![]() ![]() Even as recently as the new Creepshow series on Shudder has made “Gray Matter” into an episode. Now I am reading these stories again, and so many of them have been made into movies and pieces of anthology series, it is remarkable how much of the material has been mined for content. Night Shift was not the first King book I tried to read, but it was the first King book I finished. But I wanted to read Stephen King, so I decided to try his short stories. It, The Stand, and The Tommyknockers are such long books that I had trouble starting them, let along getting through them. At that age, his books are huge and daunting. ![]() I have been reading Stephen King books since I was in junior high. Especially with an anthology that features the classic stories “Children of the Corn,” “The Lawnmower Man,” “Graveyard Shift,” “The Mangler,” and “Sometimes They Come Back”-which were all made into hit horror films.įrom the depths of darkness, where hideous rats defend their empire, to dizzying heights, where a beautiful girl hangs by a hair above a hellish fate, this chilling collection of twenty short stories will plunge readers into the subterranean labyrinth of the most spine-tingling, eerie imagination of our time. Never trust your heart to the New York Times bestselling master of suspense, Stephen King. ![]()
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![]() They urged their employees to make changes only when necessary, resisting Facebook's grow-at-all-costs philosophy in favor of a strategy that highlighted creativity and celebrity. But the cofounders stayed on, trying to maintain Instagram's beauty, brand, and cachet, considering their app a separate company within the social networking giant. That might have been the end of a classic success story. In less than two years, it caught Facebook's attention: Mark Zuckerberg bought the company for a historic $1 billion when Instagram had only thirteen employees. The cofounders cultivated a community of photographers and artisans around the app, and it quickly went mainstream. ![]() ![]() In 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released a photo-sharing app called Instagram, with one simple but irresistible feature: it would make anything you captured look more beautiful. "The most enrapturing book about Silicon Valley drama since Hatching Twitter" ( Fortune), No Filter "pairs phenomenal in-depth reporting with explosive storytelling that gets to the heart of how Instagram has shaped our lives, whether you use the app or not" ( The New York Times). In this "sequel to The Social Network" ( The New York Times), award-winning reporter Sarah Frier reveals the never-before-told story of how Instagram became the most culturally defining app of the decade. Winner of the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Finalist for SABEW'S Inaugural Best in Business Book Award ![]() ![]() ![]() You have no power as a debut author, man. I have a friend whose book got described as “Dexter meets Twilight” in marketing material which was ABSURD and probably actually turned away some readers who would’ve loved it because it was nothing like Twilight but she kind of just had to…go with it. ![]() It’s annoying and it’s bullshit but it’s industry mandated, not something authors do as a quirky trend.Īlso authors may not get a say in which comps are used. If your pitch doesn’t come with comps that have “proved” to be popular, it’ll be seen as Too Out There and it’ll be less likely to sell. And after War Storm, I wanted more of a conclusion for her character arc and. When deciding whether to acquire a book a publisher WILL look at the success or failures of similar books to figure out how big of an advance they’re willing to risk. Get Broken Throne: A Red Queen Collection audiobook by Victoria Aveyard on. They’re called “comps,” and the industry uses them to gauge the market potential of a story concept. If you’re baffled by the prevelance of the “THIS meets THAT” format of pitches when it comes to books, it’s because publishers literally make authors come up with it. ![]() |