Reviewing A GAME OF THRONES by George R.R. Martin A “first 50” review

[by Shannon Roberts]

George R.R.Martin’s A Game of Thrones turns 20 this month! In honor of twenty years in print, and a hugely successful twenty years at that, here’s a breakdown of the first 50 pages of the book that started it all.

Aside from the prologue, the first 50 pages of ‘A Game of Thrones’ […]

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Is Your Book a Movie? (Part 2) A crash course in book-to-screen adaptation

[by John Robert Marlow]

This blog is part of a series. To see Part 1 and find out what Hollywood wants your story to have, please click here.

 

book or movie

Most books are not movies.

Many, however, could be movies, if […]

By |2024-01-23T20:04:47+00:00August 24th, 2016|Going Hollywood|Comments Off on Is Your Book a Movie? (Part 2) A crash course in book-to-screen adaptation

Characters: Making Them Real Tips on making your characters convincing and memorable from editor Renni Browne

Most fiction writers begin a novel or short story by coming up with characters firmly in mind and then building a story around them—or by coming up with a plot and then building characters to play the various roles it requires. It’s not really that simple, of course: an unruly character may at some point dictate a […]

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Yul Brynner’s Black Hat Considering good vs. evil in fantasy fiction

Bad guys and black hats are, in the classic American Western film, almost synonymous.

Even if you haven’t seen many Westerns, you’ve probably absorbed this knowledge via cultural osmosis—I certainly had.

Fortunately, the first Western I was privileged to watch was The Magnificent Seven (if a cowboy movie based on […]

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My Neighbor Is My Editor A seasoned pro takes aim at the notion that anyone with eyes can be an editor

This just in: your neighbor’s English skills are probably not up to the standards of book publishing.

When I first began editing books, I had been a professional editor for more than twenty years, at a New York-area newspaper, a regional magazine, and several magazines with an international readership. Perfectionist that I was at the time, I could quote […]

By |2024-02-06T21:50:58+00:00|The Editor’s Craft and Process|Comments Off on My Neighbor Is My Editor A seasoned pro takes aim at the notion that anyone with eyes can be an editor

COMING OUT OF THE FANFICTION CLOSET – Part Two: But Do the Original Authors Approve?

This is part of a series on fanfiction. For the first entry, click here.

So you’re a famous author. You’ve written a series that’s captured the imaginations of millions of readers. You have fan clubs, a movie deal, hordes of Twitter followers, and high six-figure royalty advances. Then along comes some upstart fan who hijacks […]

By |2024-01-06T21:58:23+00:00July 20th, 2016|Industry Insights|Comments Off on COMING OUT OF THE FANFICTION CLOSET – Part Two: But Do the Original Authors Approve?
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