Sentences with phrase «debut authors with»

We hold monthly events in London showcasing the work of five debut authors with a book out that month.

I hadn't heard of that particular house before, and when they claimed in their message, «We've had lots of audiobook award nominations, and wins, as well we've created massive bestsellers for debut authors with Top 10 Bestsellers across ALL titles on Audible including Andy Weir's The Martian,» I scheduled a phone conference and did as much research as I could.

Now, BookPage reviews a lot of different kinds of books, from commercial books that have print runs in the millions, to literary novels by debut authors with much smaller first printings.

While critics mocked Amazon for its «too big to fail» approach to bookselling, Amazon Publishing has flourished, luring some well - known authors to its five distinctly genre - specific imprints, while still leaving the door open for the occasional debut author with a high - quality work.

If you're a debut author with no proven sales history, the advance most likely won't be enough to support you quitting your day job and writing full time.

Tell me, please, how a self published debut author with a poorly edited book gets 1000 5 star reviews, then there are 1 - 200 1 2 or 3 star reviews with verified purchase classification who feel they were duped by all those bogus 5 - star reviews.

A debut author with a $ 12.99 or higher ebook is doomed.

Not exact matches

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.

The highly anticipated debut feature from acclaimed author Charlie McDowell, THE ONE I LOVE is an original tale that continues to showcase McDowell's keen observations of human relationships with a distinct and comedic voice.

McCarthy, making his screenwriting debut and Scott interweave the author's characteristic wit and dark humor with a nightmarish scenario, in which a respected lawyer's one - time dalliance with an illegal business deal spirals out of control.

Beginning his career as an author and responsible for the source material of Danny Boyle's The Beach in 2000, Alex Garland then directly ventured into the film industry by doing screenplay's - again with Boyle on 28 Days Later and Sunshine - before he eventually took the reigns himself by making his directorial debut with the magnificent science fiction film Ex Machina in 2014.

The overwhelming English sadness of Ian McEwan's novella On Chesil Beach has been transferred to the movie screen, adapted by the author and directed with scrupulous sensitivity and care by Dominic Cooke, known for his stage work and making his feature film debut here.

In 1998, he teamed up with former bandmate David Ryan to adapt a short story by British author Ian McEwan that became his feature debut, First Love, Last Rites.

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.

The Blu - ray debut features all the supplements of that release: three commentary tracks (one by director Terry Gilliam, one by stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, and one by producer Laila Nabulsi and author Hunter S. Thompson), deleted scenes with commentary by Gilliam, the 1978 BBC «Omnibus» documentary «Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood» (with Hunter S. Thompson and artist Ralph Steadman), the ten - minute featurette «Hunter Goes to Hollywood,» an audio documentary on the controversy over the screenplay credit, a survey of the marketing campaign, selections from the correspondence between Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson (read on camera by Depp), an excerpt from the 1996 audio CD «Fear and Loathing» starring Maury Chaykin, Jim Jarmusch, Harry Dean Stanton, and Glenne Headly, background notes on Oscar Zeta Acosta (the real life activist and attorney who inspired the character of Dr. Gonzo), and galleries of storyboards, stills, and Ralph Steadman art.

Ben Affleck makes his feature film directing debut with Gone Baby Gone, based on a novel by Mystic River author Dennis Lehane that Affleck adapted with co-screenwriter Aaron Stockard.

«Harry Potter» author J.K. Rowling, who made her screenwriting debut with «Fantastic Beasts,» also intends to return for the sequels.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author Seth Grahame - Smith was set to make his directorial debut with The Flash but left over creative differences - Warner Bros. did keep his script though.

Horror author Barker made an auspicious debut as a director with this bloody shocker about a violent con artist who cheats death in gruesome fashion.

Author (The Beach) and screenwriter (28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd) Alex Garland makes his directorial debut with Ex Machina.

Ralph Fiennes follows up his modern Shakespeare adaptation and directorial debut, CORIOLANUS, with a look at the latter life of legendary author Charles Dickens...

