Sentences with phrase «as the short story collection»

But after six months, I got the rights back and I published «A Thousand Fiendish Angels» as a short story collection.

Elizabeth Berg is the author of many bestselling novels, including Open House (an Oprah's Book Club selection), Talk Before Sleep, and The Year of Pleasures, as well as the short story collection The Day I Ate Whatever I...

Not exact matches

His first novel, Morte D'Urban (1962), won the National Book Award, as did a third short - story collection, Look How the Fish Live (1973) Although more uneven than the first two collections, this book still contained the requisite number of outstanding pieces.

Presented as a novel, the book is really a collection of short stories revolving around Margaret Sargent, a lightly fictionalized version of McCarthy.

A shelf full of books — eight novels, seven collections of short stories, three memoirs, and 11 works for children, to be exact — explore the same theme as his recent novel Shosha: the theme of cosmic exile, wherein God has forgotten his graciousness.

This collection of short stories describes the random acts of kindness that Thompson has experienced at the hands of people she describes as «angels»...

As the title implies, this collection concentrates on writings about AIDS, but it strays far, from Paula Treichler's exemplary analysis of US network television dramatisation of AIDS, to Richard Dellamora's reading of an Edmund White short story and Sander Gilman's survey of 20th - century German fiction about contagion, real and imagined.

I actually have a pretty cool story about these cracked - leather shorts that I will share in a later post =) As you can see, my leather bottoms collection is growing!

It's like a collection of short stories — most dystopian, some not — trying to pass itself off as a novel.

As we previously reported, the film is based off the short story collection by Tim Winton, and will feature 17 short films each from a different director.

Based on Ray Bradbury's eponymous short story collection, The Illustrated Man casts Rod Steiger as Carl - a mysterious, tattooed figure who encounters a drifter (Robert Drivas) while searching for the woman responsible for his body art.

Stine's scary collections of short stories are generally aimed at kids about 9 to 12 years old, and the movie seems to target that age group as well.

Adapted from the James Joyce story of the same name (it has featured in the acclaimed Irish writer's short works collection Dubliners), The Dead was Huston's 37th feature film as a director, and came just two years after his final Academy Award ® nomination for Prizzi's Honor.

A collection of very short stories by Mike Russell, Everything Is Strange comes across as a kind of mix of Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone,

Online Originals published «The Veteran» as the first part of «Quintet», a collection of five short stories announced in the following order: «The Veteran», «The Miracle», «The Citizen», «The Art of the Matter» and «Draco».

You see, I don't view my short stories as stand - alone pieces, but weave them into themed collections.

Speaking of hearts, there's one last reward of reviewing that I'd like to mention: that as an author myself, I know how heartwarming it is to receive an enthusiastic review for my own work, and the arrival of not one but two glowing reviews for my latest book, the collection of very short stories (aka flash fiction) has made my week already — and it's still only Tuesday.

I publish my short stories (1,000 - 4,000 words) either as themed collections, with a common strand binding them together to make them greater than the sum of the parts, or as stand - alone singles.

As writer Denise Barnes recently remarked to me at the Romantic Novelists Association annual conference, where I was a guest speaker, there's not that big a leap from writing themed collections of short stories to producing a novel.

As you likely already know... it's extremely difficult to get an agent or publisher for a novella... short story... or collection of short stories... unless you're already a well - published and / or award - winning author.

In March 2002, his collection of short stories «Everything's Eventual» was launched in print by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, and as an ebook in Palm Digital Media, with an excerpt that could be freely downloaded.

Following his Pulitzer Prize - winning The Known World, Jones presents a collection of fourteen short stories centered in Washington D.C - the same location as his first book of short stories, Lost in the City - a place that he knows well having been born and raised there.

Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link Kelly Link's second short story collection is aptly titled Magic for Beginners, for the short fiction she presents here is truly magical, with masterfully crafted stories that are as dark as they are delightful.

A «stone mattress» in the titular tale of this short story collection serves as a painful reminder of past events.

One of the best short story collections of the decade, David Bezmozgis» Natasha «packs a devastating wallop as it describes what it means to be a foreigner,» as BookPage reviewer Ian Schwartz put it in his glowing 2004 review.

