Sentences with phrase «writers and authors like»

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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.

Charles Duhigg, staff writer for The New York Times and author of The Power of Habit, answers questions from readers on Quora on topics ranging from how to develop a blogging habit to what it's like to work as a journalist.

In my years in leadership at the American Society of Journalists and Authors, I've encountered many people who like pushing buttons and are good at it, writers not always being the most mild - mannered of people.

A story with millions of your own adventure in it — looking for readers, writers, ghost writers, authors, editors, reporters, journalists, bloggers, influencers, entrepreneurs, sponsors like you who want to help by giving $ 1 or more and spreading this campaign and the story to the world.

It strikes me that some writers and publishers already pursue a similar idea through cultivating «true fan» booksellers through review copy mailings, author's personal email lists and things like that.

It is not an exaggeration to say there is no way the writer would say something like, «Such - and - such college has the dubious distinction of being the MOST religious campus etc. etc.» The author is fueling the notion that somehow being less religious is somehow a bad thing when each day and throughout history it has been shown time and again being more religious is more of a liability.

It's sad when the author of this story makes it sound like she knows what she is talking about and the unknowing person believes that the writer is correct.

Homosexual activists like the playwright Larry Kramer and the writer Gabriel Rotello, author of Sexual Ecology — an important weaving together of ecology theory, epidemiology, and sexual politics — have been ferociously attacked by their fellow gay activists for publicly acknowledging that AIDS results as much from human behaviors as from specific microbes.

The jury also included experts such as Laura Esquivel, author of the best - seller Like Water for Chocolate, the Basque writer Kirmen Uribe, Cristina Franchini, expert in international law, the rural sociologist Matthew Goldfarb and María Fernanda di Giacobbe, winner of the Basque Culinary World Prize 2016.

Myrna Beth Haskell is a feature writer, columnist and author of LIONS and TIGERS and TEENS: Expert Advice and Support for the Conscientious Parent Just Like You.

Writer and speaker, Jessica is the creator of TheLeakyBoob.com, co-creator of BeyondMoi.com, and creator and author of the children's book and community of What Love Tastes Like, supporter of A Girl With A View, and co-founder of Milk: An Infant Feeding Conference.

The authors would like to thank the newspaper reporters and feature article writers who contributed articles to «the Age» archive on the topics of maternity care and childbirth.

While journals like African Affairs (co-edited by Nic Cheeseman) hold writing workshops in African universities and offer prizes to encourage and celebrate African writers, they rarely publish issues that feature a majority of African authors.

Both William Olaf Stapledon, early twentieth century philosopher and science fiction author, and Professor Sir David Weatherall, distinguished medical scientist, have strong ties to Liverpool; and Birmingham has historically been home to a wide range of humanist thinkers like John Baskerville, nineteenth century avowed atheist and renown printer, Harold Blackham, first director of the BHA; George Holyoake, nineteenth century writer who coined the term «secularism», sex education pioneer Martin Cole, leading international humanist and philosopher - physicist Sir Harry Stopes - Roe; and writer and comedian Natalie Haynes.

Sam Maracic is a New York — based writer and the author of We Are Like Wells.

The evolution of the movie «The Post» (2017)-- a story about The Washington Post's 1970s battles with government over its publication of classified information relating to the Vietnam War and Pentagon Papers — reportedly goes something like this: It was a screenplay authored by Jewish writers Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, who presented it to Jewish film producer Amy Pascal, who decided it would «be a great story to tell.»

Jude Law as Young Writer Not a lot to go on here, but he has the same glasses and moustache as Tom Wilkinson's author and distinctly looks like a younger version of that character.

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».

Author, journalist, and comics writer Ta - Nehisi Coates has already been entrusted with steering the legacy of Black Panther on the page, but it looks like he won't stay in Wakanda.

With experiences as a TA, an event panelist, a presenter at conferences from UofT to Harvard, and a writer of a self - authored film blog, Kamran would like to share with others his profound interest in the profilmic in the hopes of inspiring, in them, a similar love for film.

The store also hosted monthly events with guests like writer / director Peter Jackson, author Ray Bradbury, artist Bernie Wrightson, and composers Danny Elfman, James Newton Howard and Basil Poledouris, to name a few.

Previous judges of the National Young Writers» Awards have included some of the UK's most prolific authors like Steve Backshall, Cressida Cowell, Lauren Child, Liz Pichon, Jonathan Meres, Andy Cope and Alan Durant.

With young women making up close to 60 percent of college students, critics like Richard Whitmire, former USA Today editorial writer and author of Why Boys Fail, worry that today's schools — with their emphasis on order, sitting still, and passive learning — are much better suited to girls than to boys.

They will probably like getting their work exposed to a larger reader base shared by the other authors and the host writer.

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.

Twitter has long been a personal favorite of The Book Shepherds for reaching out and connecting with «like»... as in authors and writers.

And getting your panties in a twist over calling a publisher a legacy publisher is like getting them in wad over calling someone an author instead of a writer.

