Sentences with phrase «word about your novel»

Greetings, Mercy, and thanks for your kind words about my novel «Find Virgil.»

If you have the financial resources, it can be a great idea to hire a book publicity or marketing firm to help spread the word about your novel, memoir, or collection.

What I would like is real help on how to get the word about the novels, name and story line, to the public so they would investigate further and purchase the book.

She takes pride in working with authors to find bloggers that are the best fit for their books, and helping spread the word about their novels.

Not exact matches

There can be no doubt that the author of these words also had in mind the purpose of a novel, perhaps one that would help break the spell of current assumptions in order to surprise us with the complicated truth about ourselves — with more dreams than we have dared to dream in what passes for our philosophy.

Those aims capable of addressing an entire species by infusing in them a novel order bringing about the emergence of a more advanced species constitute that part of the Logos which we call the creative Word.

In Lords of the Plain, a novel about cavalry actions in Texas, Max Crawford puts these words into the mouth of the defense attorney for Comanche braves on trial for the massacre of a wagon train:

(Think about it: If you are writing in a language that has only two letters, each word has to be pretty long in order to have a unique spelling; if you have 26 letters to choose from, your words can be shorter, and a given sentence, or paragraph, or novel will also contain fewer keystrokes overall.)

And where we indeed expected to learn about protein structures, novel methodologies and reaction mechanisms, some other words of wisdom genuinely came as a surprise.

Don't write a novel: While you want a lot of information about yourself that will reveal your personality, no guy is going to read an 800 - word description.

Strap in, here comes about six - hundred words of praising this exceptional visual novel.

ATLAS SHRUGGED PART I Rather than take the time to come up with something witty to write about this heavy - handed screed that boasts all the production values of a bad made - for - TV movie from the early 1980s, I'll just substitute the word «novels» with «films» in this popular quote and be done with it: «There are two films that can change a 14 - year - old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

Marc Forster has signed up to direct an adaptation of World War Z, a bestselling novel about flesh - eating zombies who destroy the word

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The word last week in Cannes was that Tilda Swinton is perfectly cast in We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay's film of Lionel Shriver's novel that is one of the favourites to win the Palme d'Or.

What You Need to Know: The word «unfilmable» is bandied about a lot when discussing difficult, knotty literary source material, so we'll just say that it's very hard to picture anyone being able to wrangle David Mitchell's sprawling novel.

Dorian Gray is one of those book adaptations that comes along and you are unsure what good points you can make about the movie and which words of praise really belong to the source novel.

Those are the only two words you need to know about Amazon Prime Video UK in May, as Neil Gaiman's novel finally arrives on our TV screens.

For it to have book marketing value, it has to have a direct link to your book or something in your book (for example, the author of a novel or children's book telling Raggedy Ann's «real» story could create Raggedy Ann Day), and you have to spread the word about the special day you've created (publicity is a good option).

Most writers can not successfully write and publish a novel in that short amount of time and actually do a good job (and please don't even get me started on the writers who write 50,000 words during NaNoWriMo and then publish it without even thinking twice about it, UGH!).

(Like many authors, I just chucked in words that were somehow relevant to my novel — demons, nightmare, roleplaying game — without any thought about whether readers would actually be searching for these words.)

Most paperbacks found in bookstores and Walmart (which have about the same quality as you can expect with a CreateSpace - printed book) are $ 8.99 or even less, and those are for full novels — 80,000 words or more.

A word - of - mouth sensation, this novel is guaranteed to keep you on your toes — and have you talking about it to your friends.

Selznick's «novel in words and pictures,» an intriguing mystery set in 1930s Paris about an orphan, a salvaged clockwork invention, and a celebrated filmmaker, resuscitates an anemic genre — the illustrated novel — and takes it to a whole new level.

Peter James» loyal readers around the globe have made his novels international bestsellers, and help spread the word about the author through Twitter, blogs and his very active Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/peterjames.roygrace.

AMC has so many useful tools that can even help this small town Kentucky girl spread the word about her new novel!

Just this morning I read a new review of one of my books and was quite astonished that while it was complimentary about the story, the main complaint was that it was not a 110,000 word novel.

I just published my first book over at Amazon and I feel like I have a second job trying to get the word out about my novel.

If your novels are 80,000 words long, which is about average, that would be 12.5 novels.

At Donald Maass's Breakout Novel weeklong workshop, this question about word count was asked, and I default to Donald's answer every time.

At a writers conference I recently attended, Jane Friedman said 80,000 words is good for most fiction, below 60,000 isn't novel territory, and about 120,000 is likely too much.

