Sentences with phrase «work of a single author»

An anthology is a different animal to a collection, which features the work of a single author, e.g. my short story collections Marry in Haste, Quick Change and Stocking Fillers.

There are a lot of «publishers» in the OverDrive catalog that publish the works of a single author only.

Not exact matches

During his time with Ad Age, he has been recognized with the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for best range of work by a single author, as well as a Best in Business award for a feature story from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

3) The discussion about scaling vs. keeping it small is a very interesting one: I liked that the author presented real - life cases for either scenarios for food for thought instead of advocating one or the other (e.g. presenting a single «formula» as the golden rule that all shall follow)-- I can see how this particular decision can be case sensitive and there really is no «right» answer as long as it works for the entrepreneur!

If with due attention to this difficulty one were to read through the works of particular authors most celebrated for their genius, it might in barely a single instance perhaps be possible, though with much pains, to discover a little.

Where so many solutions are possible, and so much hangs on the evidence of a single verse, it is not easy to choose; but two considerations point to the verse being the work of the author himself and having a special reference to the story of the last chapter, or to a part only of the gospel.

But the fuss over her comment and its underlying assumption — that there must be something wrong with him because, busy or not, he «should» have a girlfriend — got me thinking about the work of Bella DePaulo, author of numerous books on the single life, including Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After.

Jones's work has shown that, for single retraction cases — thereby excluding the more extreme cases of misconduct that can lead to multiple retractions — among the members of an author team, more eminent authors experience a smaller citation penalty than do their less eminent coauthors.

«The story told in most textbooks and museums is that as grasslands gradually took over from forests, horses got bigger, and they reduced their toes to a single digit,» said first author Brianna McHorse, a Ph.D. student working in the labs of Assistant Professor Stephanie Pierce and Professor Andrew Biewener in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.

«For the first time, we can predict the outcomes of modifying multiple genes involved in lignin biosynthesis, rather than working with a single gene at a time through trial and error, which is a tedious and time - consuming process,» says Jack Wang, assistant professor in NC State's College of Natural Resources and lead author of a paper about the research in Nature Communications.

«Our work clearly shows that predisposition to obesity and increased body mass index is not due to a single gene or genetic change,» says senior study author Elizabeth Speliotes, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H, assistant professor of internal medicine and computational medicine and bioinformatics at the University of Michigan Health System.

Based on the nucleotide context, the authors suggest that a new mutational mechanism may be at work involving cytosine deamination of single - stranded DNA (presumably during replication).

«For our method to work, we needed to find a way to efficiently identify a single mutation in a cell among hundreds of normal, healthy cells,» explained Gladstone Research Scientist Yuichiro Miyaoka, PhD, the paper's lead author.

In 1946, Rowley returned to the University as a graduate student in pathology and worked in the laboratory of the department chairman on a project that led to two single - authored papers.

Even though the current 6th edition has 7 authors, the material is integrated in such a way that it reads like the work of a single hand — the deft hand of its master chef, Bruce Alberts.

One of the things I really admire about David Gabe (cookbook author and cooking class instructor) is that he tests every single one of his recipes in a $ 30 blender just to make sure the recipes work (and even though I think he has a Vitamix).

8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter: And Other Tips from a Beleaguered Father (Not That Any of Them Work) is an owner's manual for anyone who Married, Rules dating and relationship coach, author of two best - selling books, «How to Date — Single Girls» Dating Manual» and «Why Men Ask Dumb

DVD special features on the movie's single - disc, 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen release include an audio commentary track with Favreau and co-producer Peter Billingsley, a look at the making of the accompanying videogame to the movie and a clutch of featurettes on the work of author Van Allsburg, the cast, the visual effects and the like.

The shorter of them, single - authored by David Steiner, essentially summarizes the findings of the longer «working paper» and advances a handful of useful — and mostly actionable — next steps.

Titles highlighted in the Prime Reading launch offering include the Man Booker Prize shortlisted The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling, The Angels of Lovely Lane by Nadine Dorrie, as well as non-fiction and short - form content including Kindle Singles by Susan Hill and Howard Jacobson and works from authors such as Gloria Steinem.

I see so many indie authors tweet the crap out of their work, up to the point where you see the same, auto - mated tweets every, and I mean EVERY single day.

But mostly I work with dozens and dozens of authors every single month.

Grant Me is the work of self - published author Em Perna — a wild ride of a love story chock - full of twists and turns that revolves around the central character, Neva Matthews, a single mom working two jobs to support herself and her son.

Recognizing that no book is the work of a single individual, perhaps it is time that the publishing industry started publishing a list of credits for each book produced that acknowledges not just the role of the author, but also editor, publisher etc - irrespective of whether the book was created in the traditional sense or packaged!

