Sentences with phrase «for authors of fiction»

As for platforms, I'm glad to see more people talking about them for authors of fiction these days.

Are there any books or blogs you'd recommend where platform - building for authors of fiction is covered particularly well?

This book was written for authors of fiction and non-fiction who want to expand their reach and increase their income.

However, non-ebook revenue for traditional - published authors makes up a smaller percentage of their author earnings than you might think, and this is especially true for authors of fiction.

Discover insider secrets for authors of fiction, nonfiction, and children's books... so you'll know how to write a book proposal that's absolutely irresistible.

Are the «rules» the same for authors of fiction, nonfiction, and children's books?

So, what is the ideal carrot for an author of fiction?

I recommend it for any author of fiction or nonfiction who understands the importance of email marketing to book sales and author success.

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«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

The teachers: Salvatore Scibona was named to The New Yorker's «20 under 40: Fiction Writers to Watch» and is the author of 2008 National Book Award finalist «The End,» the research for which he conducted while on a Fulbright Fellowship.

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.

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

The odd selection touched a nerve for readers of O'Connor's fiction, who rightly note the author's penchant for depicting humanity darkly.

Willett found some literary inspiration for L.A. Divine in the fiction of Italian - American author John Fante and popular theologian - author Richard Rohr.

The author hears in current serious fiction a whisper of that still, small voice for which our faith has taught us to listen.

Authors and publishers would also testify to her golden touch, Of the 46 works of fiction picked by Oprah for her book club (which she recently closed down), sales averaged 1.5 million in 1999, the club's biggest yeaOf the 46 works of fiction picked by Oprah for her book club (which she recently closed down), sales averaged 1.5 million in 1999, the club's biggest yeaof fiction picked by Oprah for her book club (which she recently closed down), sales averaged 1.5 million in 1999, the club's biggest year.

Are you really searching for theology and scriptural history in a book of fiction (as told by the author himself)?

My college friend Meg, an experienced mom and author of The Rug Merchant (link provided for those who are looking to read quality fiction that is not about babies), emailed me to ask for tips on replicating this activity for her sister's shower.

Professor Jim Al - Khalili, President of the BHA Phillip Pullman, author Dan Snow, historian and broadcaster Tim Minchin, musician and writer Dr Simon Singh, science writer Ken Follett, novelist Dr Adam Rutherford, broadcaster and science writer Sir John Sulston FRS, Nobel Prize winning scientist Sir David Smith FRS FRSE, eminent botanist Professor Jonathan Glover, philosopher Professor Anthony Grayling, philosopher Nick Ross, broadcaster CJ De Mooi, actor and professional quizzer Virginia Ironside, writer Professor Steven Rose, scientist and writer Natalie Haynes, comedian and writer Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner Professor Raymond Tallis FMedSci, physician, philosopher and author Dr Iolo ap Gwynn FRMS, scientist and mountaineer Stephen Volk, screenwriter and author Professor Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics, science writer and broadcaster Sir Terry Pratchett OBE, Fantasy fiction author, satirist Dr Evan Harris, Former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament and Vice-President of the BHA Dr Richard Bartle, Professor of Computer Game Design Sian Berry, Green campaigner, politician and author Professor John A Lee, Consultant Histopathologist and Professor of Pathology Professor Richard Norman, philosopher Zoe Margolis, author Joan Smith, journalist and author Michael Gore, CVO CBE Derek McAuley, General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches Lorraine Barratt, former member of the Welsh Assembly Dr Susan Blackmore, writer and broadcaster Dr Harry Stopes - Roe, Vice President of the BHA Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC (Hon), human rights lawyer Adele Anderson, actor and singer Dr Helena Cronin, Co-Director, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science Professor Alice Roberts, Anatomist, author and broadcaster Professor Chris French, Professor of Psychology, editor of The Skeptic Sir Tom Blundell, scientist Maureen Duffy, poet, playwright and novelist Baroness Whitaker, Labour peer Lord Avebury, Liberal Democrat peer Richard Herring, writer and comedian Martin Rowson, writer and cartoonist Tony Hawks, comedian, writer, musician and philanthropist Peter Cave, philosopher and author Diane Munday, campaigner Professor Norman MacLean, Biologist Professor Sir Harold Kroto FRS, Nobel prize winner, Professor of Chemistry Sir Richard Dalton, former Diplomat Sir David Blatherwick, KCMG, OBE, Diplomat and writer Michael Rubenstein, writer and legal expert Polly Toynbee, columnist and broadcaster Lord O'Neill, labour peer

On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction Karl Iagnemma, The Dial Press, $ 22.95 A computer technician who thinks he's found the mathematical equation for romance and a botanist who secretly yearns for the author of her field's most trusted text are two of the protagonists in a spellbinding collection of short stories from Iagnemma, a roboticist and fiction writer at MIT.

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.

For decades, astronomers and science fiction authors alike have speculated about orphaned orbs cast adrift from their home stars, endlessly wandering the boundless reaches of interstellar space.

