Sentences with phrase «literary careers»

So powerful, in fact, that the manuscripts emerging from it regularly went on to land major publishing deals and launch the type of literary careers most of us only dream of?

So when I hear people say Amazon is «destroying» literary careers, it just doesn't make sense — it actually seems to be making them.

Given the name because Joylynn wants authors to know it all when it comes to their literary careers.

Williams and Laughlin, the founder of New Directions publishing, met when they were young men, just starting their literary careers in New York.

Yet they play god with the literary careers of thousands of fledgeling writers and jerk them around for years.

A published writer for more than 40 years, Powers's literary career is unusual compared to that of other «important» American writers.

And so Tocqueville recommends that the Americans destined for a literary career study those Greek and Roman writers in their original language.

Perhaps thegreatest baseball adventure of Hall's literary career occurred in 1973, when hewas invited to participate in spring training with the Pittsburgh Pirates.Never a gifted athlete, Hall was by then in his mid-40s and shaped like anopossum.

His literary career began after a real life incident when he killed a goose owned by the Queen, which cost his owner a # 75 court fine.

Inspired by the story that launched Mark Twain's literary career, in May every year, the small town of Angels Camp in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada pays homage to the jumping prowess of the humble green bullfrog.

Isn't She Great is a screen biography that focuses on Susann's roller - coaster literary career, with Bette Midler as Susann and Nathan Lane as Mansfield; David Hyde Pierce, Stockard Channing, John Cleese, and Sarah Jessica Parker round out the supporting cast.

The story so far of this existentially unpredictable trio has seen a meteoric literary career, an unplanned pregnancy, and, finally, an assault on society provoked by angst and executed for love.

Melissa has had to compete with her divorced father's successful literary career for his attention.

For years, she's helped to nurture his literary career, forgiving his affairs and ready to attend when he wins the Nobel Prize,» Empire reports.

Hurt by their lack of faith in her, she pursues a literary career by stalking her favorite living poet, Rat Billings (John Cusack), and takes a job at an adult video store managed by a cute, affable twentysomething male (Evan Peters) with the words «love interest» practically tattooed to his forehead.

It was their where his literary career began.

Kristin Gore, daughter of Al Gore, launched her literary career with two smart chick - lit novels set in the world of Washington politics.

I had twenty - five years worth of life experiences, thoughts, emotions, and stories to draw from, and I was determined to cram all of it into a novel that would dazzle readers and immediately launch my literary career into the stratosphere of superstardom!

There was a time when self - publishing through a vanity press was the end of your literary career before it ever got off the ground.

At the time of GBH's original publication in 1980, Lewis» literary career was plummeting, so it's not surprising that his final novel would go overlooked by many readers.

There is no point at which you can relax and rest on your laurels (either within the pages of a book or during a literary career).

Unfortunately, this is the second critical point in your literary career because traditional publishers are going into bankruptcy all over the world.

In his stellar 50 - year literary career, Wideman has tackled race, family, and art with great originality, and his new lyrical, shape - shifting historical short stories, featuring such figures as Frederick Douglass and Nat Turner, offer intriguing perspectives.

Over a 54 - year literary career, she has published a mere 14 books, which more often than not have been concise in length, as deftly pared as her spare, elegant prose.

The author won the 1997 Booker Price for her only other work of fiction, The God of Small Things, but in the years since seemed to have abandoned her literary career to focus on social activism.

As Hallman reads his way through Baker's works, readers get hilarious and profane side trips into Hallman's literary career and his relationship with his photographer - girlfriend, Catherine.

Orleans has written for some of the top magazines in America, including The New Yorker, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and even Vogue — so she's having a brilliant literary career.

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Unfortunately, if to sell a book, you'll take many years, to destroy a literary career you'll take only a few seconds, because a bad literary translation can really destroy your literary career.

By having an instructor with the expertise and level of success as Joylynn M. Ross, aka your literary chauffeur, who will guide you every step of the way, it will shorten the learning curve and dramatically increase your speed in self - publishing and building your book business, as well as accelerating your literary career.

A tour de force of tales within tales, it sets the capstone on bestselling author Sally Beauman's literary career.

Perhaps it's fitting that my latest creation crosses this particular milestone in my literary career in the same way it started — with a stand - alone thriller that defies easy description.

Believe in yourself and don't feed your literary career with doubts and fear.

Book promotion is even more crucial if you are a self - published author who is just starting his literary career and has just published his very first book.

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Is self - publishing my early work going to cost me later in my literary career?

This year, I started forming a coalition of seasoned, professional authors who are stepping off the edge of the map to create a new brand of literary career that hybridizes the best qualities of indie and traditional publishing.

Since I have been ruining my chance at a literary career by not writing my own things for about a decade — to illustrate this specifically, I did not finish a book while a Canadian literary giant who was championing it was still alive — I thought a two week timeframe was about right so that I didn't collapse in a pile of goo.

Basked in the highlight of a literary career, a graphic desire - cum - author and a multi-talented storyteller decide to put sophisticated service aside and bring back the beauty of simplicity.

GO: How much do you worry about the effect that being an «out» gamer will have on your literary career?

Written at the beginning of his literary career, Chardin and Rembrandt gestures back to some of Proust's earliest notes on art, while creating space for what was to come.

Enrique Vila - Matas (born 1948, Barcelona) has led a very long and outstanding literary career and is one of the most prestigious and original writers in contemporary Spanish fiction.

Gyasi, similarly, excelled at writing from an early age but couldn't imagine a literary career before AP English.

The declaration was an immediate critical success, and Syms has continued a prolific literary career, writing essays, autobiographical fiction, and the pilot episode of a sitcom titled She Mad, the latter of which appeared in the 2015 New Museum Triennial.

Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac were key figures in his life and early literary career.

From here, she has continued to produce artworks in a variety of mediums, as well as launching a literary career by publishing several novels, a poetry collection and an autobiography.

From this base, she has continued to produce artworks in a variety of media, as well as launching a literary career by publishing several novels, a poetry collection, and an autobiography.

As a young student, she had intended a literary career when she encountered the site - specific installations being made by artists in the 1960s.

A Tender Tumult: The Art of David Storey similarly introduces the little known artwork of the Wakefield - born acclaimed playwright, who prior to his literary career studied at the Slade School of Art, there himself meeting both Spencer and Moore.

Not exact matches

Before the flourishing of Bultmann's career, New Testament scholarship had been dominated by literary criticism, which attempted to uncover the secret of how the texts were compiled; by investigation of the Hellenistic background, especially the mystery religions surrounding the early church, as part of a sociological critique of the history of religion; and by excitement about the apocalyptic content of the teaching of Jesus as a first century Jew.