Sentences with phrase «old writer sold»

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Based on the best - selling book by the acclaimed children's writer Chris Van Allsburg («The Polar Express,» «Jumanji»), Zathura is a heart - racing sci - fi adventure about two squabbling brothers who are propelled into deepest, darkest space while playing a mysterious game they discovered in the basement of their old house.

Publishing expert Alan Rinzler explained in an interview at Forbes, «By definition, the old model of the author platform was the writer's public visibility and reputation that the publisher's publicity department used to promote and sell the book... We insisted on a stellar track record in book sales and appearances on radio and TV.

«With old - style vanities,» says Victoria Strauss, one of the voices of Writer Beware, «you paid for your 50 boxes of books and you got to keep 100 % of what you sold them for.»

His answer entails something of a collective portrait of the corps during the last half century, notably including Brady's old CO, the late John Chafee, former U.S. senator from Rhode Island, and James Webb, present U.S. senator from Virginia, best - selling writer, Navy Cross winner for service in Vietnam, former secretary of the navy, and father of a marine lance corporal.

First there's Darcy, a precocious 18 - year - old who has just sold her first novel for a hell of an advance and is forgoing college to move to New York City, where she'll see if she can make it as a writer.

Even back then, the kind of books I was intending to write were fetching so little in advances that I would have done better selling a couple - to - four articles at my old feature rate (we're talking 2500 word features, too — so, I'd make more for less work writing and selling four of those as WFH or open license pubs than I would for writing an 80k word reference book for writers, for example).

James Scott Bell: Well, when I look back at the successful writers under the old system, and especially those old pulp writers and the paperback writers of the»50s and»60s, what it came down to was you can't sell what isn't written, and you have to produce the words.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (EQMM) is America's oldest and most celebrated crime fiction publication, gaining the admiration of best - selling writer Stephen King.

From the Best Selling Arts & Crafts Writer, Kitty Moore, comes Upcycling Crafts: 35 Fantastic Ideas That Takes Old Clothes To Modern Fashion Accessories, Home Decorations, & More!.

Writer Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven teamed to reveal the future of Wolverine and the Marvel Universe in their post-apocalyptic storyline «Old Man Logan,» and its collected edition, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, gave Marvel Comics the best - selling graphic novel in the month of October.

One last question: Can you name a dozen of these writers who are selling well; and out of that number, those who are older than 40?

Alexander Hertling of Balice Hertling (Paris) found the whole experience «very positive: we sold to both new and old contacts and had a good reaction from curators and writers too.»

When Jones responded to the best - selling writer that «reading your books with the older of the two little girls I met that day is something that has been a shared joy for us», an emotional Rowling replied:

Hire a writer who will take the easy way out and sell the same old resume stories you've been spinning for the past 10 years.