Sentences with phrase «turning over their authors»

While some of that rests on the shoulders of consumers who were not sure they were going to get the value of paying a flat - fee for the ability to read books, it was also the publishers who were wary of turning over their authors» works without a clear understanding of how this was going to be profitable for them and for their authors.

Not exact matches

So I turned to a true expert on the subject: Ivan Misner, the founder of BNI, with over 220,000 members the largest networking and business referral organization in the world, and the author of bestsellers like Avoiding the Networking Disconnect.

So I am pleased to share that my period of «ignorance is bliss» is over, and to help me make this transition I've turned to Deliciously Organic blogger and cookbook author, Carrie Vitt.

I think it was Jack Canfield (author of all the Chicken Soup for the Soul books who got turned down 100's of times before getting a small publisher and then going on to sell over 112 million books) who said it's not what people say about you but what you say to yourself when they say things about you.

As Professor Jihani said in an interview with an anonymous colleague of the author's in December 2011, «if we don't start to investigate and prosecute Saif, the incessant demand to turn him over to the ICC will increase in force, and we will have no convincing reason for not doing so.»

«Skipping breakfast may lead to one or more risk factors, including obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes, which may in turn lead to a heart attack over time,» said Leah E. Cahill, Ph.D., study lead author and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Mass..

While the authors acknowledge the «remarkable progress in cultivating the concepts of flood risk management» that has taken place over the last few decades, they also recognize that «the challenge now is to turn the now commonly accepted concepts of managing risks and promoting opportunities into common flood - management practice».

Since we see this strong trend, it'd be surprising if it just turned over or shut off immediately,» lead author Andrew Howard told Discovery News.

In an interview with Stephen Hawking's, author of a Brief History Of Time, he said «I believe humans must retain their intelligence lead over computers even if it means modifying the human race through genetic engineering or turning humans into cyborgs».

Author Madeleine Somerville argues that access to basic reproductive health services would help women around the world take greater ownership over their bodies and in turn ease the overpopulation crisis that's spurring climate change.

We turn to tricks and techniques we've learned over the past 10 years, some from the chefs and cookbook authors we work with, others developed through lots of trial and error, right here in our kitchen.

On this week's episode of Single in Stilettos, founder and matchmaker Suzanne Oshima turns the conversation over to relationship expert and author of «The Problem With Women... is Men,» Charles J. Orlando to talk expert dating advice about none other than men, what they want, and why they cheat.

And let's not forget Emma Thompson's hilariously prickly turn as «Mary Poppins» author P.L. Travers, going head - to - head with Tom Hanks» Walt Disney over the family - friendly film adaptation of her books in «Saving Mr. Banks.»

It's widely known the author was less than happy with the dreadful thought of having her book adapted to a movie, and the notion of signing the rights over to Disney's team — which wanted to turn it into a musical with animation — was even less appealing.

He's destroyed the world and most of its populace several times over, and now Roland Emmerich has turned his laser - targetting system on William Shakespeare, contending in Anonymous that the Bard is not, in point of fact, the author of the plays of William Shakespeare.

In «The Hunger Games,» the author turned an exploitation premise on its head, challenging the public to reconcile their moral outrage over a bad - taste killing contest with the bloodlust they felt in wanting to see Katniss survive.

Just over a week ago we reported that author Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men) had turned...

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

A self - published author retains control over every aspect of their book rather than turning over responsibility to a group of strangers who can not understand the book as well as the author.

I've been designing books for authors for over 30 years, and at the completion of every project I turn over complete ownership of the design and all the files used in producing the book to the client.

2009: Lulu adds over 200,000 eBooks to its catalog and sees more and more traditionally published authors such as John Edgar Wideman turn to Lulu.

These authors have grown tired of the query game and the contract negotiations involved in turning over their book rights to a publisher, and often highlight... [Read more...]

Janet, a self pubbed author who turned self publishing into a family run business and who has made over $ 1 - mil is a real example for new career authors.

Gone are the days when bestselling authors just wrote the books and turned over all the other tasks to their publisher.

A new kind of giveaway turns contacts into evangelists to sell more books Guest Expert: Penny C. Sansevieri We have marketed hundreds of books over the years, and many of our authors have launched their own book giveaways.

«More authors are turning to self - publishing to retain control over their work and to earn as much in royalties as they can.»

