Tag: literary
group name: publishingnews
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September 15, 2007 01:14 PM EDT --
I know what you are going to say. "For Pete Sake, not another depression/suicide/misunderstanding/suffering novel". Fine, I understand your feelings. But I need to explain to you why "Songs . . . more
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October 17, 2007 08:42 AM EDT --
sources and context of the fantasy writings of Tolkein and Lewis
THE COMPANY THEY KEEP - C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkein as Writers in a Community by Diana Pavlac Glyer. Kent State U. Press, . . . more
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October 12, 2007 09:08 PM EDT --
I suppose Fall is a big season for literary awards. Diana Raabe recently reported on the Nobel Prize for Literature, and here I have received a piece of mail announcing the finalists for this year's . . . more
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November 27, 2006 09:27 PM EST --
If your goal is to become published in the traditional manner, you had better be willing to do things differently than you might have previously dreamed about. Even if you are self-publishing . . . more
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June 30, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
I am telling you what I see as must reads, based on the advance reviews that I have read and the advance copies in my hands. I am not focusing on fiction blockbusters here because those do not interest . . . more
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May 29, 2006 10:44 AM EDT --
The Transformation of Beatrix or, Beryl Walks into a Room...
...and the place is immediately fresh and bright. We turn to see a slight, alluring woman dressed in understated elegance. . . . more
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March 12, 2007 12:01 PM EDT --
Hi All. The first Chapter of Lone Pine is up. It’s a story, ultimately, about going home, and I’m looking for readers and critiques. Here is the link:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976925837 . . . more
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March 03, 2007 03:53 PM EST --
March is Small Press Month, as you may have heard, and I've outlined below 10 ways to help our indie friends stay afloat in this increasingly conglomerated, flooded, and financially challenging literary . . . more
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July 23, 2007 11:30 PM EDT --
So a few months back, I got my hands on a Sony Reader, compliments Gather's exceptional marketing team. I wrote a little review of the technology, concluding that it was a great concept, and a good . . . more
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November 03, 2006 11:50 AM EST --
This month's New Writing theme is now live on the website and features novel extracts, short stories and poetry by Maura Dooley, M. Pinchuk, Sean O'Brien and Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Sophie Goodwin, . . . more
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May 03, 2007 12:29 PM EDT --
TRACKS, a novel in stories, is in search of a literary agent.
TRACKS takes place on a train traveling from Baltimore to Chicago. Each story is told from the perspective of a passenger on the train.
Although . . . more
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July 15, 2007 03:07 PM EDT --
Ah, summer. The season in which we customarily choose books by virtue of their cover art or their ability to fit neatly into a beach bag. But just because it's summer doesn't mean you have to . . . more
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June 20, 2006 02:46 AM EDT --
Sometime during the 114 day newspaper strike in New York City in 1963, bemoaning the loss of the New York Times Book Review around the dinner table, a quartet of writers and artists decided to create their . . . more
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January 30, 2007 09:19 AM EST --
G. K. CHESTERTON - Thinking Backward, Looking Forward by Stephen R. L. Clark. Templeton Foundation Press, West Conshohocken, PA; www.templetonpress.org; dglynnpublicity@aol.com. 2006. 248+viii pages. $29.95 . . . more
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March 11, 2008 12:23 PM EDT --
A few days ago, I sat down for a little GTalk with my old friend, fellow writer, and man of many digital hats, Adam Maxwell . In our interview, he shares his insight on such things as: the effect a new . . . more
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November 27, 2006 10:09 PM EST --
There are several ways to look at inevitable change. Three choices are the most obvious and the ones that nearly everyone chooses from. Variations of these three exist to fit people, degree of change and . . . more
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February 21, 2007 10:17 AM EST --
On Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Starbucks Book Break will take place at Starbucks cafes around the nation. Each Book Break location will be hosting reading groups for Ishmael Beah's new book, A Long Way . . . more
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April 14, 2008 10:46 PM EDT --
As expected, I really fell behind on my goal to read 50 books this year, but a few quick classics and some forthcoming poetry reads should put me back on track. For this segment (my first in nearly two . . . more
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July 31, 2008 02:54 AM EDT --
In the wonderful world of British publishing, there is no prize more esteemed than the Man Booker Prize, often called simply the Booker Prize. Every year, the title selected is sure to become a classic . . . more
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April 19, 2008 02:43 PM EDT --
The 50-book warpath continues, and this time the bodies on the battlements include a rapturous poetry read by a Pulitzer Prize winner, a tiresome tale of unrealistic romance from the former editor of . . . more
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