How much do authors make when hey publish a book? I mean how many percent goes to the editor, agent, publisher and all that and how much remains for the author?
How do the authors of the stories “Everything That Rises Must Converge” and “Star Food” both use everyday events and details in their stories? What larger ideas do the everyday details suggest?
I’m trying to tackle my summer reading project, and one of the entries requires writing about the author’s realism. What techniques do authors use to get this effect? I’m also kind of a writer myself, so, it could help! Thank you much.
I am an SAT tutor, and I have been asked this question a number of times by my students. I have inevitably replied: Dickens, Hawthorne, (F. Scott) Fitzgerald, and (James Fenimore) Cooper, because these are the authors whose works have forced me to crinkle my dictionary’s spine. Does anyone agree/disagree, or know of any other [...]
I am a libertarian and I am searching for some authors with strong libertarian themes in their work, fiction of course. 1. I would like your answer to exclude Heinlein and Rand, since I already have read a lot of their work and they are just too cliche. 2. Also leave out Orwell and any [...]