Sentences with phrase «writers and publishers over»

«I just think we're great writers and publishers over here» in the UK, «and we like to award ourselves prizes,» Jones said — and with a look of blithe innocence on his face.

[pullquote cite =» Philip Jones on the number of book awards in the UK» type =» right»]» I just think we're great writers and publishers over here» in the UK «and we like to award ourselves prizes... It's highly consistent with our greatness.»

Not exact matches

Countdown 101: From Writer to Self Publisher by Heather Covington 1st Books Library Paperback, $ 22.95 404 pages ISBN: 978 -1-4140-2218-2 Book Review by Kam Williams «After starting a business proposal that took over 10 years, as long as it took to finally self publish my first book, I knew that I needed to be brave, and tear it to pieces to start all over.

Tracey Maurer, writer of over 100 nonfiction books, talked with students about how she does research, works with a publisher, and comes up with ideas for her texts.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Henry Holt and Company Publishers has, for over a century, published writers that define their era and endure far beyond it.

Walter John Williams — Well yes, Hachette is mean to authors, if by mean you mean that Hachette, and other publishers, try to get authors to sign contracts that favor the publisher over the writer.

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.

It's the rare writer who can write the same story over and over as traditional publishers want them to do.

«We're excited to record many more stories over the coming months and to experiment with adding different types of audio content, supporting writers and publishers to upload their own narrations, and more,» the company said in an email.

none of this daydreaming over Starbucks nonsense — also gives writers and publishers a better chance at the Holy Grail: a novel that sells well, yet isn't completely cut off from critical praise.

While traditional publishers are locking said gates and gouging prices of ebooks, readers all over the world are embracing new work from new writers at a fraction of the cost.

RWA (Romance Writers of America) is an organization that supports and advances the careers of romance authors, and the RWA conference is a four - day gathering of publishers, writers and supporters with over 2,100 attWriters of America) is an organization that supports and advances the careers of romance authors, and the RWA conference is a four - day gathering of publishers, writers and supporters with over 2,100 attwriters and supporters with over 2,100 attendees.

Authors, writers, publishers of eBooks, audiobooks and short texts can... A) sell their eBook through their author page on XinXii - without author contract - in real - time, without technical skills - with an own authorpage and online shop - enter all information such as description, tags, cover, price... - upload an eBook in one or multiple formats: PDF, ePub, mobi, doc, xls... - high royalties per download - consolidated real - time sales reports - keeping full editorial and copyright control or B) sell their eBook through their author page on XinXii and additionally on major eBook retailers - we convert eBooks to the ePub and mobi format for free - we distribute to the leading eBook - shops all over the world for free - we provide consolidated sales reports Readers have... - the opportunity to discover new titles in all categories and genres - an easy access to a huge variety of content - can instantly download after purchase - have the opportunity to rate and comment on eBooks

And the biggest myth to hit indie writers (because traditional publishers repeat this over and over) is that indie writers can't get their books into bookstorAnd the biggest myth to hit indie writers (because traditional publishers repeat this over and over) is that indie writers can't get their books into bookstorand over) is that indie writers can't get their books into bookstores.

Here in my home town of Los Gatos, California, Smashwords (my company) has been working in partnership with the Los Gatos Public Library over the last six months to develop and roll out a pilot program designed to help local writers learn to become professional publishers.

For those of you who don't know, the bankruptcy clause in writer's publishing contract is not valid, and when your publisher drops into bankruptcy, your book is an asset of the company and is treated like one and can be sold off to anyone for any purpose and you have no say over anything.

For over two decades I have provided editorial services for writers around the world and publishers across the United States and Canada.

But as long as HQN editors are working both with HQN and Dellarte writers, and thus earning HQN profits through both commercial and fee - based publishing, I would hope RWA wouldn't compound the «form over substance» problem by winking at HQN and saying that its commercial imprints are publishers even while those same editors are also working at Dellarte.

My two favorites are Writer's Digest Guide to Literary Agents (the 2016 issue is now available) and Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents: Who They Are, What They Want, How to Win Them Over.

In this new world, my gut sense (meaning a wild guess) is that writers will be taking control over more and more aspects of sales, rights, and publishing of their work as they learn how to do it themselves, even when working with traditional publishers.

Last week I ran the Ultimate Social Media Resource list and this week I'm going to share all the resources I have gathered over the last few years for writers, indie authors and self - publishers.

I saw writers out there struggling to find freelance work and getting rejected over and over again by publishers and agents who saw no potential in their books.

None of the work is more complicated than tracking submissions, rejections, synopses, agents, publishers, and sales over the months and years that writers on the traditional path have to do.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware One of the effects of the phenomenal growth of ebooks over the past few years has been to bring new value to the backlist — both for publishers who hold the contracts for backlist books, and authors who wa... -LSB-...]

