Sentences with phrase «fiction authors writing»

Forty million of her books have been sold, and she is one of the most successful commercial fiction authors writing today.

No matter what genre of fiction our authors write on, Dog Ear will build an amazing cover to showcase the book.

Kevin Tumlinson is speculative fiction author writing thrillers, science fiction, and contemporary fantasy.

Not exact matches

In 1945, Arthur C. Clarke, a physicist and budding science - fiction author, wrote a manuscript called The Space Station: Its Radio Applications.

The prolific science - fiction author Ray Bradbury collected the lessons he had learned about the craft during his long and successful career in Zen in the Art of Writing.

Amy Bloom, author of two New York Times best - sellers and three collections of short stories, has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Vogue, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award for Fiction.

Ep559: Andy Weir, author of NYT bestseller «The Martian» (soon to be Ridley Scott / Matt Damon movie) on writing the year's science fiction smash

Was it written to portray a god as a real enti ty or was it intended by the author to be a fictional story: Bible (God): yes — was written as a non fiction book Odyssey (Zeus): no - intended to be fiction by the author

She writes for The Atlantic Sexes and is the author of the forthcoming book Irigaray, Incarnation and Contemporary Women's Fiction.

Such character - centered writing is a mark of good fiction in any genre, but in detective novels, where the author may feel enslaved to solution - hungry readers, it's especially rare.

You're only comeback to that was that you know Abe Lincoln was written as fiction because the author says so but refuse to understand that if we had the authors of the bible alive and could talk with us you'd probably find the same thing (obviously also as.sumption, but hey, if you think the authors wrote the bible as purely historical text, prove it).

Frank Herbert, the respected science fiction author who wrote his masterwork Dune in 1965, once said that...

I'm not sure I would... though I'd love to have the skill to write short stories to explore the outcomes of new ideas, like the best science fiction authors.

«I originally tried to interest my grandchildren in writing something with me,» said Barrett, the author of six fiction novels.

Sal was an acclaimed author in the early 1950s when he wrote science fiction books.

Writing this kind of multiple narrative is a challenge, and one that science fiction author Hannu Rajaniemi has tackled with technologist Samuel Halliday for an e-book project called Neurofiction.

He was a seminal author of science fiction in the 1950s, who after many years absence returned in 1971 to write best sellers in the field.

For the past decade I've been helping indie authors design, publish and promote their books, but now I want to write my own.Experiments in popular fiction by a literary scholar Frequency - about 2 posts per month

About Blog Flash fiction & short story writer, working on a novel, interviewing authors, & writing about the craft.

For the past decade I've been helping indie authors design, publish and promote their books, but now I want to write my own.Experiments in popular fiction by a literary scholar Frequency about 2 posts per month.

NSW South Coast, Australia About Blog Juliet Madison is a bestselling and award - nominated author of fiction in multiple genres, an inspirational coloring book artist, and a self - empowerment and writing coach.

About Blog Female authors writing zombie and horror fiction.

The breathtaking, richly eloquent, and visually - poetic film - deliberately filmed at a slow pace - about space travel and the discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence (many years before Star Wars (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)-RRB-, was based on the published 1951 short story The Sentinel, written in 1948 by English science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.

The acclaimed science fiction author has written that practicing homosexuals should not be treated as equal citizens and has described gay rights as a «collective delusion.»

Roman Polanski's Based on a True Story, contrary to its title, isn't: It's a fiction film about a successful author who avoids her past and an eerily obsessive fan who pushes her to write the «hidden book» her previous work seemed to promise.

Author Nalo Hopkinson opens up about writing Brown Girl in the Ring, the power of science fiction and why the Black Panther movie is going to change everything.

This book isn't particularly well - written or well - researched and another author might do a better job with the story, even as fiction.

Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About the Future (Scholastic Press), compiled by Michael Cart, is a collection of stories written for this anthology by ten different authors of young adult fiction, including Jon Scieszka, Rodman Philbrick, Gloria Skurzynski, Lois Lowry, and Katherine Paterson.

