Sentence examples for secured a book from inspiring English sources
I quit my job, secured a book contract with Penguin, and headed to the Arctic.
But in the case of Mr. Rosenblat it was Ms. Winfrey who gave his story a mass hearing long before he ever secured a book deal.
We also talk with two authors - a teenager who left Facebook behind for Wattpad (the first book she wrote at thirteen had over 1 million reads) and another who has secured a book publishing deal due to her popularity on Wattpad.
He secures a book contract for his memoirs with Mark Twain's publishing company.
A decade ago, in my first year as lecturer in a humanities department, an eminent professor helped me secure a book contract with a top university press for my recently completed doctoral thesis.
The most difficult problem seems to be securing a book contract in the first place, whether that has an open-access option or not: the survey clearly shows that early career researchers need help and guidance to do so.
She boasted that she was working with a literary agent to secure a book deal, and she liked to mention that she was distantly related, on her mother's side, to the novelist John Irving.
And though she is a third-generation farmer, Ms. Hayes is a newly minted paradigm, an exemplar of the pastoral, in a year the pastoral ideal cycled back into the zeitgeist with such force that hardly a month goes by without another urbanite declaring his intention to eat locally in order to save his family and the planet (and to write a pastoral memoir and secure a book deal).
Although it may take a lot of work to secure a book deal, don't write it off just because you don't like working with corporate entities.
Obama and her husband secured a joint book deal shortly after Barack Obama finished his presidency, for a reportedly huge sum of money, about $65 million.
I had thought Samantha Shannon, Bloomsbury's accomplished novelist who published her first book at 21 (and also secured a three-book deal) was as young as a young adult (YA) writer could get.
