Sentences with phrase «most fiction genres»
For most fiction genres, a 1:1.5 (6» x9») or 1:1.6 (5» x8») ratio works well.
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I enjoy most fiction genres, especially Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense.
I enjoy most FICTION genres, including Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Adventure, Time Travel and Romance (Sweet to Erotic).
Which is why starting out in KU makes sense for new writers (at least in most fiction genres): it gives you access to a market that is very indie - friendly and which is increasingly less likely to buy any ebooks at all.
For most fiction genres, a well promoted, well publicized free campaign should get over 5,000.
Not exact matches
The Author correctly says «The Bible is an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years» but she forgot the most important thing - the bible is mostly a work of fiction.
As Thomas Woodman points out: «In recent years the rise of postmodernist fiction and of such modes as «magic realism» [as exemplified most obviously by Latin American authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez] have called into question the whole privileging of realism in the novel genre.»
The answer is they all wrote stories that involved a journey to the Moon, one of the oldest and most popular themes of the science fiction genre until 25 years ago, when it was crushed by the weight of reality and Neil Armstrong's foot.
The most common mistake the computer made was misclassifying horror novels as either science fiction or fantasy — perhaps not so surprising given the ambiguity between those genres.
21 % of men picked erotic fiction as the ultimate turn - on, putting it far ahead of the next most popular genres — thrillers, at 12 per cent and biographies, at 11 per cent.
21 % of men picked erotic fiction as the ultimate turn - on, putting it far ahead of the next most popular genres — thrillers, at 12 % and biographies, at 11 per cent.
The Fly was one of the most successful science fiction movies of the decade; the image of Owens unmasking her stricken husband and screaming at what she sees — and the shot of her horrified visage seen in a «fly's eye» view — became one of the defining moments in the genre.
French filmmaker Luc Besson (The Family, Brick Mansions) writes and directs Lucy, a loopy, high - concept science fiction thriller that, like most Besson efforts, is actually just a dumb and goofy action genre film masquerading as a smart and insightful one.
The unbelievable but mostly true story of four young men who mistook their lives for a movie and attempted one of the most audacious heists in US history; American Animals takes the thrill of the heist genre and turns it inside out, blurring the line between truth and fiction in a wild story of money, movies and the search for meaning.
Carpenter is responsible for at least six classics that transcend the horror and science - fiction genres» supposed low - brow pleasures, including The Thing, Escape from New York, They Live, Starman, Christine, and most notably, Halloween.
«I would say that the science fiction of it is a big thing that sets it apart from most of the other superhero genre films,» Trank says.
With Barker's status as one of the most prominent openly gay figures in genre fiction at the back of the mind, that Candyman is something of an elegiac lament for the outcasts and the sexually humiliated only augments its status as one of the best of the end - of - the - eighties / start - of - the - nineties body mortification films.
The film noir put out inky tendrils in many existent genres, forever altering even the Western (Anthony Mann, perhaps the most gifted director associated with the new vision, the new mode, also began his remarkable series of James Stewart Westerns in this era: Winchester» 73, The Naked Spur, etc.); and certainly its temperamental affinities to the science - fiction film, a prime manifestation of the McCarthy era, are worth a nod.
Most notable among these is the gently playful shoehorning of genre elements into a whispery character study: 40 - odd minutes in, the film casually yawns, stretches and takes up an shaggy - dog mystery plot born of the director's love for detective fiction.
However, science fiction has proven to be the genre where he has excelled the most.
26) «Life» Smart Rating: 80.29 Release date: Friday, March 24, 2017 Genre: Science fiction, thriller, horror Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds Description: Astronauts (Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds) aboard the International Space Station are on the cutting edge of one of the most important discoveries in human history: the first evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars.
If «Superman» is low on this list, that has to be because most of our voters don't really view it as science fiction: sure, it kicks off with the destruction of an alien planet, but the superhero movie has now become its own genre, largely divorced from those that bore it.
Spanish filmmaker Vigalondo has a talent for genre mash - ups, creating fresh takes on familiar science - fiction tropes, and this film (his English language debut) is his smartest, edgiest, and most accomplished to date.
Technically and dramatically much weaker than most slick science - fiction films, Soylent Green is still more realistic on one terrifying point: the ecology will deteriorate, through misuse and overuse of plant and animal life as well as overpopulation, much sooner than human technology and architecture will advance to accommodate it and create the oppressive - but - neat world of domes, interplanetary travel and multi-leveled cities that characterize most movies of the s.f. genre.
by Walter Chaw I'm most familiar with Thomas M. Disch for his sterling non-fiction work (The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of and The Castle of Indolence) and a few samplings of his less impressive genre short fiction, and though I was aware that he'd written a couple of children's books about a band of appliances, I'd never felt compelled to investigate.
