Sentences with phrase «first breakout novel»

Facebook ads played a part in his success with his first breakout novel, and we asked him about that, but lately, he's been experimenting with Bookbub's CPM ads (banners that you can pay for that run in their emails independent of their sponsorship program).

Not exact matches

Director Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of André Aciman's novel of a teen's memorable first romance is as languid and as steamy as the Italian summer in which it's set — and as beautiful as its breakout star, Timothée Chalamet.

Buzz is that this could be a breakout novel for Hamid, whose first two books garnered critical acclaim and prize nominations for their insight into relationships between East and West.

As Gillian Flynn said about being able to write her breakout hit, Gone Girl: «I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse that's going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write.

Her first novel for adults, Home Repair was a Target Breakout book and voted top ten for Book Clubs and Most Likely to be Next Oprah Pick on Goodreads.

We're sure you've heard: Sweeney's first novel is the year's breakout debut.

Building on the success of its predecessor, Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook presents the patented techniques and writing exercises from Maass's popular writing workshops to offer novelists first - class instruction and practical guidance.

The first time I thought about how characters interact with setting was when I was reading Donald Maass» The Breakout Novel.

His first, No Time for Goodbye made Richard and Judy's summer reading list, and became the breakout novel of 2008, selling over a million copies.

You wrote a book on how to write a breakout novel, and I think that's because a breakout novel — which let's call, here, first - class fiction — is the exception to a general rule of otherwise safe, largely mediocre «ocean of genre imitations if not amateurish writing.»

Don, my first copy of Writing the Breakout Novel came from a lady in our writers group who had decided to self - publish several years ago through one of the vanity (for lack of better word) publishers.

Study the bestsellers, and in particular look at first novels, or breakout books.