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do less write more the author s guide to findingPlease try again.Please try again.Please try again. Please try your request again later. The more time spent on these activities, however, the less time authors have to write. Author assistants are joining the ensemble of niche publishing support services, like book formatters and blog tour coordinators. But unlike these service providers, the role and duties of author assistants vary widely. This lack of a consistent, broadly understood definition is both a challenge and an advantage. The challenge comes in each author having to define what they need from an author assistant and how that support will be provided. The advantage is that authors can define and negotiate a support partnership that fits their unique needs and preferences. Written by a professional, full-time author assistant who has worked with more than 50 writers across multiple genres, this guide provides authors with practical, experience-based tips and tools for finding, hiring and keeping an excellent assistant. Finding the right assistant to help with tasks that can be delegated is one of the smartest business strategies today’s authors can utilize. Learn how to Do Less in order to Write More by finding, hiring and keeping an excellent author assistant. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. In 2013 she launched My Author Concierge, which provides marketing, editorial, technical and administrative support services to authors, primarily in the romantic fiction genre. Since then, she has worked with more than 50 authors across multiple genres. A frequent workshop presenter at national and regional conferences, she is actively engaged in helping authors achieve career goals through education, advocacy and mentoring. Visit MyAuthorConcierge.com for more information.Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Videos Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video.http://www.saadawi1.net/upLoadedFiles/other/excel-vba-manual-page-break.xml

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Upload video To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Please try again later. Gail Ingis 5.0 out of 5 stars The “now what” is all here in Maria Connor’s book, Do Less. Write More. It is filled with Maria’s experiences and expertise. Easy to navigate, not dry like most instructional books, thanks to the lively, clear lists and ways to find what works. The world of publishing is a difficult one to navigate. I love help books. This one offers help, lots of it. Maria has created lists of suggestions that will give you ideas of what writers need to accomplish in the world of authoring. She writes what to expect once you are published, and the importance of promotion. The time needed to get it all done is daunting. Unless you are the Queen of England, Beyonce, or Julia Roberts, you need some way to let all those readers, waiting to hear about the latest and greatest book by you, know how to find those books you authored. Where do you find the time to get up on your soapbox and also write your next book. You’ll need a website, a book tour, a newsletter, the list goes on and on and on. You could hire a publicist, a manager, an office worker, or you could hire an author assistant. In most cases your assistant can do the work or know where to go to get the work done. Maria has not produced this book to promote her own agenda. In her book she offers suggestions how to find, hire, and manage an author assistant. Her knowledge and experience in the publishing industry is vast. Everything you wanted to know about what an assistant can do for you and where to find one is in Maria Connor’s book. This excerpt from her book: Yet another method for assessing the benefit of hiring an assistant is to calculate the value of time gained in words per hour.http://ivplanet.ru/userfiles/excel-user-manual-free-download.xml If you average 600 words per hour when writing, hiring an assistant for five hours a week would allow you to complete an additional 3,000 words per week.Now she's distilled everything into book form and it's awesome. Everything I wanted to ask, things I didn't think of to ask.This has to be the most comprehensive and thoughtful guide out there. If you have any questions at all about author's assistants, if you wonder if you need one or might ever want to hire any sort of help in the future, if you are clueless where to find these people and how to hire them, this is the guide for you. Short, sweet, to the point, giving pros AND cons, it's clear advice right down to the analysis methods and checklists. There are even lists of what to expect for both authors and assistants, as well as generous helpings of advice for writers who lack business backgrounds and might be paralyzed by uncertainty. The author even flags when you might need to consult professionals for tax or legal advice. Essential information in a clear, easy to read format - this will be my guide in days to come.I heard about this book from a friend and thought I'd check it out, since it's about all the things authors should look for in an author assistant and that's what I've been doing all along without realizing it's an actual job. Ms. Connor is really thorough and covers facets to being an assistant that never crossed my mind, so it helped me get a good grasp on what I need to learn; It's definitely a good how-to for anyone wanting to hire an author assistant or learn how to become one. She also breaks it down as a process for authors to organize their workload so they can assign tasks to an assistant, plus more advice