Sentences with phrase «career as a novelist»

Hungarian - born Ernest Vajda came to films after a successful career as a novelist, usually under the nom de plume of Sidney Garrick.

Carrière, who began his career as a novelist, was introduced to screenwriting by French comedian and filmmaker Pierre Étaix, with whom he shared an Oscar ® for the live action short subject «Heureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary)» in 1962.

In addition to its original structure, the novel offers candid insights into the effects of status on love... Barnett's willingness to look beyond romance to the mechanics of relationships bodes well for her career as a novelist.»

And a great way to start your career as a novelist, too!

Chabon talked about the book and his career as a novelist with fellow novelist Ann Patchett before a packed theater of fans at the Nashville Public Library in Downtown Nashville on Sunday.

Based on an interview with Reedsy (that you can watch below), this post will show you how Mark has used Facebook ads as a tool to build his career as a novelist (as well as his mailing list)-- and how you can do the same.

I quit my corporate job as a technical editor in order to pursue my own career as a novelist.

Russell Banks has exhibited an astonishingly imaginative range throughout his distinguished career as a novelist, and his uniquely realistic American voice, on display in such modern classics as Rule of the Bone and Continental Drift, continues to shine in this latest effort.

She stayed at the top of her game throughout her 30 - year career as a novelist — as this quote from our review of her final novel proves: «There's a good chance that many readers, like this one, will consider Minding Frankie one of Binchy's best novels yet.»

I was sure that once I graduated, I would launch a brilliant career as a novelist.

Scott Sigler built an audience and a career as a novelist with free serialized audiobooks.

In addition to a thriving career as a novelist, author Darin Gibby is also one of the country's premiere patent attorneys and a partner at the prestigious firm of Kilpatrick Townsend (www.kilpatricktownsend.com).

Graduating Summa Cum Laude from Harvard Medical School, Michael Crichton chose to forego his residency and internship in order to advance his budding career as a novelist.

As Boston Globe writer David Mehegan reports today in his article, His Cases Have Become Mysterious: Lawyer - turned - novelist digs up dirt in old Boston, Landay, 43, went straight from his job as an assistant district attorney to a career as a novelist.

Not exact matches

At the age of twenty Erik served as a special correspondent in Russia for a Hungarian daily paper; from that time forward he pursued a unique career as a journalist, historian, lecturer, traveler, novelist, and painter.

A recent Hansard Society event celebrated the novelist's early career as a parliamentary reporter.

Kicking of his career as a crime reporter and novelist, Fuller soon found his way to Hollywood and after serving in World War Two as an infantryman, became a film director.

(He's also been a novelist and short - story writer, something that Ismailos doesn't bring up, though she does get into his sideline career as a Hollywood screenwriter / script doctor for hire on everything from «Piranha» to «Jurassic Park.»)

Most people who choose a career in writing first imagine ourselves as novelists or memoirists, not nonfiction writers.

Want a successful writing career as a genre fiction novelist.

Writers of commercial fiction who wish to soar out of category, as well as literary novelists who want to learn how to make powerful story principles work for them, will find the Breakout Novel Intensive 2.0 an idea - packed and career enriching experience.

He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best - selling novelist.

If you expect to make money or become a famous novelist on the best seller list, think carefully about writing as a career.

I know it's not all that cut and dry, and I've not experienced ANY of this first hand, but that's just the way I have looked at the publishing process when I first decided to make «novelist» as my career goal.

For Angela, writing fiction is like coming home — she started her career as a romance novelist with British publisher Macdonald Futura.

But the truth is that I started out as a novelist before pursuing journalism; in a sense, journalism was a fall back career.

Publishing: A Writer's Memoir By Gail Godwin Bloomsbury • $ 16 • ISBN 9781620408254 The novelist and three - time finalist for the National Book Award reflects on her 45 - year career as a writer, from her early struggles to find her voice to the often frustrating ups - and - downs of the publishing business.

Ask John, who now works as a production editor at Booklist, how his career as a young - adult novelist evolved, and he graciously acknowledges the support he received from his Booklist colleagues.

While nonfiction authors might be rightly concerned with traffic to their site (as a part of their platform — overall visibility and reach), novelists, poets, and other creative writers should probably treat their site as a critical tool underpinning career - long marketing and promotion efforts, but not necessarily as an end in itself — unless you're generating content, blogging, or doing something to attract attention, which we're about to discuss.

Join us this week on Blondie and the Brit when we interview the delightful Vaun Murfrey about her career as a Sci - fi and Fantasy novelist and how she created the successful and thrilling Weaver series.

Two of the world's largest publishers, Random House and Penguin, are discussing a merger; novelist Rick Moody was the victim of a ring of hackers and identity thieves; Donald Hall provides thoughts on the ubiquitous public poetry reading, and rich details from his career as an acclaimed poet; and other news.

Join us this week on Blondie and the Brit when we interview the delightful Vaun Murphrey about her career as a Sci - fi and Fantasy novelist and how she created the successful and thrilling Weaver series.

He reluctantly finds work as a computer support technician and resigns that his career as the next great American novelist will never come to fruition.

Kimiko Hahn elected president of Poetry Society of America; discovery of original German Darkness at Noon manuscript prompts new translation; Daniel Clowes on his career as a graphic novelist; and other news.

Donald Moffett, whose paintings and prints are currently on view at the Blanton, discusses growing up in San Antonio, and his career as an artist and an activist based in New York with acclaimed novelist and art critic Jim Lewis.

Strider became an important part of the New York avant garde, while Drexler went on to an award - winning career as playwright and novelist.

The novelist Nicola White, who in her former career as a curator commissioned Douglas Gordon's breakthrough artwork 24 Hour Psycho (1993), cites «the collective, egalitarian feel of Glasgow, the multitude of practices and groupings, the respect for hard work, the «now»».

Einarsson and Faldbakken first met in 1999, when the latter was working primarily as a novelist, still in the early stages of his career as a visual artist.

Entering the writing field, whether you aim to be a journalist, a copywriter, or a novelist, has never been easy, but coupled with a slumped economy, it almost seems impossible to secure a lucrative career as a wordsmith.