Sentences with phrase «fiction than nonfiction»

Barney Karpfinger, in the past, has represented more fiction than nonfiction.

Not exact matches

As most people find fiction more accessible than nonfiction, I think the book offers a great opportunity to demystify one of the world's great leaders and prophets.

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.

By eighth grade, students are supposed to spend slightly more time on nonfiction than fiction.

The basic hope is that the standards will reorient schools toward teaching students things that will be more useful in college and life — more nonfiction and articles than fiction, more explaining how to do math problems than memorizing formulas.

Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times bestselling and award - winning author of more than thirty books for children and young adults, including picture books, novels, works of historical fiction and nonfiction.

An integrated eReader with more than 25 fiction and nonfiction texts, allowing students to apply learned reading skills to an authentic text.

The other awesome thing about nonfiction eBooks is that they're actually much easier to sell than fiction, and you can make more money overall, which can then allow you to fund your fiction writing efforts.

233 of the 600 + literary agencies in the United States (more than 1/3) accept submissions for multicultural or ethnic books (a combination of fiction, nonfiction, and children's books)

This powerful novel is more emotional than political, but as a story foreshadowing a very possible future, it will strike a chord with readers of fiction and nonfiction alike.»

American expats in France have long been a popular topic for fiction and nonfiction — see David McCullough's latest for a recent example — but The House in France (Knopf) by Condé Nast Traveler editor Gully Wells covers a more recent time period than most.

Francesca Lia Block is the bestselling author of more than twenty - five books of stories, nonfiction, and fiction, including the Weetzie Bat books, her series of magical - realism novels.

There will be more than 1,000 new titles added to nonfiction and fiction categories, as well as over 300 titles to the children's catalog.

Whether you're writing fiction or nonfiction, smart writers who know how to build their catalog around funnels will always make more money directly with their words than writers who publish their work using the old «hope and pray» business plan.

CN Times Books is the New York City - based U.S. subsidiary of Beijing MediaTime Book Co. LTD, a leading Chinese trade publisher that publishes more than 600 fiction and nonfiction titles per year, including books for children and titles of scholarly and academic interest.

As an indie author of nine titles, a mix of fiction and nonfiction, and as one who has shepherded more than thirty other books to publication, I've been around the block a few times.

We represent more than 50 authors who write romance, women's fiction, science fiction / fantasy, thrillers, young adult and middle grade fiction as well as select nonfiction titles.

Oddly, Philby has inspired more great fiction, on the page and on - screen, than good nonfiction.

I'm fermenting a book, which for me is a lot of imagining rather than writing, and I find that everything I read — fiction or nonfiction — is yeast.

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

If publishers resorted to the subscription model, I would jump on it like the avid reader I am... I read more than three or four books a week and usually more than one book at a time; usually one fiction and a couple of nonfiction depending on the duration of time I have to read.

An online literary magazine and sister organization to YesYes Books, Vinyl offers a glorious array of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, essay, reviews, and visual art to more than 70,000 readers in 170 countries.

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.

I am a national award - winning newspaper editor with more than 25 years experience, and a traditionally published author of both nonfiction and fiction books.

He has successfully represented a wide range of fiction and nonfiction projects to more than 40 different publishers that have generated in excess of $ 20 Million for their authors.

I laugh when people say writing nonfiction is easier than fiction.

Non-fiction is much easier to write than fiction because nonfiction books contain similar components.

Having published more than a dozen books — nonfiction and fiction — with both traditional and often prestigious publishers as well as on my own, I have a very good sense of the demands of book promotion and was delighted to have the chance to work with Smith Publicity who did a fine job with my Sino - American Tales series of historical novels

Despite writing more than 30 books of fiction and nonfiction, author Julia Cameron is best known for one: The...

We're loving these 15 short works of fiction and nonfiction (each less than 230 pages) published this year.

Despite writing more than 30 books of fiction and nonfiction, author Julia Cameron is best known for one: The Artist's Way, the iconic bestseller that guided millions of readers to improved creativity.

Born in Grayling, Michigan, in 1937, Harrison wrote and published more than 30 books of fiction, poetry and nonfiction during his writing career.

There are not many fiction authors I love more than Lorrie Moore, but her latest offering is an unexpected collection of nonfiction essays and criticism that have appeared in an array of publications over the past three decades.

I do better with nonfiction than fiction, for some reason.

Joanna: Now and when I said 5 %, I meant 5 % of your nonfiction audience will come over to your fiction audience, which is why with email lists, we build a set of separate list for our fiction list than we do for our nonfiction.

This indicates that for low transportation, empathy of fiction readers became significantly lower than of nonfiction readers, and for highly transported readers, empathy significantly increased over time.

Designed for all ages, Comics Plus offers comics in a range of genres, including fiction, nonfiction, fantasy, thrillers, romance, indie comics, Sunday funnies, and manga for more than 25,000 titles.

(If fiction, I mean the author's honesty, not the characters»; and I mean fiction more than nonfiction because unpolished truth actually feels harder to come by in a memoir.)

I especially enjoy listening to nonfiction on CD, more so than fiction.

Far more nonfiction gets published than fiction; indeed, the profits from nonfiction help support those far less profitable novels.

I locate more than two — thirteen, actually, in well - crafted short or long fiction or creative nonfiction or poetry or scripts.

I think there is actually a better chance of making a decent living as a nonfiction writer than is the case for writers of fiction.

Note, I write nonfiction so it is easier for me to target likely readers than if I wrote fiction.

It's harder to build an audience for fiction than for nonfiction, too.

Sure, this old quote serves the nonfiction audience better than fiction, but at the end of the day, readers want to connect with a real person.

Allyson has more than 25 years» experience in writing and editing, and has spent many of those editing fiction and creative nonfiction for major publishers including HarperCollins, Random House, and House of Anansi.

What I am about to outline pertains more to nonfiction writers rather than fiction.

While many fiction authors believe they have a much harder time than nonfiction authors blogging or sharing information of interest to potential book fans, this isn't necessarily so.

In 1969 he formed the Philip G. Spitzer Literary Agency, representing a broad range of fiction and nonfiction writers, as well more than a dozen French publishers.

«I've been editing for a little more than 20 years, gradually making the shift from nonfiction to fiction, which is where my heart really lies.