Sentences with phrase «traditional author readings»

I'm fascinated by the range of events already featured — not just your traditional author readings and book launches, but book clubs, business breakfasts, workshops, even a walk.

Not exact matches

In most of the introductions I read (Genesis, Isaiah, Mark, John, Hebrews, 1 Peter, 2 Peter - I haven't yet read the introductions to Matthew, Luke or Acts) there is little evidence that the author of the notes believes in the traditional authorship.

However, when reading it, on several of the days it seems that instead of «reading them in light of the Resurrection of our Lord» the author is undermining a traditional reading of Scripture.

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I recently read the book «Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, «A's, Praise, and Other Bribes» by Alfie Kohn, a noted author and outspoken critic of traditional education, including grades, test scores, and homework.

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If you read a webpage that authoritatively states that burdock can detoxify and remove impurities from your body, then the author is likely taking traditional, alternative medicine as gospel and not being scientific.

One gets the distinct impression, in reading Dr. Burkitt's book, that none of the authors has tasted traditional African food, let along observed its preparation.

The author proposes a better model for achieving excellence, which is to focus on excellence for all students in not only the traditional three R's (reading, writing, and arithmetic) but also the other three R's (reasoning, resilience, and responsibility).

I rarely read books from traditional authors anymore, anyway, so most of what I want is on Smashwords.

I looked at traditional publishers who might be a good fit for my book and read every blog post I could find about other author's experiences.

Historically, these traditional publishers have been able to dictate to the reading public what books they will make available and independent authors who didn't meet every single one of their criteria didn't make the cut.

These can include, but are not limited to, an author panel featuring traditional, hybrid and self - published authors from the community; presentations from local indie authors about writing, marketing and more; book readings and / or signings from local authors; presentations from local industry leaders; writing workshops and informative presentations and workshops about tools available to the writing community through the library.

With the popularity of electronic reading devices, the entire world of information / reading was split wide open with so many opportunities for authors to publish the works that might not ever have seen the light of day with the traditional publishers.

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I have read alot of traditional authors who works suck and have so many typos should we lump all of those together?

There are many great and experienced editors in traditional publishing who can help a book become better for the author, but at this point, with traditional publishing in the state it's in, I'll take my chances on a couple of friends reading the book.

The Big 5 or any traditional publisher will give the author no say and choose an illustrator who can imagine what no one else could possibly imagine from the words, and they might draw a child bouncing on a bed with crumpled sheets as waves, and the pet dog, representing the shark, jumping in the bed as well — creating a far more rewarding reading and visual literacy experience for the reader.

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I used to stress about bad reviews, my ego throbbing like a bee sting, but then I read something by Indie author John Locke (who set the record for eBook sales and is starting to turn «traditional publishing» into a bad word) that completely changed the game:

We grew up rooting for ourselves to one day win the traditional publishing lottery and become like all the authors we grew up reading.

Those of you who have read her articles in the past know that they are not short, but you also know that they're worth reading in their entirety — especially if you are a published author (self OR traditional).

Yeah, I didn't feel comfortable calling it a dev edit, but I feel completely confident in doing a Beta read for a busy author who doesn't have time to do a traditional swap.

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And then I started reading about authors that were doing it on their own and though it was scary for me because I thought I might be throwing away a possible career in traditional publishing if I went ahead and self - published myself, I just finally decided that I would take to a book five manuscripts I've already written and publish them, see how it went.»

After giving the letters a couple reads, Authors United and ABAs» pleas to the DOJ seem to speak mainly on behalf of Big Five traditional publishing, while overlooking the opportunities small presses, indie publishing, and self - publishing been afforded by the online vendor.

In traditional publishing, often your editor will ask other authors at the publishing house to read and endorse your book.

She knows how to read royalty statements and, more importantly from the author's point of view, she knows that she has an alternative to traditional publishing.

Despite that I tried lowering my standards for self published books and continued buying (I never asked any of the authors for their copy of their books, I wanted to support too), reading, and reviewing, but even the best self published book I read, that I rated a 4, would be a 2.5 with traditional publishing standards.

Attendees at the Austen conference can register for the opportunity to spend fifteen minutes with an evaluator who has read their manuscripts weeks in advance, giving them ample time to offer suggestions to improve the work and therefore improve the authors» chances for traditional publication.

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A number of those readers are voracious readers and want new books and new authors because they have already read the established author's backlists and there aren't enough new books being published through traditional channels to keep their reading habit supplied.

But other books may only be read thanks to the different kind of support, of enabling, that comes with the traditional publishing infrastructure; if someone other than the author is able to produce them, which might mean needing the existence of a publisher able to back the book's production

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But then you may have read about Karen McQuestion, who's had success as a self - published author without previous traditional publication.

Blogs are extremely popular in today's world, partially because you don't have to be a traditional author to get published and have people read and appreciate your thoughts.

I've read other traditional authors when I made the jump to full time is having that year worth of bills paid.

«Amazon is a Trojan Horse, offering low prices today — while Wall Street is willing to float a company that doesn't make a profit — at the cost of destroying the [traditional] publishing ecosystem that is indispensable to authors... Amazon actually prevents competition by locking its customers in through devices like Prime and DRM, which means Amazon customers can't read books sold by Apple or Google Play on their Kindles.»

It's a great read about how authors of traditional publishing houses are expected to promote their own work using their own money to do so.

Author mills often present themselves as «traditional», because they don't require you to pay up front — but as with the vanity anthologies, their books are marketed not to the reading public but to the authors themselves (who are pressured to buy their own books for resale) and to «pocket» markets surrounding them, such as friends and family.

I was interested to read insights by Barry Eisler, best - selling traditional and now - self - published author.

TRP: We have traditional author signings and readings, but we also try to offer a broad slate of events.

As more readers embrace digital reading and as ebooks continue to fare well through Amazon's catalog, more traditional and indie authors can hope to achieve this level of success and fan following.

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This figure is likely to increase as the summer reading season is almost upon us and many big time authors and traditional bestselling series are due to arrive in the summer quarter.

E2BU, aka the Enhanced Ebook University, educates authors and publishers on the creative and business potential of enhanced ebooks — electronic books that transcend traditional reading experiences by incorporating video, online links and other multimedia elements into the narrative.

The real irony here, it turns out, is that it wasn't the publishers calling the questions: 75 percent of responding authors said they have never been asked for feedback from their publisher 7 percent said that publishers pay writers well 32 percent said that the prestige of having a deal with a traditional publisher was important to them... Read More

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