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.