Sentences with phrase «first fantasy novel»

in the end of 2012, as I was coming close to the completion of my first fantasy novel, He Walks with Dragons, I decided I didn't want to pay them thousands of dollars, so I went to my city hall and set up my own publishing company, Mystic Dragon Publishing.

Originally, that second one was going to be my first fantasy novel, Hell Bent, but I think I've decided to launch my Father Chessman series first (Ships of my Fathers, etc).

She helped her critique group edit and publish Proof: A 30th Street Fiction Anthology and hopes to release her first fantasy novel next year.

She loves writing from different perspectives, has been published in multiple places including Proof: A 30th Street Fiction Anthology, and hopes to release her first fantasy novel next year.

When not actively trying to catch up on Game of Thrones, she is outlining and writing her first fantasy novel, working in a nursing home, traveling, or spending time with her family.

A former business owner, he did a lot of research before jumping into self - publishing his first fantasy novels in 2012.

Not exact matches

«If you are into fantasy novels, here's a first novel that was written by the author on his New York City subway commute,» Schluep says explaining this pick.

Providing the story behind the discovery, Adrian Cho wrote on Thursday that «the first person to spot those gravitational waves» was Marco Drago, «a soft - spoken postdoc who plays classical piano and has published two fantasy novels.

Some of my hobbies would include: weekend getaways, cooking, shopping, fashion design, traveling, reading, writing (Currently writing my first novel, it's an epic fantasy), movies, and watching football.

The best - selling novel by J.K. Rowling (titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in England, as was this film adaptation) becomes this hotly anticipated fantasy adventure from Chris Columbus, the winner of a high - stakes search for a director to bring the first in a hoped - for franchise of Potter films to the screen by Warner Bros..

A new promotional image arrived online for the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's fantasy epic The Dark Tower via star Tom Taylor's Twitter account featuring his character Jake Chambers along with some key dialogue from the first novel in the series, The Gunslinger...

A new promotional image arrived online for the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's fantasy epic The Dark Tower via star Tom Taylor's Twitter account featuring his character Jake Chambers along with some key dialogue from the first novel in the series, The Gunslinger... SEE ALSO: New images from The Dark Tower featuring Roland Deschain and Jake Chambers SEE -LSB-...]

Focus Features has released the first trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey, the film adaptation of E. L. James novel of sexual fantasy, and I can already hear the exasperated gasps.

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.

His first effort is Winter's Tale, an epic fantasy romance based on Mark Helprin «s novel of the same title.

A Wrinkle In Time is the big - screen re-imagining of the science fantasy novel written by American writer Madeleine L'Engle, which was first published in 1962.

Neil Gaiman fans have been waiting a long time for the planned TV adaptation of the English author's 2001 fantasy novel, American Gods, which was first set up at HBO before migrating to Starz.

When: March 9th Why: I had never even heard of Edgar Rice Burroughs» series of pulp fantasy novels when a «John Carter» movie was first rumored a few years ago as a possible directing project for Jon Favreau, but after seeing the initial trailer, I was sold.

She was the first black woman to win Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival (Middle of Nowhere, 2012), the first black woman to direct a film receiving an Oscar nod for Best Picture (Selma, 2014), and in 2018, the first black woman to direct a studio film budgeted over a hundred million with A Wrinkle in Time, an adaptation of Madeline L'Engle's 1963 Newbery Medal winning sci - fi fantasy novel.

For the studio's first film, Nishimura tapped Marnie and Arrietty director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, and together with a stable of animators left at a loose end by Ghibli's closure, they created Mary and the Witch's Flower, a magical, colourful animated adventure based on the kids» fantasy novel by Mary Stewart.

«The first installment of the adaptation of the beloved fantasy - adventure novel was bloated, boring and slow to get started.

While he initially planned to act as producer for an adaptation of The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien's first novel and the world's introduction to that fantasy realm — Jackson eventually decided to take over as director.

