Sentences with phrase «book of novellas»
Her first novel, When the World Was Steady, and her book of novellas, The Hunters, were both finalists for the PEN / Faulkner Award; and her second novel, The Last Life, was selected a Best Book of the Year byPublishers Weekly and an Editor's Choice at The Village Voice.
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His other books included a volume of novellas, «The River Swimmer»; the poetry collections «Songs of Unreason» and «Returning to Earth»; and a memoir about food, «The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand.»
There's also a bit of discussion of Berry's novella Remembering, which I read this Spring with the book - club and highly recommend — starts a bit slow, but develops into a truly — oh, what the heck — memorable reading experience.
Few of his books drew you in quite as powerfully as «Cycle of the Werewolf», a short novella featuring fantastic artwork by the late, great Bernie Wrightson.
Ian McEwan's 2007 novella On Chesil Beach, about a young couple's disastrous honeymoon in southern England circa 1962, presents a classic adaptation problem: The book runs less than 40,000 words, the prose largely examines the characters» interiority, and the majority of the action takes place over the course of an...
Syfy dropped trailers for two very promising new shows during NBCUniversal's Upfront presentation on Monday: Nightflyers, a sci - fi horror series based on a novella by A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin, and Deadly Class, an comic book adaptation that's executive - produced by Avengers: Infinity War directors the Russo brothers.
Surprisingly, 2016 has produced not one but two adaptations of the author's novels: Indignation, based on his slender 2008 novella about a college undergraduate struggling to find himself and avoid becoming cannon fodder in the Korean War; and American Pastoral, taken from arguably the author's greatest book.
By turns and chances this brief novella will perfectly fill the interval while I await the imminent release of Acceptance, the third and final book in VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy (see Annihilation and Authority below).
The independent survey of 2,000 adults asked which books they read and enjoyed at school and the dystopian novella won out against several plays by William Shakespeare and gothic horrors Frankenstein and Dracula.
The advent of Amazon KDP had made it possible for anyone to publish a book, and that was the platform I used to launch my first novella, and subsequently produce a series of novels.
It doesn't have to be your main book — maybe write a prequel or a short novella or something «else» that's between 10,000 and 20,000 words, and make it free to get people aware of you.
Originally posted on konnlavery.com (Hint: Book marketing advice begins at question # 4) Christa Wojciechowski — Horror Novella Author of SICK June 7, 2016 Interview For this month's guest author, I'd like to welcome Christa Wojciechowski, a fellow horror / thriller...
You really are attempting to only «publish» a portion of your novella, even though it's already their in it's entirety as a different book.
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So she sat down and wrote the entire book — more of a novella, at just 12,000 words — in a matter of weeks.
Hi JB, I'm afraid it's still trying to get a novella (s) published... unless the two books were connected as in part one and part two of one story.
The IDA is hosted by the prestigious Oklahoma Romance Writers of America and is open to international books and novellas.
Whereas if you write novellas, which are like shorter books, which are popular right now — I wrote one earlier this year, Day of the Vikings; it was so much fun.
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Caves, Cannons and Crinolines by Beverly Stowe McClure is a finalist in the Novella category of the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and a finalist in the 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Award in the category Young Adult.
There are some great books there — the Young Wizards New Millennium Editions, Feline Wizardry trilogy, and associated Young Wizards novellas, the Tale of the Five, and many more.
Barnes & Noble puts its Nook Tablet's capacity at 10,000 books, but unless you are some kind of strange e-book hoarder, you probably aren't going to hit that cap with novellas and Sue Grafton.
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Possibly because of the terrifying cannibalism story, possibly because of the creepy monkey on the cover, drawn from one of the collection's most frightening tales, possibly because I read it first at the tender age of 12 and couldn't go to sleep while the book was in the room with me... I could go on, but read it yourself and you'll find plenty of reasons to shiver (it also contains the novella «The Mist»).
I liked the novella and I toyed with the idea of expanding it into a full - length novel, but I was always side - tracked by the other books on which I was working.
They describe the book as «an original, never - before - published novella that only the King of Horror could have dreamed up!
I've spent months writing a series of apocalyptic science fiction novelettes and novellas that I planned to begin publishing in September, in order to try to succeed with what was the hottest new way to sell books: series!
If you've stopped by my blog before, you've doubtlessly heard me suggest that giving away a free ebook (whether a short story, a novella, or a complete Book 1) can be a great way to boost sales of your other books.
