Sentences with phrase «best fantasy writer»

Summary: Mercedes Lackey is one of the best fantasy writers out there.

All the best fantasy writers for young people, along with some who aren't strictly fantasy writers (such as the incomparable Joan Aiken).

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Anne Rice, as a fantasy writer, should know better than anyone where all religious texts come from... the imaginations of the authors.

H.P. Lovecraft, the fantasy and horror writer, might well have been describing this range in his 1931 novella At the Mountains of Madness.

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Overally, this helps make Clash seem less generic due to the simple fact that the writers knew that its fantasy roots were well worn.

Writer / director Sngmoo Lee started work on his fantasy action film — cowboys meet ninjas: nuff said — wayyyyyyy back in November 2007, wrapped in February 2008, and... well, okay, in fairness, a lot of special effects went into this thing, so you can only imagine that post-production was a bitch and a half, but, wow, that's a really long time coming.

If most movies lie to us or ply us with wish - fulfillment fantasies (we are handsome, good and victorious), the movies of German writer - director Michael Haneke do the opposite: they lay bare, in the starkest way, our greatest fears: We are not safe («Funny Games»), we are not good («The White Ribbon»), we have no privacy («Caché»).

Kyd also created the faded Americana acoustic score for Undead Labs» STATE OF DECAY, the fastest selling original game on Xbox Live Arcade, and the surreal fantasy score for the action - adventure DARKSIDERS II, created by comic book writer / artist Joe Madureira, which garnered numerous critic accolades including Entertainment Weekly's «Most Played Best Songs of 2012,» Machinima's «Top 5 Songs of 2012,» «Best Video Game Score of 2012» and «Top 10 Best Video Game Scores Ever» from Minnesota Public Radio.

It must have gone really well because Ayer is now re-teaming with Suicide Squad actor Will Smith for the new fantasy film Bright from Chronicle writer Max Landis.

The fantasy - enriched, near operatic Technicolor dramas for which director - writer - producer collaborators Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger are perhaps best known — such as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Matter of Life and Death (194...

Writer and activist Audre Lorde, he says, best describes his argument that other young people should have that same access as they try to tell their stories: «If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive,» and «You can not, you can not use someone else's fire.

This fault aside, perhaps the best measure of the Range Rover Sport's competency is the fact that it's just replaced at least two cars in this writer's fantasy garage.

There's a wide range of genres in this year's best first novels, from fantasy and mystery to social realism, and many new writers open up the old formulas and break boundaries in form and subject.

Here's a good round - up of recent numbers: All About The Money: Authors, Readers, and Ebook Prices Jami Gold, Paranormal Author Pauline M Ross: writer of epic fantasy The Plains of Kallanash and a reviewer on speculative -LSB-...]

My guess is, certain genres (like erotica) won't mind paying 99cents or even 2.99 for a short read, but other types of genres won't do so well (business books expect more meat, scifi / fantasy readers expect more story — they might buy a short from a famous writer, but maybe not a writer they don't recognize).

Yep, my friend started out as a fantasy writer, couldn't get anywhere despite selling some short stories and being very well received, and wound up writing historical m / m and fantasy in English.

Her current roster includes New York Times best - selling fantasy writer Jim Butcher, Hugo Award winning science fiction author Elizabeth Bear, USA Today best - selling author Anne Bishop, Nebula and Hugo finalist Cherie Priest, and RITA Award Winner Shelley Bates.

SFWA president Cat Rambo said, «Beagle's work has been the gateway for multitudes of fantasy readers, but also writers as well, including myself.

I thought I'd start on New Year's Eve, especially since I recently discovered a fantastic website for fantasy and SF writers called Mythcreants, from which came three of the articles below touching on creating memorable character moments and riveting fight scenes as well as unrealistic tropes to avoid.

Yes, I'm pleased to help beginning writers, and I enjoy reading good work that is completely different than my genre and world view (I write fantasy and fantasy romance).

Juliet Marillier defines the fantasy genre, Blake Morrison delves into the often distressing burden of managing a deceased writer's estate, and Olivia Mason presents a top - ten list of best works from one of my all - time favorite writers, Harlan Ellison.