Welsh is on board as a producer, with Brit helmer and friend Jon S. Baird behind the camera, who had impressed the author with his debut feature film.

Actress Natalie Portman is set to make her feature film directorial debut with an adaptation of an Israeli author's memoir.The Black Swan actress...

Julia Leigh Cast: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie What You Need To Know: Author Julia Leigh makes her directing debut with a film that has landed In Competition in an already stacked competitive line - up.

After years of crime reporting, screenwriting, and authoring pulp novels, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford (played by Red River's John Ireland), who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.

Director Wes Ball's feature film debut delivered the first in author James Dashner's trilogy (he wrote two prequels as well) with an earnest, no - nonsense commitment to the protagonist's waking nightmare.

Much like the late author, Robinson first drew acclaim with a black comedy that he scripted and directed entitled «Withnail and I.» After the debut, he became tired of the restrictive practices in Hollywood, such as producers either refusing to fund his works or drastically altering them, eventually succumbing to heavy drinking and falling into a heavy depression, becoming «unavailable by choice.»

Complete List of NAACP Image Award Winners Film Categories Best Picture - «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Director - Gina Prince - Bythewood, «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Actor - Will Smith, «Seven Pounds» Best Actress - Rosario Dawson, «Seven Pounds Supporting Actor - Columbus Short, «Cadillac Records» Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Independent Film - «Slumdog Millionaire» Documentary - «The Black List» Foreign Film - «The Class» Best Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, «Rachel Getting Married» Television Categories Best Comedy Series - «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actor in a Comedy Series - LaVan Davis, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Tracee Ellis Ross, «Girlfriends» Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Lance Gross, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Keshia Knight Pulliam, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Dramatic Series - «Grey's Anatomy» Best Actor in a Dramatic Series - Hill Harper, «CSI: NY» Best Actress in a Dramatic Series - Chandra Wilson, «Grey's Anatomy» Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series - Taye Diggs, «Private Practice» Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series - Angela Bassett, «ER» Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - «A Raisin in The Sun» Best Actor in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Sean Combs, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actress in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Phylicia Rashad, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actor in a Sopa Opera - Bryton McClure, «The Young and the Restless» Best Actress in a Sopa Opera - Debbi Morgan, «All My Children» Best Director in a Dramatic Series - Ernest Dickerson, «Lincoln Heights - The Day Before Tomorrow» Best Director in a Comedy Series - Kevin Sullivan, «30 Rock - MILF Island» Best Screenplay for a Dramatic Series - Shonda Rhimes, «Grey's Anatomy: Freedom Part 1 & 2» Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Erica D. Montolfo, «The Game: White Coats and White Lies» News / Information Series or Special - «In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview» Talk Series - «The View» Reality Series - «American Idol 7» Variety Series or Special - «An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson» Children's Program - «Dora The Explorer» Best Performance in a Children's Series or Special - Keke Palmer, «True Jackson» Music Categories Best Male Artist - Jamie Foxx Best Female Artist - Beyonce» Best New Artist - Jennifer Hudson Best Duo, Group or Collaboration - Jennifer Hudson, featuring Fantasia - «I'm His Only Woman» Best Jazz Artist - Natalie Cole - «Still Unforgettable» Best Gospel Artist - Mary Mary Best World Music Album - Cheryl Keyes - «Let Me Take You There» Best Music Video - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Song - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Album - Jennifer Hudson - «Jennifer Hudson» Literary Categories Fiction - «In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel,» Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes Nonfiction - «Letter to My Daughter,» Maya Angelou Debut Author - «Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion,» David Glenn Brown Biography / Autobiography - «The Legs are the Last to Go,» Diahann Carroll Instructional - «32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business,» Earvin «Magic» Johnson Poetry - «Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of «Poetry With a Beat»» Nikki Giovanni Children - «Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,» Nikki Grimes (illustrator - Bryan Collier) Youth / Teens - «Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny,» Hill Harper

The show, which debuted in 2014, combines Victor Hugo's 19th - century novel (taking liberties with the author's...

