Sentence examples for standalone book from inspiring English sources
"standalone book" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It refers to a book that can be read independently without needing to have read any previous books in a series or without relying on other books for context. Example: Jane's new novel is a standalone book, meaning that readers can enjoy it without having read any of her previous works.
What made you decide to write a duology rather than another trilogy or a standalone book?
This standalone book will have you up all night wondering what it really means to be alive.
Thorne does have a fleeting cameo in Rush of Blood, but Billingham's second standalone book primarily features three British couples who meet on a Florida holiday.
Honestly, I set out to write a standalone book, but as I wrote, I realized it just wasn't enough time with the characters for me.
One of the most celebrated sociologists in the academy, he never wrote a standalone book (though many essays) or gained a PhD in Sociology.
But he had a caveat: "the decision to upsell the book", particularly as most of the chapters "are available online as standalone book reviews – more or less verbatim – for free".
I'm at the first standalone book-signing ever held in London's enormous ExCeL Centre, where several thousand acolytes await the man whose debut instantly topped the Sunday Times and Amazon bestseller charts.
And then, in 1987, King published four novels within a 10-month period, three of them standalone books with something to offer for nearly every potential reader.
The French director Claude Chabrol filmed her non-Wexford psychological standalone books, A Judgement in Stone and The Bridesmaid, while Pedro Almódovar adapted Live Flesh.
In the intervening years, Kerr produced standalone books, starting with the ambitious A Philosophical Investigation (1992), which married cyber-punk crime with the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
But his first love remains comics, and his ongoing series Optic Nerve has thrived creatively even as many of his contemporaries shift their attentions away from periodicals and toward standalone books.
