So it is possible, especially if you have a unique story, to get a book deal with no platform.
William Blake mocked the British monarchy with his illustration of Nebuchadnezzar eating grass from a story in the Book of Daniel.
This is a wonderfully constructed book but as a story it is an anti-climax.
There's a story in the biblical Book of Judges about two warring Semitic tribes, the Ephraimites and the Gileadites.
Washburn is turning the story to a book about golf in China, having followed Zhou from the courses to his wedding and even his remote home village.
He and the rest of the Normandy's crew are used as just one example of a system that Apple patented, which turns game story choices into a unique comic book (nevermind the fact that Mass Effect comics exist on their own).
The reason why it's a surprise was that I never intended to publish this story as a stand-alone book.
Mr Leary and Mr Field have written a book, The Story Of Silbury Hill, describing their findings.
Mr Foran said he was writing a book about his story, which is expected to be published later in the year.
Guber, who produced such films as Batman and The Color Purple, reflects on the structure of a good business story in his book Tell to Win.
Based on a 2008 comic book, Kick-Ass tells the story of a group of high school vigilantes who dress up as superheroes.
Tom Wolfe, in a famous 1963 Esquire story about custom cars, later expanded into a book, called Roth the Salvador Dali of the movement.
She had never heard of obstetric fistula until she read a book featuring a detailed story of an African woman with the condition.
This is the best superhero movie of all time, not only a comic book film adaptation but also a war movie, a story influenced by classic literature like A Tale of Two Cities.
Ms. Buchanan, co-author of the bestseller "The Daring Book for Girls, " says she set out to create a multimedia story that took advantage of the protean nature of the latest e-readers, which can function as a book one moment and a photo album or movie player the next.
Renowned for his sharp wit and flamboyant clothes, Crisp became a gay icon with his 1968 book The Naked Civil Servant, the story of a young homosexual man in the less tolerant Britain of the 1930s.
Then a couple of years ago Topkis read a newspaper story about someone who had invented a machine that could print a paperback book in 17 minutes.
But there is still a long way to go, says Burns, who recalls the story of a man who called one Birmingham venue to book 10 tickets.
Before a recent business trip to Israel, someone handed me a copy of "Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle, " a book by Dan Senor and Saul Singer about Israel's culture of innovation and entrepreneurialism.
Recently, CNN published a story similar to an example in our book.
To make a long story short, it revolutionized the book trade.
Mr. Jobs as chief executive in Mr. Isaacson's book is "a success story" and equally "a cautionary tale, " says David A. Garvin, a professor at Harvard Business School.
Now, at Wasabi Pro (and in the case study), creating a successful book app goes far beyond the story.
In a new book, "The AIG Story, " Greenberg faults others for those failures.
Some of this story is told in a patchy but useful book by Herbert Inhaber, Why Energy Conservation Fails (Quorum, 1997).
The book tells the story of a little furry guy trying to protect his forest, bears and birds from a destructive factory.
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The author of War Horse, Michael Morpurgo, who has written a book inspired by Tull's story, called A Medal for Leroy, and Brian Binley, MP for Northampton South, are supporting the campaign.
But her book also tells a more universal story - of a mother's love and a mother's loss, and a tribute to a young life that was cut short before its time.
Essentially, the results of a player's in-game choices are used to populate a post-game comic book-style story -- progress, character info, settings, dialogue, achievements and screenshots are all pumped into an algorithm alongside the results of said variables, metrics from your playthrough, and your performance therein.
On the side, he wrote fiction, including two short story collections and seven novels, which ranged from a coming-of-age story about a rebellious teenager who gets thrown out of school, to a book about a middle-age man who befriends a gangster to impress his son.
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