I provide stories that over step the line, stories that New York Literary Agents and publishers will never publish, as a Writer I have my novels self - published, because we still live in a dystopian world that only shake and bake for the suburban crowd; thank you Mr. J...

Reach over 125,000 + readers booksellers, publishers, public and academic librarians, wholesalers, distributors, educators, agents and writers with all four magazine advertisements.

It will be missed by publishers more than by writers, and its passing will be pored over by pundits eager to have their say about the «Netflix for e-books».

Because of all these publishers and agents picking up fanfic writers, I sometimes wonder if I put into my query letter, «I wrote fanfic for over ten years, and one of my fanfics had over 500,000 reviews and the readers said they would buy anything I write» would that grab their attention?

Subscribers to PUBLISH - L come from all over the world, and include mid sized independent publishers and their staff members, self - publishers with one book, self - publishers with many books, writers, reviewers, publicists, printers, coaches, designers, and other service providers.

And even though agents and big publishers aren't excited about signing writers over 50, more readers tend to be over 50 and we love to read about something besides high school dramas and 20 - somethings falling in loAnd even though agents and big publishers aren't excited about signing writers over 50, more readers tend to be over 50 and we love to read about something besides high school dramas and 20 - somethings falling in loand big publishers aren't excited about signing writers over 50, more readers tend to be over 50 and we love to read about something besides high school dramas and 20 - somethings falling in loand we love to read about something besides high school dramas and 20 - somethings falling in loand 20 - somethings falling in love.

Over the course of the last calendar year Kobo has been building a team in Taiwan and securing licensing deals with local publishers in order to launch their digital bookstore with a large portfolio that features local writers.

There are numbers of indie publishers / writers who are building their own small and medium - sized publishing business, and thus are kicked out of the indie charts and over into that category.

«Big Pub basically runs its own monopoly over writers,» a commenter on a New York Times article retorted, and I received an email about the Amazon - Hachette clash in which the writer complained of «the impossibility of a non-NYC writer just getting his foot in the door without sleeping with professors, visiting authors, publishers; without an M.F.A.; or without publications in major magazines (100 percent of which are supplied by agents).

Just mere hours ago I told another author «The days of publishers and agents expecting writers to bend over backwards for their every whim are over.

Ultimately, the excitement over this partnership will rest on the writers and publishers of online content.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Raider Publishing International, the focus of numerous author complaints over the past few years and one of the companies on Writer Beware's Thumbs Down Publishers List, is trolling for victims under a sort -... -LSB-...]

When I edit for self - publishers I find the writer gets off track and will repeat some facts over and over.

-LCB- 2 -RCB- Given that the average first novel, favourably reviewed in leading newspapers, will sell a few thousand copies over its total shelf life, -LCB- 3 -RCB- it is obvious why publishers don't rush to fill their lists with new names, and indeed look after only that small percentage of writers that pay their salaries.

Yet traditional NOVEL publishers across the board are turning down those terms and demanding even more control over a writer's work.

The traditional publishers» control over what writers can write and get into print has ended.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Over the past few years, more and more trade publishers have created digital - only imprints.

Also, the one book a year mentality is another left over element from traditional publishing thinking based on limited shelf space and overworked editors and publishers who could not keep up with quality writer who wrote fast.

We're all over the map, agented writers seeking a big publisher, small press published, and indie or self - published.

Here are two major changes that have occurred over the past few weeks that can help us as writers and publishers.

As I have pounded over and over, writers are people who write, so if you are a real writer who can't sell the 4th book, you indie publish the book and move to a new series, a new name, a new publisher and just keep going.

I've discussed before the difference between editing, copy editing and proofing, but judging by the fact that someone over at ATH asked about how writers were going to get the excellent editing and other services that traditional publishers provide in the new indie publishing, I'm going to presume that I either haven't gotten through or that I need a boomier amplifier.

When I replied that I've worked with four editors at six publishers — both Big Six houses and smaller independents — over the course of eight novels, and have never had my work mutilated or adulterated, much less transformed into a cookie, she told me that I was «very lucky,» for she knew of many traditionally published writers who'd had the opposite experience.

I can't imagine the publisher being happy to do editing and such on a book and then just handing an epub / mobi version over to the writer to use with their own rights, but on the other hand I can't imagine a book having slightly different edited versions between the ebook and the hard copies.

i was struck by how many of those new writers came from or were converts to the world of self - publishing and it reminded me once again how powerful and useful Amazon's policy of accommodating self - publishers and small publishers has been in their development of a digital publishing platform (see my thoughts on this earlier in the week over on Medium).