Sentences with phrase «writer friends who»

Send this to your writer friends who didn't go to law school.

Well, nine years later and after having contracted eight of my novels with mainstream publishers by attending writers» conferences and pitching there, I can also say that nearly all my writer friends who have gotten contracts or signed with an agent did so through pitching at a writers» conference.

The reason my hubs asked me this question is because I had several writer friends who are indie authors and because I had family pushing me to self publish.

Yes, I know many freelance editors offer sample edits of small bits of something, but many (pro or not) don't, and apart from referrals from writer friends who are successfully (And PROFESSIONALLY) published, whether indie or traditional, I wish there was a Writer's Digest Guide to Freelance Editors, that would help narrow it down some, and if anyone who works at or has connections to «Writer's Digest» I think it's time to add that to your anual roster of guides.

Some of my best critiques came from writer friends who weren't yet widely published when we first met (Now many of them are published, and these are quality, non-cheap books, I might add!)

I have way too many things to be thankful for: That INDIE publishing is an option for authors All my writer friends who have supported my journey into the wilds of INDIE publishing All... Read More

When the traditional route didn't work, she began to listen to her writer friends who encouraged her to self - publish.

I have too many writer friends who were dropped by traditional publishers and are now making good livings and building their audiences.

I've had a few writer friends who when through personal losses that threw their writing careers off the rails.

Now, understand that I have some writer friends who sell novels to traditional publishers.

Actually, that would be my critique group members and two writer friends who read my complete novel, and a couple more writer friends who gave me feedback on a story or two.

Are these authors so unconnected in the writing world that they don't have other writer friends who are grammar Nazis and good editors with whom they can trade work to get it cleaned up and edited?

I had three writer friends who ended up in the hospital in 2013 from exhaustion.

I do have writer friends who chose to self publish and I have the utmost respect for them.

4) If your problems feel overwhelming, complain to your writer friends who are still struggling to get published.

These questions come up often with writer friends who are considering indie or hybrid publishing.

Similarly, novelists should be guest blogging on sites their readers read, not on sites hosted by writer friends who serve a different genre.

I also have a writer friend who was mid-list with the Big 6.

At the time I wrote that post, I was in dialogue with a writer friend who is well - acquainted with the angst I expressed.

I have a writer friend who has a great story, but he can't punctuate worth a flip.

I have a writer friend who told me recently that she feels she can't keep up with the pace and may stop writing.

Hi Linda, I have a writer friend who recently wrote two blog posts on this topic that might interest you: one on why you shouldn't self - publish, and one on why you should.

I know one FB writer friend who reached a 1000 sales in one year, hand - selling her book to book clubs and events across Ireland.

I recently exchanged my manuscript with a writer friend who also had a novel she wanted me to read.

Not exact matches

For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

«I think that level of transparency is admirable,» says Mark Bittman, the longtime food writer and sustainability advocate, who co-created a salad for Sweetgreen in 2014 and now considers Jammet a friend.

-- > Dealing with rejection from family, friends, and publishers (A writer who can't deal with rejection is like a surfboard who can't deal with water.)

I have several friends who are writers and they can be quite dry at times.

A Christian writer who's released a book encouraging children to tell their friends about Jesus has said... More

Today's post comes to us from a friend and fellow writer who wishes to remain anonymous.

It's a fuel event,» says another friend of the writer's, described as «ripped», who when invited to other peoples» homes for dinner smuggles in fruit and nuts in his wife's purse.

In sum, our reporter friend and those like him should not feel guilty about agreeing with Steele, Loury, Crouch, and other writers who are waking us up to the disastrous consequences of policies promoted under the banner of «civil rights.»

Chesterton is «a difficult writer to defend», he writes: «[t] hose of us who are used to pressing his writing on friends have the hard job of protecting him from his detractors, who think he was a nasty anti-Semite and medievalising reactionary, and the still harder one of protecting him from his admirers, who pretend that he was not» [my italics].

One of these dubious deterministic friends of religion is a former student of mine named Huston Smith, a pleasant, likeable person, who enjoys his complex view, in which he finds places for a number of recent writers, though he knows how little some of us agree with it.

«Every word you have written and spoken has been pure light to me,» Waugh once told his friend, and it was Waugh who came closer than anyone to explaining the difficulty of assessing a fellow writer who did not «employ a single recognizable idiosyncratic style» or stick to a single genre.

Perhaps the examples of Thomas Tallis and his pupil and friend William Byrd, both Roman Catholics, will give heart to contemporary Catholic artists — and those who like myself are Anglo - Catholic artists — as well as other writers in the Christian tradition who find themselves in the situation that Dana Gioia describes.

