Sentences with phrase «first literary work»

A Place for Us (June 12, 2018) is her debut novel and is the first literary work acquired by award - winning actress and producer Sarah Jessica Parker as editorial director of her newly launched imprint, SJP for Hogarth.

Initially published in South Korea in 2014, The Accusation continues to make international history as the first literary work smuggled out of repressive North Korea, now headed for shelves around the world.

Fatima Farheen Mirza talks about her first novel, A Place For Us, which is the first literary work acquired by award - winning actress and producer Sarah Jessica Parker as editorial director of her newly launched imprint, SJP for Hogarth.

Not exact matches

Prior to the building of Temple Court, the location was home to the Chapel Street Theater, which held the first performance of Shakespeare's «Hamlet» in New York in 1761, and Clinton Hall, a literary salon of sorts where poet Edgar Allan Poe worked.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

The first reading of some literary work is often, to the literary, an experience so momentous that only experiences of love, religion, or bereavement can furnish a standard of comparison.

The award - winning British novelist became the first literary Bad Mother for her memoir A Life's Work, which chronicled the «abasements» of pregnancy and «the sacking and slow rebuilding of every corner of my private world that motherhood has entailed.»

Surviving remains of ancient Persia were first brought to notice by Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela We will pay special attention to the early formation and origins of different literary genres in Persian works, even though the very notion of literary genres

Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express — a story which was first visited onscreen back in 1974 with Sidney Lumet's Oscar - winning all - star cast interpretation — is perhaps one of the author's most known and notable piece of literary works.

Some genre purists would certainly take issue with such an obvious effort to create new material by fusing the icons of literary classics, but Sommers» adrenalized upgrading for modern audiences isn't that different from Siodmak's first venture; the former's just over-cranked and way louder (aided by Alan Silvestri's outrageously bombastic score) in a 5.1 mix guaranteed to work out your home's subwoofer.

The first category is literary works.

Too many accounts of the practices of literary writers are available to us — Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews is the best - known series — for any English teacher to cling to such myths as first - draft finals, timed writing assignments, or whole - class deadlines.

Whitman, who self - published his first book, Leaves of Grass, in 1855, immediately started sending copies of his work to literary luminaries in search of praise.

During the interview, Lakshmi also talks about how he worked with former literary agent Mark Malatesta to improve his manuscript and pitch materials, resulting in literary agency representation with his first choice literary agent, who then got offers from three major publishers: Penguin, Harper Collins, and Random House.

That's why I still read hard copy books predominately — the «authors / writers / producers» of these works HAVE run the gaunlet of disinterested and jaded first readers, then literary agents, then publishers» readers, etc..

She did become my confidante and mentor, and when the timing was right, I was thrilled that she jumped at the chance to present me to Lisa Hagan, literary agent, who signed me on the spot (this was after I self - published my first three books, developed a large author platform, sexual abuse advocacy, signed with a (now - defunct) hybrid publisher, wrote another book, directed an imprint, and have two works in progress and another series in the hopper).

When the series first debuted fourteen years ago and Rowling was an unpublished, unknown in literary circles, she managed to retain all digital rights to her current and future works, allowing her to keep them off the virtual shelves all this time due to her piracy concerns.

The emphasis will focus on the literary works by Sri Lankan authors, the electronic versions of which will be hosted for the very first time on the online store for... [Read more...]

The essence of the Humble Bundle campaign with Harpercollins is that customers can pay what they want for a collection of digital literary works from bestselling authors, like Neil Gaiman and James Rollins, while helping support the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America Emergency Medical Fund, a non-profit organization for authors of science fiction and related genres, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, dedicated to the protection of the First Amendment rights of the comics art form and its community.

The emphasis will focus on the literary works by Sri Lankan authors, the electronic versions of which will be hosted for the very first time on the online store for easy download to any PC, Android, or iOS platforms.

Her first work of literary fiction, The House at the End of Hope Street, was inspired by an idea the author had to set up a house for female artists to give them a year to fulfill their artistic ambitions.

Because digital publishing offers a global reach, literary writers can now make a living at their work, for the first time.

The first ebook was available on July 4, 1971, as eText # 1 of Project Gutenberg, a visionary project launched by Michael Hart to create free electronic versions of literary works and disseminate them worldwide.

Adrienne has crafted marketing campaigns for a wide variety of non-fiction and fiction books including commercial, historical and literary works by first time authors and established bestsellers.

