Sentences with phrase «more of a novella»

So she sat down and wrote the entire book — more of a novella, at just 12,000 words — in a matter of weeks.

This new modern fantasy — which, at 192 pages, is more of a novella — tells the story of a man who returns to his native English village to confront the horrifying evil he survived as a boy.

This is short — more of a novella, really — and I'm not sure what it's supposed to add to the series» universe.

Not exact matches

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint - Jacques: No one in the twentieth century wrote more magnificent English, or prose of a purer purple; but, while his travel memoirs are now more widely appreciated than ever, his only novel (or novella, really) tends to be overlooked — a deftly constructed, economically proportioned, perfectly satisfying little tale about the small twilight world of a fictional French Caribbean island on its last day.

More recently San Lorenzo itself and the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella have begun charging entrance fees.

(The longest piece is akin to a novella more than 2.1 million base pairs long, and the shortest is only 1,000 base pairs, the genetic equivalent of a Twitter message.)

King would pull off his love letter to «losers» much more convincingly with IT, published just a few years after the novella Silver Bullet is based on, and this may account for some of the film's weaknesses.

With its fades to blinding white and its atmosphere of testosterone - fueled paranoia, Carpenter's remake hews more closely to the source material — John W. Campbell, Jr.'s 1938 novella «Who Goes There?»

Both Kevin and You Were Never Really Here, which is based on a 2013 noir novella by Jonathan Ames, are more easily branded as the kind of hip, glossy artsploitation that's in vogue among many of the world's most talented young and mid-career filmmakers.

Adapted from a Jonathan Ames novella, Ramsay's film has been billed as an «enticing challenge» and an «elegant homage to a mold of scrappy detective stories that often collapses into a concise pileup of stylish possibilities,» but there's no doubt that it offers Phoenix one of his best roles yet, and more proof of Ramsay's ability to turn complex material into something thoroughly her own.

Based on Jonathan Ames's novella of the same name... [Read More]

Coraline Year: 2009 Directors: Henry Selick Director Henry Selick matches the Gothic whimsy of Nightmare Before Christmas and adds even more compelling emotional content with this adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novella.

A contemporary America - set adaptation of the novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, co-written by Ayoade with Harmony Korine «s brother Avi, the film features a promising cast — Jesse Eisenberg, Noah Taylor, Mia Wasikowska, Yasmin Page and more — in a decidedly oddball story.

I will rarely pay more than $ 2.99 for a novella (what I define as 20,000 — 40,000 words) and especially not if I have never heard of the author before.

There are some great books there — the Young Wizards New Millennium Editions, Feline Wizardry trilogy, and associated Young Wizards novellas, the Tale of the Five, and many more.

And, in the masterly opening novella, two teenagers from very different families — one a tightly knit foursome, the other a father and son who share little more than having been abandoned by the same woman — forge a sustaining friendship, only to discover the disruptive and unsettling power of sex.

It has a mechanical keyboard and WIFI that allows you to send over your novellas and e-books to Evernote, Dropbox, Google Drive and a number of other cloud storage systems.If you are travelling or outside of a wireless... [Read more...]

The pages of a novel will not be more valuable than the pages of a short story, a novelette, or a novella.

I already touched on the idea of using a free ebook (a short story, a novella, or even a full - length novel) as a loss leader, the idea being that you can sell more of your other books by giving away free samples.

For anyone who has not tried the series yet (demons and sidhe mixing it up in dark age Wales, so beware) as with The Lion of Wales series of novellas, I've made it more accessible as bite - sized pieces, rather than the tomes they were before.

Look for her upcoming Trident Security Omega Team series, Doms of The Covenant Novella series, Blackhawk Security series, and more from the Malone Brothers series, in addition to several stand alone projects.

This month, for example, you will find a suspense story about a blogger who unravels the mystery of a hijacked ship carrying stolen Russian missiles to Iran; a gorgeously written novella about a bullfighter matched with a seemingly indestructible bull, a financial guide to retirement in the new economic reality, and more — all well worth your time and attention.

So if readers want more of the Pruxnae, I'm happy to give it to them, but the cost will be putting off working on something else, like the holiday novellas / short novels I've been dying to write for over a year now.

This isn't much of a popular option; more likely than book series are the light novels, a genre of short novellas often accompanied by illustrations.

