Sentences with phrase «like mystery writers»

And then there are the associations, like the Mystery Writers of America and countless others, that do not allow self - published authors into their ranks at all.

Not exact matches

I was in line at the local dry cleaners once and realized that I was sandwiched between two bestselling mystery writers, Nevada Barr and Terri Blackstock; between the three of us, we had sold something like 10.001 million books.

I have found that to be really true with my experience as a writer — that even going into a project like Moxie, which had a pretty decent structure already, there is an element of mystery in every writing project where sometimes the process of writing leads my thoughts and my heart and my soul into territory that I didn't plan for.

In Three Billboards, plot twists are equated with the mysteries of human impulse, accounting for the fact that a person's life can change in an instant and it doesn't have to feel like a clever - clever writer casually nudging chess pieces around a board.

At one moment, it looks like the writers are going to not even conclude this mystery, as the last half hour finds something even more important to start dissecting.

Yet it also goes deeper: as in Ann Hui's equally compelling The Golden Era, the film respects the mystery of the creative process, the obscure correspondences between life and art, whether or not it is important to like a writer to appreciate his / her work — but, ultimately, why it matters for public freedom that writers should be allowed to misbehave in peace.

Nicole Holofcener, well - known for putting women front and center in numerous astute indies like Lovely & Amazing and Enough Said, adapted the screenplay from the novel by award - winning mystery writer Laura Lippman.

The first is that studio executives and / or director and writers obviously think that after a generation of the violence in video games and blockbuster movies, the old literary institutions like curiosity, innocence, mystery and wonder simply aren't enough to entertain us anymore.

* Like other entertainers, mystery writers seem to fall into three categories: — SuperStars: The best - seller list regulars, who usually fight to get out of the genre ASAP.

In Seattle, he wrote copy for ad agencies, a well - paid freelancer supported by creative directors who liked his (dreadful) first novel, Your Day in the Barrel, published by Atheneum - a book by a writer who wrote well but had nothing to write about, so he wrote a murder mystery.

She, like her character Meg, turned into a workaday writer, producing three mystery novels: Dead Clever, In Your Face, and Seaside (all three links go to the full text at Google), featuring the sassy sleuth, Lily Pascale, an English professor who just happens to specialize in horror and crime fiction as well as creative writing.

If you like your mysteries to be all blood and guts and tidy endings, move on, but if you're interested in a writer of thoughtful noir crime fiction who includes Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in his list of favorite authors, and cites Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment as his favorite novel, stop right here!

Her short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, PANK, on NPR, and in numerous anthologies like Thrillers: 100 Must - Reads, The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers, and St. Louis Noir.

But as a midlist writer like me, or if you write mystery, romance, SF / F, YA (non-blockbuster YA... not Hunger Games / Divergent), then there's a limit to what you're getting back.

I liked this book for a number of reasons: It is a mystery that let me think I had the answers to who and why — but, then again, maybe not; it sparked my interest to read more by Wilkie Collins (I love it when one author turns me on to other writers!)

Check out our resource library here at The Kill Zone (down the right sidebar), as well as blogs like Writer Unboxed, Janice Hardy's Fiction University (formerly The Other Side of the Story), K. M. Weiland's Helping Writers Become Authors, Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi's Writers Helping Writers (formerly The Bookshelf Muse), Elizabeth Craig's Mystery Writing is Murder, Joanna Penn's The Creative Penn, John Yeoman's The Wicked Writing Blog, and more.

Instead of a forensics track like at a mystery writers conference, this convention had a science track led by scientist guests.

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And to be completely realistic, if you're a genre writer — romance, mystery, horror, thrillers and the like — your odds of getting reviewed by the majors aren't much better than winning the lottery.

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And when I began working with the program, myself, I approached three independent authors I know to see if they'd like to give SELF - e a try and report on their experience — novelist, veteran ghost writer, and editor Roz Morris in London; nonfiction specialist Victoria Noe in Chicago; and North Carolina cozy - mystery novelist Elizabeth S. Craig.

For voracious mystery fans of writers like Nevada Barr, Sue Grafton, Laura Lippmann, Ace Atkins, Marcia Muller, Linda Barnes, and Randy Wayne White.

Now don't mis - understand me, co-op I guess could be done in any genre / game but outside of shooters it doesn't automatically make sense, Alan Wake is a psychological action thriller, set in an open world game where YOU play as a writer who's trying to discover the mystery of what seems to be your latest horror story which you can't even remember for some reason is now coming to life, in a small isolated town; oh and your wife has vanished too = Alan Wake himself IS the story, co-op in this case would be redundant for a story driven type game like Alan Wake since at its core its all about YOU deciding where to go an «unlocking» the plot for YOURSELF.

The mysteries you encounter never venture beyond standard territory in regards to using tried and tested whodunnit techniques, but the writers have ensured that solving them feels challenging and most importantly makes you feel like a detective actually solving a case using your wits.

English mystery writer, P. D. James, has recently given interviews in which she, a lot like Chesterton, emphasizes the moral aspects of the genre and, indeed, the rules she believes writers should obey in creating crime fiction.

The legendary Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot, The Apartment) directs from a script by the legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie.