Sentences with phrase «whole author thing»

When this independent introvertedness is part of your very being, you may want to convince yourself that you can do this whole author thing without getting anyone else involved.

Not exact matches

I have witnessed people on their death - bed also, and the whole world becomes very sharply focussed as the importance of those things melt away and we are left with our dying moments and as the author stated, they are always asking for their loved ones; not theirr boss, their coach, their president, or anyone else but the ones they love.

Imagine her now 16 years old, So, would you tell her that the authors of the Bible wrote the whole thing as a metaphor.

In America many Christians who insist on a literal interpretation of anything in the Bible are often ready to say «but, in this case, Jesus didn't really mean...» when both Jesus and the author of this Gospel labor to convey «You aren't supposed to try to take the live of other things on Earth... that's the whole point, I want you to take on life that only I can offer!»

The whole thing rests upon one author — Michael Prescott's — highly selective excerpting and chopping up of a private [i.e., thinking out loud without clarifications] journal written when Rand was barely out of her teens, fresh from the blood bath of 1920s Soviet Russia — and still made it very clear that her read on the personalities of the observers showed that they were not appalled by Hickman's crime — she said there had been far worse, without the same spectacle of glee — but by his flamboyant and mocking defiance of society.

We have all heard the rhetoric from a whole host of financial advisors, best - selling authors and TV show hosts all saying the same things: Get out of debt, build a savings account, invest for the long run.

We have all heard the rhetoric from a whole host of financial advisors, best - selling authors and TV show hosts all saying the same things: Get out of debt, build a...

The reaction of the preacher Fr Tetzel, a friar priest of the Dominican Order, to the Theses, which were in his hands before the turn of the year, was to turn the whole thing into a legal dogfight; he took the battle into the enemy's country and denounced the author to Rome.

Comedic author Jenna McCarthy (If It Was Easy They'd Call the Whole Damn Thing a Honeymoon: Living With and Loving the TV - Addicted, Sex - Obsessed, Not - So - Handy Man You Married) gives a TED talk that -LSB-...]

That's troubling to the report's authors, because if one piece of the infrastructure web is weak, the whole thing is vulnerable.

Johnson: Marie Winn who is author of red - tailed hawk and many other things, and an expert, naturalist and a whole lot.

Dave Asprey: So Khan you are the author of Whole Heart Solution and where can people find more about you, your book and all the other things that you do?

And the movie does have its flaws: for such a supposedly important author, Eiffel's work sounds like it has more in common with Oprah's Book Club than Saul Bellow, those two boobs from the Sonic Drive - Thru commercials are inexplicably cast as co-workers (perhaps to contribute to the entire atmosphere of unreality), and the whole thing plays like Charlie Kaufman Lite... blurring the lines of reality and unreality, but without the messy cynicism.

Malcolm McDowell was the biggest let down of the whole thing Rob Zombie did terrible with Dr. Loomis in this film felt more like he was a author and not a doct...

So many authors — even book publicity veterans — feel that, if the scheduled radio interview doesn't take place, it's an act of the gods, and they drop the whole thing.

Though this visual trend in publishing has been in the works for a while — book tours and book trailers give the edge to attractive authors with a flair for public speaking — things have reached a whole new level now that author videos are beginning to appear inside books.

In a brief interview the author comments on the book's structure: «There are little bits of connection between the five sections; but it's really going to be a bit like listening to a symphony in five movements or, if you like, an LP, an album, a CD in which the tracks are separate, but the whole thing adds up to more than the sum of its parts.»

To make this promotion exciting for even the people who already have all 3 books, we organized a private Google + Hangout and the four of us talked about a whole load of things for both new authors and more advanced stuff.

One of the great things about the rise of indie publishing is its accessibility — all it takes is an internet connection for an author to reach the whole world.

Angry Games... this whole thing about an author signing away rights for life is pure bs.