The same names keep being bandied about — the Bella Andres, the Hugh Howeys, the Barbara Freethys — but there are an ever - increasing number of authors who are not only pleased with their self - publishing decisions, but they're being hailed as savvy businesspeople for not being tricked into turning over their entire livelihoods to the traditional model and its sad royalty share.

The debate over the most recent accusations about how Amazon is destroying the book industry has taken a new turn with some new arguments, all of which — yet again — have nothing more behind them than the insistence that Amazon hates books, hates authors, hates readers, and basically... hates everyone.

The bigger problem for authors are the publishing houses themselves because with the decline in paper books, it simply makes no sense for an author to turn over the majority of her profits to one of these places and * that * costs the author far more than piracy.

Repeat., they tell you how exactly how they did it: How they created over 15 independent franchises across 50 + published works, how they turned their art into a logical, sustainable business, and how any independent author can do the same to build a sustainable, profitable career with their writing.

I self - published my «The Joy of Not Working» in 1991 and turned it over to Ten Speed Press in 1997 with a normal publisher / author Agreement (royalties of 30 percent of net receipts, however, which is not that normal for a tradeback).

However, as some of your readers have noted, if an author invests the time and effort to successfully market their own book, the incentive to turn everything over to a publisher, let alone a small press with minimal expected financial returns, is greatly diminished.

Established authors who have built large followings over the years, can turn the dial and diversify with a degree of success.

Over the next year, we'll be turning out these features and more, as rapidly as we can make them ready, with an eye toward making your author life easier and your author career more successful.

Ideally, the author has access to those distribution accounts — which means access to pricing, files, and reporting — and those accounts are turned over to the author if the agreement with the agent is terminated.

That said, an over zealous, pushy author with a swollen ego is a definite turn off.

Yvonne Rose was appointed to head Quality Press and has turned over the last fourteen years many, many thousands of Self - Published Authors» manuscripts into completed books.

Without having clear information on how the publishing house intended to promote her book, Ward opted for the self - publishing and higher royalty route, a choice that has made her an incredibly high ranking author despite having turned down over $ 1.5 million in advances in the past year alone.

Interestingly, as more authors begin to exert their control over their work by turning to self - publishing, cover design remains one of the areas where traditionally published authors often have little to no input.

One of the most interesting aspects to this collaboration between Cornwell and Amazon Publishing is — according to the author herself — that the Kindle In Motion format puts the bulk of her research into the public's hands, turning the case over to those who are invested in uncovering its outcome.

Or rather, books about God have, specifically those about whether or not such a thing exists, with ample ink given to how misguided believers or atheists are, depending on which author you turn to.Now Karen Armstrong has joined the debate over religion's sway in modern society.

I can't «prove» this so I won't try, but it bears further emphasis that it still looks like the number of authors who start as self - published and then get «discovered» by the establishment and switch over is still larger than the number of authors who say «keep your stinking advance» and turn down a deal to do the publishing themselves.

24 sessions over 24 hour of the best indie author education online to help you turn your creative endeavors into a fully - fledged author business.

Repeat., they tell you exactly how they did it: how they created over 15 independent franchises across six publishing imprints and 100 + published works, how they turned their art into a logical, sustainable business, and how any author interested in indie publishing can do the same to build a sustainable, profitable career with their writing.

These authors have grown tired of the query game and the contract negotiations involved in turning over their book rights to a publisher, and often highlight the new - found freedom write what they wish and the control over their final products as key reasons for going it alone.

She has worn many hats — she's published with major New York houses, then broke away and created her own imprint; has successfully published over 20 books and sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies; understands niche publishing and marketing; has created publicity campaigns for her own work that landed her on Oprah, Donahue, CNN and even grabbed a cover story in People magazine; she's penetrated the foreign rights market with her work in 16 countries to date; she has guided and coached many others from creation to completion of their work; she has created and chair several publishing conferences; and she has successfully turned several publishing disasters into successful outcomes for their authors.

And online producer - retailer like Amazon turns over a far better royalty rate of return to authors than the traditional publishing houses have done — and is capable of displaying a writer's work before an almost incomprehensibly large audience of potential readers.

Brenna Ehrlich, a 25 - year - old blogger - turned - author, explains the advantage books have over blogs: «It's going to be in bookstores for awhile.»

With Penguin recently acquiring Author Solutions, who knows what Penguin will turn over from their slush / pass piles to Author House to «follow up» on.

After a brilliant start as an indie author, she's turned over the onerous heavy lifting for four new books to a mainline commercial book publisher.