First, you need the insider knowledge about how book editors, magazine editors and literary agents work.

And if you want to read more about advances, here's my literary agent take on how advances for first - time authors and 6 figure advances work.

Masters Review's Short Story Award For New Writers offers a first prize of $ 2000 plus online publication and review of your work by three literary agents.

It would be most interesting to see this same thing duplicated for other big series in the literary world, like Tolkien's work, Clive Cussler's books, the Wheel of Time, A Song of Ice and Fire,... Such a site would be useful to be able to buy the eBooks in a single place and have them added to an eBook company of your own choosing — if you even want that in the first place.

As Booklist celebrates a half - century of YA, I want to thank those first members of the Printz committee for their work to define literary merit in the context of YA literature, and I want to celebrate the enduring genius of the award's first winner, whose books continue to challenge and inspire kids — and 22 - year - olds.

Though the novels are quite different — the first is a contemporary murder - mystery; the second, a literary work centered on a 1930s artist colony — both are debuts that made waves when they were published in Australia, and both tell distinctly Australian stories.

First published on February 1, 1962, it was immediately recognized as both an important literary work and a barbed protest against...

When the technological push behind the publishing industry first took off, one of the many great promises about this wave of the literary future was in the ability to record and store great works for all time, protecting our literary history in an indestructible archive.

It was the first work of fiction by the author, who died a few months before her book became such a literary sensation.

Even as you read this biographical blurb, a fourth and somewhat lighter novel, Henry & Biggs — a political vampire thriller about a literary agent and his pet Beagle (yes, you read that correctly)-- is currently in the works and the first dozen chapters have been posted on the Owen Thomas Fiction Blog.

A literary agent working with Random House, unaware that I was a child, read my first manuscript and sent a scathing rejection letter, including the phrase, «It sounds like a mentally challenged person wrote this.»

In the first - ever DBW workshop laid on expressly for literary agents facing digital upheaval, there was an intriguing, lively conversation headed by Jason Ashlock about how mutually supportive agents usually are, despite obvious competitive elements in their work.

That same year, Stinson began working as a literary agent for Elsie Washington, who had already published the first African - American romance novel, Entwined Destinies, and worked as an editor at Essence magazine.

Tupelo Press, Inc., which released its first five books in fall 2001, is an independent, literary press devoted to discovering and publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers.

for your first question — What's the better reader for literary academics who work extensively with foreign language materials (primarily Italian, French, German and Spanish) in book and journal format?

In the first place, you would be hard pressed to find a good literary agent that will represent these kinds of work since it is really not worth their time and effort to do so.

Like everything in life, you do not need a literary agent, but it is extremely useful to have one working with you, especially if you are a first time writer and looking to secure that elusive book deal.

How many of us tried to be published back in the dark ages of our youth or young adulthood and got discouraged because we couldn't get a foot through the door at an literary agency or we kept getting form rejections from publishers that we knew never took time to read so much as the first chapter of our work?

Rita Rosenkranz, among the first literary agents to work with indie authors, says that in the past «because of the stigma of self - publishing very good stuff was locked out by mainstream publishers.»

«The digital - only model is cool for cats — and even Shakespeare» (Sam Humphrey, FutureBook) Humphrey argues that digital - only (or at least digital - first) is a good choice for literary works.

For a literary agent to agree to represent you and your work, you first need to write a query letter.

I shall first reject one formulation of the «cognitivist» account of literature and try to show how it is possible to learn from literature without accepting propositions about human life «implied» by literary works...

Also in the UK this week, Amazon's new Thomas and Mercer thriller and mystery press made its first acquisition with two self - published works from Mel Sherratt, Taunting the Dead and Watching Over You, which were signed up through literary agency Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV and Film Agency.

Award - winning literary magazine publishing work by winners and finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Genius Grant, National Book Award; first timers; and poets from 5 continents.

We've worked with established publishers, career authors, first - time self - publishers, literary agents... pretty much everyone out there whose ultimate goal is to create, publish, and sell great books.

Although provocative, ``... a handful of agents, all of whom spoke to PW on the condition of anonymity, said they're worried that contracts from print - first imprints will increasingly come with clauses indicating that the publisher makes no guarantee on format» (meaning, no guarantee the publisher would produce a print version of a work), what stood out for us was that literary agents are fulfilling this watchdog role for authors... an advantage most indie authors don't enjoy.