Thanks to every reader who came to find me, to the wonderful authors sitting next to me who took this whole thing in good humor, and to the RT volunteers and staff who put in a tremendous day of work to make a signing of 700 authors come together.

It embodies our new tagline, «Igniting Author Careers» as well as the other meaning of fuse: bonding two or more things into a stronger whole.

That was the whole point of self - publishing — so the AUTHOR could do those things.

Steve Z said: «Angry Games... this whole thing about an author signing away rights for life is pure bs,» and «This is one of the most blogged falsehoods I see on indie sites.»

One author was so annoyed that she wrote to the Authors Guild to complain about the program, saying, «it's time this whole thing was discussed and exposed.»

One of the neat things about Indies Unlimited is that we get to become acquainted with the books of a whole lot of authors.

I wish the author had dealt with this issue a little more, and the whole conspiracy thing a little less though.

I think the greatest thing that could happen out of the whole situation is that people begin to read more, which would benefit authors everywhere and society as a whole.

One nice thing about this whole debate is I've discovered authors I had never heard of before and I'd like to read some of your stuff.

I've said this several times on Tobias's blog... I have a sneaking suspicion this whole thing was Steve Jobs's idea and he's sitting somewhere stroking a white cat laughing maniacally as he gets the publishers to do his bidding and Amazon falls for his trap and alienates authors.

Terry covers the publishing business, submissions process, how editorial decisions are made, the editors and authors jobs, and a whole host of things that every writer needs to know!

That means a 200 - page novel will net the author eight cents if a reader finishes the whole thing; even further, an author will only get paid the first time the reader enjoys the book.

These are a whole lot more likely to get your career going than Tweeting 24/7, paying to boost Facebook posts, buying followers and reviews, spamming online author groups, or any of the other gimmicky things way too many authors are doing.

John Scalzi's comment pretty well summarized this whole thing, because I dare you to accuse me or any other author I know of «playing» at our craft.

My kids have seen me giving this whole career - author thing a go, with me getting up at 5 or 5:30 a.m. nearly every day for the last several months so that I can get my writing done and still have time for my day job and all the rest.

The whole thing seems to be a rip off as far as the author is concerned — but here I hear myself asking what is the difference if I lend a hard copy book to a friend or take one out from the library?

I've been getting emails from author friends, some of whom are flummoxed or annoyed about the whole social media marketing thing.

It's a funny thing, being an author and doing the whole social media thing to promote books.

Also, those who are looking for this whole «indie author» thing to fade, you might be waiting awhile.

This has been the Indie Author Fringe in Frankfurt Book Fair October 2016, and there is a worksheet for you to download that has a whole load of questions and a whole load of bullet points which will help you think about all the different things we've talked about and a whole load more.

And then on the publishing side we have a whole group of New York Times bestselling authors that are very successful self - publishers, and you can go in and ask them any questions that you might have, and there's a whole list of frequently asked questions and things like that.

When readers and supporters want to get to know an author, and that author's whole catalog of work, the first thing they do is go online and look at the author's site.

Fellow Author - in - Progress contributor Jane Friedman, who was so gracious when I did the whole awkward introduction over the coffee stand thing.

First, if you ask the several authors in London who got in touch with me as this whole thing went down, they'll tell you that Kobo's handling of the matter has been little short of appalling.

For authors working with publishers (with or without representation), this kind of thing is a whole other ball game.

Sorry, not Dan's argument in particular, the whole thread Stephen started and responses as a whole is not addressing the only thing that matters in my mind: what does Amazon think drives subscribership, and do we really think any single author could know better than they do with our limited data points?

Amazon's TOS also needs to be a whole lot clearer on a range of things, so authors have absolute clarity about what is permitted and what isn't.

Tate disappearing is a good thing for authors as a whole (Lux appearing is not).

The whole thing gets much more interesting and adaptive in the ebook world - different authors could employ personalised, customised and targeted models specific to their wants - but first they have to grab back control.

There's a whole heap of things that pop up in the course of being a published author.