Sentences with phrase «time as authors»

We produce some Clicklaw Wikibooks with lawyers who donate time as authors and editors.

Finally — I'm supposed to be at work — I think it's often forgotten that the vast majority of authors don't do it full time, and don't make millions (or even thousands) out of it; the big names like JK Rowling or Ian Rankin might be able to exist full time as authors, but most of them don't, and while no one has an absolute right to be able to live off the proceeds of their writing, I'm sure many do feel that the creators should be a little more fairly remunerated than at times is the case.

This arrangement has worked for some time as authors need guaranteed funding to be able to write books and publishers agree to the risk in order to be able to profit from that risk.

Since most of our time as authors needs to be focused on writing, this book narrows not only the scope of effort spent on marketing, but precisely what to do with each tool in the author's marketing toolbox - building a mailing list, how to build a mailing list, social media, website management and how to use all of those in harmony.

We spend so much time as authors being concerned with marketing or discoverability, but we also need to keep an eye on how that actually relates to sales.

The writing style itself can be hard to follow at times as the author uses many double negatives, «Did not you..., was it not..., were they not...».

To invest as much time as the author did on describing how dirty Jesus was shows me that he missing the main point of the scripture.

Lovingly revised based on the extensive notes Vanda left behind, Awakening the Spine is published for the first time as the author intended.

Since that time I have been self - employed working full - time as an author, speaker, and -LSB-...]

I did think the text got a little bit preachy at times as the author expressed her opinion of both the situation in Afghanistan regarding women's rights and the practice of bacha posh; at times the material felt overly judgmental.

And now, here I am, once more checking out my look in the mirror — this time as an author.

I only went full time as an author - entrepreneur once I had spent three years working four days a week.

Maximizing your time as an author is what this book excels at!

No matter how much time you as an author have put into your novel, or how carefully your work has been edited, artist Deirdre Wait of High Pines Creative knows you have those very few seconds to attract attention, make an impression, and influence the purchase of your book off a shelf.

It took me a year before I could consider myself full - time as an author, but even then I was being a bit foolhardy and it wasn't all perfect every month even then but I always made it work.

Not exact matches

Best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad — the No. 1 personal finance book of all time — Robert Kiyosaki has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about money.

Whisper that to yourself a few times, and file those expense reports, you cubicle - dwelling worker bees, because according to the authors, the modern organization — maddeningly imperfect and dysfunctional as it may seem — is here to stay.

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

On her own, she is the author of the 2008 - 2009 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller «10-10-10: A Life - Transforming Idea,» a decision - making concept she originally wrote about as a columnist for O: The Oprah Magazine.

On her podcast, she features accomplished guests such as New York Times bestselling author Chris Guillebeau and high - performance coach Lacy Kirkland, who share how mental fortitude — and a dismissal of one's supposed limitations — can help oneself and others prevail.

«China has engaged for a very long time in the theft of our intellectual property as well as practices like forced technology transfer,» said Navarro, author of several books anti-China books including «Death by China.»

Host Brian Clark chats with self - starters ranging from Gary Vaynerchuk to Pivot author Jenny Blake about everything from playing the long game to «designing your life,» as well as shares his own stories as an eight - time entrepreneur.

Breakthrough ideas ripple across time, as Where Good Ideas Come From author Steven Johnson says, rather than occur in an enormous rogue wave from out of nowhere.

But as research by author Noam Wasserman (author of The Founder's Dilemma) has shown, by the time a venture is three years old 50 percent of founders are no longer in charge, a cliff - like decline that continues to plummet by upwards of 10 percent every year thereafter.

The self - made millionaire and author of «The Automatic Millionaire» told the personal finance site Grow that as a kid his family «talked about investing all the time.»

'' [They] come into the world as their parents» sole princess or prince,» wrote Jeffrey Kluger, author of the book «The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us» in an article for «Time.»

In this edited excerpt, the author discusses the importance of taking your time when hiring new employees but firing someone as quickly as you'd pull off a Band - Aid.

As for whether employees will hate you for a strict policy, consider this advice from George Cloutier, the founder and chief executive of American Management Services and author of Profits Aren't Everything, They're the Only Thing: «The concept that if you love your employees they'll perform is on the edge of insanity,» Cloutier told the New York Times.

Ryan is best - known as the author of the Republican «Path to Prosperity» budget plan — iterations of which he has produced on a yearly basis, garnering more support each time.

Joanna Cound, one of the authors of the BlackRock study, says that the time period for the calculation was 20 years, not 10 as the Times had reported — so the ding, on average, would be $ 115 per year in the global equity fund.

The authors of the chess study later described the 15 - minute time limits as a flaw in experimental design.

Charles Duhigg, staff writer for The New York Times and author of The Power of Habit, answers questions from readers on Quora on topics ranging from how to develop a blogging habit to what it's like to work as a journalist.

Speaking of side hustling, New York Times bestselling author Chris Guillebeau says that you should focus on what makes you special as a driver.

And where Gladwell drew criticism for being a dilettante, Ranadivé — the founder and CEO of real - time software company TIBCO — has been working in this field for some time, both in his day job and as an author (it's his third book on the subject).

Today, the average paper has four times as many authors as it did then and the work being done is far more interdisciplinary and done at greater distances than in the past.

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

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.»

Author Isabel Allende discusses her role as a flag - bearer during the Winter Olympics in 2006, the first time that only women would carry the Olympic flag.

HubSpot co-founder and chief technical officer Dharmesh Shah is the architect and author of our Culture Code and Brian spends a lot of his time thinking about culture and people as we grow.

No predictions were made as to the future habitability of the Town of Tangier at 2100 or the types of habitat (upland or wetland) that might be present, though study authors did note that interior water had increased over time and that present upland ridges may need to be raised in the future.

All of these are likely sources, but when author Greg McKeown faced an extreme time crunch as the deadline to hand in his latest manuscript approached, he turned to his wife for advice.

Fran Hauser is a long - time media executive, startup investor and author of The Myth of the Nice Girl.Best known for her role building PEOPLE.com — one of the biggest media brands online — Hauser made the leap to early stage investing in 2014, funding and advising consumer - focused companies such as HelloGiggles, Mogul, The Wing and Gem & Bolt.

Leading author and speaker, Brian Solis, spent three and a half years working on his latest book, X: The Experience Where Business Meets Design, during which time he found clarity about why «experience» is a topic we won't be dismissing as buzz or hype any time soon.

During his time with Ad Age, he has been recognized with the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for best range of work by a single author, as well as a Best in Business award for a feature story from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

According to Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger, author of the bestseller Contagious, word - of - mouth is 10 times as effective as traditional advertising.

Reports Loss as Digital Subscriber Base Grows,» The New York Times, May 3, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/business/media/new-york-times-co-q1-earnings.html; Ken Doctor, interview by the author, March 10, 2016; Ken Doctor, email message to the author, May 5, 2016.

Buffet's study of investing goes back decades to his time as a student at Columbia when he studied with Ben Graham, author of The Intelligent Investor.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

As the author stated: «home buyers in the county might have a harder time finding a suitable property within FHA limits, when compared to borrowers in neighboring Contra Costa County [where average home prices are lower].»

Tocqueville Gold Monitor [PDF] John Hathaway Senior Portfolio Manager © Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. October 12, 2015 This article reflects the views of the author as of the date or dates cited and may change at any time.