about how to screen, interview and hire one that will meet their needs and is trustworthy and competent.I will be recommending this to all my friends. I'm not a VA, so I can't speak to its helpfulness for VAs, but I also imagine that a lot of Virtual Assistants or Personal Assistants could benefit from reading this.As a busy author, I've known for a while that I need some help. Maria outlines perfectly the considerations and questions to ask yourself and prospective assistants before hiring. She even addresses performance monitoring and patient, polite guidance when things aren't working smoothly. I was very lucky to meet the author at a conference, and her book is a valuable extension of her workshop.With a wealth of helpful information, this guide offers great points, ideas, and tips. I love the concept of Do Less, Write More.Very well thought out advice. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. See All Buying Options Add to Wish List Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features. You can still see all customer reviews for the product. Please try again later. From the United StatesThe “now what” is all here in Maria Connor’s book, Do Less. Write More. It is filled with Maria’s experiences and expertise. If you average 600 words per hour when writing, hiring an assistant for five hours a week would allow you to complete an additional 3,000 words per week.Please try again later. Beth T. Irwin 5.0 out of 5 stars Now she's distilled everything into book form and it's awesome. Essential information in a clear, easy to read format - this will be my guide in days to come.Please try again later. Aravis 5.0 out of 5 stars I heard about this book from a friend and thought I'd check it out, since it's about all the things authors should look for in an author assistant and that's what I've been doing all along without realizing it's an actual job. She also breaks it down as a process for authors to organize their workload so they can assign tasks to an assistant, plus more advice about how to screen, interview and hire one that will meet their needs and is trustworthy and competent.Please try again later. Rebecca 5.0 out of 5 stars I will be recommending this to all my friends. I'm not a VA, so I can't speak to its helpfulness for VAs, but I also imagine that a lot of Virtual Assistants or Personal Assistants could benefit from reading this.Please try again later. Glynnis Campbell 5.0 out of 5 stars As a busy author, I've known for a while that I need some help. I was very lucky to meet the author at a conference, and her book is a valuable extension of her workshop.Please try again later. Shanna Hatfield 5.0 out of 5 stars With a wealth of helpful information, this guide offers great points, ideas, and tips. I love the concept of Do Less, Write More.Please try again later. Babs W 5.0 out of 5 stars Very well thought out advice.Please try again later.Please try again later. Tami Veldura 4.0 out of 5 stars I attended a talk Maria gave at a conference on hiring, assigning work to, and communicating well with an author assistant. Her presentation, like her book, was well organized and to the point. This isn't a meandering memoir, it's a textbook, and Maria covers everything from finding an assistant, to firing one. I wish I'd found this book before I hired my assistant. I lucked out with a great partnership, but the expertise in these pages would have made the process far more smooth. In particular, I find the list of tasks an assistant can take on helpful and illuminating. I never would have thought to give research and fact-checking legwork to my assistant. The chapter on screening and interviewing potential assistants is worth the cost of the book alone. Included is a list of good questions to ask. Maria is also clear about what an assistant can't do for an author, no matter how experienced or professional they are--a reminder that this work really does rely on the author to get started. While I recommend this book without reservation, there are a few areas where I feel Maria could improve and expand the text. The Real Life Advice section contained some great gems of wisdom, but the lack of attribution blended the different comments together. In addition, since Maria has so many years of assistant experience, I believe the book would benefit from the addition of personal anecdotes. Examples of where an author went wrong, or where she went wrong, would help illustrate some of her guidance. The classic 'show, don't tell' advice. This is a great resource for authors (and assistants!) who don't know if they need an assistant or don't know what they'd do if they had one. An excellent entry point to the world of author assistants.Please try again later. cksyme 5.0 out of 5 stars Authors are looking for competent assistants that can do more than just manage email and postal services. In this book, you'll find everything you need to know (in detail) on the subject. Maria knows her stuff on how to find, hire, and manage a good author assistant. I found this book to be detailed and comprehensive. Maria shares her experience, not only as an assistant, but as someone with experience in many facets of the publishing industry. If you are an assistant, an aspiring assistant, or an author wondering what an assistant can do for your author career, get a copy today. I highly recommend it to all my author clients.Please try again later. Groups Discussions Quotes Ask the Author The more time spent on these activities, however, the less time authors have to write. Author assis The more time spent on these activities, however, the less time authors have to write. Learn how to Do Less in order to Write More by finding, hiring and keeping an excellent author assistant. To see what your friends thought of this book,It was quite informative for me. I am new to the industry and I'm a Virtual Authors' Assistant myself, as well as an aspiring author. The book was easy to read and covered the various different tasks an author's assistant might tackle, how to choose an assistant that suits your requirements, as well as the numerous benefits of having your very own AA. It was quite informative for me. The book was easy to read and covered the various different tasks an author's assistant might tackle, how to choose an assistant that suits your requirements, as well as the numerous benefits of having your very own AA. