Sentences with phrase «friend than a novel»

This feels more like reading a text message conversation with our best friend than a novel about the lives of the Hollywood elite.

Not exact matches

But in between he returned to Britain to play a vicious record executive in the blacker - than - black comedy Kill Your Friends, based on John Niven's novel about 1990s Britpop.

An adaptation of an award - winning Japanese suspense novel, the film follows a police detective - turned - university lecturer who is lured back to his old profession after an appeal from a friend, but who soon finds past and present intermingling and this new cold case landing closer to home than he had envisaged.

Asked if she's ever worried about her own safety, given that a close friend of hers, Sabeen Mahmud, the owner of a progressive cafe in Karachi where Shah wrote two of her novels, was gunned down in her car one night last year for being outspoken, Shah says not any more than anyone else.

Nothing can do more for your novel than friends telling friends how much they loved it.

If you have a friend who is better at distilling the essence of your novel into a couple hundred words than you are, then you are fortunate and should take the help she offers.

French has said that Donna Tartt's claustrophobically creepy novel The Secret History was a major influence on her, and nowhere is this more evident than in The Likeness, as a growing sense of unease permeates the creaky old house where these fiercely devoted friends close themselves off from the outside world.

The first thing the reader learns in Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant's engaging new novel, Better Than I Know Myself, is that one of a trio of friends is dead.

I discovered that being accepted in a popular magazine / anthology / ezine, and read by thousands, was a true «reality check» of my skills, than publishing a novel, selling it cheap (and sometimes for nothing), not knowing how many have really read it, only relying on a handful of reviews, some of which were written by friends and family.

His first novel, A Tale of Friends, Enemies and Minecraft, has sold more than 14,000 copies on Amazon in only one year.

The novels and picture books included in this feature share several distinct features: the characters have highly permeable universes of obligation, they reach out to and stand up for friends and strangers, and most are upstanders, rather than bystanders, when their participation is called for.

This satirical novel follows childhood friends Antonio and Leopaldo, who grew up in Guayaquil (like the author) but have been separated for more than a decade after Antonio left the country to attend Stanford.

In a funny graphic novel for young readers, Babymouse learns that a friend who treats her like a queen is worth more than an invitation to a popular but cruel schoolmate's sleepover.

That argument reminds me of what a friend said after my novel Downward - Facing Death — a masterful title if ever there were one — racked up more than 100 reviews on Amazon, the first of my eight books to ever crest that golden number.

My friend Deborah Reed, a wonderful writer but not a household name, has sold more than 100,000 copies of her novel Things We Set on Fire — virtually none of them in a conventional bookstore, since conventional bookstores won't sell Amazon Publishing — produced novels.

But to explore the popularity of stories about the shambling undead, I asked my friend Thomas Roche, a professional writer for more than 15 years, who's just published his first novel about zombies.

«Packed with vintage stills, footage, and movie clips, this moving tribute to Harper Lee and her beloved novel includes interviews with more than 25 actors, celebrities, writers, and close friends.

His first novel and he thought he knew more than the art department in the publishing company and was trying to get another cover his friend drew to replace the cover.

But nothing spurs book buzz more than a newly converted fan texting all her friends about the amazing novel they just read — by an author they actually met.

The full story is here, but in short, creating a paperback at Createspace was cheaper than copying his novel at Kinko's, and the ebook was an easy way to distribute copies at no cost to his friends.

Writer - friend Rhiannon Frater has also launched a serial recently, so we sat down for a little chat about writing serials, pricing them, and how writing a serial is very different than writing a novel.

The Animal Welfare Department made news back in 2012 when Albuquerque was chosen, along with San Antonio, Texas, for a three - year, $ 1 million grant from the Best Friends Animal Society and PetSmart Charities to implement a then - novel approach to feral cat control: sterilize stray cats and put them back in their colonies, rather than euthanize them.