Sentences with phrase «fantasy novel about»

You write your 50,000 word fantasy novel about spaceships and dragons.

Young adult fantasy novel about a Colorado family renowned for performing miracles.

It's a coming - of - age / fantasy novel about a boy with one arm who wants to be a soldier.

March 8, 2018 • NPR's movie critic Bob Mondello discusses the star - studded film adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time, the sci - fi fantasy novel about light and darkness, time and tesseracts.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 14, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG - 13 for epic battle scenes and scary images) Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) directed this adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novel about a human - like creature with furry feet (Martin Freeman) who is prompted by a wizard (Ian McKellen) to embark on an epic with 13 dwarfs to wrest control of a lost kingdom from the clutches of a fearsome dragon.

The Hobbit is based on J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy novel about the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, who obtains the ring that was the centerpiece of The Lord of the Rings trilogy of books and films.

(Like, if everyone has been secretly writing fantasy novels about Ents, and they all publish their novels at the same time.

The series is based on Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski's bestselling fantasy novels about an amnesiac monster hunter named Geralt.

Not exact matches

Based on the novel by Madeleine L'Engle published in 1962, Disney retells the story in its upcoming fantasy epic about Meg, an ordinary teengager who's whisked on a cosmic adventure.

Much has been written about the triumph of geek culture, but what I am seeing all around goes deeper: not just a fondness for comic books and fantasy novels, but a wholesale embrace of scientific thinking in popular entertainment.

I'll be reading from my teen fantasy novel (sorry, no sparkly vampires), and am worried about not dressing right.

She tells you she wants stability, security, a nice guy and a home to take care of, but her fantasy novels are never about an accountant who buys her the washer and dryer of her dreams.

I could write a novel about why Two Worlds II is the worst thing to happen to the fantasy RPG genre since encumbrance systems.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Tim Burton's cinematic take on the first of three novels in Ransom Riggs» popular dark YA fantasy series, introduces Jacob (Asa Butterfield in the film), a child who ventures out to find the fabled Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), whom his late grandfather had told him so many enrapturing stories about.

The Golden Compass (PG - 13 for fantasy violence) Epic escapist fantasy, based on Philip Pullman's award - winning novel, about a precocious 12 year - old scholar (Dakota Blue Richards) already attending Oxford who ventures into a parallel universe to save her best friend and other children kidnapped by an evil organization known as the Gobblers.

Interview talks with romance - novel - cover ready fantasy man, the Outlander star Sam Heughan Playbill George C Wolfe and Oprah Winfrey are working on a cool sounding project called The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks about a woman whose cervical cancer cells were harvested without her permission in the 50s and cloned again and again.

Matt Damon joins forces with the soldier of the Emperor in the US - China historical fantasy The Great Wall, which has a novel idea about why the wall was built (PG - 13).

The BBC and BBC America will team for a seven - part miniseries based on the fantasy novel, about two rival magicians in 19th century Britain.

Roald Dahl's whimsical, imaginative novel about an orphan girl and a «big friendly giant» becomes a heavy - footed, CGI - choked family film, complete with fantasy violence and fart jokes.

She is taking pitches for the following fiction genres: romance, fantasy, science fiction, mystery / thriller / suspense, horror, young adult, middle grade, literary fiction, new adult, graphic novels, women's fiction, upmarket fiction, and novels / books by and about people from marginalized perspectives (such as LGBT people and / or racial minorities).

New York Times bestselling steampunk / fantasy author Gail Carriger joined us this week to talk about writing and marketing for traditionally published novels as well as her experiences self - publishing novellas and short stories.

I also employed a very light drift of fantasy in my adult novel The Uncoupling, as well as in a book for middle - grade readers about kids who meet at a Scrabble tournament, called The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman.

Tonight we chatted with fantasy author Abigail Hilton about making money from Patreon, audiobooks, and web comics as well as full - length novels.

Topics range from standard «best of» lists to very specific niches like «Amazing Christian fantasy series that I wish everyone knew about» and «Sleuths in Silks» (a list of historical detective novels with female main characters).

