Sentences with phrase «pitch about a novel»

In delivering a business pitch about a novel invention, be sure to bolster your presentation with facts and know your audience.

Not exact matches

Alan Chartock pitches a (thinly - veiled) novel about a governor named «Anthony» with White House dreams.

The Pitch: Stewart O'Nan's acclaimed novel comes to the big screen in the form of David Gordon Green's adaptation of «Snow Angels,» in which a pair of stories — one about a couple confronting tragedy, the other about a young man struggling with deep - seated personal problems — intertwine.

Snow Angels (Warner Independent, March 21) Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Angarano, Griffin Dunne, Amy Sedaris, Olivia Thirlby Director: David Gordon Green Rating: R The Pitch: Stewart O'Nan's acclaimed novel comes to the big screen in the form of David Gordon Green's adaptation of «Snow Angels,» in which a pair of stories — one about a couple confronting tragedy, the other about a young man struggling with deep - seated personal problems — intertwine.

Talk about loosely basing a movie on a novel — «Fever Pitch», the book by Nick Hornby, isn't even about baseball.

A Hologram for the King (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity and brief drug use) Adaptation of Dave Eggers» novel about a broke American businessman (Tom Hanks) who tries to recover by making a sales pitch to Saudi Arabia's monarch.

Movies based on Nick Hornby novels tend to be pretty good — see «About a Boy,» «High Fidelity,» and «Fever Pitch.»

Stanley Kubrick's powder - keg adaptation of the Nabokov novel had tongues wagging for its sexual content, yet Shelley Winters's pitch - perfect portrayal of a social - climbing suburban mom turned out to be the most cutting thing about it.

She is taking pitches for the following fiction genres: romance, fantasy, science fiction, mystery / thriller / suspense, horror, young adult, middle grade, literary fiction, new adult, graphic novels, women's fiction, upmarket fiction, and novels / books by and about people from marginalized perspectives (such as LGBT people and / or racial minorities).

Days are packed with panels about pitching novels to publishers and developing realistic characters, as well as book signings by favorites like Nora Roberts and Jill Shalvis.

Attending a new writer meet up on Sunday about novels and undoubtedly will pitch my manuscript at some point.

Nick Hornby is the author of the novels How to Be Good, High Fidelity, About a Boy and A Long Way Down, and of the memoir Fever Pitch.

She cared about my debut novel's success as much as I did, and she worked tirelessly at developing pertinent, relevant angles and pitching stories to the media.

-- Formatting HTML newsletters — Formatting books for Smashwords — Research about the business side of being an author (e.g., how Street Teams work, how to market a book in a foreign language, podcasts that might be a good fit to have you as a guest, etc.)-- Scouting for bloggers to send book review requests to — Pitching to those bloggers and tracking responses — Formatting (and perhaps light editing) of blog posts, or organizing content — Managing your Street Team Facebook group (posing questions to keep the group engaged, answering questions, sharing upcoming news, etc.)-- Creating box sets in Scrivener from individual novels — Moving works translated into a foreign language from Word into Scrivener — Scheduling tweets and Facebook posts (ones that don't require your direct input or engagement with your audience)-- Transcribing audio interviews or notes — For non-fiction authors, VAs can do an enormous number of tasks around webinars or other training you offer (e.g., planning and booking the event, scheduling guests, managing registration lists, dealing with the back - end technology, creating and proofing slide decks, sending out advance information packages to the trainees, and then sending out follow - up information to the trainees, etc..)

The title Another Brooklyn might evoke contemporary real - estate pitches about up - and - coming urban environments (e.g., «Boise, Idaho, is poised to become another Brooklyn»), but in Woodson's novel set in the 1970s, «Brooklyn,» particularly its working - class Bushwick neighborhood, means something much different and more complicated: «I watched my brother watch the world, his sharp, too serious brow furrowing down in both angst and wonder.

Pascal, who along with her late husband John, got their start writing for the ABC Daytime soap opera The Young Marrieds, and initially pitched Sweet Valley High as a daytime sudser, talks about her upcoming adult novel Sweet Valley Confidential, which will revisit the saga of Jess, Liz, their friends, lovers and frenemies, 10 years after they graduated from high school.

This isn't the time to talk about your childhood in the south of France unless it is relevant to the novel you're pitching.

Nick Hornby is the author of the novels How to Be Good (a New York Times bestseller), High Fidelity, About a Boy and A Long Way Down, and of the memoir Fever Pitch.

Having said that, I wouldn't know how to go about pitching them, and I don't have time to pitch agents at the moment, as I'm still on my mad rush to turn out 7 novels this year, and my latest is only 55 % through...

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I'm sorry about the living conditions, but this is a pitch for a scholarship, not a novel.