Sentence examples for began a serial from inspiring English sources

When she was 17, Heyer began a serial story to amuse her brother Boris, who suffered from a form of haemophilia and was often weak.

As the film begins, a serial killer is on the prowl.

My first novel began as a serial in the San Francisco Chronicle.

"The Unbinding" began as a serial novel published on Slate that featured hyperlinks to a wide range of Wikipedia Web pages, YouTube clips, online news reports and blogs.

8 P.M. (History) UFO FILES: BEYOND THE WAR OF THE WORLDS -- H. G. Wells's "War of the Worlds" began as a serial in Pearson's magazine in 1897, became a novel the next year, has been made into several films (including Steven Spielberg's 2005 version starring Tom Cruise) and terrified American radio listeners when Orson Welles turned it into an all too realistic radio play in 1938.

Laura Barton takes the wheel as motoring writer, with the occasional celebrity guest, and award-winning US graphic novelist Chris Ware begins a new serial, The Last Saturday.

The powerful story Richard A. Thompson tells in BIG WHEAT (Poisoned Pen, $24.95) begins with a serial murderer loose on the North Dakota prairie in 1919, when the American heartland was undergoing a fundamental transition from traditional farming to reliance on industrial wonders like the steam traction engine and the threshing machine.

It begins at the beginning, with a serial introduction that recalls his early ­absorption in Webern, and takes us on a characteristically gentle and meandering journey through the gamut of Skemptonesque landscapes, pausing every so often, as he says, to look at the flowers by the wayside.

Imagine a more mature and likable version of the heroine in Charles Portis's True Grit, which also, funnily enough, began life as a serial.

It was only when a fourth body that of forklift truck driver Jack Taylor was discovered in similar circumstances last month that police began to suspect a serial killer.

The Library of America plans to reissue "Princess of Mars" in April with an introduction by Junot Diaz, an unusual elevation for a book that began as a pulp serial and whose appeal remains a kind of cheerful boys' adventure romanticism.