Sentences with phrase «for fiction collections»

Currently, their primary offerings are nonfiction and reference, but they are negotiating as we speak with major publishers such as Random House, etc. for fiction collections.

Strongly recommended for all fiction collections.»

Not exact matches

Neither is geologist Liz Hajek, but she makes an exception for this book: «I don't generally gravitate toward fiction, but this collection of short stories, set in a variety of compelling places and time periods, is so creative and rich, it's been really fun to read.»

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.

In the interviews gathered for this collection, Wolfe is full of opinions about fiction, most of them inappropriate.

She is also an author and it was recently announced that her story collection, Faulty Predictions, won the 2013 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.

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.

Full marks to Gollancz for publishing this collection of stories by one of Britain's consistently finest science fiction writers — but it, and other book publishers, would be doing themselves, writers and readers a favour by providing more outlets for short fiction.

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.

In terms of trad pub vs indie — most trad publishers don't want to publish collections of short fiction by unknowns, but you can submit to magazines and anthologies as well as self - publishing collections or using them for marketing.

He mentions a short - story collection, Godforsaken Idaho, by author Shawn Vestal, which last month won the PEN / Robert Bingham award for debut fiction.

She is taking pitches for literary fiction, memoir, short story collections, and essay collections.

Recently, our author Sara Schaff's debut short fiction collection Say Something Nice About Me was included as a finalist for the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Awards.

There again, this could be a great theme for a flash fiction collection, each story focusing on a different reviewer of the same book.

Looking for: ``... literary fiction, including general fiction, story collections, upmarket crime and thriller, horror.

Speaking of hearts, there's one last reward of reviewing that I'd like to mention: that as an author myself, I know how heartwarming it is to receive an enthusiastic review for my own work, and the arrival of not one but two glowing reviews for my latest book, the collection of very short stories (aka flash fiction) has made my week already — and it's still only Tuesday.

We will for the entire month of January accept submissions for full - length collections of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.

Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link Kelly Link's second short story collection is aptly titled Magic for Beginners, for the short fiction she presents here is truly magical, with masterfully crafted stories that are as dark as they are delightful.

Just open your Audible app for iOS and Android and tap on Channels to get an early look at an unlimited, on - demand service featuring a «best of» collection of news programs and compelling audio editions of magazine and newspaper articles, comedy shorts, lectures, short fiction and nonfiction, and other quality entertainment, information, and educational programming you won't find anywhere else.

His first collection, Last Days of the Dog - Men, won the Sue Kauffman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts & Letters; his first novel, Heaven of Mercury, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and his As in the Prime of Their Lives was a finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award - winning 1996 novel, Alias Grace.

Kelly Link's second short story collection is aptly titled Magic for Beginners, for the short fiction she presents here is truly magical, with masterfully crafted stories that are as dark as they are delightful.

Adam Johnson — who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2013 with The Orphan Master's Son — returns on August 18 with a collection of six stories, Fortune Smiles (Random House).

This may be Cate Kennedy's first collection, but she's won prizes for her short fiction since 1994.

Jaden Terrell is the author of Racing the Devil (Permanent Press), the first in a series featuring Nashville private detective Jared McKean, and is a contributor to Now Write Mysteries, a collection of writing exercises published by Tarcher / Penguin for crime fiction writers.

Dan Chaon's novel Await Your Reply was «a profound and haunting exploration of the shifting, often tenuous, nature of identity... a thrilling example of the best of contemporary literary fiction,» although he's probably best known for his story collections, like National Book Award finalist Among the Missing, in which he» [brought] clarity to the confusion of people's inner motives.»

Redeployment By Phil Klay Penguin • $ 16 • ISBN 9780143126829 This riveting story collection by an Iraq War veteran captured the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction.

It's taken from my new flash fiction collection, Quick Change, which is currently available as an ebook and due for launch as a paperback in November this autumn.

But for now, I'm heading off to slip on one of my many other writing hats — working on my new collection of flash fiction, Quick Change, due out next month.

Just use the above math to figure how many books you need to sell depending on the price of your book to make back your expenses at the base rate of 25 sales per month for novels and 5 sales for short fiction and collections.

The first article I've written for them was an introduction to flash fiction, and it was published to coincide with National Flash Fiction Day on 21st June, when I also officially launched my new ebook collection of flash, Quick fiction, and it was published to coincide with National Flash Fiction Day on 21st June, when I also officially launched my new ebook collection of flash, Quick Fiction Day on 21st June, when I also officially launched my new ebook collection of flash, Quick Change.

At Entropy, fiction writers Kathy Fish and Robert Vaughan discuss the creation of their collaborative story collection, Rift, as well as their affinity for flash fiction.

That tongue - twister heralds news of my new flash fiction collection, Quick Change, due for launch later this month.

From now on, I'll be publishing a new flash fiction collection for every National Flash Fictifiction collection for every National Flash FictionFiction Day.

On the subject of flash fiction (which, by the way, is just another term for very short stories), if you sign up to my book launch emailing list (only used when I've got a new book to shout about), you'll be able to download a free ebook of my own flash fiction collection, Quick Change.

A silly title for a punchy collection of 8 short stories from the Live - Fiction catalog.

As a bonus, we have Rebecca Senese's ten - story science fiction collection Tales of Possibilities; Thomas K. Carpenter's Revolutionary Magic, a historical fantasy and the first in the Dashkova Memoirs; Annie Reed's A Death in Cumberland, a moody police procedural; Nebula Award finalist Cat Rambo's Neither Here Nor There, a double collection of alt - world and real world fantasy stories; and last but not least, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith's The Slots of Saturn, the origin story for his fan - favorite superhero Poker Boy.

The mandate was for an eclectic collections for fiction, non-fiction and educational titles.

Her critically - acclaimed short fiction collection American Salvage, which consists of fourteen lush and rowdy stories of folks who are struggling to make sense of the twenty - first century, was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Ffiction collection American Salvage, which consists of fourteen lush and rowdy stories of folks who are struggling to make sense of the twenty - first century, was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in FictionFiction.

Also to provide new «always available» eBook collections for simultaneous access of romance, self - help, young adult, children, and other fiction materials.

In 2009, his first short story collection, Noctures: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, was published and shortlisted for the 2010 James Tait Back Memorial Prize (for fiction).

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 comFiction & 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 comfiction 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.

In 1997 he published a collection of short stories, Love and Longing in Bombay, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Eurasia region); was short - listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize; and was included in a number of «notable books of the year» lists.

For fiction, he is interested in seeing inspired literary novels, voice driven comedies, smart thrillers with sharp dialogue, debuts and short story collections.

«An original and impressively entertaining read from cover to cover, The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes is very highly recommended for personal reading lists and community library General Fiction collections.»

We're scheduling a tour for «The Suspenseful Collection», a multi-genre romance / crime fiction / erotica / fantasy collection.

It can be a bit of a specialized collection, so interfiling them with fiction would be terrible for patrons» access.

If I could get going a little earlier, I'd start looking at the flash fiction, flash memoir, and potential for longer stories in this eclectic collection I'm building.

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Maybe keep it on the one topic of fiction short story pieces for magazine, collection of 10 short stories for the agent and for the publisher, so the query letters are targeting something specific and you won't have to guess what the reader might be doing — «if you are writing a proposal, write this query letter, or if you wrote a novel, write this query letter, etc.» Just short stories, just ideas of how to phrase it, how long it should be, how much info to share, etc..»