Sentences with phrase «traditional houses because»

Numerous Traditional Authors have left traditional houses because they get tired of being jerked around and only getting a small cut of their royalties while indies either get ALL their royalties if they self publish, or a far larger portion of their royalties if they publish through an indie house.

Not exact matches

«It's often significantly cheaper to use Airbnb than a traditional hotel, not only because the sticker price is less, but because of the many additional and oft - forgotten perks of staying at a house,» says Evan Robinson, a freelance photographer and director who enjoys free parking and the use of a kitchen.

Dyson aims to lean less heavily on suppliers than traditional carmakers, partly because of a penchant for making components in house, and partly because electric cars contain substantially fewer bits than their combustion engine counterparts.

In a written petition sent to the House Committee on Ethics dated Feb. 5, Colorado House Representative Jared Polis argued that, because cryptocurrency assets are regarded as commodities by several agencies, Congress members should follow the same financial disclosure requirement as for traditional assets.

That's because manufactured housing tends to depreciate, while traditional home values tend to increase over time.

The is largely because traditional homes usually increase in value over time, manufactured housing usually depreciates over time.

That's because while buyers don't have to make a traditional down payment, they do have to pay the difference between your loan balance and the purchase price of the house.

To sum up, then, Wolf's article is important because it represents a «halfway house» between the traditional conception of a society as an aggregate of actual occasions with the dominant occasion providing the unity for the group and my own contention that every society, whether it contains a presiding occasion or not, possesses an objective unity in virtue of the dynamic interrelatedness of its constituent occasions from moment to moment.

I got the distinct feeling that the primary reason some of them were in a house church was because they would not be able to function properly with people in more traditional churches.

Interestingly, with greater awareness of animal welfare issues, kangaroo meat is the meat of choice for some people who prefer not to eat meat from traditional livestock, including chicken, because of the way many of them are housed during life (feed - lots or other high - density farming) and transported, handled and slaughtered.

I sent off the majority of the batch with Man - thing, as well as the rest of the poppy lemon loaf cake from yesterday, to the in - laws, because keeping so much nom in the house is not always for the best:p The recipe is rather healthier than most cinnamon roll versions I've come across, especially considering one subs the traditional oil for applesauce.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Because our family and friends were staying in houses and hotels all over the island (as opposed to a traditional room block situation), we handed out our welcome boxes at the end of the party instead of trying to get them to everyone's rooms before they arrived.

This is because the restaurant is set in an 18th Century coach house, so if you're looking to enjoy yourself in a traditional setting, you have the perfect starting point here.

The traditional idea of the midlife crisis existed because life used to follow such a well worn path — you get a job, get married, have children, own a house and your career takes a steady progression throughout your life.

Stewart plays out the film as if it were a traditional «haunted house» film, but because we already know it is about alien life, we merely watch the characters go through predictable motions until the story catches up with what we already surmise, and the only things keeping viewers reeled in are basic questions such as, «why are they doing this?»

Films, such as Orpheus, which went against these conventions, were considered avant - garde or art - house because they rejected traditional storytelling techniques and often broke down the illusion of realism.

While he still feels more comfortable in traditional classes, he started to enjoy the multidisciplinary projects — one led to a job as a tour guide at a historic house in Fairmount Park — and he feels that he is a step ahead of other students because he's had so much practice making presentations and learning how to work with other people.

He learned that Maasai bomas (traditional round houses) are dark and cool — because he was in one.

Because there's no combustion engine to protrude into the cab, you don't have the traditional «dog house» center console found in contemporary big rigs.

«In terms of quality, it's the same or better than publishing with a traditional publishing house, because it's the same pool of talent.

Self - publishing is truly great but I have a feeling it's going to be another one of those things in modern life where just because you can do it yourself doesn't mean you will be happy with the result or that the end product will be on the same level of craftsmanship than a traditional publishing house.

This is why self - published authors decide to not send manuscripts to traditional publishing house, because it's easier to make a living with your craft and write full - time.

That in turn has been helping some good authors, some published by large houses as well, get works into the hands of readers who might never have had access to those books because they would not sell in high enough volumes via traditional print ways.