Cho was a 2013 nominee for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer, joint winner of the Crawford Award for her short story collection Spirits Abroad (Buku Fixi, 2014) and winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer for her debut historical fantasy novel Sorcerer to the Crown (Ace / Macmillan, 2015).

Kim Harrison is known for her sexy urban fantasy novels starring witches and demons — but the best - selling writer has a secret life that features «jeans and scuffed boots» that are a far cry from her leather - clad author photos.

Former and current Nashvillians including author and owner of Parnassus Books, Ann Patchett (Commonwealth), novelist and respected wine critic Jay McInerney (Bright, Precious Days: A Novel), fantasy writer Sherrilyn Kenyon (DragonMark) musician Kix Brooks (Cookin» It With Kix: The Art of Celebrating and the Fun of Outdoor Cooking), and Anne Byrn, nationally famous as The Cake Mix Doctor (American Cake: From Colonial Gingerbread to Classic Layer, the Stories and Recipes Behind More Than 125 of Our Best - Loved Cakes).

Since its inception, SFWA ® has grown in numbers and influence until it is now widely recognized as one of the most effective non-profit writers» organizations in exstence, boasting a membership of over 1,700 science fiction and fantasy writers as well as artists, editors and allied professionals.

Here are 22 social media sites geared specifically to Indie scifi and fantasy writers, as well as dozens of SFF hashtags, Facebook groups, sub-Reddits, and more.»

When it comes to prose amongst contemporary fantasy writers I don't think you'll find anyone better than Mark Lawrence.

Sheila Clover English is the author of a non fiction book about marketing and book trailers as well as a fantasy, scifi, YA, romance and horror writer.

Meanwhile, writer, professor, and critic Stephen Burt chronicles the dream - like story of how fantasy writer Catherynne Valente's crowd - funded Internet novel won a Nebula Award, became a trade best - seller, and led to four traditionally published sequels.

I know at least one famous writer who does good SF, but I don't like his fantasy very much.

Since its inception, SFWA ® has grown in numbers and influence until it is now widely recognized as one of the most effective non-profit writers» organizations in existence, boasting a membership of approximately 1,800 science fiction and fantasy writers as well as artists, editors and allied professionals.

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The stories got some good reviews, and figured I was a dark fantasy writer as well as a heroic fantasy one — until my reviewers kept saying they liked my innovative horror stories.

Amanda J Evans is an award - winning writer of paranormal and fantasy novels as well as children's stories.

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Featuring ten all - new, original stories that run the gamut from fantasy to comics to contemporary adventure to nonfiction, and featuring eleven of the most acclaimed, exciting writers for kids working today, this collection is the perfect book for you, whether you use your powers for good — or evil.

posted at Ian Martyn, Science Fiction Writer, saying, «I've read a lot of good science fiction and fantasy, more and more e-published.

Among our members, you'll find writers of action / adventure, fantasy, historical, horror, inspirational, mystery, romance, science fiction, suspense, time travel, war, westerns, stories for children and young adults — in short, all the most popular fiction genres, as well as non-fiction self - help and how - to.

The Nebula Awards recognize the best works of science fiction and fantasy published in the United States, as selected by members of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and are considered among the most prestigious awards for these genres.

Featuring ten all - new, original stories that run the gamut from fantasy to contemporary adventure to nonfiction, and featuring eleven of the most acclaimed, exciting writers for kids working today, this collection is the perfect book for you, whether you use your powers for good — or evil.

And if you're into fantasies coming true, try exploring this list over at the Guardian of some of the best travel writers in the biz listing their favorite travel books of all time.

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Bungie, the developer of the game, and the team responsible for the epic Halo series of shooters, has clearly done a lot of research to build its fiction - the Destiny world is a rich amalgam of myths and fantasy tropes; the alien races that you fight — the Fallen, the Hive, the Vex — all have military hierarchies and back stories inspired by Tolkien, Asimov and a dozen other genre writers, as well as Roman and Medieval history.

The game's narrative moves at a good pace, and it features some fairly robust lore courtesy of fantasy writer Ed Greenwood.

Titled Dragon's Dogma: The Beginning, the book features development illustrations and an original short story by fantasy writer Ryo Mizuno, perhaps best known as the creator of Record of Lodoss War.

The final fantasy story writers are the best and they draw us into the lives of the characters who although are not real but stay on in people's hearts forever.

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