Sentences with phrase «as a mystery writer»

Many people don't know that he published several works before turning to crime fiction with The Neon Rain, so no one thought of my father as a mystery writer during my formative years.

As a mystery writer, I believe that crime stems from strong emotions, and strong emotions stem from conflict.

I wonder how she'd respond if that author knew that Lawrence Block — «recognized as a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and the recipient of a host of other literary awards» as per Kirkus Review — went indie — and is loving it?

As a mystery writer, you have an advantage as a reader of other mystery writers (or, a disadvantage — you probably don't want to know whodunit but, in some cases, can't help but figure it out).

Worse, some institutions outright ban self - pubbed authors from entering at all: contests prohibit «subsidized» authors from submitting work, and associations such as the Mystery Writers of America do not allow self - published authors in their ranks.

Not exact matches

The story opens as Harriet Vane, a young mystery writer, returns to her Shrewsbury College for a class reunion.

I have found that to be really true with my experience as a writer — that even going into a project like Moxie, which had a pretty decent structure already, there is an element of mystery in every writing project where sometimes the process of writing leads my thoughts and my heart and my soul into territory that I didn't plan for.

One of the epigraphs in Paul Mariani's book is from Flannery O'Connor:»... if the writer believes that our life is and will remain essentially mysterious, if he looks upon us as beings existing in a created order to whose laws we freely respond, then what he sees on the surface will be of interest to him only as he can go through it into an experience of mystery itself.

Updike presents the reader of his novels and stories with the pseudo — wise men of today's society — with Jimmy, the big Mouseketeer who quotes Socrates; with the neon owl that advertises pretzels; with Ken Whitman, the scientist living in Tarbox who is considered intelligent in his field but who lacks a basic understanding of life; with Bech the writer, honored in direct proportion to the decline of his literary production; with Connor, the efficient, well - trained administrator of the old people's home who fails to comprehend as much of life's mystery as his simple and sometimes senile wards do.

As a science writer I deal in fact, but in my off hours, I grapple with mystery, and the Higgs is a potent one.

Mann's approach here reminds me of the formulation recently expressed by writer and director Paul Schrader — some filmmakers understand character as an instrument of elucidation, while others (Schrader meant himself and Martin Scorsese) see it as an instrument of mystery.

Captivated by the author's words of love, she returns to her job at the Tribune where she convinces her boss to run an article about the mystery writer, known only as «G.» He approves, and Theresa begins her hunt.

Bored to Death: The Complete First Season Available on DVD and Blu - ray Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis, and Ted Danson star in this freshman HBO comedy about a mystery writer who is so bored that he posts an ad on the internet lending his services as a private detective in order to pass the time and maybe get a few ideas for his novel.

Sure it has one of the most amazing casts assembled in recent years (Branagh, Cruz, Depp, Dafoe, Dench, Gad, Pfeiffer and Ridley) and a lush production, but ultimately the story gets bogged down as a mystery, as it is arrogantly solved by writer / director / star Kenneth Branagh.

Not to be confused with this year's dark Wolverine send - off (or its black and white home video edit Logan Noir), this Logan is an original heist comedy from a mystery writer credited as Rebecca Blunt, believed to be a pseudonym.

At one moment, it looks like the writers are going to not even conclude this mystery, as the last half hour finds something even more important to start dissecting.

Yet it also goes deeper: as in Ann Hui's equally compelling The Golden Era, the film respects the mystery of the creative process, the obscure correspondences between life and art, whether or not it is important to like a writer to appreciate his / her work — but, ultimately, why it matters for public freedom that writers should be allowed to misbehave in peace.

The Coen Brothers are directors / writers that have proven to be atop their craft in most circles with their trademark humor and mystery style story telling and this looks no different as they assemble an all star cast for their latest, Hail, Caesar!

A quiet rural town in the English countryside includes among it's inhabitants Nicholas, an author famous for his murder mystery series who, with his long - suffering wife, open their house to other writers as an idyllic retreat.

