About Blog Sandra Antonelli PhD
in romance fiction writes books on all types of romance.
The RITA, the highest award of distinction
in romance fiction, recognizes excellence in published romance novels -LSB-...].
Feminist romance authors often embrace the problems
in romance fiction and then write plots that actively do the opposite of what readers expect.
The RITA, the highest award of distinction
in romance fiction, recognizes excellence in published romance novels and novellas.
The RITA — the highest award of distinction
in romance fiction — recognizes excellence in published romance novels and novellas.
Our purpose is to promote excellence
in Romance fiction; to support and encourage our unpublished members in their efforts to become published; and to support, encourage, and promote the works and careers of our members published
in Romance fiction.
In romance fiction there are classic themes and story types that are enduring.
Hidden Shadows is a Winner in the Fiction category of the 2016 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement award; Winner 2016 Global Ebook Awards, Popular Literature Fiction; Short - Listed for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award; Honorable Mention, General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Award; Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence
in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and accolades.
Not exact matches
«True
Romance» was released
in 1993, one year after Tarantino's directorial debut, «Reservoir Dogs,» and one year before «Pulp
Fiction» would make him the hottest filmmaker
in Hollywood.
They are, to be precise, scientific
fiction romances (
in the old sense of the word).
Hence Shakespeare's sister, writing
in a world where gender did not debilitate, would have written plays the equal of her brother's plays.2 The Harlequin
romances are the equal of Faulkner's
fiction as expressions of American culture.
In romance occurs a quest for the most desirable object — the distant planet in science fiction, the beloved in gothic novels, the lawful community in western
In romance occurs a quest for the most desirable object — the distant planet
in science fiction, the beloved in gothic novels, the lawful community in western
in science
fiction, the beloved
in gothic novels, the lawful community in western
in gothic novels, the lawful community
in western
in westerns.
Others might first do some homework
in the Brothers Grimm or medieval
romance or American
fiction — especially Mark Twain.
And it was
in Italian that Orlando ultimately achieved his apotheosis as the supreme hero of chivalric
fiction,
in the three greatest Italian
romances of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries: the Morgante of Luigi Pulci, the Orlando Innamorato of Matteo Boiardo, and the Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto.
For although Austen can be legitimately claimed as the formal forerunner of the vulgar
romance fiction now clogging whole sections of the world's bookstores, her own novels far transcend the very genre she is supposed to have inaugurated ¯ and precisely because of the moral vision that came from her upbringing and which has now, it would seem, all but disappeared
in the wake of Sitcom World.
These books would appear
in full, so the reader of the novel would read the reading of the narrator — mysteries,
romances, westerns, sci fi, and «literary»
fiction, his taste would be catholic.
On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction Karl Iagnemma, The Dial Press, $ 22.95 A computer technician who thinks he's found the mathematical equation for
romance and a botanist who secretly yearns for the author of her field's most trusted text are two of the protagonists
in a spellbinding collection of short stories from Iagnemma, a roboticist and
fiction writer at MIT.
Whether you enjoy smutty
romance novels or action - packed science
fiction, you can share your enthusiasm as part of a book club
in New York City.
eHarmony reports a 20 % increase
in monthly registrations from September 2008 to January 2009, and even Harlequin Enterprises, the world's leading publisher of
romance fiction, reported that fourth - quarter earnings were up 32 % over the same period the year before.
We're interested
in a wide range of genres including
romance, fantasy, YA, mystery, women's
fiction and self - help and business non-
fiction.
We specialize
in genre
fiction:
romance, mystery, suspense, thrillers, horror, science
fiction, fantasy, contemporary, graphic and action novels.
in Books
Romance Multicultural 33324
in Books Literature
Fiction Womens
Fiction Contemporary Women 70799
in Books
Romance.
XOXO After Dark offers the best
in romance, urban fantasy and women's
fiction.
He was the sort of multi-talented director who could switch between genres without breaking a sweat, working
in drama, comedy, science
fiction, horror,
romance, and war pictures.
In short, Tarantino has successfully created and cast two more female icons to add to the ranks of Pam Grier (Jackie Brown), Uma Thurman (Pulp
Fiction, Kill Bill), and Patricia Arquette (True
Romance).
The decade after provided us with several entries
in this vein of high concept
romance — Stranger Than
Fiction, Lars and the Real Girl, 500 Days of Summer, Ruby Sparks, 2013's About Time — all films I enjoy and admire.
In Victor Levin's appealing
romance 5 To 7, Anton Yelchin plays Brian Bloom, a young
fiction writer who's determined to reach the literary mountaintop by climbing a pile of rejection letters.
