Sentences with phrase «traditional authors who»

For traditional authors who ARE going to a trade show, however, I do think there's an opportunity for the shows to do a bit more — for example, social media training, the things their publishers are trying to help leverage.

I don't understand why traditional authors who couldn't sell, turn to agent - assisted publishing, which isn't really self publishing, because the agent, even if they are taking the financial risk of editing / cover design, are taking their percentage of profit... forever.

They only count the traditional authors who were paid for their work, and they remove from «self - publishing» those authors who (A) Later cut a deal or (B) Moved from traditional to self - publishing.

You must also not realize (as you think it's only backlist titles) that there are traditional authors who are putting out NEW books as SP titles in addition to their regular titles, or have left traditional altogether (like Courtney Milan).

Amazon company ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange) is a hip new marketplace where indie authors, traditional authors who have maintained their audiobook rights, agents, publishers, and anyone else can commission an audiobook.

You say, «Amazon company ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange) is a hip new marketplace where indie authors, traditional authors who have maintained their audiobook rights, agents, publishers, and anyone else can commission an audiobook.»

So what's a book publicist, or an eBook author, to do when they want to find eBook promotion opportunities and they can't find them in the usual places that were so friendly to traditional authors who needed media visibility for their traditional books?

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

Unlike a traditional author who is under a contract and answers to a larger company a self - publisher is on her own.

Whether you are a traditional author who wants to take a walk on the indie side, or an indie who would like to add the clout of a traditional deal to your name, the future is looking bright for authors on all paths.

The traditional author who goes indie quickly becomes the publisher's competition.

Not exact matches

Traditional publishers will even get in on the game, only publishing an author who commits to buying a certain number of their own books.

According to Muchembled, author of previous histories of the devil and of the orgasm, violence in traditional European society is best understood as the effect of a system of honor among bachelors who required outlets for their pent - up sexual energies while awaiting marriage.

The traditional story, believed by the approximately 10 % of Christians who even know the supposed ident.ities of the 4 authors of the Gospels, is that Matthew and John were 2 of the 12 Apostles of Christ, that Mark was a travelling companion of St. Peter and Luke was a traveling companion of St. Paul.

King Arthur represents the legion of authors who have tried to get published through traditional means for scores of years, only to be told «None shall pass!»

John's Gospel, Date - 80 - 110 CE, Traditional Attribution, (2nd Century), St. John, one of the Twelve, Author Detectable from the Contents, One who regards himself in the tradition of the disciple.

A press conference was set up for the media to interrogate several authors who are of a more traditional bent on the historical Jesus.

They were much more than that: they were authors — authors who had made use of traditional material, but authors nonetheless.

The young gentleman turns out to be Mercury, attired as he appears in the theater, who in his traditional role as psychopomp (conductor of souls to the realm of the dead) directs the author, still hopping, to a coach that is set to depart for the next world.

The film, made by Andrew Morgan, follows the American author and former pastor who has been heavily criticised for suggesting Heaven is open to all, challenging the traditional view of Hell and saying that humanity has twisted Jesus» words.

Lead author Jason Holloway, a Rice alumnus who is now a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, suggested an array of inexpensive sensors and plastic lenses that cost a few dollars each may someday replace traditional telephoto lenses that cost more than $ 100,000.

For direct evidence of endurance hunting, Bramble and Lieberman point to the observations of Louis Liebenberg, author of The Art of Tracking: The Origin of Science, who has spent time on the traditional hunts of the Bushmen hunter - gatherers in the central Kalahari Desert in Botswana.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, director of scholarly communication for the Modern Language Association and a visiting professor at New York University in New York City who studies how networked communication technologies affect scholarship, found in her experiments that, for authors, interactive peer review is «more work than a traditional review process,» she says.

Some of the major speakers included the very fit Mark Sisson, author of The Primal Blueprint (photo with me and Mark) and an advocate for the Paleo / Primal diet; the calming Paul Pitchford, author of Healing With Whole Foods and an expert in traditional Chinese Medicine; the dynamic and energetic David Wolfe (photo below right), an authority on raw foods nutrition and superfoods; and the inspirational John Robbins, advocate of a plant - based diet and the son of the Baskin - Robbins founder who cured his father's diabetes through a change in diet.