Writer's Craft Academy is a private membership site for aspiring authors, featuring a vast library with hours of training videos for authors; additional resources like ebooks, workbooks, and checklists; an exclusive members - only Facebook group; a monthly writer's craft book club; and weekly video conference group coaching sesWriter's Craft Academy is a private membership site for aspiring authors, featuring a vast library with hours of training videos for authors; additional resources like ebooks, workbooks, and checklists; an exclusive members - only Facebook group; a monthly writer's craft book club; and weekly video conference group coaching seswriter's craft book club; and weekly video conference group coaching sessions.

Despite having written three books on the craft of writing (The Novel Writer's Blueprint: Five Simple Steps to Creating and Completing Your First Book, Smash Fear and Write like a Pro, and Novel Advice: Motivation, Inspiration, and Creative Writing Tips for Aspiring Authors), I haven't yet addressed the topic of creating characters.

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.

, Shriver goes on to admit that she sometimes has trouble including female writers when asked to name her favorites, in part because «The big names in the literary pantheon are repeated over and over again... [I] n the glare of a spotlight and frantic to remember any author's name at all, even women like me are going to remember Philip Roth — just as, asked to name a soft drink, I'm going to remember Coca - Cola.

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.

A new «Occupy Writers» page has authors like Francine Prose and Alice Walker writing about what the movement means to them.

From the very beginning the personalities of the characters and the texture of the book's settings leap out from the pages and like the rest of the trilogy, McCarthy hits his stride cleanly and effortlessly from the very beginning and this author easily eclipses (for me anyway) many more fashionable and better known writers.

It's in their best interest to push things like the «write a book in a month» contest, which, in my opinion, only serves to delude would - be writers into thinking they're the real deal and encouraging them by citing the small amount of formulaic, established authors who can get away with writing quickly.

If you think self - published writer's like John Locke and Amada Hocking who have both made over $ 1 - mil are not authors you're a moron Kozlowski.

«Cos a professional editor - in - chief wouldn't allow such HORRENDOUS, GRIEVOUS errors like «So the question is, should we quantify a distinction between an writer and a professional author?»

And the humorous part is that attitudes like this from people who may or may not even BE writers are spewing this type of vitriol, while actual authors are traditionally and / or self publishing, making a living and more, and generally enjoying life despite this pointless negativiAnd the humorous part is that attitudes like this from people who may or may not even BE writers are spewing this type of vitriol, while actual authors are traditionally and / or self publishing, making a living and more, and generally enjoying life despite this pointless negativiand / or self publishing, making a living and more, and generally enjoying life despite this pointless negativiand more, and generally enjoying life despite this pointless negativiand generally enjoying life despite this pointless negativity.

They've been on countless reading lists over the years, and now the lives and works of three classic English writers have inspired intriguing new novels.Syrie James» interest in classic literature led to extensive research on beloved authors like Austen and Brontë.

I think the difference is that some people who self - publish are «writers» and others are «authors» much like Kathy Rowe posts here.

Epigraph Publishing Service is a place — a home for books, if you like — where writers and authors can find solutions to their many publishing needs.

Mashable wrote that Booktrack «debuted as an iOS app focused on professional authors like Salman Rushdie; a total of 40 titles sold more than 250,000 downloads,» but then pivoted in 2013 to become a platform where «writers can embed songs from a catalogue of 20,000 licensed audio files, adding mood music, ambient audio and sound effects to play in tune with story lines, paced to a user's reading speed.»

I really like The Creative Pen and Helping Writers Become Authors.

And if you'd like more information about how Writer's Relief has been helping authors manage their submissions since 1994, feel free to check out our services.

But in my travels, I've seen non-fantasy writers declare that description is boring and to get rid of it — in fact, in a blog by a professional writer, an author said that editors don't like a lot of description, so keep it short.

Writing.ie is an online magazine site for writers and readers of all ages — if you are an author and feel you could contribute to our Resources pages, or would like to discuss your genre in our Magazine section do please get in touch!

For newbies you are right as every new author needs to write, write, write for at least four years, time it takes to get a PhD in Letters before even submitting material to an agent or editor, but once any writer KNOWS intuitively that his or her novel is as good or better than James Patterson (pretty easy to better this guy) and he or she has had the novel vetted by a good independent editor / ghost writer like myself, the ebooks are the way to go, period.

On the one hand, there should be more and better opportunities for writers to see their works produced and brought to an audience; maybe aspiring authors should start querying book app companies like Smashing Ideas and Padworx right alongside agents and publishers.

Books include: The Novel Writer's Blueprint: Five Simple Steps to Writing Your First Book, Smash Fear and Write Like a Pro, Novel Advice: Motivation, Inspiration and Creative Writing Tips for Aspiring Authors by Kevin T. Johns and Unblocked: The Sure - fire Way to Get Rid of Writer's Block Forever by Nathan Caro Frechette.