Caves, Cannons and Crinolines by Beverly Stowe McClure is an Award - Winning Finalist in the 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Award in the category Young Adult, an Award - Winning Finalist in the Novella category of the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and also an Award - Winning Finalist in the category of Teen Literature Fiction in the 2011 Global eBook Awards.
I already touched on the idea of using a free ebook (a short story, a novella, or even a full - length novel) as a loss leader, the idea being that you can sell more of your other books by giving away free samples.
I haven't published a book since July (Golden Mane) and my only other two titles were the Swords for Hire Anthology (which I edited and published through Undaunted, but only wrote a single, 12k short for) and Into Exile, a 35k novella I wrote and largely revised at the end of 2015 then published this March.
You can check out Jo's new 99 - cent prequel novella, Beta Testers or preorder the Book of Deacon short story collection he mentioned in the show.
Erotic authors, riding the surging 50 Shades of Grey wave, are consistently finding new and innovative ways to get their work into reader's hands, including bundling books from several authors together to create what is, essentially, an anthology of novellas.
Many, many traditionally published authors are working to add either back - list titles they've gotten the rights back on, or bonus books (novellas, short stories) through indie publishing to boost the sales of their books under contract.
I write a series of novels about a futuristic counter terrorism agency, a novella series about mental illness, a sci - fi novella series, and non-fiction books on psychology and philosophy.
So if I don't finish my novella by the 60 day mark after the release of Book 2, I'm bundling my two novels together for a «double play» bundle.
My current book, 12 Hours of Daylight — A Jason Jules Novella is set in an erotically charged atmosphere and puts modern young fatherhood under the microscope.
In the new era of ebooks, novellas are doing quite well, as long as they have a true end, not a cliffhanger and the message «buy another book to follow along!»
Author of novella, Doing Good, realised self - publishing offered him the opportunity to produce his book
Most of my genre books are in the 50 - 60k range, but I do have novellas (20 - 25k) and shorts (10k» ish) as well.
Thank you for the red ribbon: — RRB - Hope you can join us in congratulating fellow indie and member of the Book Marketing Network, Martin Murphy on having his novella featured on the Sunday Showcase of Indies Unlimited.
This isn't much of a popular option; more likely than book series are the light novels, a genre of short novellas often accompanied by illustrations.
The books will comprise of two erotic novellas and a scintillating outback romance, followed by another five throughout the year.
America's maestro reporter / novelist gives America an MRI at the dawn of a new age: Hooking Up is a book in three parts: one part novella, one part memoir, one part rumination on American life at the turn of the millennium.
Susan Kaye Quinn author of 18 Debt Collector novellas said «I never intended to write Debt Collector in the first place — the idea came to me in the midst of writing another book — and originally, I thought I could get away with writing a novella about it.
Bibliography Emperor Series (Julius Casear) The Gates of Rome (2003) The Death of Kings (2004) The Field of Swords (2004) The Gods of War (2006) The Blood of Gods (2013) Conqueror Series (Genghis Khan) Wolf of the Plains (2007)(published as Genghis in the USA) Lords of the Bow (2008) Bones of the Hills (UK 2008, USA March 2009) Empire of Silver (2010) Conqueror (2011) The War of Roses Stormbird (2013) Trinity (2014) Bloodline (2015) Ravenspur (2016) Novellas Blackwater (2006) Non fiction The Dangerous Book for Boys (UK: 2006, USA 2007), with Hal Iggulden
This set includes: Book 1: Star NomadBook 2: Honor's FlightBook 3: StarseersThe previously unpublished prequel novella Last CommandThe short story «Starfall Station «Star Nomad was a nominee for the Goodreads Readers» Choice Awards and also made Amazon's Top 20 list of Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2016.
I hope to have published several novellas and books by then and have gotten into a very good rhythm of producing good stories.
In my own head, I kind of had a target of finishing a new book in 2013, with maybe a novella to accompany that.
Established in 1993, its William Faulkner — William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, with cash awards for the best novel - in - progress, novella, short story, poem, essay, and short story by a high school student, has contributed to the launching of a number of careers — including those of Stewart O'Nan, whose first novel, Snow Angels (Doubleday, 1994), was a competition winner; Julia Glass, who won the National Book Award (NBA) for Three Junes (Pantheon Books, 2002); and Lynn Stegner, who was nominated for the NBA for two novels, Undertow (Baskerville, 1996) and Fata Morgana (Baskerville, 1995).