Sentences with phrase «debut authors come»

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Stanford student and author Kiley Roache comes to Kepler's to talk about her debut novel, Frat Girl, that centers around fraternity life, feminism, and finding your own truth.

Since her Top Chef debut 11 years ago, India's first supermodel (who started modeling at age 21, after graduating from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, with a degree in theater arts and American literature) has also become an award - winning author (her fourth book, The Encyclopedia of Spices & Herbs, came out last fall) and an outspoken activist, cofounding the Endometriosis Foundation of America and recently becoming an ambassador for the ACLU.

Although the film's title and a minimal amount of story come from author Michael Faber's 2000 novel, this is Glazer's most hyperstylized and unnerving film since Ben Kingsley got on the wrong side of Ray Winstone and Amanda Redman in the director's utterly self - assured feature debut, Sexy Beast.

That's the tag for the new IFC Films release about Frankenstein author Mary Shelley's tumultuous life, which has a May 25 theatrical debut in New York and Los Angeles after bowing at the Toronto Film Festival and with a Tribeca Film Festival screening coming.

From the celebrated twenty - nine - year - old author of the everywhere - heralded short - story collection St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves comes a blazingly original debut novel that takes us back to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine.

Whaley's Where Things Come Back might just be the most acclaimed YA novel that was published in 2011: It won the 2012 Printz Award, the 2012 William C. Morris Debut Fiction Award and Whaley was the first - ever YA author to be selected as a «Top 5 Under 35 Author» by the National Book Foundauthor to be selected as a «Top 5 Under 35 Author» by the National Book FoundAuthor» by the National Book Foundation.

In terms of what his analysis offers to the industry — «I'm trying to solve the [same] problem the Big Five is trying to solve,» he said from the stage — Data Guy focused, in part, on an interpretation of debut - author unit sales, with 22 percent of them in 2014 coming from Big Five publishers, 11 percent in 2015 coming from Big Fives, and only 9 percent coming from Big Fives in the first quarterly report of 2016.

The PEN Award — and the $ 25,000 that comes with it — is given to the debut author deemed to be the most promising of the year by a panel of judges.

From O. Henry Prize — winning author Emily Ruskovich comes a stunning debut novel about love and forgiveness, about the violence of memory and the equal violence of its loss.

Debut author Michael Hiebert talks about the inspiration for his coming - of - age mystery, Dream with Little Angels, the story of mom Leah Teal, a widowed police officer, as she investigates the disappearances of children in Alvin, Alabama — all told by her 11 - year - old son, Abe.

From the author of the «big - hearted... inspiring» (Vogue) New York Times bestseller Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life: the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Kabul and the women who meet there - each with a story and a secret that will lead them all to an extraordinary friendship.

Even formerly traditionally published authors like US President Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis have told Good e-Reader that doors closed to them once their self - published titles came along, specifically in review and interview opportunities; Davis even recounted how she appeared on NPR to promote one title, but when she reached out to that same program about her debut indie title, she was told there was a policy in place against self - published works.

From debut author Akemi Dawn Bowman comes a luminous, heartbreaking story of identity, family, and the beauty that emerges when we embrace our true selves.

There's a reason, likewise, that John Corey Whaley's debut novel, Where Things Come Back, won so many awards and turned its young author into an insta - star.

For the first time author, crowdfunding is a chance to test the water and hopefully build a following before your debut novel has even come out.

In recent years, only one author comes to mind who has chosen not to go with the publisher — Catherine O'Flynn, whose debut What Was Lost won the Costa First Novel award.

Ultimately, some of the panelists come to the agreement that about $ 4.99 is an appropriate price for a debut author or a backlist title, while bestsellers inherently can be priced higher.

Jennifer Bradbury is the author of A Moment Comes, Wrapped, and her debut novel, Shift.

So goes a classic pickup line from Nathaniel (Nate) Piven, an up - and - coming literary star in Brooklyn whose relationships populate Adelle Waldman's The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. Reminiscent of classic realist novels from authors like Graham Greene or Henry James, this delightful debut jumps headfirst into the mind of one man, revealing what he really thinks about women, dating and success.

Under the Udala Trees By Chinelo Okparanta Mariner • $ 14.95 • ISBN 9780544811799 One of Granta's New Voices in 2012 and author of a prize - winning short story collection, Okparanta received the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction for this striking debut novel about a Nigerian girl's coming of age.

Sometimes it's hard to take the plunge when it comes to a first - time author — we're here to help by matching standout debuts from the past with their 2016 readalikes.

In the six weeks leading up to the publication of Nightshade (Oct. 19, Philomel), a teen novel by debut author Andrea Cremer, readers can watch one of the main characters come to life in 12 webisodes.

This chart, as well as the churn chart, got us wondering how much of traditionally - published author revenue was coming from new releases by long - tenured authors, and how much of it was coming from debut authors.

As we've seen, almost two thirds of the Big - 5's earnings currently comes from their «Old» authors, those who debuted more than 5 years ago and whose frontlist and backlist titles now comprise 63 % of Big - 5 earnings.

But as we've seen, 63 % of the Big - 5 revenue comes from «Old» authors with Kindle debuts 2009 or before.

An author with the branding and readership that Jodi Picoult has can probably come away from a situation like these negotiations with her sales intact, as evidenced by her # 1 NYT spot for her latest print release, but as Gross pointed out in the article, debut and newer authors stand to lose a lot in sales and fan growth, which will only perpetuate the cycle of bookstore and publisher demise.

ResultSource, a company that doesn't even attempt to hide its purpose in allowing authors to buy their way onto the New York Times or Wall Street Journal bestseller lists, including upon debut for the right price, is coming under fire for this practice.

Many of our authors come to us as debut writers and we are actively committed to talent spotting and developing new careers.

For fans of literary classics such as The Catcher in the Rye and The Perks of Being a Wallflower comes a stirring new thought - provoking novel from debut author Sam Miller...

Why would top - selling, award - winning authors like Mary Alice, Bernard Cornwell, Micah Nathan, Bret Lott, Elise Blackwell or Andra Watkins come spend their Sunday afternoon at a debut book event?

This capability came under fire shortly after the Kindle 2 debuted, as the Author's Guild wanted writers to be compensated for the spoken «performance» of books, or otherwise have the text - to - speech function disabled.

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It really breaks my heart because this author not only has shot himself in the foot for this book, but he's come onto the scene as a debut author, which is one of the only aspects of publishing that still has any marketing oomph.

According to an article in the Guardian late last year, «How Amazon came to dominate fiction in translation», 2016 will see AmazonCrossing publishing Pierced by the Sun, the new novel from the Mexican author of Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel, as well as Jesper Bugge Kold's Danish Book Forum Debut prize — nominated Winter Men.

Unfortunately, their prices haven't come down quite as much as frontlist titles by the Big Five's more established authors, which were already priced $ 1.00 less than those of more - recent Big Five debuts to begin with.

Today's story comes from debut author, Julianna Stone, whose first book «His Darkest Hunger» is in stores tomorrow (or maybe even today).

Like you, I tried traditional, got an agent, and got as far as second reads with two NY publishers, but it came down to a bad combo: debut author PLUS non-hot genre.