Authors, and especially new authors, often worry about the length of their novel, which is usually gauged one of two ways: by the number of words, or the number of pages.

What about the first word of the novel, «but»?

Her passion for supporting the independent and self publishing communities has driven her to spread the word about publishers, authors, and novels you've never heard of.

Structured as Parker's (60,209 words too long) college application essay, punctuated by Parker's clever and thematically rich fairy tales, the novel not only examines Parker's retreat from and rapid reentry into real life, it also continually questions who Zelda is, whether she's telling the truth about her past, and if it even really matters in the end.

Lethem has since published Men and Cartoons, a collection of short stories, and The Disappointment Artist, a collection of essays, in addition to his 2007 novel about a complaint - line phone operator who incorporates her callers» words into her band's lyrics, You Don't Love Me Yet.

These novels are updated daily and add about 1 million words to their library every day.

Or is it strictly a matter of good luck and word of mouth when a novel becomes the novel everyone is talking about, making the possibility of this happening the same for a Big Five author as it is for even a self - published author?

Now more than ever, success in self - publishing is all about «discoverability», especially if you want to spread the word about your very first self - published novel (or your second or third but for the complete beginner in particular, it's even more daunting).

From 1982 to 1987 I stopped «polishing» everything to death and wrote about 200 short stories and two unpublished novels, about 1,200,000 words of fiction total.

I'm currently working my way through Alan Watt's 90 Day Novel, but of course, I can't talk about that yet, in the words of Mr Watt.

-- Formatting HTML newsletters — Formatting books for Smashwords — Research about the business side of being an author (e.g., how Street Teams work, how to market a book in a foreign language, podcasts that might be a good fit to have you as a guest, etc.)-- Scouting for bloggers to send book review requests to — Pitching to those bloggers and tracking responses — Formatting (and perhaps light editing) of blog posts, or organizing content — Managing your Street Team Facebook group (posing questions to keep the group engaged, answering questions, sharing upcoming news, etc.)-- Creating box sets in Scrivener from individual novels — Moving works translated into a foreign language from Word into Scrivener — Scheduling tweets and Facebook posts (ones that don't require your direct input or engagement with your audience)-- Transcribing audio interviews or notes — For non-fiction authors, VAs can do an enormous number of tasks around webinars or other training you offer (e.g., planning and booking the event, scheduling guests, managing registration lists, dealing with the back - end technology, creating and proofing slide decks, sending out advance information packages to the trainees, and then sending out follow - up information to the trainees, etc..)

This satirical novel about a honeymoon gone — well, wrong is the word, but add a few so, so, so's on there and you're closer to the truth — is her funniest work, and effortlessly blends satire, social commentary and rollicking adventure.

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Nathan Bransford tells you everything you need to know about novel word counts.

On a more serious note, The Blazing World is a novel about gender - bias in the art world; in other words, the unfair difference in the way men and women's artistic endeavors are received and perceived due to prejudice and sexism.

Publishers are always looking for innovative ways to promote books, and it seems that Sarah Mlynowski has found a winning idea to spread the word about Gim me a Call, a teen novel about a high school senior whose phone can only call her freshman self.

What did happen is that the secret agent, who turned out to be Rachelle Gardner, said some nice things about the opening 250 words of my novel.

This free sampler contains the first 6 chapters of Credence Foundation (A Science Fiction Novel) A detective tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of an influential scientist finds a clue that leads him to Credence, a corporation of the future that uses mass beliefs to change reality and send spaceships on the other side of the universe.Suspecting that the murderer had himself flushed in and out of the crime scene using Credence's technology, Detective Trumaine readies his trap.In a frantic chase through his mind, long - forgotten memories from a tragic past, as well as virtual environments, he will finally put together the missing pieces of the most unbelievable plan ever to affect mankind.It's a novel of about 74,000 worNovel) A detective tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of an influential scientist finds a clue that leads him to Credence, a corporation of the future that uses mass beliefs to change reality and send spaceships on the other side of the universe.Suspecting that the murderer had himself flushed in and out of the crime scene using Credence's technology, Detective Trumaine readies his trap.In a frantic chase through his mind, long - forgotten memories from a tragic past, as well as virtual environments, he will finally put together the missing pieces of the most unbelievable plan ever to affect mankind.It's a novel of about 74,000 wornovel of about 74,000 words...

Literary fiction can be about anything, so long as it's beautifully, intriguingly, surprisingly, gorgeously written, so long as it's brilliantly constructed — from the word, to the sentence, the paragraph, the chapter, the novel and beyond.