Sentences with phrase «of my novellas from»

Ironically, serious readers (as in, people who seriously enjoy reading a lot, not people who only read «serious» stuff) are starting to use price as a filter in searching — when I increased the price of my novellas from.99 - 1.99 to 2.99, sales went UP.

Not exact matches

Wireless by Charles Stross This lively collection from the Hugo Award — winning author of Accelerando includes recent short stories plus the fast - paced original novella Palimpsest.

For instance, several of the novellas and short stories were told from the point of view of secondary characters (most notably, Kiernan, but also Saul and his henchman Simon), giving the reader a glimpse into their lives separate from Kate.

This iconic film, adapted from Truman Capote's novella, tells the story of the free - spirited Holly Golightly, played by Audrey Hepburn, living in Manhattan and falling for her neighbour.

Adapting an 1848 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky of the same name, Luchino Visconti transposed the action from the canals of Tsarist St Petersburg to the back streets of 1950s Livorno — to this day, one of the oddest and most idiosyncratic of Italian cities.

What I will say is that as I was watching Ghost Story, there's this part where Krige, as the ghost Eva, promises her lover that she «will show [him] things [he's] never seen» in a supernaturally menacing sort of way that will be echoed exactly by Clive Barker's Cenobites in the novella The Hellbound Heart from 1986.

The screenplay is based on the first tale of the third day from The Decameron (1971) which is of course based on a collection of novellas by the 14th - century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 — 1375).

Directed by Dennis Villeneuve, from a script by Eric Heisserer which adapts Story of Your Life, a novella by Ted Chiang.

Any preconceptions of what one might expect from a British period drama set in a stately home are almost immediately upturned in this savage adaptation of Nikolai Leskov's 1865 novella.

Tracing inspiration to a yarn from one of Giovanni Boccaccio's collected 14th century novellas in The Decameron, the new ensemble film from Jeff Baena wraps it religious habit up with wit, erotica, and practical jokes from Italian prose translated into a modern vernacular.

Adapted from Jonathan Ames's novella, it's a film distinguished by the force of its images and the compression of its narrative, and while its impact leaves you dazed, you can't quite believe that what you've just seen ever happened.

Adapted from Jonathan Ames's novella, it's a film distinguished by the force of its images and the compression of its narrative, and while its impact leaves you...

The first Fantastic Beasts film, adapted by Rowling from her novella, already has a set date of November 18, 2016, with the sequels penciled in for 2018 and 2020.

The latest exercise in this genre, premiering Sunday on BBC America, is «Killing Eve,» an eight - part series (already renewed) created by Phoebe Waller - Bridge from a series of novellas by Luke Jennings, collected as «Codename Villanelle.»

Written and directed by Jeff Baena, the film is based a tale from a collection of 14th century novellas titled The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and stars stars Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, and Kate -LSB-...]

Surprisingly, 2016 has produced not one but two adaptations of the author's novels: Indignation, based on his slender 2008 novella about a college undergraduate struggling to find himself and avoid becoming cannon fodder in the Korean War; and American Pastoral, taken from arguably the author's greatest book.

But such «padding» takes its cues from the novella: a suffocating dinner, endured next to the waiting bed, allows readers to eavesdrop on conversation pertaining to their upbringings; a coda of just a few pages telescopes the lives to come.

One of my personal favorite horror flicks from the legendary horror director Stuart Gordon is Dagon, based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth novella by American author H.P....

You Were Never Really Here is adapted from a Jonathan Ames novella by the Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, and like her other work it is powerfully imagistic and nearly bereft of dialogue or a conventional plot.

There have been several TV versions of his plays (A Cheery Soul, 1966; Big Toys, 1980; The Ham Funeral, 1990); Jim Sharman made a moderately interesting film of the novella, The Night the Prowler (1978), for which White wrote his own screenplay; and there was talk of a film version of Voss, to be directed by Joseph Losey from a screenplay by David Mercer, that never came to anything.

Plus, see how Pixar Animation's Oscar - winning movie Coco developed from storyboards to final animation, and see how John Carpenter «s adaptation of The Thing compares to the novella that inspired it.

The film is an adaptation of a Stephen King novella, and it's the fourth time Darabont has adapted one of King's works (the first was a short «The Woman in the Room» from a collection of adaptations from King's short story anthology Night Shift).

Periodically, the voice of Anjelica Huston pops up, narrating the action as though she were reading from an eloquent slice - of - life novella, rich with detail and irony.

