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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Publishing Trends
Every month, Publishing Trends runs fiction international bestsellers lists from four territories–France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. This month, our four regular territories are joined by two more: Malta and South Korea. Those books tha... -
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsThis is both a superb collection of dark tales and a testament to the highly developed, involved, and even self-referential status of the new new wave of American horror and weird fiction. For it is a tribute anthology from some of the b...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksAfter self-publishing her first novel at the age of 14, Anna Caltabiano now has over 120,000 followers on Twitter and her second book The Seventh Miss Hatfield is out tomorrow. Now 17-years-old, Anna explains how and why she did it Conti...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThis interactive sci-fi novel, featuring stories 'activated' in set locations, is a complex exploration of otherness and power Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsAccording to an announcement made on the London Book Fair website some months after the latter’s closure, “The TISP network (Technology Innovation for Smart Publishing), the European project coordinated by the Italian Publish...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Publishing TechnologyAmazon’s announcement last week that it was launching an eBook subscription service Kindle Unlimited has sent shockwaves through the book…
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited Books'I think it's becoming more and more common to find gay relationships in books and I think it's good because although some people think that everyone should like the opposite gender and that there's a "cure" for those who don't, there is...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsIn pictures: Bloomsbury have revealed the new Harry Potter book covers, by artist Jonny Duddle
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from theBookseller.comDutch publishing and information services company Wolters Kluwer has announced revenues down 1%...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsI’d been meaning to wipe my Nook HD and install Cyanogen Mod 11 for some time now, but the process intimidated me. Then Chris went and created a user friendly guide. A little more than a week ago, I got up the nerve to give it a tr...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksOnline retailer says it will continue to take a 30% cut if the French publisher gives more to authors in row over ebook sales Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from theBookseller.comBuried River Press has signed two new novels from US author Laura Kalpakian. Managing director...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Digital Book World[Press Release] FastPencil Creates Print Books and eBooks from Evernote Notes Instantly New feature is first to enable Evernote users to easily import, self-publish and distribute notes as an eBook or print book regardless of device, loc...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from NYT > BooksIn Varian Johnson’s “The Great Greene Heist,” a middle schooler dreams up a plan to influence an election for student council president.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksSituation is 'only the worst in a succession of similar cuts throughout the country', say campaigners Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Digital Book WorldIn March of this year, shortly before Apple bought ebook recommendation start-up BookLamp, music subscription champion Spotify made a very similar acquisition. Spotify bought music recommendation service Echonest of Cambridge, MA. for ap...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from NYT > BooksVintage will release English translations of the spy thrillers by Gérard de Villiers, the French novelist who died of cancer last fall.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Technology for Publishing LLC » Blog
Wi-Fi hotspots sure are handy, but are they safe? This week’s infographic pick from Secure Data Recovery Services looks at situations where your device might be vulnerable, and offers safety tips to help you protect yourself from h... -
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsAnything with an RFID Chip in it Will Have to Carry this Logo in Europe (GigaOM) The logo is designed to make it clear to consumers when the goods they’re carrying contain an RFID smart chip, and to bring retailers and healthcare and ban...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThis week marks a century since the outbreak of the first world war. Chosen from 1,000 years of English writing about war, poet and Oxford professor Jon Stallworthy selects some of the best attempts to think through this most extreme of ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksWarner Bros has bought the rights to film Donna Tartts bestseller. Who do you think would be perfect to play Theo Decker and company and who should direct? Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksCheck out the jacket designs for all seven of JK Rowlings Harry Potter books, illustrated by Jonny Duddle the new editions will be published by Bloomsbury on 1 September 2014. What do you think of them? Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsAs Marvel 'weirdos' The Guardians of the Galaxy are unleashed on cinemas, which characters should they tackle next? Tim Martin takes a look
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksA deeply spooky story of a man falling apart, this is perfect terror in the sunshine but watch out once night has fallen Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Digital Book World
How the new subscription service is impacting best-sellers, Amazon lays out its goals in Hachette dispute, a new digital-first Amazon imprint, Macmillan provides full front-list to libraries, Axis 360 integrates with Boopsie and much more. -
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from NYT > BooksThe PEN American Center announced its annual literary award winners today, with a ceremony to follow on Sept. 29.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited Books'The message behind the very ending could be interpreted differently by different readers, but personally I feel that it offers a small sense of hope for both the future of its characters, and perhaps for war-torn Afghanistan as well' Co...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Digital Book World
Kindle Unlimited’s effect on the best-seller list has indeed grown. Kindle Unlimited titles have been removed from the Digital Book World Ebook Best-Seller list due to an inability to sort out retail purchases from Kindle Unlimited... -
