Sentences with phrase «sell than novels»

I think short stories are a harder sell than novels as it is, so that will have played some part.

And they're harder to sell than novels, because of reader unfamiliarity with the form and the lack of advertisers who will accept them.

Not exact matches

Based on the best - selling novel by Ayn Rand, «The Fountainhead» tells the story of Howard Roark, an architect who prefers to struggle rather than compromise his artistic vision.

The series has broken box office records and more than 50 million copies of the original novels have been sold.

E. L. James's novel Fifty Shades of Grey is now the best selling book in British history, has sold more than 100 million copies globally, and has spawned two sequels, along with an upcoming film adaptation.

Almost two decades ago, authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins chose a similar premise for their Left Behind series of novels, which sold more than 65 million copies and has now spawned a big screen adaptation starring (almost unthinkably) Nicolas Cage.

Young sold 22 million copies of his novel worldwide — more than Huck Finn, Pride and Prejudice, or The Grapes of Wrath have ever sold; more than Catch - 22 and The Exorcist combined — and the film earned a healthy $ 16.1 million at the box office on its opening weekend.

His 1988 novel The Alchemist has sold more than 65 million copies and has been cited as an inspiration by people as diverse as Malala Yousafzai and Pharrell Williams.

Moving on - Fault in Our Stars is a very different sort of best - selling young adult novel - turned movie than Woodley and Elgort's previous collaboration.

German - born Forster has directed a string of films including The Kite Runner, adapted from the best - selling novel, and the comedy Stranger Than Fiction.

Based on Seth Grahame - Smith's best - selling mash - up novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (out Feb. 5) recounts the unlikely romance between Lizzy (Lily James) and the haughty Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley), but the courtship takes place in a 19th - century English countryside where the «sorry stricken» — as the zombies are called in the book — have been roaming for more than 70 years, victims of a mysterious plague.

Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, the 1989 Batman graphic novel that sold 120,000 copies in one day and paid Morrison a dollar for each of them, «is more significant for him in terms of commercial development than in terms of artistic development,» Meaney says.

Based on the best - selling 2010 novel by late author Vince Flynn, «American Assassin» is far less complicated than the «Bourne» or «Mission: Impossible» films, though there's a nice twist about an hour in that definitely does the trick.

A bit lengthy run time for a thriller, but absorbing throughout nonetheless, this murder mystery, somewhat loosely based on the dense best - selling novel by the late Stieg Larsson (which in its native Swedish literally translates to «Men Who Hate Women», the first in his «Millennium» trilogy), is dark, and more than a little sensationalized (involving perverts, murderers, rapists, Nazis, and literal Biblical interpretations) to be believable, but, like most good thrillers, it's riveting in a way that you won't be able to turn away from it, even during some of the film's most brutal moments.

The novel on which the film is based is the second in a trilogy that has sold more than 50 million books in print and digital in the U.S. alone.

The original novel and its sequels Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed have sold more than 70 million copies worldwide.

Silent Hill has sold more than seven million video game copies worldwide, earning more than $ 100 million at the box office with the first film, Silent Hill, and spawning a hit comic book series and graphic novels.

Ready Player One is based on Ernest Cline's best - selling 2011 novel and tells the story of Wade Owen Watts (Tye Sheridan), a young man living in a dystopian future where the general population spends most of its time in the virtual reality landscape of OASIS rather than the real world.

Directed by Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake) and based on a novel by Neil Gaiman, Stardust is the first summer movie of 2007 that actually celebrates storytelling, rather than concept selling.

Legendary Comics has debuted a variant cover for the first issue of its upcoming Pacific Rim comic book series Pacific Rim: Tales from the Drift, which has been created by Image Comics co-founder Whilce Portacio... Following the best - selling graphic novel Tales from Year Zero, Legendary takes you back to the front lines of a larger - than - life -LSB-...]

Based on Janet Fitch's best selling novel of the same name, White Oleander plays more like a four part drama on life - lessons than as a cohesive, conventional thriller.

Based on the best - selling novels by Suzanne Collins, the «Hunger Games» movies have always been a little smarter and a little more assured than their many competitors in the young - adult arena, and now the story comes to a close in «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2,» a sequel that, in a crowded field, winds up being one of the year's most satisfying popcorn movies.