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. You will receive immediate access after you purchase. You will receive two emails. The first email is your order confirmation and the second email contains your login instructions. You will receive two emails. The first email is your order confirmation and the second email contains your login instructions. This handbook clearly and efficiently discusses a wide variety of topics, including thesis statements, essays, research papers, and editing. For this handbook of the basics, less is more. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience. A successful and productive book and journal article author, writing coach, creator of a nationally-recognized, cross-disciplinary faculty writing program, and with a long career as a faculty member and experience as a department chair, Dr. Stevens offers a unique combination of motivation, reflective practices, analytical tools, templates, and advice to set you on the path to being a productive and creative writer. Drawing on her experience as a writer and on her extensive research into the psychology of writing and the craft of scholarly writing, Dr. Stevens starts from the premise that most faculty have never been taught to write and that writers, both experienced and novice, frequently experience anxiety and self-doubt that erode confidence. She begins by guiding readers to understand themselves as writers and discover what has impeded or stimulated them in the past to establish positive new attitudes and sustainable habits. Dr. Stevens provides strategies for setting doable goals, organizing a more productive writing life, and demonstrates the benefits of writing groups, including offering a variety of ways in which you can experiment with collaborative practice. In addition, she offers a series of reflections, exercises, and activities to spark your writing fluency and creativity. Whether developing journal articles, book chapters, book proposals, book reviews, or conference proposals, this book will help you demystify the hidden structures and common patterns in academic writing and help you match your manuscript to the language, structures, and conventions of your discipline--be it in the sciences, social sciences, or humanities. Most importantly, believing that connecting your passions with your work is essential to stimulating your ideas and enthusiasm, this essential guide offers you the knowledge and skills to write more. In this helpful book, she shares five key principles and scores of practical strategies to guide your writing. Everyone from new graduate students to experienced professors will find valuable insights and inspiration in this book. I plan to keep a copy near my desk as I strive to write more and stress less.” Peter Felten, Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning, Director of the Center for Engaged Learning, and Professor of History - Elon University. What makes this book different from the rest is the way Stevens helps readers understand academic writing as its own genre.The book is a good tool for early career writers and scholars to understand the practice of writing as well the professional norms around the publishing cycle.” Vasti Torres, Professor, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, Associated Faculty in Latino Studies - University of Michigan. The stress level in academic writing has increased to a point where too many people give up or must pay a price in their health, relationships, and other work. Dannelle offers practical strategies and advice that demystifies processes. Then she moves into examining the components of good writing, stressing particularly the need for a clear focus and purpose. In skillful and helpful prose, she draws on her own experience of writing for different kinds of scholarly outlets; peer reviewed journals, conference papers, and books.” Stephen D. Brookfield, John Ireland Endowed Chair - University of St. Thomas. Her tips and strategies are actionable and realistic, and her knowledge of the ins and outs of academic writing is unparalleled. Dannelle has been in the trenches and is generously sharing all she has learned to make our writing lives better. Who would read anything I would write; how could I have anything of value to say. There are over 50 tables, charts, drawings, side-bars, and self-assessment exercises that will capture your attention. In addition, the appendices have logs and study-sheets you can fill out as you go along, helping you stay on schedule in your writing. You can dive in almost anywhere and come away with something useful to you at that very moment. Who knew that, even after being an emeritus professor for ten years, I would both want and need to read this book.” Dr. Richard Reis, editor, Tomorrow's Professor eNewsletter. Following the pattern established in her previous books on rubrics and journal keeping, this