If your car broke down, would you get a book and read it to learn how to repair it?
So it is possible, especially if you have a unique story, to get a book deal with no platform.
Muto did get a book deal out of the experience, though, and "An Atheist in the Foxhole" (Dutton) is being released Tuesday.
It is easier, happily, for independent authors to get a book into online bookshops and to encourage word of mouth from fans.
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He says, "Wait, wait, " like a child about to demonstrate a new toy, and runs to get a book filled with images of the region.
We can get a ride, book a table, get tickets to a show, find a hotel or even a house to crash in, and buy a gift, each with a couple of clicks of an app, and all at the last second.
In summary, we think we have a get-rich-slowly, safe, defensive long book and a get-rich-quickly, massively over-valued short book.
Many travellers pre-book jungle lodge stays well before they get to Iquitos, but it is just as easy to spend a few days here, get some advice and then book a trip.
One would expect to pay a premium over book to get a consumer franchise like Gillette.
As a substitute, he offers to get her a new puzzle book to work on.
Why did so-and-so get such a great book cover and mine looks like an ad for the circus?
Hunters will want to take a trip here to kill dinomancers for around 30 minutes to an hour to try and get a dinosaur training book to drop.
But colleges as factories for teaching what anyone can now get out of a book seem archaic enough that we should probably stop using them to do such.
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That seems a long way from sleeping under a bridge, and I get a sense that the Sartre book is a kind of talisman: a pledge to himself that it will happen.
Rikin Gandhi, another researcher, has been experimenting with a combination of mobile phones and educational comic books that would allow users to get voice annotations to a book by pressing key combinations into a phone.
There are ways to get a refund for the difference if you book a hotel, flight or rental car and the price drops.
And if there's something particular that feels too embarrassing to talk about, get a how-to book.
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How can a little-known author or an unheralded gem of a book get attention?
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Most of the contributors to his valentine get a mention in the book.
Threepwood needs to get a similar-sized book and make the switch.
And not just letting yourself get absorbed by a good book on a regular basis, but reading with one part of your brain watching what the writer is doing and how you are reacting to it.
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In a high tech world, the low-tech book seems to get a bad rap all too often.
Publishers also used to do all kinds of nifty things for their authors, like throw them a cool book party, send them on a book tour, get their books reviewed in the press and give manuscripts loving yet eagle-eyed editing.
You need to be a high roller to get a flex option in Chicago, but if you want to book a loss on your 1, 000 shares of Apple you could get the same effect using garden-variety puts and calls.
If you fund the print version of this book, you get a half-hour reading from Philippa, the real-world person on whom the clairvoyant in the book is based.
Okay, one would think that a car that could get into the Guinness Book of World Records for achieving such a feat (64.55 miles per gallon, which has been verified) is believable, right?
How he was miserable is more complicated than even I could get into a hundred thousand word book.
Passengers are being offered the opportunity to re-book or get a refund.
So I ended up on the deck of the boat, smoking a cigarette, reading a book, watching a movie trying to get tired and go to sleep.
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