Writers Karim Aïnouz — «Love for Sale,» «Madame Satã» Rakhshan Bani - Etemad — «Under the Skin of the City,» «The May Lady» Siddiq Barmak * — «Opium War,» «Osama» Aida Begić * — «Children of Sarajevo,» «Snow» Jeremy Brock — «True Crimes,» «The Last King of Scotland» Jared Bush * — «Zootopia,» «Moana» John Collee — «Tanna,» «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World» Buddhadeb Dasgupta — «The Wrestlers,» «The Red Door» Kenneth Angelo Daurio, Jr. — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «Despicable Me» Luke Davies — «Lion,» «Life» Mohamed Diab — «Clash,» «Cairo 678» Lav Diaz * — «A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,» «Norte, the End of History» Katie Dippold — «Snatched,» «Ghostbusters» Nelson Pereira dos Santos * — «How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,» «Barren Lives» Ildikó Enyedi * — «Simon Magus,» «My Twentieth Century» Safi Faye * — «Mossane,» «Lettre Paysanne» Feng Xiaogang — «If You Are the One,» «A World without Thieves» Paz Alicia Garciadiego — «Bleak Street,» «Deep Crimson» Bahman Ghobadi — «Turtles Can Fly,» «A Time for Drunken Horses» Goutam Ghose * — «Shankhachil,» «Paar» Eric Heisserer — «Arrival,» «Lights Out» Barry Jenkins * — «Moonlight,» «Medicine for Melancholy» Alejandro Jodorowsky * — «The Holy Mountain,» «El Topo» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Kim Ki - duk * — «3 - Iron,» «Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring» Mohammed Lakhdar - Hamina * — «Chronicle of the Years of Embers,» «The Winds of the Aures» Brit Marling — «The East,» «Another Earth» Márta Mészáros * — «Diary for My Children,» «Adoption» Mike Mills — «20th Century Women,» «Beginners» Idrissa Ouedraogo * — «Tilaï,» «Yaaba» Éva Pataki — «The Seventh Room,» «Diary for My Loves» Cinco Paul — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «DespicableMe» Jordan Peele * — «Get Out,» «Keanu» Simon Pegg — «Run Fat Boy Run,» «Shaun of the Dead» Mohammad Rasoulof * — «Manuscripts Don't Burn,» «Goodbye» Eran Riklis * — «Lemon Tree,» «The Syrian Bride» Céline Sciamma — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Tomboy» Mrinal Sen * — «The Case Is Closed,» «In Search of Famine» Taylor Sheridan — «Hell or High Water,» «Sicario» Sooni Taraporevala — «Mississippi Masala,» «Salaam Bombay!»

As an Aussie science fiction writer: http://www.goldenvisionsmagazi… I've been a Marvel Thor fan since the original Journey into Mystery of August 1962.

As lush and atmospheric a film as the American cinema has created in years, Crimson Peak stars Mia Wasikowska (whose wide eyes and open face evokes the gothic heroine incarnate) as a smart, passionate American heiress, the daughter of a self - made man (Jim Beaver as the model of paternal affection and American responsibility) and a writer with a romantic streak and an unsullied innocence, and Tom Hiddleston as the dashing suitor from overseas, a handsome aristocrat with a haunted soul whose mystery captures the American's hearAs lush and atmospheric a film as the American cinema has created in years, Crimson Peak stars Mia Wasikowska (whose wide eyes and open face evokes the gothic heroine incarnate) as a smart, passionate American heiress, the daughter of a self - made man (Jim Beaver as the model of paternal affection and American responsibility) and a writer with a romantic streak and an unsullied innocence, and Tom Hiddleston as the dashing suitor from overseas, a handsome aristocrat with a haunted soul whose mystery captures the American's hearas the American cinema has created in years, Crimson Peak stars Mia Wasikowska (whose wide eyes and open face evokes the gothic heroine incarnate) as a smart, passionate American heiress, the daughter of a self - made man (Jim Beaver as the model of paternal affection and American responsibility) and a writer with a romantic streak and an unsullied innocence, and Tom Hiddleston as the dashing suitor from overseas, a handsome aristocrat with a haunted soul whose mystery captures the American's hearas a smart, passionate American heiress, the daughter of a self - made man (Jim Beaver as the model of paternal affection and American responsibility) and a writer with a romantic streak and an unsullied innocence, and Tom Hiddleston as the dashing suitor from overseas, a handsome aristocrat with a haunted soul whose mystery captures the American's hearas the model of paternal affection and American responsibility) and a writer with a romantic streak and an unsullied innocence, and Tom Hiddleston as the dashing suitor from overseas, a handsome aristocrat with a haunted soul whose mystery captures the American's hearas the dashing suitor from overseas, a handsome aristocrat with a haunted soul whose mystery captures the American's heart.

It's an intriguing premise, and while writer - director Joshua Marston (Maria Full Of Grace, The Forgiveness Of Blood) never quite figures out where to take it, he sustains the sense of mystery for as long as he possibly can.