Amazon is selling the hardcover edition of Jonathan Franzen's new novel «Purity» for $ 15.10 — 11 cents more than the $ 14.99 e-book price set by Macmillan Publishers, a unit of closely heldVerlagsgruppe Georg von HoltzbrinckGmbH, which declined to comment.

Donald Maass is the head of Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York, selling more than 150 novels every year to major publishers in the U.S. and overseas.

Last year, I was pretty much lying in a puddle of my own pity depressed about not selling, and now I understand that there is more to selling novels than throwing your work out there and expecting to be recognized.

The vast majority of indie writers I know sell their titles for way, way cheaper than the big publishing houses do, because they've discovered that selling a novel for $ 2.99, $ 3.99, or $ 4.99 is going to get them way more sales than trying to sell at $ 12.99 or up.

While he's also co-authored several other popular books, his first solo novel, The Magpies topped the Amazon UK chart at # 1 and has sold more than 250,000 copies alone.

Sue Monk Kidd's first novel, The Secret Life of Bees, spent more than 100 weeks on the bestseller lists and sold over six million copies.

The Invention of Wings By Sue Monk Kidd Penguin • $ 17 • ISBN 9780143121701 With more than a million copies sold since its hardcover publication in January 2014, Kidd's captivating historical novel is already a runaway hit with readers, and this new paperback edition should move it to the top of the list for reading groups everywhere.

Sure, The Host sold more than 2 million copies in hardcover, but the fourth Twilight novel, Breaking Dawn, sold 1.3 million copies in its first day of release.

His novels have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 33 languages.

Paul Pilkington, a lecturer in a university in the UK, signed up with the UK - based publisher Hodder & Stoughton after two of his novels went on to sell more than 150,000 copies, other indie authors who got picked up by conventional publishers include the likes of Kerry Wilkinson and Beth Reeks.

I was shocked when the novel landed on the Kindle bestsellers list and went on to sell more than 100,000 copies.

The division achieved tremendous success with two previously published novels by Jojo Moyes: Me Before You, the basis for the hit film, and its sequel After You, which together, in print and digital, sold more than 2.4 million copies.

Books 2 and 3 in that «City of God» series are selling well and earning much better than they did in their first editions as trad - pubbed novels.

Face it: with more than 4,000 new ebooks published daily, the chance that your novel will sell big is slim.

Paul is now working on a third novel in the series and has sold more than 160,000 books to date, not to mention the 2.2 million free downloaded.

Not only is it easier to produce hard copies of our novels, poems, and stories, but there are also more venues for selling your work than there were just a few years ago (think: Amazon, Smashwords).

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

I discovered that being accepted in a popular magazine / anthology / ezine, and read by thousands, was a true «reality check» of my skills, than publishing a novel, selling it cheap (and sometimes for nothing), not knowing how many have really read it, only relying on a handful of reviews, some of which were written by friends and family.

«In one weekend I'll teach you more secrets about writing novels that sell than most writers will learn in years of trial and error.

He has sold more than 2.5 million books, he says, adding that «Wool has been a Sunday Times bestseller in the United Kingdom, a bestseller in Italy and France, and the No. 1 bestselling science fiction novel of all time in Taiwan.»

His first novel, A Tale of Friends, Enemies and Minecraft, has sold more than 14,000 copies on Amazon in only one year.

Bookscan reported more than 10 million graphic novels sold in mainstream bookstores and their online outlets this past year, for more than $ 175 million: (http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=50992)

Mainstream bookstores are better at selling graphic novels than comic books, and Marvel adapted its offerings to that.

In her new Thunder Point series, Robyn Carr — the best - selling author of more than 40 novels — whisks readers away to a picturesque small town on the gorgeously rugged Oregon coast.

As of 2010 her novels have sold more than 45 million copies worldwide.

This is Martel's first novel since Life of Pi, which won the Man Booker Prize and sold more than two million copies.

In the Pulitzer prize - winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time, an enduring bestseller that has sold more than two million copies.

Information provided by Pottermore indicates that the seven Harry Potter novels, originally published between 1997 and 2007, have sold more than 450 million copies worldwide, are distributed in more than 200 territories, have been translated into 79 languages, and have produced eight films.