Sentences with phrase «book than the romance»

Not exact matches

In just a year it has amassed a catalog of thousands of romance books and more than $ 1 million in revenue.

Chesterton's Autobiography is not always a reliable source; but there is corroborating evidence for these protective feelings from his childhood onwards: and since this evidence is virtually unknown, it is probably best here to take this opportunity to publish it for the first time (much of it will appear in my forthcoming book Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy, though I discovered some of it too late for it to be included) rather than repeat old arguments.

It is more creative than science fiction, the love stories are more intense than romance novels, and the Bible, when rightly understood, is more colorful than a comic book.

Her book — at turns heart - breaking, charming, insightful and funny — is about a heck of lot more than the seemingly doomed romance between the California native and Upper West Side Manhattan intellectual.

Rather than putting it off due to having to book a flight, find a quality hotel to stay at and figuring out how to get around town, members can opt for the romance tours service.

Going into a russian romance tour, you will spend this time with the ladies that are configured for a serious relationship, who also wants to solve the problem of loneliness and to find a life partner - wife from FSU The real immersion in the foreign «reality» is communication with Russian girls in romance tour and their families which will let you know the mentality of these people better than you can learn from books and seminars.

Yet is feels less like a romance than like a coffee - table book celebrating the magic of special effect.

This does sound more overtly plotty in a trivial comic book way than other recent Marvel films, and a more epic sweep is promised, but we hope that Taylor retains the better parts of the first film too; the humor, and the romance, which worked a little better than in most other Marvel pictures.

The Hunger Games drags at times, is not particularly imaginative as much as it's campy, the romance part seems more perfunctory as touchy - feely love than steamy and any complexities in characters or angry revolutionary messages can't be drawn out on film like they were supposedly in the book (I'm not one of its 26 million readers, but I'll take the word of those who stated that was so in the book).

Based on Seth Grahame - Smith's best - selling mash - up novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (out Feb. 5) recounts the unlikely romance between Lizzy (Lily James) and the haughty Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley), but the courtship takes place in a 19th - century English countryside where the «sorry stricken» — as the zombies are called in the book — have been roaming for more than 70 years, victims of a mysterious plague.

This trailer for Roger Michell's adaptation of the book leans harder on the romance angle than anything else, but the cover of Chris Isaak's «Wicked Game» and all of the yelling going on make it pretty clear that there's some heavy stuff going on behind the sweeping vistas and outdoor sex.

One key difference between the book and the film is that Pynchon doesn't push that idea to the fore until quite late in the game, making the pangs of romance more of a sub-conscious revelation than a concrete intent from the get - go.

But with the advent of the influence of the university system and editors coming out of that university myth - filled system, the belief started to sink into the traditional publishing offices that writing more than one or two books per year was a bad thing (except in a few genres like romance).

This author said her rejected books do have «steamy» scenes, but those scenes are no steamier than what appears in her straight romances that Playster accepted.

Jane Friedman, too (http://janefriedman.com/) has also suggested that in much genre fiction (Romance in particular), authors spend their energy being prolific — they assume that each subsequent book will be better than the last, because we improve with practice.

Genre fiction books (fantasy, science fiction, erotica / romance, steampunk, paranormal) will need to be sold for less — less than 13 dollars — for the most part, as well as young adult books (younger audience, smaller wallets).

I think think this is one of the best books about unrequited love that I've ever read, though it's more of a coming of age story than a romance.

Prolific readers who chose romance were reading for almost 90 minutes a day, and finding time more than six times a day to settle down with a book.

(By the way, women's fiction is more literary than romance; romance book covers usually sport busty women and bare - chested men.)

The two started as friends, then began a rocky romance that hit more than a couple of bumps over the five - book series.

Force, a New York Times and USA Today contemporary romance author who has written more than 50 books, was at the forefront of the indie publishing wave in 2010 when she self - published books that had been rejected by traditional publishers.

I know you thank your fans (of which I am one), and I am more than happy to share the love about a book that I loved, so supporting an author who writes such outstanding romances is a privilege I wish I could do more often!

For example, our sci - fi reviewers won't dismiss a book because «faster - than - light space travel is impossible,» or our romance reviewers won't berate unrealistic love scenes.

The lowest royalties I've heard of are less than 5 % of net in genres like romance literature, where the publisher may even own the rights to the pen name under which the books are published.

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In some genres (especially high - volume «pulp» genres like romance, science fiction, fantasy, and, to a lesser extent, mysteries), readers often expect anything shorter than a full - length book (fifty thousand or more words) to be priced $ 0.99, while full length pieces are generally priced $ 2.99 — $ 4.99.

I'm not bad at giving away books — my free romance novelette Trapped by Love has been downloaded more than 28,000 times — but books that people have to actually pay money for aren't as popular.

Sales of printed romance books have fallen for the first time since records began at a time when e-book sales have more than doubled.

But she was willing to download a book that she knew nothing about other than it was a romance and she had virtually no knowledge of the plot.

It's easier to market a book about knitting than a general romance because you know where your demographic hangs out.

After all, it's better to be ranked in the top ten of Fantasy / Paranormal / Horror / Romance / Urban than to be buried underneath the top 100 of Fantasy books.

Jennifer Lawler is the author or coauthor of more than 30 nonfiction books as well as 16 romances under various pen names.

Successful publishers change the metadata each week (paranormal romance, for example, rather than simple romance), making the book come up in different search results.

You have more chance of getting a book published in the Romance genre than anywhere else in mainstream publishing!

Patricia McLinn is a USA Today bestselling author of more than 30 books that include mystery, romance, and westerns She began her novel writing career with Silhouette Books (Harlequin) and was nominated for and won several writing awards, but her career really took off when she decided to go ibooks that include mystery, romance, and westerns She began her novel writing career with Silhouette Books (Harlequin) and was nominated for and won several writing awards, but her career really took off when she decided to go iBooks (Harlequin) and was nominated for and won several writing awards, but her career really took off when she decided to go indie.

Her most anticipated books are mostly standalones, with younger characters in urban settings rather than the billionaires that usually dominate romances set in cities.

Zabo's depiction of an orientation rarely seen in romance is fascinating and a welcome antidote to books upon books where a «deviation» from the norm is seen as an aspect to be fixed, rather than an integral part of a character's identity.

With 89 % of the romance titles sold being ebooks, and with more than 50 % of the authors who wrote those books being self - published, Author Earnings has concluded that around 67 % of the sales happening on Amazon are not being watched or counted by the industry.

This is a small book club (no more than 30 people) that reads books from the Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Genres.

Getting published was a bit more complex than her decision to write, but after winning a few romance - writing contests, Marek felt confident enough to pitch her book to Sourcebooks.

Readers (and romance readers more than others) read so many books they go to social media platforms to beg for help finding MORE of the type of book they want!

«I so wish there had been a book like this back when I first started... there no preachy comments, and this book isn't pushing any one particular way to be a writer... or whether or not traditional publishing is better than e-publishing» Romance writer Ryan Field

Romance also took a backseat to realism with the appearance, in the midnineties, of the so - called bleak books, realism with a harder edge than that of the seventies.

That romance maintained its popularity well into the sixties is evidenced by something that none other than S. E. Hinton wrote in the New York Times Book Review as late as 1967: «The world is changing, yet the authors of books for teenagers are still 15 years behind the times.

Be that as it may, the book was — and remains (it's still in print and has sold more than 1.5 million copies)-- so popular with teens that it ushered in a decade, the forties, distinguished by its romance novels, many of them pale imitations of Daly's.

If a reader subscribes for romances, but also regularly reads biographies, which do not do well in KU, the biography authors may choose to distribute their books widely, and the KU reader would have to buy rather than borrow those books.

If you're looking for romance with some serious political flair, look no further than Emma Barry's Party Lines, the third book in her Easy Part series.

The Voldemort of the book business not only controls an estimated 60 percent of e-book sales and a significant chunk of print book sales, it has now become a publisher, establishing imprints for everything from romance novels to children's picture books and putting out more than 100 books of its own in 2011.

One is an emerging format that this year encompassed works by Jon Krakauer, Walter Mosley, Tyler Cowen, Amy Tan, and more than one vampire romance writer: the short book.

Aaron, I'm sorry, but it's more than just some romance with paper that makes people unhappy with eliminating actual books.