Sentences with phrase «written by celebrities»

To wit: overpaying huge advances for worthless books written by celebrities.

Many of the books written by celebrities, many indie authors say Snooki is not a real author, are also ghost written.

Pregnancy books written by celebrities Women have been pregnant since the dawn of time, with books written on the subject for as long as there have been books.

only thing worse is parenting books written by celebrities!

This self - published book beats out all the hundreds of books in its category in Amazon sales ranking including those published by the major traditional publishers and many written by celebrity authors with a platform.

Not exact matches

«These agreements are very common among celebrities and people of wealth,» Trump wrote, adding that it «was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair, despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair.»

The early church was disenfranchised — they had no Christian bookstores full of Christian books written by Christian celebrities — yet Jesus somehow still built His Church.

This article appears to be written by someone who views Billy Graham as a celebrity, not someone to listen to and take the message seriously.

A few days ago, we found one of our recipes (written word by word, pictures included) posted on the website of a so - called fitness celebrity, who took full credit for.

Written off by election experts and shunned by the political establishment, former Rep. Anthony Weiner has once again upended popular conceptions about him, vaulting to the front of the race for mayor — in part due to his celebrity and aggressive manner.

Responding to Reddit CEO's Yishan Wong's declaration that the site was «a new kind of government» devoted to free speech (but then admitting that it deleted a sub-reddit devoted to sharing nude pictures of celebrities by citing existing DMCA notices), Sarah Jeong writes, «What kind of society accepts that copyright is a more compelling dictates that sexual victimization and invasion of privacy?»

«The Center School... relies on a mysterious process that manages to enroll the children of celebrities even as it fails to sufficiently admit children of color,» Councilman Ritchie Torres wrote to Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza on Monday in a letter that was obtained by The Post.

Forbidden to leave Egypt while the investigation is ongoing, Hawass spends his days writing books in this modest office, surrounded by trophies, medals and photos of himself with celebrities.

«If I could change one thing about science, I would change the way it is communicated to the public by scientists, by journalists, and by celebrities,» writes Clare Malone, a postdoctoral researcher in a cancer genetics lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

In Amanda de Cadenet's new book, It's Messy ($ 27, amazon.com), the host of the celebrity interview series The Conversation writes candidly about her own life story, from her days as a teenage talk show host to becoming a mom at 19 to her high - profile marriage — and divorce, by the time she was 26.

Iowa Women Loses Half Her Weight And Gains $ 10k Written by: Kat Gal Only celebrities and rich people with access to top trainers and -LSB-...]

«I did not want to like the LC collection by virtue of her celebrity,» writes one over-35 reviewer.

When I wrote it, rainboots were being worn everywhere by celebrities and just starting to be embraced by the general population.

Today I'm writing about some of my favorite suede pieces for this season — the Stuart Weitzman Highland Boots and a pretty purple suede bag from Proenza Schouler — both are classic pieces that are thought after by celebrities and bloggers [Read more...]

Written by William G Chandler Jr., June 25, 2016, at 6:43 a.m. Photos by Greg Chandler Any good convention can be about great game, and item, purchases, YouTube celebrities, great music, and competitions.

It's in The Nutty Professor rather than The Patsy, however, that Lewis finds for his personal obsessions with celebrity, performance and popularity a form palatable to a wide public — a success confirmed by the traditional critical prejudice (in Anglo - American writing) that finds this to be Lewis» one acceptable film.

All of the celebrities get tributary write - ups by other starry folk: Oscar whisperer Harvey Weinstein honors film legend Redford; James Franco writes about Abramovic (OF COURSE HE DOES); Naomi Watts talks up Robin Wright who had her best year; and Jessica Chastain has the good sense to worship Megan Ellison...

If it's true that Atkinson was recently motivated by the stateside failure of this very film to check himself into an Arizona rehab centre for depressed celebrities (and frankly, don't blame audiences — distributor Universal didn't exactly tax themselves advertising Johnny English to domestic moviegoers), I hope his caretakers remind him in haste that none of Monty Python's features grossed an enviable sum abroad, that the James Bond franchise has already satirized itself into the ground (it's no casual point that Johnny English was co-scripted by the same writing team behind The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day), and that his first problem is trying to please a country that opens rehab centres for depressed celebrities.

Love, Simon's still hanging in there at No. 7, however, presumably sustained by positive word - of - mouth from LGTBQ celebrities like Billy Eichner, who wrote on Twitter, «I wish it existed when I was younger but I'm glad it does now.»

The Bling Ring written and directed by: Sofia Coppola starring: Emma Watson, Leslie Mann, Taissa Farmiga Inspired by actual events, a group of fame - obsessed teenagers use the Internet to track celebrities» whereabouts in order to rob their homes.

Based on an eleven - year - old comic strip written and drawn by Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge can't quite escape the feeling of sameness caused by the steady output of celebrity - voiced, computer - animated kids» films.

Among the celebrities at the festive brunch, sponsored by Cadillac and coinciding with the 29th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, were «Molly's Game» writer and director Aaron Sorkin, honored with the creative impact in writing award; Jessica Chastain, who presented Sorkin with his honor; «Get Out» writer and director Jordan Peele, who honored the film's star Daniel Kaluuya, on hand to accept the creative impact in acting award; «Wonder Woman» director and creative impact in directing award recipient Patty Jenkins; and Wonder Woman, herself, Gal Gadot, who teared - up while presenting Jenkins with her award.

An added benefit: Get students actively involved by having them write letters to celebrities.

To further mark the occasion and get people talking about writing, Pen Heaven asked a variety of authors, artists, journalists, teachers and celebrities to gather their thoughts and tell us why writing by hand mattered to them.

Students combine their love of social media with their love of celebrities by writing mock «tweets» about outrageous characters and events in history.

HuffPo does have a small staff of editors and journalists, yet their «vetted» content is not displayed all that differently from articles written by minor journalists, occasional crackpots or various celebrities.

plthomas3 wrote in the Daily Censored: «Now is the time for educators and scholars to speak against celebrity PR and raise a public voice of expertise to and for a public that is crying out of common sense and being manipulated by a ruling elite that is neither common nor making any sense.»

ELLs can be highly motivated by opportunities to write on culturally relevant topics in formats such as oral histories, country reports, and biographies of their heroes and celebrities (Peregoy & Boyle, 1997).

For a new non-fiction author there is little else more effective at breaking through obscurity than having a foreword written by a famous celebrity or someone well known in their niche.

Most celebrity books are written by ghost writers, the book sells on their name value.

Examples include: testimonials already secured by celebrities, famous authors, or other influential people; firm commitments (sometimes in writing) from influential people to help promote your book to their audience when the time is right; you having a massive mailing list or social media following; you having a website and / or blog with massive traffic and / or comments (with the numbers to prove it); your own radio show, TV show, or syndicated column; past and upcoming media appearances; past and upcoming speaking engagements in front of lots of people; pre-sale commitments from corporations or organizations; having your own publicist or being able / willing to hire one.

From Lorrie Moore's earliest reviews of novels by Margaret Atwood and Nora Ephron, to an essay on Ezra Edelman's 2016 O.J. Simpson documentary, and in between: Moore on the writing of fiction (the work of V. S. Pritchett, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, Stanley Elkin, Dawn Powell, Nicholson Baker, et al.)... on the continuing unequal state of race in America... on the shock of the shocking GOP... on the dangers (and cruel truths) of celebrity marriages and love affairs... on the wilds of television (The Wire, Friday Night Lights, Into the Abyss, Girls, Homeland, True Detective, Making a Murderer)... on the (d) evolving environment... on terrorism, the historical imagination, and the world's newest form of novelist... on the lesser (and larger) lives of biography and the midwifery between art and life (Anaïs Nin, Marilyn Monroe, John Cheever, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, among others)... and on the high art of being Helen Gurley Brown... and much, much more.

And if you're something of a celebrity in your genre, your legions of fans will be fascinated by almost anything you write, giving you permission to satisfy their cravings with your blog.

So one day I decided I would take the bull by the horns and write a fictional celebrity memoir — the tell - all of my dreams.

How they become published is largely a matter of luck: as long as traditional publishers feed the market with ghost - written crap signed by some useless celebrity instead of nurturing real writing talent, the reading public will be ill - served by them.

by James Ellroy This collection, packed to the brim with crime and murder, is composed of 14 pieces including three novellas, a profile of celebrity defendant Robert Blake, several true - crime stories and a wealth of autobiographical material that provide a template for writing a mystery novel.

Anyone who spends all day worrying about being a celebrity isn't going to write a book read by anyone but their mother.

I think publishers will choose to go with celebrity titles guaranteed to sell based on name, based on the very relevant theory that «Paris Hilton's Deep Insights» will sell more copies than a book comparable to «War and Peace» written by an unknown.

These include: Unfinished books by established authors, often because they died before completing the MS; books by subject experts (not necessarily well - known ones) who are very knowledgeable but don't write well; and just about any book by, or in some cases about, a celebrity.

(Since they are unedited, and there aren't a large quantity of them printed, advanced reader copies can become collector's items, if written by a well - known author or celebrity.)

Here's a short article written by Ernest Ward, DVM (a well - known celebrity in veterinary medicine) and Robin Downing, DVM, CVPP, DAAPM.

Written by a variety of travel review experts, on our Features you can find tips for travelling, celebrity interviews and travel guides for visiting faraway places and top holiday resorts.

In addition to celebrity sightings, «Artists & Writers: They Played In the Game» will present art and writing by those who have played in the game.

Of my writings published online on this blog and The Huffington Post since last April 2010, the ones that have in any small way gone viral, very relatively speaking, were those in which I wrote fast enough about current hot news items or ones relating or engaging with artworld celebrities: as one example, «My Whole Street is A Mosque,» written within 24 hours of the news cycle surrounding the proposal for a Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, was picked up by various web aggregators; «Looking for Art to Love, MoMA: A Tale of Two Egos» also did very well because of my speculation about how or whether Marina Abramovic peed during her performance «The Artist is Present» at MoMA, a subject of much prurient curiosity (interesting speculation was illustrated online at New York Magazine and resolution of the mystery came in the Wall Street Journal's blog, «Speakeasy»); «Anselm Kiefer@Larry Gagosian: Last Century in Berlin,» where I tucked a critical response to Kiefer's recent show into a bit of reporting about how Gagosian Gallery was using the NYPD as its private police force, also created a spike on my Google analytics; more recently I could perceive a noticeable uptick in my readership as well as in the number and enthusiasm of my Facebook friends» comments for «Should we trust anyone under 30?

The texts that are such a crucial part of Johnson's work are sometimes written by him and at other times appropriated from disparate sources such as People magazine, pulp fiction, celebrity autobiographies, black box flight recorders, and rock lyrics.