Sentences with phrase «thing the author actually»

Good thing the author actually points out stylish action games not needing to follow with this new GoW.

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It well could be that the authors thought they were passing along the word of God but I don't think they actually were passing any such thing.

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

Knowing things like the parallelism of Hebrew poetry, the ancient letter form, and the characteristics of apocalyptic literature would help us receive the books that biblical authors actually wrote.

So how can God inspire biblical authors to write that He commanded Israel to do things that He did not actually command them to do?

It was really just a way to have really prominent speakers — last year we had Ina May Gaskin and this year we're excited to have Dr. Sears, the author of The Vaccine Book, and many others actually coming to speak and... just many, many speakers all day long, demonstrations on things like baby wearing and baby sign language and cloth diapering, tummy time.

If you actually look at the author's arguments, most of the examples are things that the average American never does in their entire life, let alone on a daily basis!

Despite the suggestion that Samantha Cameron was the author of the quote, «There is such a thing as society, it's just not the state», it was actually Oliver Letwin who first delivered the remark that encapsulates Cameronism.

«When we anticipate that something is going to happen, and then it actually happens, we immediately start to find ways of twisting our perceptions to make ourselves feel better about it, more so than we were doing when we merely anticipated this new thing,» says study author Kristin Laurin of The University of British Columbia.

This article is actually called the «Evolution of Minerals» and one of the things, as your rightly point out, that the article does is the author Robert Hazen suggests that, you know, we had thought of minerals for their timeless quality but actually they've been quite varied and diversified over time, just as life itself has, and that life has been the actor in this.

But for many of us, a little too much of this good thing is actually causing a neurological phenomenon that psychiatrist Edward Hallowell, MD, author of Driven to Distraction, has called «attention deficit trait,» marked by distractibility and impatience.

Bucky would harbor some serious guilt over the things he's done to Steve, but that's actually something I'm pretty sure fanfic authors everywhere have already considered.

Based on a poem by US author Ron Koertge, the film is dryly funny, as it explores the little and special moments of communication between a father and child and shows how seemingly insignificant things can actually carry great importance.

So, they're actually authoring media, which is a very positive thing.

And though they are technically the same thing, one group of self - published authors actually * cares * about craft, and isn't publishing the rough draft of the first novel they attempted to write.

Recently I posted an article / video called «The # 1 Thing Indie Authors are Doing Wrong» — I didn't expect much traffic but actually people have been sharing it quite a lot.

For example, one of the things they don't tell you is that it actually doesn't take a hell of a lot to be able to use the title «Amazon Bestselling Author.»

After all, that's the only thing any talented author needs — the right person at a literary agency and publishing house to actually read their work.

Third, you have to have a blurb ready when you send the book to an agent — and your elevator pitch, etc. — and some publishers actually want an author's input on such things.

The other thing is that the publishers actually look to you, the author, to see if you have the skills to market your own book, because the days of setting up book tours have almost disappeared!

The other thing is that the publishers actually look to you, the author, to see if you have the skills to market your own book, because the days of setting... [Read more...]

In comparison, when another author with a paid subscription requested the same thing of mailchimp, their response (and I'm paraphrasing here because I did not actually see the response) was that they would look into it.

One of the things that seems to be rising to the top in these discussions, regardless of any status change, is evaluating the focus of current programming and how much it offers established, published authors versus aspiring authors — which is actually in - tune with the mission * as stated * «The mission of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers is: a non-profit, volunteer - run organization dedicated to supporting, encouraging, and educating writers seeking publication in fiction.»

I once listened to a pitch during which the author never actually told me a single thing about her plot.

Actually, these two things (mobile technology and digital format books) are very, very much related, and if we authors do not have a clue about them, and how they work together, we are quite likely to miss out on half (if not more) of our potential book sales.

One of my other author friends who actually has a handle on this romance thing suggested an anthology and as luck would have it I had a nub of a story that seemed to fit the bill!

Will they then become a victim of these Warning messages when nobody but the publisher / editor / proof reader or author themselves has actually read the damned thing?

I may actually change the «free book» tweet to something more exciting, like «Help an indie author give away 100,000 FREE books,» though that may sound too desperate: the important thing will be communicating quality, so I hope the graphic elements with the cover will get sent out with the message.

I don't actually use this method, but I'm happy to have built a large and active Facebook group for authors in my genre, and we organize joint promotions and things.

Here's the thing, a lot of authors don't actually know what goes into packaging and what it all means.

Well, actually one thing Authors who write in the erotica or erotic romance market always seem to have a harder time getting reviews because it's such a discreet genre... especially gay erotica.

As a relatively unknown author, the worst thing that can come from someone sharing your book illegally is that you might reach a few more potential readers, some of whom might actually pay you for a book someday.

A couple of things are very clear from the article — not that the author of the piece actually makes the connection — best sellers aren't the books that are the most well - written.

That can make things a little tougher for tracking and even promoting your book with the various vendors, but it actually has no impact on something else a lot of authors covet: The bestseller lists.

If the book is NOT chosen for publication, a couple of things happen that I thought were actually pretty neat and author - friendly.

This is normal and actually a good thing because for the most part, it is just an indication of better things for your readers and you, as the author.

It will put the book in the Ingram catalogue, which is a good thing, but it actually puts the book in the catalogue at a disadvantage to the author.

I mean, companies like Smashwords actually actively discourage authors from creating proper eBook files by not allowing them to upload individual files and instead forcing their Meatgrinder upon everyone, a technology that — in its current state — does nothing to improve eBook quality and typically makes things incomprehensibly worse.

Actually, publicity is all those things but you, the author, don't need them all.

I really wanted to grow my platform and I knew Jim from Author Marketing Club and I saw the things he was doing and I actually rejected him for one of my multi-author Facebook events because I didn't have room left.

One other friend of mine left he was in the real estate space wrote a book with with a major publishing house and then a few years later stopped he left real estate and went into a really strong personal development business and the publisher went up well you're not promoting this book anymore and they took his book word - for - word and put somebody else's name on the cover of it and just put a new introduction on it no credit to anybody he had worked because he had two co-authors help him with it because he's dyslexic so they essentially were the ones that wrote it and he provided a lot of the content and the publisher gave those other authors no credit took his name off and put somebody else's name on the front and then the publisher was 100 % within their rights to do it so you know there's a lot of things that I challenge people to kind of think about what's important and if you're putting all your expertise into this book you want to make sure that somebody's negotiated a heck out of it giving you a contract that actually makes sense for you and your business.

Actually, specifically for Kindle authors or self - published authors, the one thing... and I do it like everyone else, you check your stats, you check your reviews, check, check, check, check, check, check.

But really, the best thing I can do is make the book more visible in search results, because even though there are lots of boxsets and anthologies out there, there aren't many authors who know how to make a book as visible as I do (which means, there isn't actually that much competition for keywords).

If (as in this case) the reporter does not ask the author about how they actually did it, I ask the author myself, and if they don't answer, I attempt to reverse - engineer their network so I can tell you what I think they are doing right, and how you can do these things yourself (hopefully with the same results).

Very few authors are actually doing these things, which makes it really easy for me to get tons of free traffic and visibility, and keep my books ranking well, without ever telling anybody to buy my book.

Are there things that authors think they need to do that don't actually help sell books; and are there things they don't know about that really do help?

It turns out that the main thing that the media have been forgetting to say is that Amazon's change is actually prompted by authors requesting it.

One of the most disappointing things in the review scandal last fall was discovering that some authors were actually writing fake 1 - star reviews for other authors in their genre, in some misguided hope they'd push their «rivals» off the bestseller lists.

So by «wrong» I mean, «inefficient» — as in, these are things indie authors do, but that they should stop doing because they don't produce positive results (and can actually do more harm than good).

1 - people will read less, yes, but not much less, for a limited time 2 - indies, and small publishers will sell more 3 - Big 6 publishers will get hurt 4 - Big 6 published authors will get hurt 5 - Big 6 published authors will start an uprising (that could actually happen sooner...) 6 - Things will change, and we'll get to the «fair deals», «fair pricing», etc. that we all want and that you are petitioning for