Not exact matches
His features include Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy; Stephen Frears» Prick Up Your Ears; Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; Phil Joanou's State
of Grace; Oliver Stone's JFK; Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula; Tony Scott's True
Romance; Bernard Rose's Immortal Beloved; Luc Besson's The Professional (a.k.a. Leon) and The Fifth
Element; Wolfgang Petersen's Air Force One; Ridley Scott's Hannibal; Albert and Allen Hughes» The
Book of Eli; Daniel Espinosa's Child 44; and Matt Reeves» Dawn
of the Planet
of the Apes.
Hidden Shadows is a Winner in the Fiction category
of the 2016 NABE Pinnacle
Book Achievement award; Winner 2016 Global Ebook Awards, Popular Literature Fiction; Short - Listed for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award; Honorable Mention, General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Award; Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western
Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in
Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast
Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic
Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart
of Denver
Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and accolades.
In
book one
of the brand - new Hidden Legacy series, Burn For Me, Andrews has combined all
of the
elements that make
romance such a sought - after read, while also taking the plot in the directions she chooses.
That being said, some
of the
romance elements bogged down the story because they felt so similar to ones we have seen in the past in Kate's
books.
When submitting a
book to be featured on this website, authors can choose on a sliding scale to what extend a certain
element is represented in their
book (for example: a little Action, lots
of Romance, no Sadness, some Magic...).
After getting feedback from friends and family, she sent queries to more than 100 agents, but since it was a cross genre story (with
elements of romance, suspense and mystery), it didn't fit neatly on retail
book shelves and got rejected as a «tough sell.»
If the listing said «genre fiction,» she emphasized the
elements of mystery or
romance in her
book.
Since I've taught writing fiction for years and wrote the Writers Digest
book, Writing The Christian
Romance, I have received questions from writers about many
elements and techniques
of writing that they struggle with.
Like you, I'm one
of those authors who never quite «fit the mold» — my
books blend adventure,
romance, history, suspense and fantasy
elements — and it's so liberating to not have to worry anymore about what label will go on the spine, or where the
book will be shelved.
Dogs, show dogs, the world
of professional dog breeding — these are the unique
elements that will attract a specific type
of romance reader to this
book.