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Oct.25.2012
Love occupies a privileged place in the French national identity, on a par with fashion, food, and human rights. For hundreds of years, the French have championed themselves as guides to the art of love through their literature, paintings, songs, and cinema.
What we now call romantic love can be...
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Jan.02.2012
The New Year and 2012 promises to be an exciting year with lots already lined up. It begins with the publicationin the UK on 26 January of the NEW DI Andy Horton marine mystery crime novel, the seventh in the DI Horton series, A Killing Coast. Publication in America follows on 1 May 2012.
A...
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Dec.31.2010
Andrzej Krauze's illustration for writers' rulesTop books news hits of 2010
No surprise on such a literate site that everybody wanted to read some of the best living authors' advice on writing and worrying about literature in the age of Twitter. Elsewhere readers were compelled by children's books...
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Apr.07.2010
Reed Business Information finally found a buyer for the publishing industry trade magazine.
Publisher's Weekly has been sold to one of its former publishers. Continuing its radical weight-loss regime, Reed Business Information has trimmed another title from its list, selling Publishers Weekly,...
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Oct.02.2009
I am on the radio with Fred Wallin, KCAA/San Bernardino, Sat., Oct. 10 at 8:20 AM, and am now a regular contributor to our show "Wall to Wall," starting Sun., Oct. 18, 9 AM on KTRB/860 AM in San Francisco. I will also be a guest of "Mr. Football," Vince Turner, on WIMO/Atlanta,...
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Sep.03.2009
FINANCIAL NEWS
Falling print circulation and mounting debt payments force Reader’s Digest to file for bankruptcy protection.--from The New York Times
The dismal retail climate has taken a toll on the world’s largest consumer book publisher: "sales at Random House fell 4% in the first half of...
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Aug.09.2009
Book News http://www.booknews.com/Welcome to Book NewsBook News prepares concise, descriptive reviews of new books in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities — for librarians and other buyers of serious books. We cover titles from hundreds of English-language publishers worldwide, and we...
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Jul.15.2009
Find out what's hot in the world of publishing with this selection of recent industry news.
COMIC BOOKS
Are you attending Comic-Con (next month in San Diego) in the hopes of meeting publishers? Publishers Weekly has a list of great questions to ask here.
The First Asian American Comicon went off...
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Jun.04.2009
STEVEN TRAVERS, author of over 15 published books including ONE NIGHT, TWO TEAMS: ALABAMA VS. USC AND THE GAME THAT CHANGED A NATION (currently in film develoipment) is signing on with Ian Kleinart and Objective Entertainment.
Ian Kleinart
Objective Entertainment.
265 Canal Street, Suite 603B
New...
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May.18.2009
Guess what? Are you sitting down? With all the excitement about my recent accolades, I forgot to mention the most important news of all. My book, "Cryo Kid -- Drawing a New Map" (www.cryokid.com) is written in part about the discovery of eight half-siblings (scattered across the U.S.) for...
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