Sentences with phrase «writers and authors do»

Writers and authors don't need trade publishers to create a trade quality book, reach a global audience, maintain control and have the bucks stop in their own pockets.

The current publishing climate has aspiring writers and authors doing many things.

Any distinction between writer and author does not exist for them or their mass market audience.

Not exact matches

There can be no talent strategy without a compelling business strategy,» says Bill Taylor, an HBR writer, cofounder of Fast Company and the author, most recently, of Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways.

In addition to wearing their writer's hat, self - published authors need to do just about everything that goes into packaging, marketing, and selling books, like building an author platform.

This author also shows that there were historian / writers who were contemporary with Jesus and these writers would have an interest in chronicling the supposedly extraordinary events surrounding Jesus, but did not.

But no one book can cover everything, and perhaps the writer will readily be excused if he, a single author, does not try to say everything that is to be said on any one subject, or even everything that is in his own mind!

I am more than disappointed that the Tony Jones» support team is unable to appreciate what's good about the U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment and the rights they use all of the time as pastors / speakers / bloggers / writers and authors but don't want anyone else to have!

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

What do the following authors all have in common — Jean Paul Sartre, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Victor Hugo, Jean - Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, John Milton, John Locke, and Blaise Pascal: (a) They are among the most gifted writers the World has known; (b) They concentrated on opposing dogma and opening the human mind and spirit to the wonders of free thought and intellectual freedom; (c) They were intimidated by the Catholic Church and put on the Church's list of prohibited authors; or (d) All of the above.

And I did some researching into the other writers and scholars these authors quote, and discovered that the same tactic was used against thAnd I did some researching into the other writers and scholars these authors quote, and discovered that the same tactic was used against thand scholars these authors quote, and discovered that the same tactic was used against thand discovered that the same tactic was used against them.

SAM SMITH (Bulls beat writer for the Chicago Tribune and author of The Jordan Rules): I don't remember Michael smiling much that season.

If encouraged to get involved in the kitchen, whether it be helping to prepare meals or doing some home baking, this can develop a child's interest in food and encourage them to try different ingredients,» says food and cookery writer Nicola Graimes, the author of «New Vegetarian Kitchen» and several other cookbooks.

Sunny Sea Gold is a health and psychology writer, the «How to Do Anything Better» columnist for Scientific American Mind, and the author of Food: The Good Girl's Drug (Berkley Books, 2011).

A feature writer and columnist for newspapers and magazines, she is the coauthor of The FastDiet (with Dr. Michael Mosley) and the author of 101 Things to Do Before You Diet.

Ask any great song writer, author, painter anybody who creates ANYTHING and they will tell you, we do our best work when motivated by love (or pain — but that's usually

Ask any great song writer, author, painter anybody who creates ANYTHING and they will tell you, we do our best work when motivated by love (or pain - but that's usually because of love - so it's the same thing!).

About The Author: Sally Reiling is the chief writer for BackgroundHawk.com, a website dedicated to educating you on dating safety, background checks, and anything to do with investigating the intentions of others.

She did an outstanding presentation regarding social media for writers and authors and answered many questions from the audience.

Julie did an outstanding presentation regarding social media for writers and authors and answered many questions from the audience.

There are many blogs dedicated to writers and authors who are happy to do book reviews of your title or a blog book tour.

About Blog Instead of sharing advice about what writers should be doing, author Janice Hardy explains how to apply the industry's advice to your work, including tips on how to plan, write, edit and publish a novel.

If the goal of the Darwin's great - great - grandson, Randal Keynes, the author of Annie's Box, along with the writers and director of «Creation» was to humanize Darwin and bury the iconic image of the stoic bearded man who walked with a cane and was slightly hunched over in his later years, then they brilliantly accomplished what they set out to do.

Contemporary author and filmmaker John Sayles says, «Jim Tully stands out in American literature as one of the few realist writers who did not just visit the rougher environs of human experience for material, but was fully of those depths... That Tully wrote at all was a miracle; that he wrote so well is a gift to the world.»

In this panel, Black Lightning star Cress Williams and executive producers Salim Akil & Mara Brock Akil will join the acclaimed John Ridley, author and comic book writer Alice Randall (The Wind Done Gone, Earth M), and Black Girl Nerds Editor - in - Chief Jamie Broadnax as they look beyond the super suit to the African - American men and women who are heroes to their community.

It seems fairly obvious what roles each thesp will take with the promise of a character driven period drama featuring the two highly exciting considering what Crowley was able to do with «Boy A.» We're not familiar with the source material, but it sounds more melodrama than her usual thriller (the author, of course, was the writer of «Strangers On A Train» and «The Talented Mr. Ripley «-RRB-.

