The Golden Gate (1986), a full-length novel in verse, was a tour de force.

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And if rankings are determined by dollar sales then a novella has to sell dramatically more to compete with a full length novel.

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For more than a year Lyons anonymously posted a satirical blog about the innermost thoughts of Fake Steve Jobs. (Several months ago the New York Times outed Lyons as the author.) Lyons has triumphantly demonstrated that the humor of the Fake Steve Jobs postings works as a full-length novel.

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I've got a few really good ideas for novel-length works, but I mean I'm finding the transition from writing short stories to writing something longer just increasably(ph) difficult.

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While Boyd is keeping many details of the superspy's next adventure top secret, in an interview with CNN from his home in London he did give a few hints on what he has in store for 007 and talked at length about his new novel.

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Mr. Connell was the author of 19 books, including two book-length poems, a biography of Spanish painter Francisco Goya and a historically detailed novel about the Crusades, "Deus Lo Volt!"

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At the University of Sydney, in Australia, Steve Manos used an evolutionary algorithm to come up with novel patterns in a type of optical fibre that has air holes shot through its length.

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