Sentences with phrase «want literary work»

But they do not want literary work posing as romance.

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What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

If you properly engage in this work, you will be interested in arriving at a position on whatever it is that interests you (philosophy, critical theory, history, philology, literary criticism, or whatever) that is preferable to any other that you know of on that question, and you will concomitantly want to be clear as to what the position that you construct and defend is, what it excludes, how best to show that its competitors are less adequate than the one you want to defend, and in what sense this is true.

I wanted to work chronologically through literature in the Western tradition, dovetailing our literary studies with history, so that my students could see how an event like the Trojan War, for example, has shaped an entire cultural imagination and given it a language for its ideals.

Luther did not want to tangle personally with the great scholar, seventeen years his senior, and the best known literary man in Europe; only this very year (1516), Erasmus the famous author of Enchiridion Militis Christiani (Manual of the Christian Knight, 1503) had published in addition to the Greek New Testament his edition of Jerome, and an original work commissioned for the likely future emperor, sixteen - year - old Charles Habsburg of Castile and the Netherlands, grandson of Emperor Maximilian, Institutio Principis Christiani (The Education of a Christian Price), a plea for international peace and the encouragement of learning.

A literary agent, Jana Farmer (Janeane Garofalo) is impressed by his work and wants to represent him.

So many critics hated, hated, hated Brief Interviews with Hideous Men at Sundance and other festivals that I kind of wanted to root for it, to say, well, even if it was a mixed bag, at least Krasinski was adapting the work of one of our great modern literary giants.

How to Run a Reading Group Barnes & Noble offers some guidance to those who want to set up book clubs and effectively discuss literary works.

Unless you're submitting to a literary magazine, you should NEVER be paying anyone to review your manuscript just to find out if they want to work with you.

She established Nelson Literary Agency, LLC in 2002 after the literary agent she was working for expressed dismay that Kristin wanted to represent genre fiction — gasp!

Writers of commercial fiction who wish to soar out of category, as well as literary novelists who want to learn how to make powerful story principles work for them, will find the Breakout Novel Intensive 2.0 an idea - packed and career enriching experience.

If you want to get a literary agent, publisher, and book deal... you must also know the basics about how literary agents work, and you must know how to write a good book and pitch materials (query letter and book proposal).

Implementing the following actions will show literary agents, publishers and industry insiders that you take your work serious and want to forge successful working relationships:

The essence of the Humble Bundle campaign with Harpercollins is that customers can pay what they want for a collection of digital literary works from bestselling authors, like Neil Gaiman and James Rollins, while helping support the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America Emergency Medical Fund, a non-profit organization for authors of science fiction and related genres, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, dedicated to the protection of the First Amendment rights of the comics art form and its community.

Now, some literary agents are more willing to represent only part of a writer's empire, so you may be able to find a literary agent who is willing to work only on some rights (for example, you might want to license certain print rights but hang on to digital).

In the old days, literary agents wanted to represent all of a writer's written works and all forms of book publishing — from translation rights to digital.

If you're a writer, publisher or PR working in literary fiction, this is the blog you want to be featured on.

We tend to avoid people who clearly feel they've «completed» their novel, and just want to do the course to meet our literary agents — we're dedicated to helping writers improve their work, and there's nothing more offputting than someone who already thinks they're the finished article.

And if you want to read more about advances, here's my literary agent take on how advances for first - time authors and 6 figure advances work.

It would be most interesting to see this same thing duplicated for other big series in the literary world, like Tolkien's work, Clive Cussler's books, the Wheel of Time, A Song of Ice and Fire,... Such a site would be useful to be able to buy the eBooks in a single place and have them added to an eBook company of your own choosing — if you even want that in the first place.

As Booklist celebrates a half - century of YA, I want to thank those first members of the Printz committee for their work to define literary merit in the context of YA literature, and I want to celebrate the enduring genius of the award's first winner, whose books continue to challenge and inspire kids — and 22 - year - olds.

The Discover Great New Writers program (www.bn.com/discover), which celebrated its 25 [th] Anniversary in 2015, was established in 1990 to highlight works of exceptional literary quality that our booksellers believe readers won't want to miss.

Likewise, if you're a literary fixture or a rising star the publishing world will be happy to take another volume of whatever you're famous for, but if you want to wander into the short - fiction weeds or publish an experimental work you'll probably find few takers.

Since I have been through the process (fire) of publishing a book, I want to reach out to writers working on a manuscript, and encourage them to push through the writers block, accept the enormous amount of time it will take you to work with an editor to make your manuscript the best it can be, and the gigantic amount of time it will take you to research, submit and wait to hear, if you ever do, from the publishers, small presses, and literary agents who received your submission.

The last thing any decent writer wants to do is to enter a literary competition, award or prize with a flawed copy of their work.

This event is perfect for people wanting to break into the digital self - publishing world and get some sage advice from two women that defied the odds and manged to make some solid income from their literary works.

Aimed at already - published authors, Open Road Distribution will work with independent published authors, literary agencies and independent agents with large catalogs of backlist books, and independent publishers who want to digitize and distribute their content.

If you decide you want the extra assurance, you can register a literary work online through the U. S. Electronic Copyright Office.

Not all literary agents want to work on self - published books, but because there are lots of established writers who need help with self - publishing, there are lots of literary agents who are adjusting their business plans to fit the needs of their customers.

Most writers want to meet agents and editors of literary journals and publishing houses in order to make it easier to submit their works.

You realize that quality is paramount and want to work with the best professionals to prepare your book proposal and query materials for literary agents and publishers.

On Ms. Phelan's page, it talks about what work she is accepting (YA and MG, literary adult fiction, etc.) and goes on to say «I am looking for complex fiction that pulls you in immediately, characters that you wish were your real friends and plot lines that drag you away from reality to a world you never want to leave.

We're are often great at writing, but not so great at the promotion side: building readership for our work, making connections with literary agents, finding people and companies who want to pay us to write, and more.

You can consider posting a short excerpt on your site, but prior to doing so, you will want to check in with the publishing house or your literary agent — if serial rights to your book have been sold / are being worked out, you don't want to jettison the deal by giving out the information for free.

If you want to follow trends in the Christian writing market, I recommend following these 29 literary agents that represent Christian works.

They've got their Vine Program and if you want good reviews, just solicit Vine Program reviewers: it's a lot of work — like writing queries to literary agents — but with some it gives results.