There is some actual meat to the scenes between the two, as, from his professor, the egotistical, young «smart aleck» learns about the balance of the author's voice with an actual story, the humility of rejection, and that being a writer means a devotion that doesn't always result in success.

In the same manner that the brilliant author Roald Dahl never shied away from hiding the darker side of life away from children with his stories like «Matilda» and «The Witches», writer / director Chris Butler and co-director Sam Fell do the same with «Paranorman».

Although she is a writer of travel magazine articles and a published author, she doesn't seem content.

«When that ballistic missile comes from the back of the room, it's a good reminder that the question doesn't just belong to state school boards, authors of textbooks, writers of curriculum standards, and other elite,» he says.

Karin Chenoweth is senior writer with the Education Trust and author of It's Being Done: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools (Harvard Education Press, 2007) and How It's Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools (Harvard Education Press, 2009); [email protected].

Well, initially I was going to say that I didn't really have a horse in this race, since I'm an SF / F author, not a romance author — but pointed out and quite correctly that actually, any writer of fiction has a horse in this race.

If you're considering using Balboa, I suggest that you do a websearch on Author Solutions first; there are many complaints online about the various imprints of this company, and I've received many other complaints via Writer Beware.

After all, the purpose of RWA is to provide an organization of writers of romance who are pursuing professional publication, and although a handful of self - published authors go on to make mega-bucks, the vast, vast majority of them — 99.9999 % — don't make enough that they would have to declare the earnings on their taxes.

Most publishers request authors to do this using the Author Questionnaire, a tool that assists in assembling the resources that a writer will use for marketing and publicity.

Agents will have to became Writers Scouts, do their own research rather that being the writers search for the right Agent, and Publishers should start thinking as professional football teams, making their authors the best, supporting and coaching them to become even better, and marketing their authors liWriters Scouts, do their own research rather that being the writers search for the right Agent, and Publishers should start thinking as professional football teams, making their authors the best, supporting and coaching them to become even better, and marketing their authors liwriters search for the right Agent, and Publishers should start thinking as professional football teams, making their authors the best, supporting and coaching them to become even better, and marketing their authors like mad.

Writers with modest sales and / or career ambitions can be satisfied with an author mill, as long as it does a decent job of book production and isn't too extreme about cover pricing.

It does not matter if you are a fiction or non fiction writer, thrill or adventure writer, using the right tools to get your name out there, information about your content, and future books, is something all authors should do.

These are books and authors and writers whose livelihoods are affected by this... Most of the world doesn't give a damn about books and reading, frankly.

I did want to provide a networking opportunity for writers and publishers, but I also wanted to create an opportunity for readers to meet authors they might have read as well as discover new authors.

I could rant, but author Jackie Kessler does it so well I'll just link to her, and then follows up with Harlequin's response after the Romance Writers of America said, -LSB-...]

Sites like The Independent Author Network, The Alliance of Independent Authors, Virtual Writers, Inc., SheWrites Press, and Women's Memoirs had sprung to life — for the express purpose of encouraging authors to take charge of their own publishing, and telling them how toAuthors, Virtual Writers, Inc., SheWrites Press, and Women's Memoirs had sprung to life — for the express purpose of encouraging authors to take charge of their own publishing, and telling them how toauthors to take charge of their own publishing, and telling them how to do it.

BTW, there IS a difference between Indie author, and self - published, so let's not use the terms interchangeably as this idiot's doing with «writer» and «self - published».

To the (limited) extent that there is a difference between the usage of «writer» and «author» in popular parlance, it would seem to be more to do with length and independence of the work, than the issues Michael is raising.

Secondly, I believe that there is a lot of crap in self - publishing, due to lazy, sloppy writers who want to call themselves an author but don't bother to learn the craft first and don't begin to understand the marketing value of hiring an editor before you subject the world to your tome.

It has been one of the most pernicious problems with the traditional «writer's path» that it was possible for only a select few to make a living doing it, and that includes authors who were or are considered recognizable names.

I am, by the blog writer's definition, a «real» author, and I don't believe there needs to be such distinctions.

And do recall that readers are the people who matter here, not some little wannabe «author» angrily shaking his fist at what amounts to a net positive change for all three groups: «authors,» «writers,» and readeAnd do recall that readers are the people who matter here, not some little wannabe «author» angrily shaking his fist at what amounts to a net positive change for all three groups: «authors,» «writers,» and readeand readers.

And it doesn't take a REAL AUTHOR OR A WRITER to see it.

Major conventions like the Romance Writers of America and other tradeshows don't provide any avenues for authors to sell their print or digital books.