That accomplishment affords them the privilege of paying $ 90 per year in membership dues to an organization who is working with publishers to bring down Amazon, the single largest retailer who makes the majority of sales happen for the majority of authors.

Today, indie authors have as much of a potential platform as authors using traditional publishing houses, since they are able to distribute their work through Amazon (arguably the single most important book distirbution channel in the world today).

I would imagine many agencies who currently entertain the idea of publishing their clients» work but have yet to take the leap are hesitating because they acknowledge the immense gap between the idea and its implementation, between the huge number of hours and any return on investment, between the promised land of John Locke's millions and a single author's first venture into non-traditional publishing.

Freelance novel editors work for the money, sure, but there isn't a single one of them who is partial to the idea of doing work that is counter-productive to an author's success.

Many authors publish their books in a single format only, and while this approach might also work for your book, the prevailing philosophy supports publishing your book in as many different formats as possible, with the goal of making your book accessible to as many different readers as possible.

While other long - form journalism platforms like Atavist are exploring other options with this type of publishing, Kindle Singles does not foresee a change to the model in the near future, especially given the proven popularity of the format with the readers as well as the opportunity it provides for authors of every status to publish great work.

Despite the list of worthy authors whose titles are currently finding top spots in the Kindle store thanks to their publications as Kindles Singles — and many of the bestselling Kindle Singles are in the top 100 for all Kindle ebooks — Blum is always on the lookout for writers who haven't published as much elsewhere, either traditionally or digitally, in order to bring their poignant works to light for Kindle readers.

It would seem a daunting task to write an entire book based on a single photograph, but author Louis P. Masur is equal to the challenge in his latest work, The Soiling of Old Glory.

The main essence behind Kindle Singles is to give people short reads by authors who find their bodies of work are too short to be a novel and too long for a magazine article.

The main essence behind Kindle Singles is to give people short reads by authors who find their bodies of work are too short to be a novel and too long for a magazine... [Read more...]

As a single mother of two, author working on books five and six for my publisher Booktrope, director of the Gravity Imprint for Booktrope, director of Social Media Services for AuthorBytes, creator of the weekly Twitter meme #MondayBlogs, and chats #SexAbuseChat, and #GravityChat, cohost of Let's Talk on Blog Talk Radio with Bennet Pomerantz every Wednesday at 3:30 pm pst, as well as owner of my own company, BadRedhead Media, I get being busy.

You can also link out to literary journals that have published your work online, and you can make a bigger impact by creating a single author bio with all of your credits in one place.

Author Pages will give you a single platform for directing readers to your work, complete with an author bio and photo, and a list of your books that will be updated as your catalog Author Pages will give you a single platform for directing readers to your work, complete with an author bio and photo, and a list of your books that will be updated as your catalog author bio and photo, and a list of your books that will be updated as your catalog grows!

The first book in the series will be a single - author work of creative nonfiction with a significant connection to contemporary Pittsburgh.

Cindy Ratzlaff: I most often work for the publisher on behalf of a single author or group of authors.

It's easy to forget that the early work of every writer, no matter how gifted, is usually mediocre at best... (in the past) the publishing industry was a lot more receptive to writers who hadn't yet mastered their craft... Writers tended to stick with a single publisher as well, so an editor like Max Perkins could nurse budding authors like Hemingway and Fitzgerald through their early, less masterful works, knowing they would stick with Scribners once they hit their stride.

One of the advantages CNN cited for the Paperwhite was the exclusive - to - Amazon «Kindle Singles» — the short, cheap works written by established authors, which you can't get on any other device.

The consultant works with the service providers, oversees the book's production, and serves as a single point of contact for the author throughout the publishing process.

His books have won Bram Stoker Awards, Hugo Awards, and Nebula Awards; he's also the first author to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal for a single work of fiction: The Graveyard Book.

Notwithstanding the forgoing, for purpose of scholarly use, business people, journalists, and students may quote passages from this book (giving full attribution to the author) without charge and without obtaining proper written permission, so long as the cumulative total of such quotations are less than 50 words in length in any single work, web site, or article.

About the author: Steve was born and raised on the West Side of Chicago by a single mom who worked nights for a printing company.

She also fields 12 works of fiction currently and is prolific: She writes here of working on seven projects in the last year, plus four single - author box sets.

Not a single member of the team works at Jera because all they want is money; they all work at Jera because they have a passion for the industry and a desire to help self - publishing authors.

I work with both indie and traditionally published authors, both NYT and USA Today best sellers as well as debut authors, and provide a full editing team while providing the convenience of a single point of contact.

So, if the paraphrased summation is reflective of a majority of feeling — A: what implicit value does any single author or their works have if they are interchangeable on a price level and B: If $ 3.99 is better than $ 14.99, isn't $ 0.99 better than $ 3.99?

This essay highlights one of the compelling features of Kindle Singles — they allow top authors to publish their works quickly.