Kelly Link's second short story collection is aptly titled Magic for Beginners, for the short fiction she presents here is truly magical, with masterfully crafted stories that are as dark as they are delightful.

«My Parents» Bedroom,» a story from his short story collection, Say You're One of Them, was one of five short stories by African writers chosen as finalists for The Caine Prize for African Writing 2007.

Lam's first book, a collection of interconnected short stories, opens with «How To Get Into Medical School, Part 1, a story which at first glance treads familiar territory - an Asian girl of first generation immigrant parents finds herself torn between her budding love for fellow medical student Fitz (an unsuitable boy by dint of him not being Asian) and her drive to succeed at the highest level as a medical student.

Junot Díaz won the Pulitzer (and a pile of other awards) for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but I've always been all about Drown, his first collection of short stories and the book that singled him out as the most promising literary voice of the Dominican - American community.

She is the author of two collections of short stories, Big World (Short Flight / Long Drive Books, 2009), and Always Happy Hour (Liveright / Norton, 2017), as well as a novel, The Last Days of California (Liveright / Norton, 2short stories, Big World (Short Flight / Long Drive Books, 2009), and Always Happy Hour (Liveright / Norton, 2017), as well as a novel, The Last Days of California (Liveright / Norton, 2Short Flight / Long Drive Books, 2009), and Always Happy Hour (Liveright / Norton, 2017), as well as a novel, The Last Days of California (Liveright / Norton, 2014).

Inspired by newspaper stories from the last four centuries, Donoghue's masterful short story collection explores the unexpected in people's lives in such varied settings as Victorian England, Civil War — era Texas, and early twentieth - century New York City.

Billed as «A Conversation» between Patchett and her friend and fellow writer Edith Pearlman (whose short story collection is a finalist in this year's National Book Awards), watching two authors chat before a considerable crowd in the War Memorial Auditorium was a glimpse into the writer's world that stood out from the crowd of readings and panel discussions.

Her latest collection advances the widely held conviction that Munro reigns as the best short story writer in English today.

With short story collections, the more unrelated they are, the less they're likely to appeal as a collection.

My search for an ebook version of Nightmares and Geezenstacks, released as a Bantam Book in 1961 with a cover price of $.40, came up short, although many of Brown's novel and short - story collections are available in Kindle form.

Over the last few months I've been working on two new short story collections, the first of which came out just under a week ago as an ebook (paperback to follow later this month).

Now, I've also done a short story collection of mine, Mitigated Futures, as a Kickstarter.

The debut story collection from Walter proves he's as skilled at satire and class commentary in the short form as in his novels.»

For a taste of up - and - coming authors, check out the short stories in the New Yorker, as well as the numerous collections of best short stories published annually.

Leaving whatever one considers home can cause many emotions, as experienced in this collection of short stories, poems, and essays.

John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel.

Authors would publish a series of serialized short stories sold for small sums and later sold as a collection.

YA / Mature Readers: Reading as though it were fact, O'Brien's collection of interrelated short stories vividly recontructs the emotions and experience of a platoon of American soldiers in Vietnam.

But short story collections don't sell anywhere near as well as novels, so, given that these are genre stories, odds are the print - run would be 2500 — 4000 with a sell - through of 1500 — 3000 if it did well.

Recent titles, such as Erin Stalcup's novel, Every Living Species, and Frances Cannon's graphic memoir, The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big - Little Frank, have blurred the line between image and word, while others, such as Glenn Shaheen's short story collection, Carnivalia, have combined poetry and prose.

The force of Ebooks IS with me as I aggregate my collection of over 100 short stories and flash fiction pieces from my 4 - year - old e-mail subscription short fiction Web site http://www.LongShortStories.com into my first of several ebooks.

I know you have a fondness for short story anthologies, as shown by your publishing of «Take the Money and Run» by Eleanor Francis, and I believe my collection of short stories will stimulate and interest you.

The new publisher is seeking $ 3500 for the printing of this collection of Tezuka short stories which it plans to release as 2000 limited edition hardcovers.

And as I get ready to put together a collection of short stories for online publication and distribution, I find myself going to his site, and following his links, more and more.

Short story collections by one author are allowed so long as the word count does not exceed 300 pages for the full collection.