-- proved himself adept at any genre he turned his hand to, from the action sci - fi of Escape From New York (1981), to the science
fiction romance of Starman (1984), to the high - comedy fantasy of Big Trouble
In Little China (1986).
Aside from starring
in the
romance drama, «Before Midnight,» and the horror science -
fiction flick, «The Purge,» he's also racing through the streets
in Getaway.
Tarantino wrote the character of Pulp
Fiction's Jules Winnfield for Samuel L. Jackson after working with him on True
Romance and after a reading for Reservoir Dogs, but a subsequent, lackluster Pulp line reading (Jackson did not realize he had to give an energetic audition for a part written for him) planted doubt
in Tarantino's mind — and Jackson lost the role to Paul Calderon, who gave a great reading.
What with all the Twilighting going on lately, we should be thankful that once
in a while a film like Easy A comes along: a film that honestly and unwaveringly addresses what it means to be a teenage girl
in this image laden, information drenched age, rather than resorting to archaic
romance fiction techniques with passive heroines who do nothing but wait for inherently violent men to make all the hard decisions.
Reservoir Dogs, True
Romance and Pulp
Fiction (the first two I watched back to back one weekend afternoon, after my friends learned I'd never seen a Tarantino film; I had heard he'd won the Palme d'Or, but didn't know he'd made any other movies) demanded we familiarize ourselves with their influences: film noir, Howard Hawks, Jean - Luc Godard (one of our favorite pass - times was driving around to all the video stores
in town looking for a copy of Breathless.
What You Need To Know: Touted as an unconventional love story that blends science
fiction and
romance «
in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all,» director Spike Jonze is seemingly making a
romance picture for the iGeneration.
Yet Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have still managed to carve out their own little niche
in the market with this film, a daring fusion of grindhouse genre
fiction with indie
romance that somehow uses those seemingly opposed elements to transcend and forge a tale about the power and uniting force of love, no matter how star - crossed and unlikely its subjects may be.
Ultimately, the time travel
in Time After Time is more of a catalyst for
romance than any kind of Wellsian inspired science
fiction.
Who: Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Patton Oswalt and J.K. Simmons What: A
fiction writer returns to her hometown
in Minnesota looking to rekindle a
romance with her high school flame, who is now married with kids.
Then again, turn the dial too far towards «
romance», and you are
in the realms of the «epic love story», and pretty much out the other end of sci - fi: The Time Traveller's Wife, Richard Curtis's About Time, The Lake House, Kate & Leopold — they are essentially date movies with a light sprinkling of speculative
fiction.
Co-screenwriters Vanessa Taylor and Guillermo del Toro tell a science
fiction romance in Cold War America, with mute Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) working as a night janitor
in a high - security government laboratory.
The recurrent Mexican stand - off used
in Dogs, True
Romance and Pulp
Fiction is, once again, on display as well.
XOXO After Dark offers the best
in romance, urban fantasy and women's
fiction.
In the 2010 Time magazine essay «The Case Against Summer Vacation,» writer David Von Drehle said summers spent like Tom Sawyer — glorious days of «mud, mild rebellion, chaste
romance and rampant imagination electrified by a dash of gander and a blaze of heroism» — were largely
fiction.
Well, initially I was going to say that I didn't really have a horse
in this race, since I'm an SF / F author, not a
romance author — but pointed out and quite correctly that actually, any writer of
fiction has a horse
in this race.
She is seeking women's
fiction in these categories: upmarket / book club, straightforward women's
fiction,
romance, historical, contemporary, suspense, and literary.
You don't usually see Drop caps
in science
fiction or fancy fonts, but you might
in some fantasy or
romance novels.
In 2006, Latoya joined Grand Central Publishing, an imprint at Hachette Book Group, where she acquired a variety of titles from Hardcover
fiction and non-
fiction, to digital
romance and erotica.
Over the course of her dynamic career she has sold over seven hundred titles to every major publisher, and has built a client list of more than forty authors spanning the commercial
fiction genres, primarily
in the areas of fantasy, science
fiction,
romance, mystery, suspense and erotica.
And now
in romance this next year she has a wonderful science
fiction romance series starting out of Sourcebooks under the name Kris DeLake.
In fiction, she seeks women's
fiction, chick lit, psychological thriller, crime, commercial mainstream
fiction, literary
fiction, mystery, historical, suspense, and
romance.
Cassie specializes
in representing prescriptive nonfiction — with a particular focus on mind / body / spirit, health and wellness, self - help, inspiration, and Christian interest titles — as well as select projects
in the commercial
fiction and
romance categories.
While my own ties
in the
romance community have drawn a few
romance authors, we are accepting submissions from all areas of adult genre
fiction.