text is extremely useful, immensely practical, and carefully grounded in sound scholarship. From the topics covered — such as how to foster creativity in academic writing or how to structure writing groups — to the numerous templates provided — for introducing an argument or for analyzing the structure of a text — Stevens’ book is a treasure trove, which stands to become a classic in the academic writing genre.Assessment at PSU, she shows how the five key principles were used in theThis last chapter includes the essential steps an institution can take toAs Stevens walks the walkIt could beIn sum, Stevens demonstrates howPrinciples for a Creative and Sustainable Scholarly Practice is a book thatFor instance, the author gives tips on how to attendI would give this book a casual nickname of “ HowHer roots, however, are in the public school classroom where she taught middle school and high school social studies, language arts, and special education for 14 years across four school districts and three states. She received her master's from the University of Utah in 1983, and a doctorate in educational psychology from Michigan State in 1991. Before coming to PSU she taught at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Whether the topic is rubrics, journal writing, action research or academic writing, her work centers on how adults reflect on what they do and, then, act on those reflections. One of Dr. Stevens' underlying assumptions is that cognitive, social and emotional development does not end with the teenage years but continues through the lifetime. Besides over 75 conference presentations, she has written three books, all designed to impact development of her fellow faculty and their students. Her first book, co-edited with Joanne Cooper, Tenure in the Sacred Grove: Issues and Strategies for Women and Minorities, (SUNY Press, 2002), was written to help faculty women and minorities negotiate the path to tenure. Introduction to Rubrics, now in its second edition, and co-authored with Antonia J. Levi, and Journal Keeping, co-authored with Joanne Cooper, are both published by Stylus Publishing. In addition to teaching classes, she has taken on leadership positions in the department and campus-wide. For the university at large, she works within the Center for Academic Excellence as faculty-in-residence for assessment. She is chair of the Institutional Assessment Council. They go in chronological order of the book’s chapters, so you can match the questions to your pace as you read. Spoiler alert for some of the latter questions below. You can also submit your own questions for Andrew Sean Greer on our Facebook page, which he will answer on the NewsHour broadcast at the end of the month. 1. The novel’s opening line reads: “From where I sit, the story of Arthur Less is not so bad.” Arthur Less, the book’s protagonist, is introduced as nearly 50, with “washed-out” blonde hair and “watery” blue eyes. As we soon learn, he’s also a writer less successful than his peers. How do you see Arthur Less in the opening chapters. Do you see him as a hero, as a man deserving of pity, as something else? 2. When we meet the character of Freddy, Arthur Less’s soon-to-be-former-lover, he is described as “dreamy, simple, lusty, bookish, harmless, youthful.” It is Freddy’s marriage invitation that Less so studiously avoids — choosing to go on a round-the-world trip simply to avoid having to decline the invitation without a good reason. What do you make of this decision. Have you ever found yourself doing something similarly absurd? 3. Arthur Less’s trip itinerary is as a follows: New York to interview a more popular writer, Mexico City for an obscure conference, Turin for an unknown award, Berlin for a teaching gig, Morocco for someone else’s birthday, India for a writer’s retreat (possibly during the monsoon), Japan for an article. And somewhere along the way he will turn 50. Does his sojourn remind you of any others in literature? 4. The book Arthur Less is writing is about a man on a journey through a place and his past, as he looks back on a series of disappointments. Freddy complains that Less is always writing “gay Ulysses.” Do you see echoes of or references to Ulysses or the Odyssey throughout “Less”? 5. Less’s other major relationship in the book is with the famous poet Robert Brownburn. In the chapter “Mexican,” Less recalls a day of losing his ring in the grocery store, and how, in telling Robert about it, Robert saw Less’s infidelities written across his face. “That’s what it was like to live with genius,” he writes. How does Roberts success and genius impact their relationship at the time, and how does it influence him in the end? 6. So much of Less’s focus during the round-the-world trip is on his own mishaps and foibles — or his perceived mishaps and foibles. Getting into a car with what he believes is the wrong driver because the name was a letter off. Believing he can speak German well when in fact he is bungling the words. Bringing athletic bands to every country that he will only half use. Do you see these as actual mishaps and foibles or is it a problem of perception for Less. Do you identify with that feeling at all? 7. The book alternates between Less’s trip in the present to memories of his youth — mostly memories involving nostalgia or regret. Is it something you can relate to? 8. In a scene at a party in Paris, Less is told that in fact he is not a bad writer, as he had come to believe, but a bad “gay writer,” in that he is not telling the narratives the gay writing community wants him to. What do you make of this critique? 