The second film in the trilogy of movies based on the 1937 fantasy novel, The Hobbit, is a big improvement from last year's first entry, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Seemingly a match made in Virtual Reality heaven, we get one of the premier fantasy filmmakers joining forces with a screenwriter (Zak Penn) who has had success with comic book adaptions, and a bestselling first novel from a geeky author.

SIFF held its opening night in Benaroya Hall (for the first time) with a typically SIFF opening night film: The Extra Man, with Paul Dano as twentysomething literature teacher Louis Ives, a shy young man mired in sexual confusion, a fantasy life born of F. Scott Fitzgerald novels and the eccentrics in his Manhattan apartment building, notably his roommate.

Graphic novel adaptation I Kill Giants gets its first full trailer, showcasing escapist fantasy from director Anders Walter.

I first came across series in fantasy, where the trilogy or three book series is a common format, and then there are all those romance novels.

Her first book, Mud, is a dystopian fantasy novel.

Her sci - fi novel The Host wasn't a big jump from the teen fantasy she is known for, yet it still sold just 2 million copies in hardcover (yes, an impressive figure, but the fourth Twilight novel, by comparison, sold 1.3 million copies on its first day of sale!).

Since the 2006 publication of her first novel in the Temeraire series, His Majesty's Dragon, Naomi Novik's star has risen quickly in the world of science fiction and fantasy.

There's a wide range of genres in this year's best first novels, from fantasy and mystery to social realism, and many new writers open up the old formulas and break boundaries in form and subject.

John's first love is commercial fiction: novels and screenplays in the action, thriller, science fiction, fantasy, young adult, drama, and comedy (including romantic comedy) genres.

If you are writing a sci - fi or fantasy novel as your 2013 NaNoWriMo project, we would like to invite you to submit your finished product to StoryBundle for our first ever NaNoWriMo mini-bundle.

Amazon classifies the novel as a war and military, science fiction fantasy, and First Contact and is only 378 pages.

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.

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.»

A first novel, brilliantly imagined and written, incorporates elements of traditional British school stories while never sacrificing the fantasy element as orphan Harry Potter learns he is a wizard.

After writing my first two Kammbia novels, I thought I wanted to write Christian fantasy novels but I'm realizing that is not my true writing voice.

It was his first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, which gave me the burning desire to write a fantasy with wizards, magic and adventure, I just wish I had finished Dark Tidings sooner... before JK Rowling stole my limelight!

The Hobbit is the first of three fantasy adventure films that was based on J.R.R. Tolkien 1937 novel.

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.

The world is well constructed and rich with the unexplored vistas of ancient history that you desire in a first class fantasy novel.

Firehurler, an epic fantasy novel, is the first of the Twinborn Trilogy by J.S. Morin, due for self - publication spring of 2013.

Janice Hardy is the award - winning author of the fantasy trilogy, The Healing Wars, and multiple books on writing, including Understanding Show, Don't Tell (And Really Getting It), Planning Your Novel: Ideas and Structure and Revising Your Novel: First Draft to Finished Draft.

My novel Eragon is a fantasy story, the first in the trilogy Inheritance.

The basic plot of Kennedy's first novel is fairly standard fantasy fare — Jo, a 13 - year - old girl who gets whisked off to a strange world, discovers that she is a child of destiny and must combat evil forces bent on the destruction of the world — but it's so dizzyingly arrayed with Monty Python — inspired window dressing that one might not notice.

The 2015 winner of the UK's Costa Book of the Year Award, this novel is the first children's book since Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass (2000) to receive the honor, and both books use the lens of fantasy to observe a young girl caught in the cross fire of science and religion — though Hardinge's touch is more nuanced.

A brilliantly imagined and written first novel that's been a smash hit in the U.S. as well as Britain incorporates elements of traditional British school stories while never sacrificing the fantasy element as orphan Harry Potter learns he is a wizard.

Rich storytelling, insightful characterization, an elegant writing style, and intriguing fantasy mark this first novel.

I'll be releasing my first novel (fantasy romance) in Nov, and I'm trying some new approaches (at least I haven't seen anyone else using them) to marketing and creating extra revenue streams.