If we are talking about traditional publishing, i.e., by large, well - known publishing houses, I'd have to agree it is even more difficult now to get in the door because certainly a downturned economy impacts all business which includes book publishing.

I would add on the side of traditional publishing that 1) It is easier to get national publicity because producers give more weight to a traditionally published book, particularly from a larger house (though some self - published authors certainly do get national publicity as well — it's just harder, in general and 2) a traditional publisher is generally going to bring a great deal of experience to the table — from improving the cover or title to layout and design.

Very few beginning writers are trying this method yet because they are afraid traditional editors will come to their houses and break their fingers (or some other fear just as stupid.)

Because Amazon has built up such a MASSIVE audience of rabid readers, you no longer need the reach and power of a traditional publishing house to get your book out to the masses...

From your position it's interesting, because you've already established yourself for many years as an author working with traditional houses, your route to self - publishing means that you already have a name behind you.

The intense rage such experiences instill can lead to strange glitches in logic, such as the charge that it is publishers who have engaged in «monopolistic» practices because not everyone who wants to publish with a traditional house has succeeded in winning a contract.

Because of that, I only partner with authors who are committed to producing the highest quality book in every way, one that truly rivals or exceeds a traditional house publication in editing, cover design, interior layout and design, audience - targeted marketing research and materials, and overall presentation to readers.

Very few beginning writers are trying this method because they are afraid traditional editors will come to their houses and break their fingers (or some other fear just as stupid.)

All online retailers that allow anyone to upload their book for digital distribution should be held to a standard and it's not that hard or difficult to implement if all parties agree, which are mainly the online retailers, because let's face it, just as the traditional publishing houses are the gatekeepers for any author who wants to publish their work through them, the online retailers such as Amazon are the gatekeepers to online publishing.

You have to approach them with an intelligent panel that knows the issues and this is where one should consider bringing in the traditional publishing houses because it is in their best interest as well as the online retailers because it means their authors will sell more books too.

It is easier to transcend a traditional publishing house to being a self - published author because you have a working knowledge of the steps involved in writing, editing, publishing and marketing a book.

After being promised a $ 250,000 advance, a number so high compared to some advances now that it's almost laughable, his novel never went where he thought it would because of cost - cutting in the traditional publishing industry, especially within the major publishing houses.

Also, publishers without much practical experience tend to have a more difficult time negotiating contracts and complying with contract obligations — not from malice, but because they simply don't understand what's involved in running a traditional publishing house.

Traditional houses are watching the self - published authors with solid sales and offering them contracts because they have a readership and a marketing platform that will come along with them.

This way he will be sure that you didn't self - publish because you were unable to find your book a home at a traditional publishing house.

But if I've offered to represent someone, it's because I think they have real commercial value so we will always try traditional publishing houses first and go from there.

Also, because publishing is slower through traditional houses, even a book that they plan to give the full ride to is often — inexplicably — dropped on the floor as conditions change.

Sharon, previously published by a traditional house, was turned down for Cookin» because the lead characters were too old (ah - hem, they were only fifty).

Over the years, many publishing houses have been scaling back on traditional book tours — not the least because bookstores themselves are disappearing — because travel can be expensive (and time - consuming) and sometimes there can be cheaper and just as effective ways to sell books.

I'm working on a new one which will likely be produced elsewhere because of my binding choice, perhaps through a traditional publishing house.

All right, I'm probably not super-qualified to speak on behalf of publishers, because aside from the one I'm currently with, I haven't had a lot of success dealing with traditional publishing houses.

Today's editors and literary agents at traditional publishing houses wouldn't dare scoff at an author because he or she decided to self - publish (self - published authors keep proving how great they are!).

Now he's going to Penguin as an executive editor, and because his imprint was the only literary fiction home at Amazon's publishing house, it creates a vacuum the reflects the tension between Amazon the publisher and (other) traditional publishers, between commercial fiction and literary fiction, and between Amazon and authors.

I decided to publish with Infinity because I got tired of getting rejection letters from traditional publishing houses.

I know this is partly because I've been a professional editor and worked at a traditional publishing house, so to me, reading amateur writing feels like work.

Financing mobile homes is becoming increasingly difficult because lenders usually prefer to service traditional housing loans.