Customers who pay $ 10 or more will receive all of the above, as well as: Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison and Trouble on Reserve by Kim Harrison, a Humble Bundle exclusive novella.

For the past week, master of suspense James Scott Bell — author of a remarkable collection of a novella and three stories entitled One More Lie — has been helping us all -LSB-...]

Submissions may include a collection of short stories, one or more novellas, or a novel of any length.

You know my ten years writing fanfiction (a couple of novellas a novel or two) taught me far more than the MFA i did.

Author of 24 novels, 4 novellas, 1 screenplay, and 11 nonfiction works, as well as principal writer... Read More

This is why many authors are choosing to self - publishing novellas and reap the benefits of more revenue and more readers (who, happily, often go on to buy other titles by the same author).

I could release a novella, build a platform, and have a group of people who would already be interested when I traditionally published more of the series.

Samhain has had some terrific success getting prequel and mid-series novellas from fairly big - name authors where the rest of the series is in print from a more, shall we say, traditional publisher.

Atavist's Evan Ratliff spoke with GoodeReader at this year's DBW event to talk about how that popularity has led to even more platforms growing up to meet the need for novella length digital fiction and pieces of journalism that would have once been considered impossibly long for print media.

Try telling Nicholas Sparks you'd like to see more books featuring his side characters and see if he jumps out of bed to write a novella about some character who appears on page twelve then disappears forever.

This well - done 33,000 - word novella leaves me more curious about Callihan's world of Darkest London.

This second novella in the series develops more in the world of angel versus demon against a backdrop of 1930s Spain.

Regardless, I think you need to differentiate not on the format of the material (i.e., long - form vs. short - form) but more on the objective of the material (i.e., novel, novella, essay, treatise, flash fiction, etc.).

But if you spend a minimum of $ 6, you get three more novellas — the sequel to M.L. Buchman's first novella, a futuristic romance (that's science fiction to some of you) by New York Times bestselling writer Jo Beverley, and a spicy winter classic from # 1 New York Times bestseller Stephanie Laurens.

With digital technologies, readers have an abundance of options: novels, articles, novellas, short stories, long form journalism, and more.

Lose yourself in a whole lotta naughty with this sexy collection of ALL - NEW, standalone novellas sure to set your e-reader ablaze and leave you breathlessly panting for more.

Even more sci - fi oriented, the first fifty readers of this project's outcome will undergo the same electrode0based response recording while they read the finished novella.

The novel (though «novella» might be the more appropriate term for a book of just 160 pages) is a chorus of twenty - one first - person narratives, including Bobby's.

A page - turning debut novella in the tradition of Daniel Silva, Mark Dawson, and Robert Ludlum, The Renegade Spy is the story of a deadly and maverick female German Intelligence agent, tasked with saving the life of the German... [Read More]

She is reunited with her high school crush and quickly finds herself tangled up in more trouble than she can handle.This book is a novella, and the first book in a 3 - part series.Other Books By Rory Chambers include: Dangerous Reunion (Class of»92 Series, # 1) Surviving Las Vegas (Class of»92 Series, # 2) Secret Obsessions (Class of»92 Series, # 3) Class of»92 Series (Box Set, All 3 Books)...

This collection of novellas, scenes, and other goodies is for those craving a bit more of the characters and drama of the Mindjack series.

A deputy sheriff on the Texas - Mexico border gets more than she bargained for when she pursues three escaped convicts into the high desert — just one of the four horror novellas in this collection by screenwriter and graphic novelist Wheaton.

Four Nails in the Coffin by Mark Wheaton A deputy sheriff on the Texas - Mexico border gets more than she bargained for when she pursues three escaped convicts into the high desert — just one of the four horror novellas in this collection by screenwriter and graphic novelist Wheaton.

In this workshop you will learn what a novella is, how it's more than word count that separates it from a novel, and how to successfully craft one of your own.

Since 2010 three more of my novels have been published, as well as several novellas and short stories that have appeared in anthologies and some as stand - alone.

For the Week # 2 Sweepstakes, the bestselling and award winning suspense writer James Scott Bell — author of a remarkable collection of a novella and three stories entitled One More Lie, among several of his books available on Kindle — is helping us all out by as our sponsor.