9. In several countries, simply being around Less seems to make other characters sick. Why? 10. Arthur Less is self-deprecating throughout the book to a fault; in one of many descriptions he calls himself insignificant compared to other writers he knows, “as superfluous as the extra a in quaalude.” (Earlier, though, he asks if there is “any more perfect spelling” than the word quaalude “with that lazy superfluous vowel.”) Did you find these negative descriptors by Less funny or frustrating or silly or all of these. How does Greer complicate these descriptions by having some of them echo back? 11. A number of people try to tell Less about what happened at Freddy’s wedding. And while the wedding dominates his thoughts, he doesn’t listen to them. What is keeping him from hearing the story. What do you think (or hope) happened? 12. In the book, “Less” is always referred to by his last name, while Javier only by his first, and Robert Brownburn by both. Why do you think Greer chose to refer to the characters in these different ways? 13. What lines in the book made you laugh out loud? 14. Toward the end of the book, Less reunites with his supposed enemy and Freddy’s father, Carlos. When they meet, Carlos tells him that he believes that people’s lives are half-comedy and half-tragedy and that those just appear at different times. What do you make of this theory? 15. Were you surprised (or glad) to find out who the narrator was. Have you similarly strayed from the path you thought you should be on? 17. After learning he won the Pulitzer Prize, Andrew Sean Greer wrote on Twitter that “Less” is a book that’s most of all “about joy.” “A writer friend once said the hardest thing to write about is joy,” he wrote. “I took it as a challenge.” Do you think he met the challenge. Major forms In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page.In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage that reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle 's Physics is called a book. In an unrestricted sense, a book is the compositional whole of which such sections, whether called books or chapters or parts, are parts.Books can consist only of drawings, engravings or photographs, crossword puzzles or cut-out dolls. In a physical book, the pages can be left blank or can feature an abstract set of lines to support entries, such as in an account book, an appointment book, an autograph book, a notebook, a diary or a sketchbook. Some physical books are made with pages thick and sturdy enough to support other physical objects, like a scrapbook or photograph album. Books may be distributed in electronic form as ebooks and other formats.A place where books are traded is a bookshop or bookstore. Books are also sold elsewhere and can be borrowed from libraries.Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Clay tablets were flattened and mostly dry pieces of clay that could be easily carried, and impressed with a stylus. They were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. Wax tablets were pieces of wood covered in a coating of wax thick enough to record the impressions of a stylus. They were the normal writing material in schools, in accounting, and for taking notes. They had the advantage of being reusable: the wax could be melted, and reformed into a blank.Tomus was used by the Latins with exactly the same meaning as volumen (see also below the explanation by Isidore of Seville).The more modern codex book format form took over the Roman world by late antiquity, but the scroll format persisted much longer in Asia.The first written mention of the codex as a form of book is from Martial, in his Apophoreta CLXXXIV at the end of the first century, where he praises its compactness. A book is much easier to read, to find a page that you want, and to flip through. A scroll is more awkward to use. The Christian authors may also have wanted to distinguish their writings from the pagan and Judaic texts written on scrolls. In addition, some metal books were made, that required smaller pages of metal, instead of an impossibly long, unbending scroll of metal. A book can also be easily stored in more compact places, or side by side in a tight library or shelf space.Note the bookcase ( capsa ), reading stand and the text written without word spacing in rustic capitals. Papyrus became difficult to obtain due to lack of contact with Egypt, and parchment, which had been used for centuries, became the main writing material. Parchment is a material made from processed animal skin and used—mainly in the past—for writing on. Parchment is most commonly made of calfskin, sheepskin, or goatskin. It was historically used for writing documents, notes, or the pages of a book. Parchment is limed, scraped and dried under tension. It is not tanned, and is thus different from leather. This makes it more suitable for writing on, but leaves it very reactive to changes in relative humidity and makes it revert to rawhide if overly wet.XLVIII ), which set aside certain times for reading, greatly influenced the monastic culture of the Middle Ages and is one of the reasons why the clergy were the predominant readers of books. The tradition and style of the Roman Empire still dominated, but slowly the peculiar medieval book culture emerged.Smaller monasteries usually had only a few dozen books, medium-sized perhaps a few hundred.Artificial light was forbidden for fear it may damage the manuscripts. There were five types of scribes:The parchment had to be prepared, then the unbound pages were planned and ruled with a blunt tool or lead, after which the text was written by the scribe, who usually left blank areas for illustration and rubrication.