The flagship of the Festival, section Oficial Fantàstic, presents some of the most eagerly awaited movies of the year, such as Only God Forgives by Nicolas Winding Refn - director of Valhalla Rising and Drive; Jim Jarmusch's latest film Only Lovers Left Alive, an eternal love story between two vampires; A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III, a surrealist comedy by the hand of Roman Coppola; The Congress, a spectacular adaptation of Stanislaw Lem directed by Ari Folman - responsible for Vals with Bashir -, that combines animation with a science - fiction story starring Robin Wright and Harvey Keitel; Sitges 2013 will also represent the return of Kiyoshi Kurosawa to the fantastique genre with Real.
With its stunning visual style, sly subversion science - fiction and horror genre conventions and one of the most terrifying and memorable monsters in screen history, «Alien» became an instant film classic from the moment it burst forth — literally — in the summer of 1979.
He reinvented genre filmmaking, giving it the depth of the most ambitious fiction.
A «nonfiction film» that creates the poetic aura of a narrative film, David mixes most of the audiovisual genres of expressionism, documentary, fiction, avant - garde, video art, visual arts: posters, collages, drawings, to offer the most complete and multi layered vision of a popular hero ever rendered in a film.
Perhaps most important was that while students were deeply engaged in the content and invested in creating the final product, they were also developing historical thinking skills, exploring Europe's history through a critical lens, applying their reading comprehension skills to difficult non-fiction and historical fiction, interpreting primary sources, writing in a number of genres, and developing their oral language abilities.
She represents and is seeking arresting voices across a spectrum of genres, though she is most interested in adult literary and upmarket fiction, literary creative nonfiction, illustrators with distinct narrative points of view, and literary books for children.
In Amazon, you can browse the categories most closely related to your book or the genre for fiction novels.
Genre fiction books (fantasy, science fiction, erotica / romance, steampunk, paranormal) will need to be sold for less — less than 13 dollars — for the most part, as well as young adult books (younger audience, smaller wallets).
Our most popular genres are Romance, Mystery & Thrillers, Fiction & Literature, SciFi & Fantasy, and Young Adult.»
There was over 2,963,397 hours of audiobook playback and the most popular genres were personal growth, mysteries, science fiction and fantasy, and career and money.
When Joanna Russ, one of the few successful female science - fiction writers, died last year, her obituary in The New York Times referred to her as a writer who helped «deliver science fiction into the hands of the most alien creatures the genre had yet seen — women.»
René d'Entremont the PR Director of Kobo stated, «While our customers read across all genres, the general fiction category is the most popular among our audiobooks listeners.
Genre fiction are the most likely to have had their work pirated (44.7 per cent).
-- Winning a well - regarded prize relevant to an author's genre is regarded as most important for poets (60.7 per cent), literary fiction (55.1 per cent) and children's authors (49.5 per cent).
The most important implication for me is that authors should not abandon print as they think about going to market unless they are publishing very specific genre fiction books.
Master Niche / Genre selection: Discover 10 of the hottest fiction and nonfiction niches, that are also low competition and hidden from most authors.
These are the Top Literary Agents in the world based on the most six - figure or better deals since January 2004 for all book genres (fiction, nonfiction, and children's books).
The Directory of Literary Agents features the most comprehensive and up - to - date list of publishing agents, with detailed profiles for all US literary agents representing all book genres, including religious fiction and religious nonfiction.
For most popular genre fiction, indie authors attempting to go this route will fail, because it's really difficult to create a cover so beautiful people want to lick it, unless you've been designing book covers for years (and even then!)
Like most great «translit» fiction — David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks (2014), Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 (2011), and Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker (2012)-- Pears» genre - bending, time - collapsing tour - de-force dazzles us with world building, but, beyond that, it reminds us that the people in those worlds survive by their stories and by the way those stories reverberate backward and forward, achieving, if only now and again, the perfect harmony we all crave.
In a recent Good e-Reader poll, 766 people weighed in on their favorite e-book genres and the most popular was science fiction and fantasy.
I am a reviewer of most genres of books, but I love to read and review psychological thrillers, women's fiction, contemporary novels, mystery and suspense novels, as well as some YA and even children's books.
Fantasy and science fiction books will commonly reimagine one of their scenes on the cover; they tend to be the most dramatic and exciting book covers of any genre.
Although, most of my self - publishing knowledge is based around the non-fiction genres, I'm pretty sure it's the same for fiction.
It would take me too long to break down everything for the ~ 30 book categories, so I decided to focus on the ones most likely to interest my blog readership, which comprises mostly genre fiction authors.