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksWitches, wizards, vampires and beyond site member ShadowKissed Hannah reveals her top five books that are out of this world Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksWhether youre cracking up on the Fringe, hanging out with bookish types at Charlotte Square, performing, working, or just generally going down with festival fever, share your pictures with us via GuardianWitness Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from theBookseller.comThe 2014 Polari First Book Prize is continuing its tradition of supporting self-published titles...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe Howard League's campaign to restore prisoners' right to receive reading material is asking supporters to despatch books to the justice secretary Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Good e-Reader has been chronicling the e-reader industry right around the time Amazon released their second generation model and started to compete against Sony. We have seen the rise of Kobo, Nook and a host of European companies offer ... -
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited Books'This amusing, peculiar and evocative collection of thoughts from one of comedy's fastest rising stars makes contemporary poetry extremely approachable' Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Book Publishing on Huffington Post
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from theBookseller.comBooks “should not be treated as if they’re boxes of cereal occupying grocery store...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from theBookseller.comHachette Book Group is “sharing too small a portion” of the revenue from e-books with...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksCharlotte Brontë wrote 'indifferently', according to her teachers, and many another writer's gifts have been roundly trashed by their teachers Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksCome on, you know you've always wanted to draw a silly unicorn Sarah McIntyre teaches you just how to do it here! You can meet and even play with this particular unicorn in Mythical Maze, the theme of the Reading Agency's 2014 Summer Rea...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from FutureBook blogs"We're not against Amazon. And we're not for Hachette at all." Douglas Preston's new Gideon Crew novel with his longtime co-author Lincoln Child is titled The Lost Island . It's to be released Tuesday -- 5 August -- in both the UK ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksFrom the Tower of Babel to Henry Ford's factory in Detroit, Christopher Turner explores how architecture can shape people's lives Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesWhen seven English-language editors visited Germany for meetings with their colleagues in publishing, key similarities and differences were revealed.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksHe was born on a farm in Gwynedd and died with half a million others at Passchendaele. In between he wrote some of Wales's most moving poetry. A century on, his nephew has dedicated himself to keeping the memory of Hedd Wyn alive Co...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesEvangelia Avloniti reports on the on struggle to sustain the Thessaloniki Book Fair, a vital connection between Greek publishers and the rest of the world.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Kindle is already one of the most frequently used digital reading apps available for iOS, boasting access to over 1,000,000 books in the Kindle store in addition to hundreds of newspapers and magazines. While the existing interface was c... -
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Telltale Games has announced that Season 3 of their successful Walking Dead series of games is headed our way. Less fortunate news is that there are no details being released (fellow fans of the franchise will be dying to find out of our... -
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsFresh from the Hollywood premiere of Sex Tape, Nicholas Comfort explains how the classic sex manual finally got big-screen billing
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsTim Martin lauds a post-apocalyptic landscape
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsGolden Age Amsterdam comes to life in this finely crafted debut, says Holly Kyte
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from The Nook Blog
July 30, 2014: Today’s NOOK Daily Find offer is THE DRESSMAKER – a passionate tale of a woman ahead of her time — for just $1.99. Overview Ellen Gowan is the only surviving child of a scholarly village minister and a […] -
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Children's Book Council
Please tell us about the most recent diverse book you published. I recently published Jumped In by Patrick Flores-Scott. This novel is about Sam, a Mexican American teen who’s in a depressed state due to the breakdown of his ... -
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from BooksSince the publication of the series opener, the Wingfeather books have followed the adventures of the Igiby siblings –Janner, Kalmar, and Leeli.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from BooksIt takes a particularly skilled pen not to descend into total cheesiness, and Gabhart clearly understands the tricky balance.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Children's Book CouncilThe upcoming adaptation of James Dashner’s bestselling young adult book will be released on September 19, 2014. The film stars Dylan O’Brien as the lead protagonist Thomas. Watch the trailer below! (MTV.com)
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Children's Book CouncilIn their statement about the win, the judges said that Kate “has demonstrated a passion for writing and a commitment to literature since she moved to Minneapolis in the 1990s. Thirty years old, she worked at the book distributor th...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedAndrea Maria Schenkel is the supreme exponent of German neo-realism, presenting her crime fiction as quasi-dossiers containing seemingly "evidenced" statements forming many-faceted narratives which place the reader in the position of jud...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from BookMarketingBuzzBlogThere’s more than one way to publish a best-selling book, but here are 10 strategies that have worked so far: 1. It’s not enough to publish a great book. In fact, many best-sellers aren’t any better, ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Children's Book CouncilFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECHANDLER, AZ (July 24, 2014)— Arizona-based publisher Little Five Star, a division of Five Star Publications, Inc. has launched a campaign to give every third grade student in the state a free copy of its new title, ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
