Sentences with phrase «unfinished manuscripts»

What about, for instance, if you have unfinished manuscripts?

For 10 years, Max Allan Collins has skillfully and loyally acted as literary executor for pulp mystery master Mickey Spillane, who left behind a number of unfinished manuscripts after his death in 2006.

My unfinished manuscripts sit in boxes under the bed, in filing cabinets in the garage, on my hard drive.

I have dozens of unfinished manuscripts.

I knew when I was reading the unfinished manuscript of «The Purpose Driven Life» that I was holding a treasure in my hands, but I was clueless as to how deeply the book would strike a nerve in the souls of millions of people around the globe.

I will then discuss the direction Merleau - Ponty's thought took after the 1956 - 1957 lectures, especially in terms of his unfinished manuscript, The Visible and the Invisible.

Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, I Am Not Your Negro is a documentary film based on Remember This House, an unpublished, unfinished manuscript written by civil rights activist James Baldwin.

Peck's film sets out to make use of the unfinished manuscript of Remember This House, Baldwin's late - career attempt to grapple with the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Medgar Evers, but it soon abandons this premise for the kind of emotional detours that give some of Baldwin's best work its freewheeling, capacious spirit.

Peck dramatises Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House, his personal memoir of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr and civil rights activist Medgar Evers, murdered by a segregationist in 1963.

Ava DuVernay's 13th is an equally important film and worth a watch, but the lyricism and beauty of Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro, based on an unfinished manuscript by social critic James Baldwin detailing his friendships and interactions with civil rights leaders, has stuck with me.

Baldwin was not able to complete the book before his death, and the unfinished manuscript was entrusted to director Raoul Peck (LUMUMBA) by the writer's estate.

Tetro has long ago set aside his writing ambitions, but Bennie stumbles upon his unfinished manuscript (paranoiacally written in a code and in reverse by handheld mirror), a thinly - veiled account of the relationship of their egotistical father and his older brother.

The foundation of the film, though, is an unfinished manuscript that he abandoned after a few dozen pages of notes.

I Am Not Your Negro (PG - 13 for profanity, mature themes, violent images and brief nudity) Civil rights documentary, narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, examining James Baldwin's views on race in America as expressed in an unfinished manuscript entitled, «Remember This House.»

I Am Not Your Negro Film Review by Kam Williams Oscar - Nominated Documentary Inspired by James Baldwin's Unfinished Manuscript When novelist / social critic James Baldwin passed away in 1987, he left behind an unfinished opus entitled «Remember This House.»

My second book is still an unfinished manuscript — delayed by some unfortunate bumps in Life's road — but I hope to have it ready for release, soon.

Jones» sister, novelist and actress Urusla Jones, completed the unfinished manuscript, which will be published April 22 by Greenwillow Books.

Most of the non-fiction we contract is based on an unfinished manuscript.

In this helpful webinar, Keith shares seven key things he has learned from working with hundreds of writers and authors so that you don't end up with an idea and unfinished manuscript instead a copy of your book.

Even those book bloggers who have found themselves trying to review a rambling, unedited and obviously unfinished manuscript will respond positively to a polite, well written, targeted query.

Not exact matches

Lady Susan, an early Jane Austen manuscript that apparently never made it to the rewriting stage and was published over fifty years after Austen's death as an unfinished novella, is the unlikely source of Whit Stillman's new film, Love & Friendship.

Then your excitement and determination fades and soon it's December with your manuscript unfinished and / or unpublished.

How many unfinished, half - finished and rejected manuscripts do you have under the bed?

Although the novel is unfinished (what we have is an extract from hundreds of manuscript pages), the dreamlike narrative possesses great power, drawing on Ellison's signature theme of racial identity.

When I started writing A Promise of Fire over five years ago now, there was a good chance this manuscript would end up like my other works of fiction: perhaps unfinished, never seen by anyone but me, definitely never presented to agents or editors and using up space on my hard drive in a folder with a misleading enough name that hopefully no one would ever open it and stumble upon my first (and sometimes hilarious) attempts at writing a novel.

Within the space of one year, I completed a 520,000 word manuscript, a 59,000 word manuscript between drafts of the big one, and an unfinished 70,000 word novel.

Some writers don't become authors because their manuscripts remain unfinished and unpublished.

Then your excitement and determination fades and soon it's December with your manuscript unfinished and / or... [Continue reading]

A Christian literary agent can also help you sell an unfinished Christian book, manuscript or non-fiction to the publishers based on the table of contents, outline and a sample of the proposed chapters.

These can be anything from completing that unfinished novel to having a manuscript edited, to attending a writer's conference (we suggest PubSmart!)

Poor quality, unfinished pieces and working with an unedited manuscript leads to unprofessional quality that simply won't meet reader expectations.

Benjamin's unfinished Arcades Project remains one of my personal favorite books (by some accounts, the writer had an additional manuscript in his briefcase when he killed himself while fleeing the Nazis).