Award-winning Novels Gifts

Hilary Mantel

"In high school, I was quite the star in metal shop."

I should be a writer when I grow up...

For his next book, he would write an epic novel of the sea.

"When I grow up, I'm writing the Great American App."

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"Meet The Author"

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

Victor Hugo

The DaVinci Code

'So you want an advance on your writer's block?'

"I was going to chuck it all and go to Paris but I didn't have enough frequent-flier miles."

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

Reading my Critics

Something Wilted This Way Comes.

Television Readers.

Kid in time-out writes 'it was the best of time out...'

Honoré de Balzac

Jean-Paul Sartre

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

Bank Loan Dept. Personal Business. Uh-oh, some loans have gone bad! A tennis pro defaulted and a novelist is in Chapter 7. The bed linens company folded and the scuba school went under! Are any of our loans still good? Yeah, the music streaming service is totally sound! And ironically, the lighting company is in the black!

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

'The C minus was sufficient. I didn't need the advice against hiring a literary agent.'

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

The Quack Quack Diaries: Quack Quack Writes A Novel

Robinson decided to name him 'Casual Friday'.

John Bunyan

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

Gen-Next Library

Characters jumping out of a book.

"So the white whale was really just a metaphor for your mother's lack of affection?"

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

Duke of Clarence (Later William IV) Promenading with Family