She has said the germ of the idea for the novel was "the notion of transience that hotels are all about, and at the same time the notion of tiered social hierarchies" - with three characters trapped in their class roles.
He approached Ben Schrank, president and publisher of Razorbill, a Penguin young-adult imprint, who liked the idea of a novel that could be spun into an interactive, multimedia app.
The project began in the summer of 2010, when Rodrigo Corral, a book designer who has created covers for Junot Diaz, Jeffrey Eugenides and Jay-Z, began to toy with the idea of a visual novel that used images, rather than words, to tell the story.
Ever since Arthur Pitney and Walter Bowes convinced the U.S. postal authorities to authorize the then-novel idea of a prepaid-postage machine in 1920, Pitney Bowes has dominated the business.
As a boy, Mr Mabanckou was fascinated by the dandies who returned from Paris obsessed with brand names, but the novel lampoons the idea of tailoring as a political statement.
The team unanimously judged that this novel idea met all of the requirements.
The idea of renegotiating how much you borrowed is a novel approach that should thrill the banks.
If your business idea is novel, leverage the expertise of other entrepreneurs and business owners within the same genre as your offering.
The Baseball Hall of Fame fully understands the importance of bringing traffic into the village and the creation of the Hall of Fame Classic weekend five years ago has been a novel idea that features a parade, an exhibition game, skills clinic, and interactions with Hall of Famers and former major league players.
Back then, the idea of offering free peak-time calls to consumers calling contacts within the same network was novel.
The book, which is written as a novel, tells the story of how a company institutionalizes the idea of mesh collaboration, which is the practice of using the widest net possible in knowledge work.
Albrecht, a German physicist who promoted the then novel idea that marital relations must fulfil the needs of both partners, not just errant males.
In November of that year Ulevitch met Halsey Minor, founder of Cnet, and the two came up with a novel idea for making money from the service: When users misspell a site's name, OpenDNS shows a redirection page, along with a collection of relevant ads.
Wright, the former Global Head of Human Resources at Zurich Financial Services, suggests a novel idea: prohibiting new managers from changing anything for a year.
Mr Lo has a novel idea for future crises: creating a financial equivalent of the National Transport Safety Board, which investigates every civil-aviation crash in America.
I've just finished my second novel, "CyberStorm, " and look forward to the idea of writing for a living, something I hadn't imagined possible just six months ago.
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One novel idea might be to demand something the voters actually want, which might attract a bit of support for his party.
An idea for a morality play: capture the madness of an era when investors, entranced by new technology, a novel set of economic assumptions and an all-powerful Federal Reserve, lost their heads, blew an exuberant bubble and suffered a painful bust.
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