Here’s the new trailer for the adaptation of James Dashner’s The Maze Runner (September 19), which dropped today: It’s been a busy couple of weeks for YA trailer releases. Here are a couple of others you m... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Book Portal Site
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee's classic story about justice and racial prejudice in America's Deep South, was voted into the top spot. Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale came in second in the public vote. -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsIn a second adventure for a husband-and-wife detective team, the couple takes on underworld turf wars and a threat closer to home. For DC Kathleen Doyle, courtship has come only after her secret marriage to her boss, DCI Michael Sinclair...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA debut political thriller about a Russian plot to take over the United States. Taylor Clark is a former special operative for the United States government who’s now trying to live a quiet life with his girlfriend, Carmen, and his Labrad...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsThough she’s on vacation, an otherwise airheaded California girl is determined to come to grips with the serious business behind a murder. Through some sort of complicated contest she can barely remember (as if she could remember anythin...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsAbout that 18-and-a-half minutes of lost tape…. In this 40th anniversary year of Richard Nixon’s gloomy evacuation of the White House, former staffer and ever since bête noire Dean ( Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destr...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsAfter last year’s best-selling The Husband’s Secret , Australian Moriarty brings the edginess of her less-known The Hypnotist’s Love Story (2012) to bear in this darkly comic mystery surrounding...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsTricky Dick: The nickname that keeps proving itself does so once more here. It’s no surprise to have confirmation, in a general way, that Richard Nixon was a master of the abuse of power, for which even Republicans haven’t quite forgiven...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsAn eye-opening reckoning of crimes, misdemeanors and bugging technology 40 years after Richard Nixon’s ignominious departure from the White House. Brinkley (History/Rice Univ.; Cronkite , 2012, etc.) teams up with Nichter (Texas A&M ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA detailed lesson plan for tapping into “the divinity that is already inside of you.” Kelley’s ( Healing Through Past Life Regression...and Beyond , 2012) latest book opens with a foreword by best-selling author and motivational speaker ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsThe daughter of a pastor and a young man on the run from a Cuban drug cartel get past their initial animosity to fall in love in this sexy romance. Prickly, wary 18-year-old Diego is disgusted with the beautiful and collected young woman...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsBaby Sam, a reluctant eater, finally takes a bite with the help of the spoon-as-airplane trick. The book comes with a set of cardboard wings that adults can punch out of the back of the book and then fold around any adult-sized spoon to ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsTrue crime meets rare, expensive French wine. There’s not much actual poison in the narrative. In reality, the plot involved just one sick mind attempting to extort €1 million from one of the richest men in France. This ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsFigures from Jewish mysticism and mythology, a Russian grandfather’s legacy and the fate of a newborn child entwine in an inventive if at times obscure debut. With its wheeling stars, magical rabbi, disgraced angels, black dogs and Europ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsSparks fly when Arran MacLawry and Mary Campbell meet at a London ball, and the fact that their families are sworn enemies only adds to their interest in each other. Trying to escape the annoying clutches of his sister’s best frien...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsThe creator of the Robert Chow mysteries ( One Red Bastard , 2012, etc.), set in New York’s Chinatown in the 1970s, turns to contemporary Taiwan for this ambitious, muddled tale of murder in a culture that sees itself as both the c...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsThe 17 stories in Chiusano’s debut collection center on the people and events in a remote neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn. Many of these stories feature family dramas and childhood memories with several recurring characters, mos...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsLacey St. James has hit rock bottom; just as she decides she needs to make changes, she meets Everett, an intriguing stranger who helps her make more empowering choices. Lacey has an abusive boyfriend, an abusive family and abusive frien...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA busy Washington lawyer returns home to sort out the details of her sister’s shadowy life and suspicious death. When Alma Terrebonne receives word that her younger sister has died, she flies back to her hometown of Billings, Monta...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsAfter a terrorist attack on a plane kills his wife and two daughters, mob superboss Vincent "The Wolf" Marelli unleashes a plot against terrorist networks with the support of crime syndicates from around the globe. Thirty-two-year-old Vi...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsKubica’s psychological thriller centers on the abduction of a young teacher. Mia Dennett comes from massive wealth, and that made her a juicy target. Chicago Police Detective Gabe Hoffman is assigned to lead the official search and...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsAn American physician in post–Revolutionary War England takes on a potent drug, a baffling murder and a determined rival. When the headless body of botanical artist Matthew Bartlett is found tied to a pier in the Thames, anatomist Dr. Th...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Dear Author
SPOILER WARNING – Because Magic Breaks is Book 7 in the Kate Daniels series, there are unavoidable series spoilers found within this review. I’d also highly encourage readers new to the series to begin at the start of the ser... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Whatever
My pals Lynne and Michael Damian Thomas (3-time Hugo winner and 3-time Hugo nominee, respectively), are hoping to start a new science fiction and fantasy magazine and are also hoping you’ll help them kickstart this ambition. They&#... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: Join the poetry club on the last Tuesday of each month for a lunchtime of poetry.Link!
