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!