Sentences with phrase «of novellas for»

Daniel Nayeri's innovative collection of novellas for teens, Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow — written entirely on an iPhone — will be published by Candlewick Press on October 25.

It's a notion that isn't new, with Fyodor Dostoevsky writing the classic story «The Double» ages ago, but co-writer and director Richard Ayoade takes it to absurdly comic places in his adaptation of the novella for this sophomore film.

This drawing will appear in the ebook release of my novella for THE BLACK GOD»S WAR, coming to Amazon and other sites this week.

Anyhow: I scarfed the French edition of the novella for important Gorgeous Cover and Language Nerdery reasons.

Not exact matches

During that century, for example, Maria di Novella, at the age of twenty - five, became head of the department of mathematics in the University of Bologna.

Henry James» The Turn of the Screw, for instance, demonstrates that it's perfectly possible to write a great novella about invisible worlds without taking a position on whether they're objectively real.

As a reward for making it through my short novella of a review, you get this recipe for Brussels sprouts with shallots and tofu bacon!

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.

Despite its distracting overuse of Dutch angle shots, this is a classic film noir crafted beautifully by Reed and Graham Greene (who worked on it by writing his excellent novella), with a fascinating villain, a fabulous post-war Vienna as its location and a perfect choice for a score.

If so, it's one of several that can be reserved early for this fourth, spectacularly lousy screen version of Jack Finney's 1954 novella «The Body Snatchers,» which some bright light envisioned as the ideal starring vehicle for the Cold Mountain herself, Nicole Kidman, and for Daniel Craig, last seen as the most poker - faced James Bond on record.

The overwhelming English sadness of Ian McEwan's novella On Chesil Beach has been transferred to the movie screen, adapted by the author and directed with scrupulous sensitivity and care by Dominic Cooke, known for his stage work and making his feature film debut here.

Released: September 29 Cast: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Henry Thomas, Carel Struycken Director: Mike Flanagan (Hush) Why it's great: Like 128 Hours for BDSM amateurs, this adaptation of Stephen King's psychological novella gifts Gugino — long overlooked by Hollywood and underappreciated by her directors — the role of a lifetime, as Jessie, a woman handcuffed to a bed by her recently deceased husband who struggles to break free before starvation, dehydration or something worse sets in.

When the imaginary friends of a young girl living in Australia's Lightning Ridge opal - mining town go missing, the inexplicable illness that befalls her soon prompts her brother to organize a desperate search for his sister's transparent pals in director Peter Cattaneo's adaptation of Ben Rice's popular children's novella.

The Double Based on a Dostoyevsky novella of the same name, The Double gives us twice the Jesse Eisenberg for the price of one movie ticket.

The BBC is teaming up with Harry Potter producer David Heyman's Heyday Television for a new miniseries adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1952 novella The Birds, famously adapted for the big screen by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963.

Adore (R for profanity and sexually) Tale of forbidden love based on «The Grandmothers,» the Doris Lessing novella about a couple of lifelong best friends (Robin Wright and Naomi Watts) who seduce each other's son (Xavier Samuel and James Frecheville).

Deakins, who'd started his cinematic career in documentaries, brought his naturalistic style to Frank Darabont's adaptation of a 1982 Stephen King novella about a man unjustly sentenced to life in prison for murder.

Thomas Jane plays a farmer who decides to murder his wife in the trailer for Netflix's adaptation of Stephen King's novella, 1922.

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.

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.

Stillman infuses this sharp - witted, frisky tale — based on the Jane Austen novella Lady Susan — with a bubbly effervescence as the widowed Susan (Beckinsale) maneuvers her way through society and finagles her way out of scandal while trying to gain matrimonial advantage for herself and her daughter during a visit to her in - laws.

The French director is known for Beau Travail, a loose reworking of Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd, and White Material, about a French coffee farmer working in an African state during a civil war.

This is a deft, clever adaptation by director Stephen Frears and screenwriter Christopher Hampton of Colette's Chéri novellas, with a commanding star turn by Michelle Pfeiffer as the aging courtesan, Léa, who falls for the corrupted youth, Chéri.

