Sentences with phrase «by an unknown writer»

Pay for books by unknown writers, even if it's a few dollars.

For newer books, I'll read the next installment by a favorite author or a book by a friend before titles by an unknown writer.

This is a heroic poem that was written by an unknown writer between the 8th and the 11th centuries.

A study conducted at Stanford and University of Pennsylvania revealed that when books penned by unknown writers were reviewed in the New York Times, sales of their work increased by a third, even if the reviews were negative.

When I wrote mystery short stories and sent manuscripts into Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazines, slush pile readers would scoop up manuscripts by unknown writers to take home and look at.

I'm not an expert on the specifics you're addressing, but bottom line for me is: Copyright lawsuits by unknown writers, over UNpublished writing, are rare, and for good reason.

Material includes Palaeolithic hand axes c. 700,000 - 40,000 years BC, a photographic reproduction of a Henry Moore maquette, an unpublished manuscript of 1970's experimental writing by an unknown writer found in a London junk market, the complete works of Gilbert Sorrentino, a recording of a hand dance by Tilly Losch performed in 1933, a selection of spiritual merchandise and a playable LP of BBC Radiophonic Workshop sound effects from 1976.

Instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the book I myself would have liked to read, the sort by an unknown writer, from another age and another country, discovered in an attic.

Publicists often use comparisons to well - known authors to convince readers to pick up a novel by an unknown writer.

I'd happily pay $ 2.99 for a piece of writing that is that long and that well written (by a famous author no less), but I wonder what prompts people to spend money on short stories written by unknown writers.