Sentences with phrase «literary novels»

He is primarily looking for literary novels, crime, thrillers and historical fiction.

I have been a thriller reader since I was eight years old, but I also read a lot of literary novels.

People who are looking to write more literary novels and may find the information a bit too commercial.

When has the big news been that a self - published literary novel was picked up by a major house?

From your list, you like literary novels, and that's a perfectly legitimate choice.

Even literary novels, which traditionally focus more on pros and quality of storytelling than the story itself, must at their core have something worth telling.

If this is your goal, you should also be aware of research that shows literary prizes can make the book less popular and most literary novels will sell fewer than 5,000 copies.

In fiction I work with adult literary novels, YA, suspense, thriller, some sci - fi / fantasy, etc..

Even if a publishing house may take a look at a debut literary novel, I don't think they would have bothered much about a few short story collections.

I am the author of two award winning literary novels and hundreds of articles, columns, web pages, and business documents.

In fiction, this would include literary novels, romance novels, and thrillers.

Writing something in the right genre with a nice cover will outperform a heart - touching literary novel.

You don't want your new literary novel to look like the latest issue of The Amazing Spider - Man.

He wants to see literary novels that also place importance on story; no use writing beautifully if nothing's going on.

For fiction, he is interested in seeing inspired literary novels, voice driven comedies, smart thrillers with sharp dialogue, debuts and short story collections.

For the great literary novel — if you want to enhance the reading experience, you might be better to go in print.

Readers like stories about twins, so I use this to promote a challenging literary novel.

Not the latest literary novel or the novel most likely to impress your friends, but the novel most likely to help you while away a few hours on a particularly difficult day.

Generally, only literary novels remain in memory beyond that, with notable exceptions such as Gone With The Wind or *.

While collaborative efforts like this have been fairly common among genre fiction authors, this is the first box set I know of that represents a marketing collaboration for full - length literary novels.

Not all small presses are bad, of course, and I am going with one for my upcoming literary novel, but you have to do your homework.

No one who has read one or even ten novels would be allowed to review literary novels — a proper reviewer should be totally familiar with the medium.

Orna Ross is the author of 7 literary novels as well as creative non-fiction and poetry, and she has experienced every side of publishing.

I do know writers who have sold historical fiction more recently — mainly literary novels set in America in the last 200 years.

Because he writes thrillers, this very literary novel by Nelson DeMille, while a bestseller, is rarely mentioned on the same list with important American works.

Adventure films, in a broader context, could include boxing movies, motor racing films, and films adapted from literary novels (i.e., King Solomon's Mines (1937 and 1950), The Thief of Bagdad (1924 and 1940), The Three Musketeers (1916, 1921, 1933, 1935, 1948, 1973, and 1993), and The Prisoner of Zenda (1937, 1952)-RRB-.

Looks like Lynn enjoys literary novels with plenty of tension — even better if it's family tension.

Henderson's new novel, The Flicker of Old Dreams, is a beautiful literary novel about a young woman who comes most alive while working in her father's mortuary in a small, forgotten Western town.

Thrillers are not literary novels, and the hero must be credible within certain conventions: you'll portray a fallible human being but not the shy introvert indulging in ritual self analysis while the action stalls.

A vividly original literary novel based on the astounding true - life story of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind person who learned language and blazed a trail for Helen Keller.

I write literary novels, which do not sell much even though one received 4 stars from Indie Reader.

But he also wrote for a more general audience, particularly literary novels such as «Foucault's Pendulum» (1988), about three workers at a small publishing house who hatch their own conspiracy theory, and «The Name of the Rose,» a murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the 14th century.

True love between a worldly member of the culturati and a relative innocent, a specific Jewish backdrop, an acclaimed literary novel at the source — all these elements suggest a closer kinship between Disobedience and a more recent art - house hit about a gay romance.

Meg has been given an advance to write a serious literary novel, but the money has long ago run out, and instead she pays the bills by churning out science fiction for teenagers and adults.

Monika is particularly excited about plot - driven literary novels, non-fiction that is creatively critical, unique perspectives, a great cookbook, and above all, original prose.

Especially since I do love literary novels and other forms of «high culture.»

Less than five years after The Deathly Hallows, Rowling released The Casual Vacancy, an adult - oriented literary novel which received mixed reviews.

Here's why not: When you make something, whether a highbrow literary novel or a shoot - em - up video game or a film comedy, you should try to do as good a job as possible.

The unfortunately named Ron Rash is also a pretty fine author — and literary novels tend to make flat, dreary, overly reverential films — so you're probably better off sticking to the original.

Both films make me somewhat uneasy because they are so confident in their mastery and moral seriousness: neither quite feels like just a film, more like the cinematic equivalent of a Nobel - class literary novel.

Like fellow Kiwi Peter Jackson, Andrew Adamson has followed a run of large - scale fantasy entertainments (two «Shreks,» two «Narnias») by adapting an inspirational - uplift literary novel.

Deals run from obscure foreign rights to multi-million dollar film deals, highly - anticipated literary novels, celebrity memoirs and more.

Part literary novel, part thriller, LaPlante's haunting debut traces the deterioration of orthopedic surgeon Jennifer White, who at 64 is suffering severe dementia and just might have killed her best friend.

The Press's goal is to publish contemporary literary novels and story collections.

It's much less of a risk to write YA paranormal romance than to write an obscure historical - biographical literary novel with experimental elements.

Very few purely literary novels sell — and most of those are by authors who have published scores of exquisitely crafted short fiction pieces in prestigious journals and / or have endowed chairs at major universities.

There are others that publish mostly literary novels, some university presses that publish fiction, etc..