He defined it as: «That bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer - directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.»

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Founded by Robert Randisi and Ed Gorman in the late 1980s to bring together professional mystery authors in a private forum to exchange ideas, the American Crime Writers League is still going strong in the 21st century as a writing organization for serious and proven writers of mystery fWriters League is still going strong in the 21st century as a writing organization for serious and proven writers of mystery fwriters of mystery fiction.

Instead, he's made a heck of a career as a mystery and thriller writer.

Walter Mosley was chosen as the 2016 Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.

Some, such as the Minotaur Books / Mystery Writers First Crime Novel Competition for unpublished traditional mystery novels, have big Mystery Writers First Crime Novel Competition for unpublished traditional mystery novels, have big mystery novels, have big stakes.

The tired old stereotype of a mystery writer as some hard - boiled noir guy with a cigarette in one hand and a tumbler full of whiskey in the other is obsolete.

If I had a mystery for the general market, I'd go to a major mystery writers conference, such as Bouchercon.

Literary fiction writers know that the market for our work is not as big as, say, Mystery or Paranormal.

As part of Kids Comics Month, we got to chat with writer / artist Scott Gross, who tells us how he got into comics as a kid and what's coming up for the Mystery GanAs part of Kids Comics Month, we got to chat with writer / artist Scott Gross, who tells us how he got into comics as a kid and what's coming up for the Mystery Ganas a kid and what's coming up for the Mystery Gang!

She's a former chapter president of Mystery Writers of America and served as the published author liaison for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers.

Mary Higgins Clark was chosen by Mystery Writers of America as Grand Master of the 2000 Edgar Awards.

Most people know Emma Donoghue (no relation, unless you go way back to the roots buried in the bog) as the author of Room, but she has been a prolific novelist and writer of short stories, mysteries, literary history and much more.

She, like her character Meg, turned into a workaday writer, producing three mystery novels: Dead Clever, In Your Face, and Seaside (all three links go to the full text at Google), featuring the sassy sleuth, Lily Pascale, an English professor who just happens to specialize in horror and crime fiction as well as creative writing.

- Ted Kooser, U. S. Poet Laureate 2004 - 2006 «Though The Quickening is her first novel, Michelle Hoover does what all the best writers steeped in a particular place do — use that place as a conduit to the universal and timeless mysteries of the heart.

If you like your mysteries to be all blood and guts and tidy endings, move on, but if you're interested in a writer of thoughtful noir crime fiction who includes Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in his list of favorite authors, and cites Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment as his favorite novel, stop right here!

As a member of the mystery writers group Sister in Crime (SinC, for short), I receive a monthly email update called Sinc Links, a kind of round - up of things that affect the publishing and writing world in general, and mystery writers in particular.

Children's writers literary agents interested in young adult books represent many sub-genres such as: mystery, romance, adventure, career, success, etc..

For example, mystery writers can visit L. J. Sellers pages to find a list that will reduce your hours of research (also known as «training»)(https://ljsellers.com/mysterysuspense-review-sites/).

It's a membership organization for writers of speculative fiction, just as (for instance) MWA is a membership organization for writers of mysteries.

As an act of generosity to Mystery Writers of America, Jeff has been traveling the country to speak to all eleven MWA chapters on the topic — at no charge to the chapters.

And as with both of its parent conferences, Writefest 18 will be dedicated to serving writers of all genres, from literary fiction to poetry to mystery to creative nonfiction to science fiction and fantasy.

As a former private investigator, crime and mystery writer Don Winslow can say he comes by it honest.

Warner died at age 89 in 1979, but the Boxcar Children live on with new titles such as The Pizza Mystery, The Canoe Trip Mystery, and The Dinosaur Mystery, written by new writers faithful to Warner's vision.

A contributor to the Romance section of Gale's What Do I Read Next, co-author of Voice of Youth Advocate's annual «Clueless: Adult Mysteries with Young Adult Appeal» column, a reviewer for Library Journal, and co-author of The Mystery Readers» Advisory: The Librarian's Clues to Murder and Mayhem (2001), Charles was named 2002 Librarian of the Year by the Romance Writers of America and names good chocolate and good books as two of the world's great pleasures.

A widely admired writer on religion celebrates agnosticism as the most vibrant, engaging - and ultimately the most honest - stance toward the mysteries of existence.

From one of our finest and most popular science writers comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded inside each of us?