I think James Gunn, the author of the 1972 science fiction novel «The Listeners» about radio astronomy and the search for other life in the universe, said it well: «It may be that there is no one out there or if there is someone out there he will never speak to us or we to him, but our listening is an act of faith akin to living itself.

Named for popular science and science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke, author of 2001: a Space Odyssey and widely regarded as the father of the communications satellite.

Your vision stabilizes by your early 30s, making it an ideal time for this surgical fix, says Clyde Kitchen, MD, an ophthalmologist in California and the author of Fact and Fiction of Healthy Vision: Eye Care for Adults and Children.

Beginning his career as an author and responsible for the source material of Danny Boyle's The Beach in 2000, Alex Garland then directly ventured into the film industry by doing screenplay's - again with Boyle on 28 Days Later and Sunshine - before he eventually took the reigns himself by making his directorial debut with the magnificent science fiction film Ex Machina in 2014.

Author: The JT Leroy Story (R for sexuality, drug use, violent images and pervasive profanity) Out - of - the - closet documentary revealing that fiction writer Laura Albert is the real person behind the pen name JT Leroy.

Don't get me wrong: the idea of someone performing copycat murders based on an author's work of fiction has potential (even if it's been done before, most recently in the pilot for the TV drama «Castle»), but there's nothing in the trailer that suggests the film will be anything other than a generic whodunit.

A smart and casually brilliant work of fiction, the author's characters exude a demand for understanding and compassion above all else in a narrative flow that is forgivably meandering.

The author Carmen Maria Machado, a finalist for this year's National Book Award in Fiction, discusses the brilliance of an eerie passage from Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.

Pimp turned successful urban fiction author Robert Beck gets a loving, burnished treatment in the new documentary «Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp,» a film which awkwardly straddles the line between amiable hagiography and a more discerning sociological study of the constricted economic opportunities for African - Americans in the pre-Civil Rights era.

It's a monumental amount for any franchise to rake in, but when you look at the history of «Fifty Shades» and its author, and remember that the story she was telling was actually a fan - fiction based on the «Twilight» series of novels and films, it's incredible to see how far the series has come.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ponsoldt will be directing a film adaptation of Inconstant Moon, an award - winning science fiction short story from author Larry Niven, for -LSB-...]

Complete List of NAACP Image Award Winners Film Categories Best Picture - «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Director - Gina Prince - Bythewood, «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Actor - Will Smith, «Seven Pounds» Best Actress - Rosario Dawson, «Seven Pounds Supporting Actor - Columbus Short, «Cadillac Records» Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Independent Film - «Slumdog Millionaire» Documentary - «The Black List» Foreign Film - «The Class» Best Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, «Rachel Getting Married» Television Categories Best Comedy Series - «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actor in a Comedy Series - LaVan Davis, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Tracee Ellis Ross, «Girlfriends» Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Lance Gross, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Keshia Knight Pulliam, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Dramatic Series - «Grey's Anatomy» Best Actor in a Dramatic Series - Hill Harper, «CSI: NY» Best Actress in a Dramatic Series - Chandra Wilson, «Grey's Anatomy» Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series - Taye Diggs, «Private Practice» Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series - Angela Bassett, «ER» Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - «A Raisin in The Sun» Best Actor in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Sean Combs, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actress in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Phylicia Rashad, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actor in a Sopa Opera - Bryton McClure, «The Young and the Restless» Best Actress in a Sopa Opera - Debbi Morgan, «All My Children» Best Director in a Dramatic Series - Ernest Dickerson, «Lincoln Heights - The Day Before Tomorrow» Best Director in a Comedy Series - Kevin Sullivan, «30 Rock - MILF Island» Best Screenplay for a Dramatic Series - Shonda Rhimes, «Grey's Anatomy: Freedom Part 1 & 2» Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Erica D. Montolfo, «The Game: White Coats and White Lies» News / Information Series or Special - «In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview» Talk Series - «The View» Reality Series - «American Idol 7» Variety Series or Special - «An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson» Children's Program - «Dora The Explorer» Best Performance in a Children's Series or Special - Keke Palmer, «True Jackson» Music Categories Best Male Artist - Jamie Foxx Best Female Artist - Beyonce» Best New Artist - Jennifer Hudson Best Duo, Group or Collaboration - Jennifer Hudson, featuring Fantasia - «I'm His Only Woman» Best Jazz Artist - Natalie Cole - «Still Unforgettable» Best Gospel Artist - Mary Mary Best World Music Album - Cheryl Keyes - «Let Me Take You There» Best Music Video - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Song - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Album - Jennifer Hudson - «Jennifer Hudson» Literary Categories Fiction - «In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel,» Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes Nonfiction - «Letter to My Daughter,» Maya Angelou Debut Author - «Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion,» David Glenn Brown Biography / Autobiography - «The Legs are the Last to Go,» Diahann Carroll Instructional - «32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business,» Earvin «Magic» Johnson Poetry - «Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of «Poetry With a Beat»» Nikki Giovanni Children - «Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,» Nikki Grimes (illustrator - Bryan Collier) Youth / Teens - «Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny,» Hill Harper

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.

She is also author of a historical - fiction picture book, Pizza for the Queen.

