vanity publishers they're filled with typos, grammatical errors, logical inconsistencies, and other things that would have been caught by the editorial chain at a traditional publisher.

However, the two raised some interesting points in the interview about how they have taken that format and adapted it to today's market with things like low order requirements (as little as fifty, compared to hundreds of copies through older vanity presses), the ability to return unsold titles for a refund, and more.

One of the things that distinguishes a «real» publisher from a vanity press or author mill (like PublishAmerica) is that the author must register his or her own copyright, as opposed to the publisher handling this.

As to the Publishizer thing, sounds like a «vanity press agent».

One of the things that bothers me most about vanity publishing of any stripe — from the old - fashioned vanities that shipped you boxes of books to molder away in your basement, to the print on demand self - publishing services that are trying to re-brand themselves as «indie» publishers or «assisted publishing», to the sleazy deceptive pay - to - play companies that pass themselves off as «real» publishers — is that they take advantage of authors twice: first by taking their money, second by brainwashing them into believing all the deceptive hype.

Many of the things you listed as signs of a vanity publisher are aspects of publishing in general, not specific to vanity.

What you're saying is the same as the kind of thing vanity publishers say.

But the term used for such a publisher is a «vanity press» in the same way there is such a thing as an independent publisher that might be very much dependent on grant money from the government.

Addressing inanities, profanities and vanities in the contemporary world of art, the first section is an «open letter to the art world»; the second a meditation on the art fair phenomenon; the third is about «naming things in the face of no names»; the final section addresses what the artist regards as «a paucity of poetics.

The flooring is the same as what's throughout my house and the toilet is new so the only thing that needs to be replaced is the vanity, mirror and lighting.

Must tell you hubby has not had the time to put my new vanity mirror up as yet the way things look «not holding my breath».

Oh gosh, it took a really, really, really long time to get this vanity area whipped back into shape... SO many tedious things to do...... but looking back at all of these pictures it does my heart proud that we did such a bang - up job for my Mom as she totally deserves it!

And it can also double as a vanity or console table if I ever move things around.