I’m so pleased to share the cover for The Dream Heist! Check out this gorgeous cover designed by Jessica Khoury. I’m hoping that this will be a great way for you to get an insider peek into the world I’ve created for you. The aspect I love about Kindle Vella is that I will be able to share my thoughts, fun facts, and inspirations in each episode within the author notes section. Kindle Vella is a brand new program Amazon is launching where readers can subscribe to books and read each episode in a serialized format. The book is called THE DREAM HEIST, a YA thriller. I have exciting news! I’m embarking on my first serialized storytelling adventure with Amazon’s Kindle Vella. Posted in Uncategorized - 14 July 2021 - No comment
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Despite its relatively recent publication, it has already attracted much scholarly attention. Rather than disproving it, Sin City is an exception that nuances Hutcheon’s interpretation of adaptation because of three main elements to its creation: the ‘multitrack’ nature of the graphic novel the relationship between the graphic novel and film and the concept that the translation between Miller’s work and the film is seen by the director as a translation rather than an adaptation.Īlison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006), an account of Bechdel's life with her father, is one of the most renowned contemporary autobiographical comics. This cinematic adaptation marketed itself as a faithful transition that imitated Miller’s art style, arguably the essence of Sin City, on screen through heavy use of CGI and chroma keying, and the fact that Rodriguez’ was so successful in replicating the graphic novel challenges Linda Hutcheon’s definition of adaptation as “repetition without replication” (xviii). While the adaptation of a comic book to film was not a particularly new concept at that time - film audiences had already been exposed to Tim Burton’s Batman films and Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World - Sin City exploited a new niche: fidelity. In 2005, Robert Rodriguez adapted Frank Miller’s renowned graphic novel Sin City onto the silver screen. Dark, ecstatic and rhapsodic, they show why Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. They include the apocalyptic Howl, which became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956 the moving lament for his dead mother, Kaddish the searing indictment of his homeland, America and the confessional Mescaline. This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture. Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked' - Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics, including Howl, whose vindication at an obscenity trial was a watershed moment in twentieth-century history. 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Series: Night Prince #1 / Night Huntress Universe #9Īfter a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: a terrifying ability to channel electricity and to see a person’s darkest secrets through a single touch. Tony claims that he wasn’t involved in the decision, but Felix knows he orchestrated the whole thing. However, at this point Felix’s assistant Tony Price, who for years has done all the thankless logistical work necessary to fund and operate the festival, reveals a nasty surprise: the Festival’s board has decided to fire Felix, citing mental instability after his recent bereavement, and replace him with Tony himself. Still in mourning for his toddler daughter, Felix devotes himself to a spectacular production of The Tempest Miranda is named after one if its characters and he hopes that staging the play will be a “reincarnation” for her. He’s a professional success, but his life is marred by the deaths of his wife Nadia, who died of an infection after giving birth, and of their daughter Miranda, who caught meningitis three years later. Twelve years ago, he was the esteemed Artistic Director of one of Canada’s most prominent theater festivals. In a series of flashbacks, Felix Phillips recalls the events that brought him to his current job teaching theater at the Fletcher Correctional Center, a local prison. An unfamiliar voice warns them to stay still and stop talking. Shots are heard outside, and the audience is frightened. However, just a few lines into the first scene, the action stops and the room goes pitch black. A large screen announces that the Fletcher Correctional Players will be performing The Tempest, and soon the play commences. The novel begins with a prologue in the form of a script. |