Sentence examples for thriller author from inspiring English sources

Witness the March news that the thriller author Barry Eisler had backed out of a half-million-dollar deal with St. Martin's Press, his new publisher.

Going the other way was Barry Eisler, a former CIA covert agent and thriller author, who turned down a $500,000, two-book deal from St. Martin's imprint of Minotaur to self-publish e-books.

As well as contemporary literary fiction, books celebrated by the BBC on World Book Night included titles by women's fiction author Marian Keyes, children's fantasy writer Philip Pullman and thriller author John le Carré.

That included tending a major client, James Patterson, the best-selling thriller author, at her next stop: a sprawling bash at the Bryant Park Grill given by the Time Warner Book Group.

The bestselling thriller author, who was an RAF pilot and a journalist before turning to fiction with The Day of the Jackal, is due to release The Outsider next week.

Indie and small-press books account for half of the ebook sales in the most popular and bestselling genres on Amazon," writes Howey in his report, which has been described as "the most penetrating, ground-breaking, explosive article about publishing in memory" by Barry Eisler, the thriller author who turned down an advance said to run into six figures to self-publish.

Born in 1958, Deon Meyer is one of South Africa's top thriller authors.

Shakespeare's tragedies, meanwhile, have been taken on by a mix of literary and thriller authors, with Tracy Chevalier picking up Othello, Gone Girl writer Flynn working on Hamlet, and Norwegian bestseller Jo Nesbø doing Macbeth.

She is just one of the host of American writers dominating the UK's library charts: in the top 20 most borrowed adult novels list, 17 are by US-based crime and thriller authors – and nine are written or co-written by James Patterson, who also takes the top slot with 10th Anniversary, co-written with Maxine Paetro and the UK's most borrowed book last year.

And so, tired of the snubs and determined to get the respect they feel they deserve, thriller authors have formed their own breakaway group: the International Thriller Writers (ITW), a challenge to the older and better-known Mystery Writers of America (MWA), known for its prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Awards.

About a year ago, prior to the publication of my first novel, I sent bound galleys along with letters to a cadre of well-known crime and thriller authors, hoping some would be willing to read the novel and perhaps provide a brief blurb for the book's cover.