Sentences with phrase «sign of a good novel»

Not being able to predict the ending is a sign of a good novel to me.

Not exact matches

He might well have pointed more sharply to his own wily juxtaposition of signs in the novel, that of the movie's illusion of reality and the moment's encounter of the black man on the church steps, the sign of the cross smudged on his forehead with the ashes of the inescapable exile in the wandering season of Lent that is man's lot as homo viator.

The connection between freedom and time (and between them and selfhood or personal identity) appears clearly in Sartre's insistence that the good novel present a self shaping an open future, not a puppet ruled by the past whose end is contained in his beginning: «But in order for the duration of my impatience and ignorance to be caught and then moulded and finally presented to me as the flesh of these creatures of invention, the novelist must know how to draw it into the trap, how to hollow out in his book, by means of signs at his disposal, a time resembling my own, one in which the future does not exist.

Based on the exploits of two actual 19th - century highwaymen, Captain Lightfoot is the best of the trio, adapted from a 1955 novel by W.R. Burnett, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Oscar Brodney (who'd worked with Sirk the year before on Sign of the Pagan).

Well, Jesse Andrews (author of novel and Black Listed script «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl») has signed on to write the screenplay.

To mark the release of A Legacy of Spies, the latest thrilling tale from the master of the spy drama, we have a special set of novels to giveaway, including an extremely rare signed copy of Legacy of Spies (hardback, first edition, out 5 September 2017) as well as paperback copy of Spy Who Came in From the Cold and Call for the Dead.

He's producing and directing a pilot for a series called «All Signs of Death,» based on Charlie Huston's thriller The Mysterious Art of Erasing All Signs of Death (which got a 2009 Edgar nod for Best Novel).

Kennedy is also the author of the travel memoir Sing and Don't Cry: A Mexican Journal, the poetry collections Joyflight and Signs of Other Fires, as well as the novel The World Beneath.

These days the publishers save money by insisting you the writer do all of the promoting and still find time to write that next contracted novel as well as attend the book signings.

Cassandra Clare, whose previous best - selling series of YA urban fantasy novels have been set in contemporary New York (The Mortal Instruments) and Victorian - era London (The Infernal Devices), has signed a new deal with Margaret K. McElderry Books for an upcoming series set in present - day L.A..

I've gotten a few readers of both stories tell me they'd love me to continue those stories in novels, so it's a good sign that I'm heading in the right direction.

Maybe it was the vampires, or maybe it was the dubious characterizations and plotting — but I gave up on it with about 30 or 40 pages to go (which is never a good sign — especially when the someone who gives up on it is an avid reader of Young Adult novels).

For the week of February 13 - 19, 2017, my novel The Meteoric Rise of Simon Burchwood was # 1 on the Amazon Kindle Best Seller list for humorous Literary Fiction in the U.K., Canada, and Australia, as well as # 4 in the U.S. To celebrate, I am giving away 10 signed paperback editions of The Meteoric Rise of Simon Burchwood to 10 lucky Goodreads community members in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.

Well, nine years later and after having contracted eight of my novels with mainstream publishers by attending writers» conferences and pitching there, I can also say that nearly all my writer friends who have gotten contracts or signed with an agent did so through pitching at a writers» conference.

If you have a favorite thing of mine, leave a review on Amazon, or Goodreads... sign up for the free signed copy giveaway on Goodreads for my novel Gideon's Curse... buy «Remember Bowling Green» so I can donate the money to the ACLU... the thing that would make me feel the best on my birthday would be to entertain some people, and to feel as if I write — and I talk about that — and it's of more than slight, passing interest to a few of the thousands of folks who follow me between this profile and my author page... Going to put this on my author page as well, and on my blog so it goes to Goodreads, and on Wattpad, where literally tens of thousands of people read my novel Heart of a Dragon for free, and loved it (from the comments) but could not ring themselves to pay the $ 2.99 or $ 3.99 to read the rest of the series... writing is a lonely profession... help a fella out.

If this is not a sign of how good the story is in this visual novel, I don't know what would be.

The gallery will also be hosting a book - signing for Alexey Titarenko's new monograph The City is a Novel (Damiani, 2015), which was just named by The Wall Street Journal as the of the best new photography books of 2015.