In the case of the video shown here, author Bruce T. Jones has debuted the video along with a promotion of his second book in a trilogy: «I'm stoked to share Evan Staley's video production of the Învierea trailer.

Not everyone blows up overnight with their debut novel, and most authors don't get that response, they tend to get discouraged.

You have to admire an author who, after a successful debut, tries something new with a second novel.

Still, the author's writing possesses the same intimate, lyrical power as his haunting debut, which was written after his experience serving in Iraq with the U.S. Army.

YA author Cantor ponders that question with sensitivity and insight in her adult fiction debut.

South African author Sally Andrew makes her fiction debut with the first in a new crime series.

Author Kimberly McCreight had a hit on her hands with her suspenseful 2013 debut, Reconstructing Amelia, the story of a grieving mother trying to figure out what made her teenaged daughter leap from the roof of her exclusive private school.

Award - winning illustrator and first - time author Nelson's history of the Negro Leagues, told from the vantage point of an unnamed narrator, reads like an old - timer regaling his grandchildren with tales of baseball greats Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and others who forged the path toward breaking the race barrier before Jackie Robinson made his historic debut.

With elegant, evocative prose and a cast of unforgettable characters, debut author Kristin Cashore creates a mesmerizing world, a death - defying adventure, and a heart - racing romance that will consume you, hold you captive, and leave you wanting more.

Just as exciting has been our completely unrelated relationship with some exciting debut authors.

In a guest post, he reflects on his March cover story interview with debut novelist Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger's Wife.

Edward Conlon, author of best - selling memoir Blue Blood, will make his fiction debut this spring with Red on Red.

** The official companion app for Marisha Pessl's new novel, NIGHT FILM ** ** Scan select images in NIGHT FILM with the Decoder app to unlock exclusive multimedia content ** ** Works with any version of the book — both print and eBook ** Brilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, NIGHT FILM is a superb literary thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster debut Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

Mashable wrote that Booktrack «debuted as an iOS app focused on professional authors like Salman Rushdie; a total of 40 titles sold more than 250,000 downloads,» but then pivoted in 2013 to become a platform where «writers can embed songs from a catalogue of 20,000 licensed audio files, adding mood music, ambient audio and sound effects to play in tune with story lines, paced to a user's reading speed.»

«Being an Author Marketing Club Premium member has provided me with a number of tools that have been invaluable in helping me promote my debut novel.

Filed Under: Book Industry Trends, How To Get Published, Literary Agent Profiles, Self - Publishing Tagged With: agent, Alan Rinzler, debut author, debut writer, developmental editor, editorial consultant, emerging author, fiction, Folio Literary Agency, Folio Literary Management, Jill Marsal, literary agent, Marsal Lyon Agency, Michelle Brower, novelist

Read Part One HERE Hosted by MM Finck Anonymously Answered By Agented Authors * with Varying Publishing Career Durations and Successes from Debut to Bestselling and Represented by Multiple Literary Agencies of Varying Sizes QUESTION SIX Did your first agented manuscript sell?

A Twenty - Five - Question Interview Published as a Five Part Series Hosted by MM Finck Anonymously Answered By Agented Authors * with Varying Publishing Career Durations and Successes from Debut to Bestselling and Represented by Multiple Literary Agencies of Varying Sizes QUESTION ONE Why did you choose the traditional publishing track?

Last year's winners were an interesting and diverse selection, a mix of debut novels and ones from authors with as many as three previous novels.

«If the book is unique and meaningful, the debut author doesn't yet have a bad sales track record so we can look at their book with all of the rosiness of potential rather than reality» Good... [Read more...]

But, after she left the podium (to widespread applause), what likely lingered in many minds is the candid picture she'd painted of one of publishing's growing digital nightmares: debut authors may be understanding about the slow process to market and put up with it, said Smart, «but as they build reader communities around them they will get really, really pissed off and go and self - publish.»