Sentences with phrase «story collection»

There are 5 or 6 books that are more of a priority including a book on the spiritual journey and a short story collection of southern fiction.

You'll find the stories in short story collections in your library.

Short story collections by one author are allowed so long as the word count does not exceed 300 pages for the full collection.

So as I do in the challenge, I kept track of the time it took me to take a short story collection from start to finish.

However, very few writers know how to get their short story collection published.

It's «common knowledge» that short story collections don't earn money for authors, but that project is really turning that assumption upside down for me.

& Other Stories collection includes a big part of minimal black / white / grey clothes which are not for me.

However, they do sometimes help poets with substantial publishing credits from literary journals to publish their poems / short story collections with big publishers.

But there are years of evidence to support the idea that short story collections sell poorly compared to novels, so that's an additional factor.

There are many classic short story collections out there at great prices.

Several of you requested a Top 10 list of short story collections back when I asked what «best» lists you want to see.

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A «stone mattress» in the titular tale of this short story collection serves as a painful reminder of past events.

Our lovely short story collection turns four months old this week!

A month ago, we highlighted 15 superstar story collections.

Some short story collections run together as you're reading them — similar themes, characters and settings.

Most novels and short story collections just don't need pictures.

Many writers of short story collections eventually get frustrated and decide to publish their own collections.

Marketing your self - published story collection is half the battle, and that's the subject of today's post.

Another classroom completed two short - story collections by the end of the school year.

Also, how do story collections do in your experience?

I have two novels and a short story collection out but am working on three more books at the moment.

Short story collections are logical, both five story and longer collections.

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The debut story collection from Walter proves he's as skilled at satire and class commentary in the short form as in his novels.»

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long - awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson.

My absolute favorite are linked story collections in the vein of two classics of the form: Alice Munro's The Beggar Maid and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio.

Gold Fame Citrus By Claire Vaye Watkins Riverhead • $ 16 • ISBN 9781594634246 In her first novel, the author of the acclaimed story collection Battleborn offers an arresting portrayal of two characters trying to survive in a near - future California devastated by drought.

«Muñeca,» one story in Amina Gautier's second award - winning story collection Now We Will Be Happy, is a haunting foray into the psyche of a character, but part of the richness of the story is how the protagonist's narrative competes with the other narratives of love, loss, migration and displacement.

That will be the price of my short story collection on Smashwords *, where I'll be making the work available as an e-book.

Artists» Lives series — a growing collection of live recordings with sculptors, forming a part of the National Life Stories collection at the British Library Sound Archive.

Pandora Hearts Caucus Races is a series of short story collections about the manga series Pandora Hearts that Yen Press also publishes.

It's nice to have a full - length novel on the way from Donoghue, who has released only a short - story collection since Room (she's been busily working away on the screenplay for that book).

The dusty, mystical allure of the American West quickly turns sour in prize - winning author Claire Vaye Watkins» first novel, following the short - story collection Battleborn.

Hush, Hush by Steven Barthleme is a second story collection from the author of Double Down.

Joy Williams is the author of four novels, four previous story collections, and the book of essays Ill Nature.

Allison Amend, a graduate of the Iowa Writers» Workshop, is the author of the Independent Publisher's Award - winning short story collection Things That Pass for Love and the novel Stations West, which was a finalist for the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Oklahoma Book Award.

While it will likely appeal most to music fans eager to see how this iconoclastic singer / songwriter (and author of the 2001 short story collection Doghouse Roses) will fare in the literary sweepstakes, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive deserves praise for the way it captures both the squalor and the community spirit of a down - and - out enclave populated with lively, believable characters.

Her short story collections include Someday This Will Be Funny (2011).

I love story collections that seemingly collapse time and space by reintroducing and circulating themes and characters.

Near the end of the marriage, I tried self publishing a handful of story collections and novels.

Those games are the visual - art puzzle game Gorogoa and the haunting short story collection What Remains of Edith Finch.

In a season filled with long - awaited novels, this just might be the juggernaut — Salter's last novel, Solo Faces, was published more than 30 years ago, and it's been seven years since he published his last work of fiction, the short story collection Last Night.

A Few of the Girls, the final story collection from one of the world's favourite storytellers, Maeve Binchy is out on 24th September.

Although I enjoyed Packer's powerful story collection Swim Back to Me (I interviewed her about it here), I'm so glad she's returning to the form that made her a bestseller.

Wood's previous book, the Somerset Maugham Award - winning (see «Beyond the Book») short story collection Diving Belles, adapted traditional Cornish folklore.

CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI is the author of the bestselling novels Queen of Dreams, Mistress of Spices, Sister of My Heart, and The Vine of Desire, and of the prizewinning story collections Arranged Marriage and The Unknown Errors of Our Lives.

Along with a six - piece short story collection called the Time Wasters.