Nounauthor (plural authors)
SynonymsRelated termsVerbto author (third-person singular simple present authors, present participle authoring, simple past and past participle authored) From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. An author (sometimes, in reference to a woman author, authress or authoress) is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work. Author of a written or legally copied workFrom Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License What average amount of money does a author usually make from one book? Q. I know that is varies from author to author, but are there any statistics on the average? What is the average amount of copies usually sold? How much does a hardcover/paperback sell for? Asked by Not Telling - Thu Aug 14 14:46:18 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. Steve Weber tells us that out of 150,000 books published each year, 100,000 will sell less than 100 copies. An author will take between 7% and 15% of the cover price, so work it out for yourself - not much. If you're planning on becoming a writer, don't give up your day job. Anthony James Barnett - author Answered by Anthony James B - Thu Aug 14 16:09:41 2008 What is a really good author to do a high school research report on? Q. I've thought of Stephen King; does anyone else have any other suggestions as to a really good author whom I can readily find available information on who has written some great novels? It has to be a novelist, unlike Edgar Allen Poe, according to my teacher. Asked by Curious Girl is back. - Sun Nov 25 21:28:23 2007 - - 10 Answers - 0 Comments A. H.P.Lovecraft. He wrote some brilliant horror (and inspired Stephen King, among others), and was quite the eccentric. You can find info on him at the following pages, if you'd like to skim it and see if he looks like someone who would interest you: Answered by Rose D - Sun Nov 25 22:53:48 2007 How do I quote from an article when the author used a quote from another indivdual?
Q. I am trying figure out how to quote a quote. The aticle was written by one person, the quote I am using was said by another in his book, but the quote was used in the article that I found. Do I quote the author of the article, the person who actually made the quote, or both? Asked by Fire Storm - Tue Feb 9 11:11:13 2010 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. There is a special type of method for quoting other quotes. All you really have to do is cite the book you found it in. If you have an MLA Handbook, you should look up something like "sources within sources" in the contents. If you don't have a handbook, you can just write the citation for the work in which you found the quote. Then, add the name person and the word "in" before the citation. So, if you were quoting a Shakespeare quote from a Cosmopolitan article, you would write Shakespeare, William in "How to impress women with quotes from old playwrights", Cosmopolitan. 127:Mar 2009. 34. Make sure you use the proper format for the citation of the work where you found the quote. In in-text parenthetical should refer to the work where… [cont.] Answered by Leatherface - Tue Feb 9 11:45:06 2010 From Yahoo Answer Search: "author"  businessweek.com Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:27:58 GMT+00:00 BusinessWeek According to Dr. Greg Curfman, executive editor of the NEJM and co- author of an accompanying editorial, the FDA's January warning was based on preliminary ... Prescription diet drug raises risk of heart attack, stroke Los Angeles Times  renewamerica.com Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:20:16 GMT+00:00 asks: Is Obama truly Christian? RenewAmerica The following is an excerpt from chapter 12 of black commentator and author Ron Miller's new book SELLOUT: Musings from Uncle Tom's Porch. ...  washingtonpost.com Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:04:34 GMT+00:00 , dies at 63 Washington Post Steven P. Goldberg, 63, a professor at Georgetown University's law school since 1977 who specialized in the intersection of science, religion and the law, ... From Google News Search: "author"  home.frognet.net 600px x 380px | 70.70kB [source page] I would share something Here is a little pic I was saving for my first published book but I thought you might like to see it It s me and Liriel back when you were still at Mayapple http home frognet net ~bwinner images Author jpg Hope it brought you a smile =Bryian=  mells.freeserve.co.uk 418px x 433px | 18.80kB [source page] The Author A crazy British family who decided to build their own house The following pages are a short pictoral story of our project to build our own house From Yahoo Image Search: "author"  overseas-adventure-travel.net unknown Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:53:30 GM Basseterre, ST. Kitts - Children of all? Management about? Cieront a charming and funny s? Series of adventure f? R the first registration, when the . author. . From Google Blog Search: "author"  youtube.com Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:15:40 PST Informative conversation with K. David Harrison, assistant professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College near Philadelphia and the author of the ... youtube.com.  blinkvid.com Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:47:06 PDT Joy Bauer, MS, RD, CDN - Author, Idiot;amp;#39;s Guide to Total Nutrition; Cooking with Joy: The 90/10 Weight Loss Plan; Former Director of ... blinkvid.com.  video.google.com Sun, 24 Sep 2006 06:25:04 PDT Malcolm Gladwell is the best-selling author of "The Tipping Point" and "Blink". In this talk, filmed at TED2004, he explains ... video.google.com. From Google Video Search: "author" |
