Sentences with phrase «time an author puts»

None of these costs have taken into account the enormous amount of time an author puts into writing a book.

And the sad truth is that unless a book earns out its advance, any marketing time an author puts in will enrich the publisher, but it won't earn the author a dime.

Not exact matches

And the amount of muscle you have to put into a book is the biggest surprise for most first - time authors.

As author Marshall Goldsmith puts it, we all want time to travel and relax, but is that really the key to fulfillment?

Some of the authors mentioned in the New York Times story worried that they'd sell fewer books if the company put higher price tags on them.

I read a quote by Jim Rohn (American author, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker) that really put this into perspective: «You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.»

«If you take time to recharge and pay attention to fitness and your diet, for example, after work or on weekends, you'll set the stage for great life habits that put you at the top of your game at the office,» says Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert and author of «Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant: How to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job.»

The most interesting chapters of The Two - Second Advantage deal with attempts to take that human predictive ability and to blend it with real - time computing — as the authors have it, to design and build predictive systems that put «Gretzky's brain in a box.»

One of my favorite writers and New York Times bestselling author Michael Hyatt puts an equal focus on napping for many years and posted his insights in this great post about napping.

mark... the bible was put together by many authors over a long period of time... so... uh... it also got retranslated and stuff... but I'm sure you know that already.

These authors understood, as John Bunyan put it in «Saved By Grace,» that «sick - bed temptations are oft - times the most violent, because then the devil plays his last game with us.»

The human capacity to author life and skip all over the genetic alphabet raises theological questions, just as does the human capacity to destroy life on a grand scale and actually put ourselves, for the first time, in a position to be uncreators.

Borg is the author of nineteen books, including the bestselling «The Heart of Christianity», «Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time», «Reading the Bible Again for the First Time», and the novel «Putting Away Childish Things.»

Interestingly, the latter field of controversy was addressed specifically in a Time magazine interview with Dennis Sewell, author of The Political Gene: How Darwin's Ideas Changed Politics, which apparently deals with how Darwinism has been put to «sinister» political (ab) uses.

After meeting with Muslim scholars the author has a better understanding that in times of uncertainty it may be easier for people to trust a learned religious leader than a democratically elected elite put in place by dubiously motivated political constituencies.

Whether it was deliberate or unintentional, I would hope in the future the author of this article would use better judgment or take more time to research the Catholic teaching on the Eucharist (to at least put Sebastian's statement in context) before quoting a statement that is clearly an error to any Catholic that has a sense of reverence («frozen holy wine transformed into the blood of Christ» on popsicle sticks) but could mislead those with simple faith or those who are unfamiliar to the true Catholic teaching.

At the same time, it is to be borne in mind that «[since] everything asserted by the inspired authors or sacred writers must be held to be asserted by the Holy Spirit, it follows that the books of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching solidly, faithfully and without error that truth which God wanted put into sacred writings for the sake of salvation» (DV, 11).

Katheryn Kvols, author of Redirecting Children's Behavior, put it in a way that made sense to me: When a child is put into a time out, she really hears «I'm sick of you — go away.»

Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton, author of the Touchpoints child development books, says two naps are no longer predictable at this age, although he recommends putting your child down for a short time in the morning and again in the afternoon.

Put them in time out, about one minute per year of your child's age, explains Dr. Tom Phelan, a registered clinical psychologist and author of «1 -2-3 Magic.»

But, as J.D. Vance, author of the recently published New York Times bestseller Hillbilly Elegy, put it: «He seems to love to annoy the elites, which is something a lot of people wish they could do but can't.»

Sadly, some people can't seem to put partisan instincts to one side — as this report commissioned by the Yes campaign just before Christmas showed - you may also like to read this blog from the very same author who, a year ago, wisely said: «At a time of economic crisis, when people are calling for clear leadership and direction, it would be foolish to abolish a [voting] system that carries out these functions.»

As the EPR authors put it, «since at the time of measurement the two systems [particles A and B] no longer interact, no real change can take place in the second system in consequence of anything that may be done to the first system.»

«The loss of these marks puts the cell in tremendous danger, especially at critical times like reproduction,» says CSHL postdoctoral fellow Kate Creasey, Ph.D., lead author on the paper appearing in Nature.

«For a long time, neuroscience researchers had to record activity at one point in the brain at a time and put many data points together without seeing the whole picture simultaneously,» says Lyle Muller, a Salk research associate and first author of the new work.

