Sentences with phrase «last page of my novel»

If you flip to the last page of a novel just to read the ending (you little devil you), continue scrolling.

The last pages of my novel sought to capture the lovers 20 years later as they reconnect and tell each other that, despite the years, they've forgotten nothing.

I do, simply because I don't like the book ending with the last page of the novel and there being no chance to thank the reader.

In her first novel Eleanor Kuhns demonstrates nuanced character development and complex plot lines that engage the reader to the very last page of this novel.

Can you speculate on what happens in each of the other characters» lives after the last page of the novel?

I have no plans to write a sequel to The Incarnations, but I am half - tempted to write the Watcher's «Sorceress Wu» story (which is the title of the story in the letter Echo opens on the very last page of the novel).

I just wrote the last page of my novel this morning.

The novel has colored screens from the movie in the first and last pages of the novel.

Coppola is supposed to have said, when finishing the last page of the novel, «I'm supposed to make a masterpiece of this turd?»

Not exact matches

I composed lines of this post in my head as I went to bed last night, which was clearly productive (sarcasm) as I remember none of them and is most definitely a bad way to lull yourself to sleep because I woke from a stress nightmare at 4 am in which I was under deadline to read two novels and write three 15 - page papers by today, all while attending a full day of classes.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 DVD Review by Kam Williams Campy Cross-Species Marriage Episode Comes to DVD Taking a page out of the Harry Potter playbook, the soon - to - expire Twilight Saga extended itself by splitting the last novel into two screen adaptations.

Just about every square inch of this novel hinged on them, quite literally right to the very last page.

On my last visit to Smashwords there were more short - forms at.99 than there were full - length novels in the NEW listings on the front page of the website... anything from 500 words to just short of 6,000.

Vivid and exquisite in its illumination of a time and place that was filled with great monstrosities, but also great humanity and strength, Kristin Hannah's novel will provoke thought and discussion that will have readers talking long after they turn the last page.

Filled with the humor and heart that calls to mind the delightful novels of Alexander McCall Smith, and the charm and beauty of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise is a magical, wholly original novel whose irresistible characters will stay with you long after you turn the stunning last page.

In all of these scenarios, the marginal cost of production is not going to be even $ 1 for a trade paperback and will rarely be over $ 1.50 for a trade hardcover (obviously the last big brick Harry Potter novels cost a teeny bit more due to sheer volume of paper needed to print a 750 page novel, but not * that * much more), meaning that if we're talking marginal cost of production as the difference in price between a paperback and an ebook, we're not talking about a huge difference in price.

The kind of big - hearted novel that grabs you and won't let go — I haven't gone a day without thinking about it since I turned the last page.

The Last Empress, which opens where Empress Orchid ends, lacks the compelling rags - to - riches / love story elements of Empress Orchid and tends to read like a series of vignettes not a continuous novel - probably the result of trying to squeeze nearly half a century of turbulent history into less than 300 pages.

Exceptionally lean and compact, Dept. of Speculation is a novel to be devoured in a single sitting, though its bracing emotional insights and piercing meditations on despair and love will linger long after the last page.

- Publishers Weekly «The Old West comes alive in heart - wrenching, violent, and wicked racist color... Legal thriller and western fans will stay with it to the last page... Margolin's novel offers a compelling portrait of small town justice done right.»

As Megan Fishmann writes in a review in the January issue of BookPage, «Avery weaves historical fact with electrically charged narrative... Filled with fabulous literary anecdotes and characters that seem to leap off the page, The Last Nude is a novel perfect for lovers of the 1920s, of Paris or simply of love stories.»

The Heart Goes Last is a masterful piece of prose that's a page - turner to the very end, and a novel that I highly recommend.

Everyting about Gardiner's latest novel is terrifying, from the use of the FBI shorthand for «unknown subject» to the fictinalized killer's use of cryptic symbols, and the maniacal elusive killer will stay in your mind long after you turn the last page.

Filled with fabulous literary anecdotes and characters that seem to leap off the page, The Last Nude is a novel perfect for lovers of the 1920s, of Paris or simply of love stories.

The first five years of Booker - winning novels average out at around 300 pages and in the last six years they have increased in size to over 520 pages.

«I wanted it to be a page - turner,» he tells BookPage.Songbird, Zacharius» first and, he says, last novel, the compelling personal tale of a young woman's struggle...

The system favours authors of fiction, especially novels: short - stories, poems and nonfiction books are generally not read page - by - page from the first to the last, resulting in lower royalties for this authors.

ComiXology also revealed today that they have served over 6 billion pages of comic books and graphic novels — up from 2 billion pages this time last year — since the inception of the platform just over four short years ago.

On the first page of the first chapter of her first novel, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Helen Simonson invites her readers to fall in love at first sight... read this one page and you may find you've fallen head over heels for Ms. Simonson's funny, barbed, delightfully winsome storytelling.

With an eclectic cast of characters all up for adventure, The Seasonaires will keep readers guessing until the very last page of this genre - blending novel.

As I mentioned in last week's post on «How to Claim Your Author Page on Amazon Author Central», over 15 % of your book's sales will probably come from Amazon if you're the author of a nonfiction book and over 50 % for a novel.

Once again, with his brilliant characterizations and rapid - fire pace, Jonathan Kellerman has redefined the boundaries of suspense, probing real - life horrors and innermost fears in a novel that transfixes from first page to last.

If you're looking for a fast - paced novel with mystery, horror and a whole lot of suspense until the very last page, you are sure to love what we have for you.

For me, physical sales are a joke and rarely get out of single digits in any one month, but I think something like what Michael's suggesting would help, especially if it was on the last page of the ebook (Enjoy this novel?

If you're not interested in Dan Brown or the film adaptation of his hit novel, «Angels & Demons,» you may want to avoid the travel pages for the next few days — I haven't seen travel - movie - mania on this scale since last year's Sex and the City movie transfixed shoe - loving travel writers everywhere.

I'm just on the last pages of the first draft of a novel that I've been working on for 9 years, on and off.

I read three of his novels (Andromeda Strain, Sphere, and Jurassic Park) and enjoyed each of them, right up until the last thirty pages or so.

Perhaps your focus has changed to favour writing novels, but I hope that if that is where you're headed you won't lean as heavily on the use of metaphors — as there is already one New York Times best selling author who applies metaphors so prolifically that they form road blocks along the road to the last page in his books!