How to use "novel" in a sentence

For ten minutes she reads her crime novel

From the cover of a graphic novel

Curious about the story from which the illustration had been taken, Tina stepped to the box again to pluck out the graphic novel

Tina thought of the graphic novel with the man in black on its cover

She took the graphic novel out of the carton and sat on the edge of the bed in the tarnished-copper sunlight that fell like a shower of pennies through the window.

Therefore, I will devote what space I am given here to this novel itself and to the savage, brutal, cruel, maddening, insane, inane, nonsensical, stupid, bewildering, toxic, bloodcurdling, lip-chafing, toenail-curling experience of working with a major television network to adapt this novel, and three others, as part of a program that would have been called The Dean Koontz Theater or Dean Koontz Presents or possibly Here's Dean! or even Koontzapalooza

This was one of my early attempts to write a cross-genre novel mixing action, suspense, romance, and a touch of the paranormal

I was to be an executive producer of the show and the writer of one of the first four teleplays, which would be based on my novel Darkfall

All I know is that during the fourteen or sixteen - or seven thousand - months that we worked together, through countless story meetings in the development executive's office, I was never sure that any of my writing confreres had read the complete novel that he or she was adapting - or understood what had been read

Indeed, these meetings were enlivened by colorful storytelling - although none of it had to do with developing my novel into a two-hour filmed entertainment

In 1788, she began working for a London book publisher, who published her novel Mary: A Fiction (1788) and some of her other books