Sentence examples for securing a book from inspiring English sources
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.
Taking the dictum to work twice as hard to get half as far as their white counterparts – which they believe is one of the only ways for black communities to succeed in Britain – they secured a book deal a year later, despite the outrageous odds against two black women with no inside connections to an overwhelmingly white, elitist publishing industry.
Bach has secured a book contract with Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company.
He secures a book contract for his memoirs with Mark Twain's publishing company.
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.
She is now focusing her campaign to secure a book deal on her pioneering ideas about the healing power of hiking.
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.
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).
Generally speaking, when it comes to getting published, the traditional method is to secure a literary agent, who will then secure a book deal.
