Eight of
these novels hit the number one spot.
Not exact matches
Meanwhile, Pulp Fiction had the same effect of all
novel hits: it spawned a
number of imitators.
Ever since the first film
hit it big in 2008, studio executives have been snapping up young adult
novels in the hope of
hitting the same vein, but, aside from «The Hunger Games» the handful of attempts that have
hit theaters so far, like «Beastly» and «I Am
Number Four,» mostly disappeared without a trace, and not just because they starred Alex Pettyfer.
After this she wrote a
number of stand - alone
novels dipping into a variety of genres leaning to romance before truly
hitting her stride in 2001 with the publication of The Other Boleyn Girl,...
The traditional publishing industry no longer seems to want to «nurture» /» guide» new authors and accompany them on a long and hopefully successful career; instead, they want writers who will
hit the «bestseller» list with their very first
novel and sell more than 20 000 copies in a flash (I may be exaggerating with the
numbers but I don't think I'm that far off!).
I also hired a macro (substantive) editor, copy editor, book cover designer, formatter, and after that, I proof read my
novel a
number of times before I
hit publish.
The
novel, which tells the story of the search for a sacred manuscript in the Peruvian rain forest, later went on to
hit number one on the New York Times Best Seller list.
But the
Novel has been
hit by a
number of negative reviews, many citing its poor screen quality.
I shifted (or, more accurately, they shifted) a little over 60,000 copies of Panic, the first
novel in the Leopold Blake series of thrillers, and the title
hit the
number 1 spot in the US Kindle Store, hovering around the top for five days.