1.   And how many people do you know who say they have a novel in them?

2.   And which publisher will score the coup of hosting power couple Tim and Beverly LaHaye, who have novels from competing houses nominated for the same award.

3.   Every journalist still supposedly had a novel in his desk.

4.   Gay did, however, have another novel, and Williams lost no time in negotiating a lucrative deal with Doubleday.

5.   I have a novel on this thing!

6.   She had a novel in mind, or at least a setting and some characters.

7.   This is not because she planned to have two novels going at once, despite her considerable industriousness and ambition.

8.   Having further novels to write, he spared his hero.

9.   He also has another novel to finish, a book which is due at his publishers a year from now.