The first taste of Disch's novella The Brave Little Toaster, then, came to me by way of a feature - length animated adaptation from Disney that, a little like Babe: Pig in the City, probably caused enough consternation in the hearts and minds of studio PR to result in its relegation to a minor theatrical push with a botched advertising campaign.

He starred in A River Runs Through It (1992) directed by Robert Redford from the 1972 novella by Norman Maclean, Legends of the Fall (1994) directed by Edward Zwick from the 1979 novella by Jim Harrison, with Tom Cruise in Interview with the Vampire (1994) directed by Neil Jordan from the 1976 novel by Anne Rice.

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 a Henry James novella and filmed against a lush jungle backdrop in Venezuela, a young American publisher sets out from New York City, to search for the lost manuscripts of a famous deceased poet.

Ramsay works from Jonathan Ames» 2013 novella, 95 pages of coolly delineated brutality.

Expanded from the short novella «Lady Susan», Stillman's new film is one of the stand out comedies of the year, whilst remaining faithful to it's Austen roots.

All lessons are fully differentiated by colour Purple = lower ability Blue = middle ability Yellow = higher ability Red = most able These resources cover the following areas of the novel in chapter 1: - Context - Analysis of writer's methods - Teacher, self and peer assessment opportunities - Character and theme presentation - Imaginative writing opportunity - Interleaving: duality in the novella and in Extract from the prelude

Per title, approved requests ranged from 32 to 269 (average 123), with non-fiction, and my novella / serial at the bottom of the list, and sexy NA / YA romances at the top — which shows the strong effect of genre.

Russell: What are you working on next, aside from the next Lion of God novella in the JET Series Kindle World?

«We're finding that a gold mine of possible serial fiction is coming from novellas,» Love says.

Sedgwick's third Printz - recognized novel comprises four interconnected novellas that stretch from the earliest humans to futurist space pioneers, with each tale concerned with spiraling concepts of fate and infinity.

Possibly because of the terrifying cannibalism story, possibly because of the creepy monkey on the cover, drawn from one of the collection's most frightening tales, possibly because I read it first at the tender age of 12 and couldn't go to sleep while the book was in the room with me... I could go on, but read it yourself and you'll find plenty of reasons to shiver (it also contains the novella «The Mist»).

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.

The Ballad of the Sad Café By Carson McCullers I first picked up this novella in high school after seeing McCullers» play, A Member of the Wedding, performed at a local summer theater down the street from where I grew up in Massachusetts.

It had been a while since I had read any science fiction, so when I saw a posting on Facebook from the author offering a free copy of this novella in exchange for a review, I decided «What the heck?».

Erotic authors, riding the surging 50 Shades of Grey wave, are consistently finding new and innovative ways to get their work into reader's hands, including bundling books from several authors together to create what is, essentially, an anthology of novellas.

Additionally, I've used the coupon feature on Smashwords to give away free copies of my novella, and it's nice to be able to link to my Amazon page from my blog.

Previous works of fiction, including novellas, and regardless of market, disqualify the author from the Debut Novel category.

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.

The winner will receive their choice of two titles from NRP, including Chris McMahon's upcoming novella Flight of the Phoenix.

Just brought home a re-issued version from TOR of Ursula K. LeGuin's three novellas (Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions) and eager to re-read them all together.

Next, we'll have a visit from multiple award - winning author and editor Paul Alan Fahey, whose post on how to write the novella has been one of our most popular posts of the last few years.

Each design is based on the main character of that novella, and the lavender ribbon shared between the covers represents a character from the series.

The seven tales — one of which is novella length — have varied Southern settings, from the Outer Banks to contemporary Nashville (Earley is an English professor at Vanderbilt University).

Three novellas from a master of the genre offer characters that have staying power: a wealthy 67 - year - old man, describing events leading up to the drowning of a younger friend; a Native American tracking a double - dealing friend to recover a clan relic, his stolen bearskin; and a middle - aged writer of formulaic biographies who glibly narrates his tribulations.

Their input led to the creation of Hatter M, a series of graphic novellas depicting the journey of Alyss» faithful bodyguard, Hatter Madigan, who, for 13 years, searched for his lost princess after becoming separated from her in The Pool of Tears, the portal from Wonderland to our world.

In 2009 he published the novella White Ravens, a contemporary response to the myth of Branwen Daughter of Llyr, as part of Seren's «New Stories from the Mabinogion» series.