For example, when science fiction and fantasy authors make up names of characters and places, they usually make them phonetically decodable.

Breakfast Serials Serve Up Fiction Fun Concerned that fewer and fewer Americans are reading for pleasure, Avi, a Newbery Award - winning author, founded Breakfast Serials, a re-incarnation of the serialized newspaper novel.

Jane was a National Board Certified Teacher and is also the author of Creative Book Reports: Fun Projects with Rubrics for Fiction and Nonfiction, Active Word Play, Student Engagement is FUNdamental, and Engage Striving Students in the Common Core Classroom published by Maupin House / Capstone.

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.

For example, in our Book Club Plus work in third grades, this played out in an author study of Patricia Polacco, a prolific Michigan author who through her autobiographical fiction shares family stories of her Russian immigrant and her Michigan farmer ancestors.

I've searched for them in a number of ways, but I'm struggling to find good newsletters because it's not a common author marketing tactic, especially with authors of fiction.

Richard Pine is on our list of Publishing Agents New York (book agents in New York State), Publishing Agents NYC (book agents in NYC), Publishing Agents USA (book agents in the United States), Fiction Publishing Agents (book agents who represent fiction authors), Nonfiction Publishing Agents (book agents who represent nonfiction, not just novels), Children's Publishing Agents (book agents who represent books for younger readers), and Young Adult Publishing Agents (book agents who represent YA books for Fiction Publishing Agents (book agents who represent fiction authors), Nonfiction Publishing Agents (book agents who represent nonfiction, not just novels), Children's Publishing Agents (book agents who represent books for younger readers), and Young Adult Publishing Agents (book agents who represent YA books for fiction authors), Nonfiction Publishing Agents (book agents who represent nonfiction, not just novels), Children's Publishing Agents (book agents who represent books for younger readers), and Young Adult Publishing Agents (book agents who represent YA books for teens).

Being involved in every stage of putting together a non-fiction book proposal, offering substantial editing on fiction manuscripts, and coming up with book ideas for authors looking for their next project is as much a part of the work at DGLM as selling, negotiating contracts, and collecting monies for their clients.

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.

Another source for finding freelancers who work specifically with indie authors self - publishing fiction and creative nonfiction is the Association of Independent Publishing Professionals (AIPP), which has a searchable directory of service providers.

Peter Miller is on our list of Publishing Agents USA (book agents in the United States), Fiction Publishing Agents (book agents who represent fiction authors), Nonfiction Publishing Agents (book agents who represent nonfiction, not just novels), Children's Publishing Agents (book agents who represent books for younger readers), Young Adult Publishing Agents (book agents who represent YA books for teens), and Middle Grade Publishing Agents (book agents who represent books for middle grade tween reFiction Publishing Agents (book agents who represent fiction authors), Nonfiction Publishing Agents (book agents who represent nonfiction, not just novels), Children's Publishing Agents (book agents who represent books for younger readers), Young Adult Publishing Agents (book agents who represent YA books for teens), and Middle Grade Publishing Agents (book agents who represent books for middle grade tween refiction authors), Nonfiction Publishing Agents (book agents who represent nonfiction, not just novels), Children's Publishing Agents (book agents who represent books for younger readers), Young Adult Publishing Agents (book agents who represent YA books for teens), and Middle Grade Publishing Agents (book agents who represent books for middle grade tween readers).

The Jordanian - Palestinian author Ibrahim Nasrallah — twice before in the running for the award — has been named the winner of the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

Michelle Brower is on our list of AAR Book Agents (publishing agents who are members of the Association of Authors» Representatives), Book Agents New York (publishing agents in New York State), Book Agents NYC (publishing agents in NYC), Book Agents USA (publishing agents in the United States), Fiction Book Agents (publishing agents who represent fiction authors), Nonfiction Book Agents (publishing agents who represent nonfiction, not just novels), Children's Book Agents (publishing agents who represent books for younger readers), and Young Adult Book Agents (publishing agents who represent YA books for Authors» Representatives), Book Agents New York (publishing agents in New York State), Book Agents NYC (publishing agents in NYC), Book Agents USA (publishing agents in the United States), Fiction Book Agents (publishing agents who represent fiction authors), Nonfiction Book Agents (publishing agents who represent nonfiction, not just novels), Children's Book Agents (publishing agents who represent books for younger readers), and Young Adult Book Agents (publishing agents who represent YA books for Fiction Book Agents (publishing agents who represent fiction authors), Nonfiction Book Agents (publishing agents who represent nonfiction, not just novels), Children's Book Agents (publishing agents who represent books for younger readers), and Young Adult Book Agents (publishing agents who represent YA books for fiction authors), Nonfiction Book Agents (publishing agents who represent nonfiction, not just novels), Children's Book Agents (publishing agents who represent books for younger readers), and Young Adult Book Agents (publishing agents who represent YA books for authors), Nonfiction Book Agents (publishing agents who represent nonfiction, not just novels), Children's Book Agents (publishing agents who represent books for younger readers), and Young Adult Book Agents (publishing agents who represent YA books for teens).

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.