About as unlike Hairy London as it's possible to get and still feature here, Kit Reed's Little Sisters of the Apocalypse is a novel that treads the indistinct boundaries between fantasy, science fiction and realism, as befits an author who describes her work as «transgenred».

We also have: Lisa Silverthorne's Isabel's Tears, a novel about a magical inn; Dayle A. Dermatis» Waking the Witch, a gothic mystery novel with some paranormal elements and a light romance; Kelly Washington's The Pale Waters, the first novella in a four - part epic journey; Erica Lyon's Hot Waters, a steamy sea adventure novel; and New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch's The War and After, five historical fantasy stories of magic and revenge.

I pre selected all the books I reviewed from the reviews they got from Amazon and tried picking well received self published fantasy novels that no one knew about yet.

I am also thinking about writing a fantasy novel some time.

2003 saw the publication of a brand new novel, the first title of The Bartimeus Trilogy called The Amulet of Samarkand, an enthralling new fantasy trilogy about a wickedly witty and thoroughly irresistible «djinni.»

Elizabeth primarily talks about science - fiction and fantasy novels.

This should include information about the intended market such as Writers of the Future submission, YA novel, adult historical fantasy, etc..

If you've written a high fantasy novel with a setting detailed enough to give Tolkien a run for his money, you might be tempted to start talking about your imagined country's political history or geography or some sort of set - up background information.

So, on the writing front, having about 97 % of the first time readers returning to buy the movie optioned novels and many coming back to purchase all 9 novels in the series, even crossing over to my YA fantasy series just to keep reading can be used as a measure of success.

And if I write articles about «young adult mermaid fantasy novels set in Ireland» I'll basically get all the traffic whenever anybody searches for that specific thing.

He was interested in literature from a young age, even attempting at the age of twelve to write a novel entitled The Mercenary, a fantasy story about a killer's unlikely search for love.

In the tradition of The Hours and Revolutionary Road comes a novel set in the 1960s about marriage, motherhood, identity, nostalgia, and the fantasy of home.

Written in Putney's elegant style, A Distant Magic is a highly romantic fantasy novel woven with multicultural chords and sharpened with commentary about slavery and the slave trade.

Now Amazon is describing his newest novel, Reamde, as «a high - stakes espionage thriller about a wealthy tech entrepreneur caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game!»

This is Leckie's follow - up to Ancillary Justice, the novel that won just about every major science fiction fantasy award in the last year — the Hugo, the Nebula, the Clarke and more — and established Leckie as one of the best new voices in the genre (and also made me look super smart for blurbing the book).

Doyle combines fantasy, mystery, and romance in this debut novel about twins who use their magical knowledge to search for their missing governess, finding love along the way.

My favourite social media event is the facebook launch party, and I wrote a blog post about it here: http://deborahjayauthor.com/2013/08/08/holding-a-facebook-launch-party/ talking about the release of my debut novel, epic fantasy The Prince's Man.

One of two simultaneously - published standalone SF / fantasy short novels, this one about twin children in a society where youth are ungendered until choosing for themselves.

Young adult fantasy novel, third in a trilogy following The Diviners (2012) and Lair of Dreams (2015), about a young woman exiled from her hometime in Ohio to live with her uncle in 1920s New York.

Middle grade fantasy novel, follow - up to Greenglass House (2014), about 13 - year - old Milo spending winter holidays in a house full of strange guests.

Epic fantasy novel, first in a series, about a young man forced to seek his fortune with a gang of bandits.

Epic fantasy novel, the author's first novel and first in a series, about two young warriors traying to save their world from encroaching demons.

On this basis some authors write ghost stories and some write children's books; some are fantasy writers and some write about crime or detective novels.

Young adult fantasy novel, third in a trilogy following A New Darkness (2014) and The Dark Army (2016), about a 17 - year - old spook and his female apprentice battling evil

If you write fantasy novels, thinking about blog content focused on character development, world - building, and consistency in large novels.

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