The prolific blogger Mark Shea points to one of the attractions of the new media for writers: there is nobody who will change your headline «Exploring the Mysteries of the Rosary» to «My Friend the Rosary».

I found in Ford far more than I had hoped for: a writer who, by his own account, had «apprenticed» himself to America; whose stories and characters so spring from their landscapes and physical situations as to personify the spirit of the motels, roadside bars, lakes and highways where we encounter them; and who may well be, as his friend Raymond Carver (who died last summer) said, «sentence for sentence... the best writer at work in this country today.»

I am pleased to introduce two friends who have recently joined the list of regular writers for «First Thoughts.»

Any minister who, like the writer, has heard many «confessions» of sin, made formally or informally by parishioners and friends, will be able to testify to the danger just noted.

I have friend, who was once my student, and in his angsty teenage period he would pace impatiently up and down the journalism room, waiting for the other writers to finish their pieces so he could put the paper to bed.

I recently went out for non-drinks with a pregnant writer friend, who is understandably concerned that motherhood will ruin her life.

Today, through a fellow writer friend I discovered you and your beautiful world with T. I too am a writer, married to a music man, with a child who came to us through adoption.

Saving the beaches helped protect the shoreline, said Patrick Reardon, a historian of Chicago and former Tribune urban affairs writer who wrote a report for Friends of the Parks in 2009 on the four miles of lakefront that were still privately owned.

Today's Watertown recommendations come from my friend Sharon, mom of two adorable boys (one who knows how to rock a runway) and writer of the parenting / food blog umommy + co-founder of KidNosh, an online restaurant review site for parents.

Stacey Ferguson, Justice Fergie [«Cheer for Your Cheerleaders»] Kristin Shaw, Two Cannoli [«You Know Your Child Best»] Aviva Goldfarb, The Scramble [«Always the Potential for Good»] Margo Porras, Nacho Mama [«Your Kids Will Do What You Do»] Emily McKhann, The Motherhood [«You Are Courageous»] Jane Maynard, This Week for Dinner [«Savor Even the Hard Seconds»] Mary Ann Zoellner, producer at NBC's TODAY [«Play Like a Dad»] Lian Dolan, Oprah.com [«Life is Serious Enough»] Maria Bailey, Mom Talk Radio [«Take Time to Celebrate You»] Christie Matheson, Stroller Traffic [«Nothing Better Than Coming Home»] Carla Naumburg, Psychcentral.com [«You Are Not Your Thoughts»] Jenny Lee Sulpizio, JennyLeeSulpizio.com [«I'm Not Above Mom Jeans»] Kimberly Coleman, Foodie City Mom [«Follow Your Own Inner Voice»] Missy Stevens, Wonder, Friend [«Nice Things Are Still Just Things»] Rachel Jankovic, Femina Girls [«It's Not Supposed to Be Easy»] Megan Brooks, Texas Health Moms [«The Love Language of Listening»] Carissa Rogers, Good N Crazy [«Here's to Embracing Change»] Dina Freeman, BabyCenter [«Learn to Swim in the Deep End»] Elizabeth Grant Thomas, Elizabethgrantthomas.com [«It's Easier to See Light in Darkness»] Wendy Hilton, Hip Homeschool Moms [«They Want to Make Us Happy»] Renée Schuls - Jacobson, Rasjacobson.com [«Beware of Emotional Vampires»] Shannon Lell, ShannonLell.com [«Don't Be Afraid to Sparkle»] Bunmi Laditan, Honest Toddler [«What Makes You a Writer»] Erin Dymoski, Sisterhood of the Sensible Moms [«What I'd Tell My Younger Self»] Lyss Stern, Divamoms.com [«Those Who Matter Don't Mind»] Debra Shigley, In Deb's Kitchen [«Feeling Bad?

I remember reading a chapter about that once... the writer said that it's even harder for those of us who identify ourselves as attachment parents, those of us who've read all of those books and who've talked with our friends about wanting to be the best parent possible.

I'm so excited to be able to officially announce the Dads4Kesem Hadrian's Wall Walk in July 2016, when I'll be joining 11 other dad bloggers, writers, and influencers, as we walk together to raise funds for a new Camp Kesem chapter at the University of Maryland in honor of my friend Oren Miller, who lost his battle with cancer last year.

Livermore and Alexander had instituted a «quarterly look - ahead» meeting, at which grand strategic matters were discussed among a senior group that included Greg Beales, Tom Baldwin, Stewart Wood, Torsten Bell, the head of strategy, and Marc Stears, a close friend of Miliband's from university who worked as a speech writer.

Sean Hoare, a legendary showbiz writer, told the New York Times, that Coulson, who was then a close friend, had actively encouraged him to hack voicemail and had listened to message with him.