Sentences with phrase «fiction authors still»

And yet, fiction authors still avoid it.

Not exact matches

The author hears in current serious fiction a whisper of that still, small voice for which our faith has taught us to listen.

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

Founded by Robert Randisi and Ed Gorman in the late 1980s to bring together professional mystery authors in a private forum to exchange ideas, the American Crime Writers League is still going strong in the 21st century as a writing organization for serious and proven writers of mystery fiction.

Speaking of hearts, there's one last reward of reviewing that I'd like to mention: that as an author myself, I know how heartwarming it is to receive an enthusiastic review for my own work, and the arrival of not one but two glowing reviews for my latest book, the collection of very short stories (aka flash fiction) has made my week already — and it's still only Tuesday.

Centralized reporting of direct - from - author sales is tougher to come by, but by all anecdotal measures the independent market has taken off, notably in the also - still - large category of adult fiction.

Fans of «CSI» or forensic - centric crime novels might not realize that the person who started the craze for forensic fiction is still one of today's most popular authors: Patricia Cornwell, the creator of medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.

Especially as a fiction author, I think (again, at least for now) this is still a super important piece.

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».

Of course, more and more genre fiction authors are bridging the gap every day by becoming hybrids; but non-fiction genres such as cookbooks are still pretty much in the hands of traditional publishing, essentially due to the high production costs.

Livia commented, ``... what I still struggle with, is the observation that blogging, etc, still seems more naturally suited to nonfiction authors than fiction authors.

What I notice in your post, and what I still struggle with, is the observation that blogging, etc, still seems more naturally suited to nonfiction authors than fiction authors.

What it doesn't point to and what is key for authors to be aware of, is that even if ebook is the most profitable format for fiction authors, print is still important.

By uniting 7 critically acclaimed works of indie contemporary fiction, their authors hope to demonstrate that author publishing is a valid quality route even in a genre that is still perceived by many as a traditional publishing chasse guardée, according to Jane Davis:

It is rarer still for an author to work with people in the entertainment industry who are true, sympathetic fans of his fiction and its point of view.

While I think self - publishing is a perfectly viable (and often lucrative) option for some authors (especially those writing for genres like thriller, romance and YA), it disturbs me to think that some people would be happy to see traditional publishing done away with since literary fiction and literary criticism still depend on traditional it.

Generally what I'll do is recommend an author pick either their oldest book (as long as it's still relevant and current) or the first book in a fiction or non-fiction series and make that book free.

It is not every day that a writer makes the move from best - selling poetry to suspense fiction, and I suspect it's rarer still for the transition to be as successful as that of British author Sophie Hannah, who has penned a clever and original debut in Little Face.

Even though the authors and the publishers will still make their same commission and even though the supremely discounted price on ebooks has translated into tens of thousands of book sales for authors and fiction's digital sales are up by 188 % for the first half of the year, authors are speaking out against having their ebooks discounted at the retailers» cost.

I know it's hard to get illustrated work for Middle - Grade fiction so I decided to start working on some MG offers to help authors keep their budgets low while still getting that illustrated look that sells MG fantasy fiction.

Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, she is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, and Inside the O'Briens.

Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa Genova is the New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, and Inside the O'Briens.

It's truly a shame that we lost a large number of extremely talented authors when their works lighted up the literary world with quality fiction and fantasy which still resonates largely among us.

Her innovations in the crime fiction genre over the last 50 years laid the groundwork for contemporary authors like Lianne Moriarty and Gillian Flynn — and her fans still wait eagerly to see what she'll deliver next.

The company works with publishers and self - publishing authors.Jim has a master's degree in creative writing, and uses his passion for stories — all kinds of stories, fiction and nonfiction — to coach authors, helping them to develop their writing skills.When Jim isn't editing, he's still reading, and reviewing books for Bookmunch [5].

Still, emerging authors have found that serial fiction is a way to gain visibility, give readers a free introduction to their work, and build a platform.

But such authors will still suffer an intractable disadvantage vis á vis digital publishing — because, unlike genre fiction, they can't capitalize on a lengthy series of books to create a cascading income stream.

I'll still have announcements about new releases and promotions on the fiction side, and I'll be using the pages of my site just like any other author would — to highlight good reviews, to share deleted scenes and bonus features, to be the «center» of my promotions — but when it comes to blogging about your fiction?

If the client list consisted of 90 % science fiction authors, Ellen still sent her query, figuring that her novel would be a welcome change for the agent.

Still with the Raj, but totally different in theme, is unusual fiction by an author whose childhood experienced the twilight of British imperialism.

As a self - published author, the credentials and notoriety of publishing short fiction may not carry as much weight as it once did, but there is still and will continue to be value in having a long list of publications attributed to your name.

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Anyway, as I'm also an author (only short fiction and poetry for now) who hasn't yet published, I would like to know if you think it still makes sense to go the traditional route of first submitting my short stories to magazines, stack a hundred rejection letters before actually selling one story etc., or it would make more sense to just e-publish my short stories for 0.99?

At no point do they specify anywhere what books are in group a. and what books are in group b. Even if they took an even sample of literary fiction, balancing the male and female authors in both groups, debut versus legacy authors, books adapted to film versus never adapted, etc... They're still looking at two disparate populations of books.

As mentioned above, proofreading is perhaps the one editorial service that indie fiction authors are still coming around to.

In a field that is still too young to have many luminaries, Joanna Penn stands out as a prolific, talented author of both fiction and non-fiction work; a popular speaker and educator with a friendly, engaging style; and a crusader for independent authors seeking to establish themselves in the brave new world of epublishing.

Remember too that even if you are a fiction author, you still bring to the table your own personal expertise.

And I still hold out hope that traditional publishing will adapt to more avenues of competition from self - published authors (beyond merely contracting with those authors or mining fan fiction communities).

I still recommend building a website to market your science fiction books if you are serious about creating an independent income stream from your writing, but Kindle, Nook and iPad do offer an alternative ecosystem for authors.