The film is set in the narrowest sliver of historical time, the immediately pre-youthquake Britain of 1962, when, as Ian McEwan writes in the novella upon which the movie is based, «to be young was a social encumbrance... a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure.»

Syfy dropped trailers for two very promising new shows during NBCUniversal's Upfront presentation on Monday: Nightflyers, a sci - fi horror series based on a novella by A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin, and Deadly Class, an comic book adaptation that's executive - produced by Avengers: Infinity War directors the Russo brothers.

Dimension Television is developing a second adaptation of Stephen King's 1980 horror novella, this time for TV.

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.

Takamasa Shiba, the famed producer behind the Drakengard series chats candidly about his experiences producing the Drakengard franchise, looking at how the series has evolved, and diving deeper into the backgrounds of the online novella and motivations for creating the third instalment of the franchise after an eight year hiatus.

A free retelling of Henry James» vintage Gothic novella The Turn of the Screw, The Turning stars Mackenzie Davis (Tully) as a tender woman employed to function the governess for a person's nephew and niece following the demise in their folks.

And the guy who wrote Thor and dumbed down the novella of I AM LEGEND doesn't sound like a good choice for writer.

Lastly, there are several character posters for The Mortal Instruments, the adaptation of the first novella, «City of Bones.»

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.

The basics: Beckinsale's scheming, 40 - ish widow works all the angles as she tries to snag herself an eligible husband — as well as one for her daughter (Clark)-- in Whit Stillman's witty adaptation of Jane Austen's least - known work, the comic novella «Lady Susan.»

SYFY today announced a series pickup for Nightflyers, based on author George R.R. Martin's novella and the 1987 film of the same name.

Had I swept in for a single day of Señorita Mielke's unit on Gabriel García Márquez's novella, Crónica de una muerte anunciada, I'd never have known how lessons on vocabulary, character analysis, and cultural context were all building toward the students» mock trial of the Vicario brothers.

Good for recapping order of events in the novella and to test memory of chapters.

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 4: - Context - Analysis development and practice - Teacher, self and peer assessment opportunities - Character and theme presentation - interleaving: the weather for effect in the novella and in the power and conflict poetry

Imagine, for example, a world - history core: One publisher might produce a series of historical novellas by a writer and a historian working together to go with various places and periods in history.

The advent of Amazon KDP had made it possible for anyone to publish a book, and that was the platform I used to launch my first novella, and subsequently produce a series of novels.

Short stories and novellas under 50,000 words as paperbacks are not a good choice for mass distribution, unless you have a huge fan base and a lot of interested readers willing to fork over the cash.

Originally posted on konnlavery.com (Hint: Book marketing advice begins at question # 4) Christa Wojciechowski — Horror Novella Author of SICK June 7, 2016 Interview For this month's guest author, I'd like to welcome Christa Wojciechowski, a fellow horror / thriller...

Allow me to make a case for writing novellas and see if some of these ideas fit your annual goals.

For instance, the development of short story to novella and novel is not discovery but innovative modes of short story into novella and novel.

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.

In The Dangerous Kind (ahem: my novella found in the huge collection of short stories, Murders Among Dead Trees on sale for a short time for just 99 cents) a boy forms a plan to murder his abusive older brother on a hunting trip.

Some authors write novellas in between novels just for a change of pace.

My strategy for the rest of the year will be to write my Amazon Kindle World novellas (word count sweet spot ranging 25,000 - 30,000 words)-- I have 4 so far with releases in Feb, May, July, Nov — then link in one to two of my Ryker Townsend (FBI Profiler Series) with word counts at 50,000 - 60,000 words each.

As you likely already know... it's extremely difficult to get an agent or publisher for a novella... short story... or collection of short stories... unless you're already a well - published and / or award - winning author.

Take a look at the commercial for the novella «Brick House,» a detective story that features a squad of «wish police» and a team of unlikely detectives: