Sentences with phrase «on quality fiction»

There's no expiration date on quality fiction — just ask Beverly Cleary who, at 101, is seeing six of her Henry Huggins books being reissued with special new features next month.

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My college friend Meg, an experienced mom and author of The Rug Merchant (link provided for those who are looking to read quality fiction that is not about babies), emailed me to ask for tips on replicating this activity for her sister's shower.

And those novels, just like novels in genres like science fiction and mystery, share common elements but vary in quality, depending on how well they're written.

Released in theatres on August 24,1966, «Fantastic Voyage» was not only a film of authentic wonder but a science fiction masterpiece with amazing special effects... the team enters the body of a man where they see first hand the oceans of life within the human body that contains the «corpuscles», «the heart», «the lungs» and other features of the human body through which the crew move through are exquisitely designed in great detail with artistic quality.

If the fiction editor in charge of Erika Mitchell's Fifty Shades novels spent all of her time on vacation, it might help explain the books» overall quality.

Firstly many young children can not distinguish between fact and fiction, or quality and nonsense on the internet.

Even books have taken on this quality of game culture, where fans of a certain series go to websites where they write their own «fan fiction» and add on to the universe of the original books.

This short novel has been awarded a place on the Awesome Indies list of quality independent fiction.

On a broader scale, one of my long term big problems with fan fiction has been the absolute crap quality of most of it.

«We recommend the Microsoft Word path as the best option for most fiction and narrative non-fiction authors because it's the easiest method to produce high - quality ebooks that are readable on any e-reading device.

Just open your Audible app for iOS and Android and tap on Channels to get an early look at an unlimited, on - demand service featuring a «best of» collection of news programs and compelling audio editions of magazine and newspaper articles, comedy shorts, lectures, short fiction and nonfiction, and other quality entertainment, information, and educational programming you won't find anywhere else.

Selected by the Books for Youth editorial staff and contributors Sally Estes and Susan Dove Lempke, these titles represent our best - of - the - year selections in fiction, nonfiction, and picture - books, based on literary and artistic quality and on special appeal to older and middle readers and the young.

CONFRONTATION http://confrontationmagazine.org/submit/ We judge on quality of writing and thought or imagination, so we will accept genre fiction.

At home in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Bellingham Review publishes literature of palpable quality, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and photography, in one Fall Online Edition and one Spring Print Edition, along with rolling content on our BH Review Blog.

Quality meditations, both fiction and non, on the fate of the Lost Generation are popping up everywhere.

Selected by the Books for Youth editorial staff and contributor Sally Estes, these titles represent our best - of - the - year selections in fiction, nonfiction, and picture books, based on literary and artistic quality and on special appeal to older and middle readers and young children.

Selected by the Books for Youth editorial staff, these titles represent our choices, based on literary and artistic quality and on special appeal to youth, of the past year's best fiction and nonfiction published for older and middle readers and the young.

I think reading YA Fiction exclusively is degrading the quality of literature that gets published on a monthly or yearly basis.

Selected by the Books for Youth editorial staff and contributors Sally Estes and Susan Dove Lempke, these titles represent our best - of - the - year selections in fiction, nonfiction, and picture books, based on literary and artistic quality and on special appeal to older and middle readers and the young.

StoryFront, the company's short story imprint, not only will focus on publishing high quality short fiction, but will also be the source of a weekly digital literary journal that will specifically feature short stories and poetry from new and veteran authors.

At this time our focus is on quality genre fiction.

Filter Press publishes quality books on southwest history, biography, and historical fiction including two biography series for elementary grades.

I'm offering high - quality line editing, copy editing and proofreading at competitive rates, with a focus on self - published fantasy fiction.

JGB is a sole proprietorship engaged in writing, publishing and selling on the Internet high quality professionally produced commercial fiction and related multi-media entertainment opportunities at reasonable prices throughout the world.

There's a homely quality to flash fiction, which is somehow touching — that spot of prose, lonely on a page or two, when we are used to seeing (and if you're my student's brother, avoiding) the thicker covenants of «full - length» stories and novels and essays.

Nominated and selected by the Adult Books for Young Adults Task Force from fiction and nonfiction published during 1998, this year's winners were chosen as the best based on literary quality, readability, and strength of teen appeal.

For one thing, several qualities that characterize a terrific work of YA lit also define an excellent work of historical fiction: namely, immediacy and the focus on an individual narrative.

One of the drawbacks of Amazons new program is that by placing the emphasis on length of book rather than quality of book, Amazon is shutting out more than just erotica and serialized short fiction authors.

Readers who appreciate high - quality spy fiction will want to put this one high on their list.

Selected by the Books for Youth editorial staff and contributor Sally Estes, these titles represent our best - of - the - year selections in fiction, nonfiction, and picture books, based on literary and artistic quality and on special appeal to older and middle readers and the young.

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This leads to an incentive to crank out books without regard to quality and depth, which unfairly competes against the fiction writer who might spend months or years on their novel.

However, in fiction, if you did that, I seriously believe that you may end up compromising on quality (which is absolutely essential).

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As fans of fantasy, science fiction, horror, apocalyptic fiction, and magical realism, we have the taste and the technology to bring you the best deals on quality speculative fiction.

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Bookouture's sales growth in 2015 was exceptional — but the sales level sustainable — built on high quality commercial fiction, a fusion of traditional publisher expertise, smart digital marketing and good old - fashioned attention to detail.

Mostly, from authors who were either unclear on my take on speed vs. quality, or who were defending a slow approach, saying that it took longer to generate literary fiction than commercial (with the inference being that literary fiction was more elevated, superior in some way, and thus worth it).

The problem I see with the science fiction and other communities is that we have so little material released on the big and small screen compared to the printed world that we turn out quality filters off just so we can be entertained by the medium.

They discuss storytelling tips and techniques of interest to any writer, student, or fan of quality creative writing, screenwriting, playwriting, fan fiction, English literature, and so on.

I write historical fiction so it takes a while to get things right, I focus on the quality of my writing.

It is difficult to judge the issue of quality but, based on the number of times a title published by Baen Books appeared in the bestseller lists produced by the major bookselling chains, it is ranked the seventh most popular science fiction publisher.

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Author and radio broadcaster Reggie Lutz discusses her tendency as a writer to synthesize fiction genres, recommends qualities to look for in a writing critique group, offers advice on pitching and interviewing with radio hosts, and more.

Many quality movies in the collection including Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Clerks, Sling Blade, The English Patient, Trainspotting, Good Will Hunting and Amelie are available on Hulu Plus starting today.

I can out - drama queen Mariah but put me on a stage and I assume plank - like qualities, ask me to write fiction... well, it isn't horror but it's damn scary!

This title marks the arrival of the series on the Unreal Engine, a leap forward in terms of technological innovation, ensuring incredible enhancements in the visual quality, realistic and impressive lighting effects and completely reworked physics: thanks to a realistic physics simulation, the game faithfully reproduces all the distinctive behavior of the bikes, thereby reducing the gap between fiction and reality, while making it accessible also to casual gamers through the introduction of riding aids and tutorials.

This title marks the arrival of the series on the Unreal Engine, a leap forward in terms of technological innovation, ensuring enhancements in the visual quality, realistic and impressive lighting effects and completely reworked physics: the game faithfully reproduces all the distinctive behavior of the bikes, thereby reducing the gap between fiction and reality, while making it accessible also to casual gamers through the introduction of interactive riding aids and tutorials.

The pathos inspired by De Jong's depiction of these itinerant performers, whose lives are on the periphery of mainstream society, has a cinematic quality that recalls such science fiction classics as La Jetée (1962), Mad Max (1979), and Apocalypse Now (1979).

Examples of science fiction based on devastating climate change are Ready (1998), well - meaning but scarcely noticed; Turner (1989), a story of civilization collapsing under the pressures of war and economic forces as well as global warming (noted fairly widely for its literary quality); and, by two of the field's major authors, Silverberg (1994)(little noted), emphasizing the greed, stupidity and ambitions that were bringing vast destruction through ozone as well as global warming, and Sterling (1995), where colossal storms mingle with stormy political conspiracy.