As well as the core tasks of overseeing copyediting, proofreading, and putting issues together, a great deal of my time is spent communicating with authors, freelancers, typesetters, printers, academic editors, and internal colleagues: answering their queries, dealing with any problems that arise, supplying feedback, reporting on progress.

Speaking about the findings, Karestan Koenen, PhD, the report's senior author and associate professor of Epidemiology, said: «This new research shows for the first time that having behavioral problems in childhood can put children on the path to ill health much earlier than we previously realized.

The paper's lead author, Malcolm North, a research scientist with the U.S. Forest Service, said every time a fire is put out, fire danger increases.

«It's as if, every time you want a spoonful of cereal, you open the fridge, open the milk carton, pour a spoonful of milk, close the carton, and put it back in the fridge,» says Vladimir Kiriansky, a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the new paper.

«If you are having a hard time navigating the mass of streets in a city, you are likely putting high demands on your hippocampus and prefrontal cortex,» said lead author Dr. Hugo Spiers of UCL Experimental Psychology, in a press release.

The study participants were 3.5 times more likely to develop vascular dementia if they'd experienced depression symptoms in both middle age and later in life, which suggests that «recurring depression over the life course seems to be triggering vascular changes that puts [people] at risk for vascular dementia,» says lead author Deborah E. Barnes, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.

«The worst part of a big night out is that it can put you out of commission for a day or two when it comes to exercise, and that lost time can delay your post-holiday reset,» says Frances Largeman - Roth, RDN, nutrition expert and author of Eating in Color.

Study authors put the benchmark at 15 minutes» daily laughter plus 30 minutes» exercise three times a week for favourable vascular impact.

He also has a knack for making the science very understandable and easy to put into practice, which is one of the reasons he's author of 10 New York Times best - sellers.

Or, as I believe I heard Paleo author Robb Wolf put it at one time: «If you want to kill someone quickly, take away their sleep.»

An explorer, New York Times bestselling author and National Geographic Fellow, Dan founded Blue Zones ®, a company that puts the world's best practices in longevity and well - being to work in people's lives.

«Our skin absorbs up to 60 percent of what we put on it,» Sara Gottfried, MD, author of the New York Times bestselling books The Hormone Cure and The Hormone Reset Diet, writes on her blog, adding that «even if a chemical isn't so harmful that it affects us right away, some bioaccumulate (meaning they become concentrated in the body over time) therefore taking their toll over time.»

Based on two short stories (it shows) from Toronto - born author Craig Davidson, the film puts itself squarely in the specious Paul Haggis tradition of the crisscrossing tragedy but keeps the stakes pretty low much of the time, mostly sparing us the usual tortured hymns about how we're all connected at some primal level.

It's not that things have come easily to the famously prolific and scattershot actor, director, author, student, teacher, Oscar co-host, and now four - time Saturday Night Live host — it wouldn't be the worst thing if more famous actors put their talents into film adaptations of their favorite books.

Put aside that it's likely that both the authors of the study and the schools themselves have points in their favor — the full - time virtual charter schools themselves have in the past been transparent about some of their academic struggles, and, at the same time, in their criticism of the study, those same schools are surely right that the characteristics and motivation of some of their students for attending full - time virtual charters makes them quite unlike the «virtual twins» the study purports to have found for the purposes of comparison.

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At this point, 29 out of 85 original titles (34 %) were put up by previously (print) published authors, compared to 11 of 49 (22 %) last time around.

There's a lot of time and effort being put into analyzing the market by authors who really have control over one thing and one thing only: their books.

Even if an author's first book hits it big, they still put the time, effort, and investment into it.

So because I enjoy my day job and don't necessarily need to make writing novels my full time job (therefore not earning a living off my books despite the years and effort it takes putting into them), I'm not an author?

Thought today might be a good time to let Stephen King's millions of readers (a group I've been a member of since my tweens) know that the unstoppable, prolific author (seriously, has anyone considered putting King and Joyce Carol Oates in a write - off?)

The prize identifies, and puts at the forefront of the competitive publishing industry, exceptional books written by first - time authors from three categories: Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction (this year Speculative Fiction; a different genre is showcased each year), and Non-Fiction.

I just wish more «authors» would put more time into their actual writing (and editing and revising) and spend less time getting their panties all twisted about what they're called.

Meaning DROVES of authors will jump on them as a way to make money, most will waste their money and time and a few, savvy advertisers will make bank because they put in the time to learn the system.

I've always liked creating opportunities for authors to get their books published with a level of service and quality that befits and respects that enormous amount of time and energy authors put into writing their books.