Those populations consisted of indigenous people who were eating either the flesh of the fruit or coconut cream as part of a traditional diet, the authors note — not just adding the oil to their Western - style meals.

The pair of German plant biologists who authored the piece argue that nearly extinct varieties of wheat, like einkorn and emmer (aka farro), could create new niche markets for farmers, diversify ecosystems, boost local food security, revive traditional recipes — all while satisfying consumer demand for food that makes you feel like you're traveling back to a simpler time (a Paleolithic time, perhaps?).

The author, a medical doctor who practiced and studied our traditional western medicine, will be the first to note that it wasn't in fact a true scientific study.

His / her editing competency (in terms of building statements, grammar and spelling as well as using authoring tools to create messages) should be much higher than traditional trainer's who uses mostly one's voice and body language.

Author of Bringing Innovation to School: Empowering Students to Thrive in a Changing World and co-author of Reinventing Project - Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real - World Projects in the Digital Age, I'm inspired by educators who push the boundaries of the traditional classroom.

The authors of the North Carolina study attempt to control for hard - to - measure permanent characteristics of students who attend charters by estimating what is known as student «fixed effect» models, which involves measuring how student performance changes as students switch between the charter and traditional sectors.

The report authors argue charters have come to represent a force that «preempts traditional local control of public schools» and spends «hundreds of millions of dollars to promote itself... finance electoral campaigns up and down the political ladder and hire publicists who spread misinformation, aggressively lobby, and paint charter opponents as part of the problem they are solving.»

The authors discussed a CREDO study that found low - income and ELL students in charter schools outperformed students in traditional district schools, but without a randomized controlled experiment, an alternative explanation could be that families who sought out charter schools were more motivated (70).

Such naivete explains why the Obama Administration has continually promoted case studies of reform - minded school leaders working closely with NEA and AFT locals, why Class Struggle author Steve Brill floated the laughable idea of Weingarten becoming chancellor of New York City's traditional district three years ago, and why organizations such as Educators4Excellence and Teach Plus — which represent younger, reform - minded teachers who now make up the majority of NEA and AFT rank - and - filers (and are staffed by teachers who are themselves centrist and progressive Democrats)-- work so hard to aim to lead reform from within union ranks.

Some terrific traditional publishing opportunities have also been created for authors who have successfully self - published.

The old vanity publishing offered authors who could not attract the interest of a traditional publisher an opportunity to get their books published.

I know so many pro self - published authors now who have made six - figures + from their books that I know traditional publishing is NOT the path for me (at least not'til they make it worth my wild)

I don't know how many, but you can be sure that a lot of the authors who eventually self - published first tried to get a traditional publisher.

In the traditional publishing world, agents and editors sing the praises of authors who meet deadlines.

The indie writers who are now wanting to go with a traditional publisher because — duh — they will get this huge advance and will be sent on tours to sign their books and will soon be playing poker with other best selling authors ala Castle.

Traditional publishing is the gold standard to which all indie authors must aspire, and people who work around books can give you pointers or tell you if you're on the right track or not.

Unlike traditional publishers — who only take on a book if it has a chance of doing really well, either because the author has an established platform or because the book is in a very popular genre — I work on a lot of projects that probably won't be as successful.

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.

Where a traditional publisher may offer a royalty rate of 25 % of net sales, authors who handle every aspect of publishing their book keep all the profits if they can cover their costs.

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.

Modern authors often choose the present tense to add edginess and immediacy to a story, but the more traditional use of past tense is generally better loved by big publishing companies, who are increasingly risk averse for financial reasons.Tales abound of authors instructed by commercial publishers to rewrite an entire book to change the tense from present to past, before thy'll consider publishing it.

# 1 The Acknowledgment that Traditional Publishing Is Broken — Goodbye Snob Factor Just a decade ago, already published authors, the publishing community and the public in general looked down their noses at those who didn't publish via New York.

For many authors who've pursued or considered pursuing traditional publishing contracts, a huge part of the overall appeal is two things:

But here's the thing: there's only one author in the world right now who has made two million dollars from self - published e-book sales and another two million dollars on a newly - inked traditional deal.

The fact is, traditional publishers will not publish a new author who doesn't have a platform.

I got the impression that even if you publish with a traditional publisher, you're still expected to do all of the things a self - published author is supposed to do: blog, network, sign books, endear yourself to any stranger who might buy your book or who knows someone who might appreciate your prose.