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsThe participants had a wide range of writing skills and experiences and many went away feeling that this had ...Link!
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: Seen with some of the poems are hotel manager Tony Holden, Danielle Hardy and Zaffar Kunial, poet in residence at Dove Cottage THE literary heritage of the Lake District took a 'small' turn when the landmark Lindeth Howe Hot...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: The World Cup may be over, but another big competition is about to begin, as poets from all over the country are gearing up for the 2014 National Poetry Slam this August in Oakland, California.Link!
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: r. Gabor Barabas has loved poetry since he was a child, growing up in post-Holocaust Hungary. He listened to his elderly relatives read grand, resounding verses, and he dreamed of becoming a poet himself. It wasn't until Bar...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: The Connecticut poetry slam team known as Verbal Slap is performing Saturday, Aug. 2, to raise money for its trip to Oakland, Calif., to compete in the National Poetry Slam.Link!
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors TweetsThe Doomsday Key $1.99 Kindle http://jamesrollins.me/The-Doomsday-Key-Kindle … Nook http://jamesrollins.me/The-Doomsday-Key-Nook … iBooks http://jamesrollins.me/The-Doomsday-Key-iBooks … pic.twitter.co...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors TweetsTHE 6TH EXTINCTION reviewed...an exciting novel by @jamesrollins https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1010128943 …
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from My Friend AmyThe imprint will focus on young adult, new adult, and commercial fiction. The first three books are: Every Ugly Word by Aimee Salter, a coming-of-age story about a teenager named Ashley who sees her 23-year-old self when she looks in the...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from RT Book Reviews - RT Daily BlogHere's a look at the titles we love that hit shelves this week. No LOVING ROSE ROGUE WITH A BROGUE A GOOD DEBUTANTE'S GUIDE TO RUIN CLAIMED BY THE LAIRD I ADORED A LORD THE MISTRESS OF NORMANDY WHY LORDS LOSE THEIR HEARTS "Anot...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors TweetsHappy Birthday to a great actor and a super nice guy, Mike Starr. pic.twitter.com/AvnrYsDjxF
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors Tweets"An action movie disguised as a novel." I'll take it. The London Free Press on SUSPICION - http://www.lfpress.com/2014/07/28/book-review-believable-non-violent-but-exciting …
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Book Portal Site
Internet hoaxes - intentional or not - happen all the time. And it's getting harder and harder to figure out what's true and what isn't. Author Charles Seife explains how to separate facts from fiction. -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Whatever
Buckle in, kids. Nick Harkaway, the critically acclaimed, award-nominated, and best selling author of the brand new book Tigerman, is about to get deep on y’all — and also, tell you a little about his new book, which is alrea... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Books on the Knob
Today on Amazon’s Gold Box, save up to 50% on select best-selling Logitech PC gaming products, including the G700s rechargeable gaming mouse and the G710+ mechanical gaming keyboard. In the Lightning Deals in a few minutes, I see V... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors TweetsFancy a limited edition proof of CONQUEST by @jconnollybooks & @JennieRidyard? Then enter our @goodreads giveaway! https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/99293-conquest …
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Children's Book CouncilIn addition, Perkins has put together a special tote bag of goodies that will be awarded to twenty-five winners from each store. To entice readers even further, a five-chapter excerpt from the book has been posted online. “To reach...