Among 8th graders, 65 percent could analyze details and draw conclusions from two reading passages — they did better at nonfiction than fiction — but just 52 percent could identify the author's main purpose in writing the piece.

Author Karyn Prior has been writing fiction for over 10 years and is the Executive Officer to ACPPA and also to the South Australian Catholic Primary Principals» Association.

Included in this website is information about writing with learning disabilities (such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, and fine motor delays) that hold students back from reaching their highest writing potential, as well as publishing opportunities and advice for young ambitious fiction authors.

How can we incorporate the tools authors use when writing fiction to improve students» personal narratives?

Mark is founder of The Bestselling Author, a company that helps authors of all genres (fiction, nonfiction, and children's book) write, publish, and market their books.

(Though for authors I recommend focusing not on writing itself as a topic, but on what you write books ABOUT — i.e., I write fantasy fiction, so I post about things like the monster in Netflix» Stranger Things series.)

Creative writing programs currently provide tenure to a small number of authors, especially in the fields of literary fiction and poetry, which partake in the European High Art tradition and enjoy an elevated cultural status.

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.

Filed Under: * Bargain Books Under $ 3, Romance Tagged With: magick, Magick & Moonlight, Marie Lavender, novella, paranormal romance, Romance Author, romance writing, romantic fiction

Mark Malatesta is a former literary agent and the founder and president of Literary Agent Undercover and The Bestselling Author, helping authors of all genres (fiction, nonfiction, and children's book) write, publish, and promote their books.

My friend Janice Hardy came up with the perfect solution: joining the Indie Author Series at Fiction University, where I'm writing a series digging into some of our options for indie publishing.

He shares some great tips about writing and marketing nonfiction books, Facebook marketing for fiction and nonfiction authors, and other great marketing tips and advice.

Author, journalist and blogger, she's especially keen on short - form writing, such as flash fiction, short stories and blog posts.

This particular story reveals how Siobhan, a thriller fiction author, wrote a query letter that got the attention of top book agents — after getting lots of rejections with her original agent query.

While writing a novel during NaNoWriMo, as mentioned in my previous post, I've been considering an important question for authors and readers alike: which tense works best in fiction?

Filed Under: Indie Writing, Literary Fiction Tagged With: Alliance of Independent Authors, David Gaughran, Freedom, Ivory Tower, Jennifer Weiner, Orna Ross, Purity, Salman Rushdie, The Corrections, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Time Magazine

I edit a lot of crime fiction written by beginner and emerging authors.

Filed Under: Book Marketing, Fiction Writing, General, Marketing Tips, Publishing Tips, Self - Publishing, Technology, Writing Tips Tagged With: author websites, authors, Book Marketing, book marketing tips, fiction authors, marketing, non-fiction authors, websites, Writing Advice, WritiFiction Writing, General, Marketing Tips, Publishing Tips, Self - Publishing, Technology, Writing Tips Tagged With: author websites, authors, Book Marketing, book marketing tips, fiction authors, marketing, non-fiction authors, websites, Writing Advice, Writifiction authors, marketing, non-fiction authors, websites, Writing Advice, Writifiction authors, websites, Writing Advice, Writing Tips

September 16, CHANGES conversations between authors, Episode 42, Bokerah Brumley, flash fiction / short story writer and blogger Find Bokerah's writing: http://www.bokerah.com and http://www.superbokerah.com Youtube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0N7pvo7O9Q

One of the ways that you can draw readers in and establish a platform is through consistent blogging about your topic if you're nonfiction author, or about your writing and other books if you're a fiction author.

Santa Cruz - based author Charise Olson writes contemporary «California fiction» including the upcoming «California Cocktails» series, and, under the pen name Leo Colson, the historical fiction series «The Roaring Redwoods.»

My contracts were for non-fiction, which is a different animal to fiction — most non-fiction authors are writing for small niche markets, unless they are lucky enough to be either famous, or writing about something with huge appeal, like cookery or self - improvement, so potential sales figures are tiny in comparison to the fiction market.