Harry Potter author JK Rowling to build Hogwarts-style tree houses for her children

'Harry Potter' author JK Rowling to build Hogwarts-style tree houses for her ...
New York Daily News
J.K. Rowling is building two tree houses fit for a wizard. Despite some complaints from neighbors, the City of Edinburgh Council said Thursday it has approved the Harry Potterauthor's application to create the large tree houses in her garden for her ...

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Shulamith Firestone, Feminist Author of 'The Dialectic of Sex,' Dies
The Atlantic Wire (blog)
Shulamith Firestone, the author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, has died at the age of 67, apparently of natural causes, The New York Times' Margolit Fox. She had been found dead on Tuesday in her East Village apartment in ...

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For This Author, the Skies (And Airports) Are for Reading
Wall Street Journal
By DEBRA BRUNO. For Arvind Subramanian, jet lag is best treated with a Kindle. "When you're up at 2 in the morning, nothing is better than reading," he says. "The best sleeping pill is a book." The 53-year-old scholar at the Peterson Institute for ...

Pentagon informs ex-SEAL author of Bin Laden book that he might face legal ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top lawyer on Thursday informed the former Navy SEAL who wrote a forthcoming book describing details of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden that he violated agreements to not divulge military secrets and that as a result ...

Book Review: Rolling Stones 50 X 20, Edited by Chris Murray
Blogcritics.org (blog)
A new book from Insight Editions, Rolling Stones 50X20, edited by Christopher Murray, founder of the Govinda Gallery of photography, offers a pictorial history of the band's first 50 years as seen through the lenses of 20 photographers. Even a casual ...

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BOOK REVIEW: 'Lionel Asbo'
Washington Times
In this sense, you can tell the book by its cover. Mr. Amis is as keen as any tabloid editor could be for a story like that of his eponymous hero, nee Lionel Pepperdine of the fictional and impossibly crime-ridden London borough of Diston. The trouble ...

Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW:'Invisible Monsters'
Washington Times
While his best known book is “Fight Club,” Mr. Palahniuk actually wrote an earlier version of this book (minus the word “Remix”) first. He submitted it to his publisher, but the company found it too upsetting, and passed, but changed its mind later ...

Washington Times

Review: Christopher Hitchens stays contrarian in 'Mortality'
Los Angeles Times
To make the point, though, he turns away from his own experience to take a shot at Randy Pausch, the late Carnegie Mellon professor and author of "The Last Lecture," a book "so sugary," Hitchens warns, "that you may need an insulin shot." On the one ...

BOOK REVIEW: 'Hello Goodbye Hello'
Washington Times
The acknowledgements, prefacing quotes, note to the U.S. edition, book description, author's biography, and list of my other books each consist of 101 words, as does this note.” Clearly, the maker of this book is having a lot of fun and that pervasive ...

Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: 'The Milton Encyclopedia'
Washington Times
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Milton Encyclopedia'. Comment(s); Size: + / -; Print. By Martin Rubin - Special to The Washington Times. Friday, August 31, 2012. Enlarge Photo. Story Topics. John Milton · Thomas N. Corns · Yale University Press · Yale University...
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Book Review: Freedom Sailors
Foreign Policy Journal
Jim Miles is a Canadian educator and a regular contributor/columnist of opinion pieces and book reviews for The Palestine Chronicle. Miles' work is ilso presented globally through other alternative websites and news publications. Read more articles by ...

Mystery-thriller book review: 'Broken Harbour'
Los Angeles Times
"Some people get hit by a tidal wave, dig in their nails and hold on; they stay focused on the positive, keep visualizing the way through until it opens up in front of them," Scorcher thinks as he reviews the Spain family's dismal financial record ...

Book Review: Income Investing
Seeking Alpha
He has, after all, written a practical book for investors who are reaching for yield (something that, as he explains, might be a chimera), not a guide for the perplexed. Nevertheless, when he described bonds in terms of options everything fell into ...

Book Review – Making Social Media Tasty for Non-Profits
ChicagoNow (blog)
While other social media books may focus primarily on buzzwords and marketing, The Tasti D-Lite Way manages to keep its focus on how businesses do social media "right". (For a great local example - and an organization that I have volunteered for - one...

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Book Review: “Telling True Stories”
By Mark Nichol
Book Review: “Telling True Stories”. by Mark Nichol. The art of writing compelling nonfiction shares many parallels with that of crafting good fiction, and Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide, an anthology of essays and other content ...
Daily Writing Tips

Book reviews, author interviews and events, Seattle readings ...
Book reviews, author interviews and events, Seattle readings, Northwest writers, book signings and literary event calendar.
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Finance for Freelancers – Book Review
If you are new to freelancing or your idea of bookkeeping is a pile of paper scraps that you keep ...
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A Valuable And Fun Learning Tool With 'Twitch The Squirrel', Parents Can ...
ParamusPost.com
Twitch the Squirrel and the Forbidden Bridge by author Don M. Winn, is a valuable learning tool for young children. As a Cardboard Box Adventure book, it is written in a manner that helps parents and teachers utilize the lessons taught in the story to ...

Pentagon says it may prosecute ex-SEAL author
Boston.com
The general counsel of the Defense Department, Jeh Johnson, wrote in a letter transmitted Thursday to the author that he had signed two nondisclosure agreements with the Navy in 2007 that obliged him to ''never divulge'' classified information.

Paramount and children of 'Godfather' author clash in court
Los Angeles Times
The children of Mario Puzo, author of the famed "Godfather" series, are trying to severe their family's more than 40-year association with Paramount Pictures after a bitter squabble that erupted earlier this year. On Thursday, Hollywood attorney Bert ...

Author of book on bin Laden raid could face legal action
Washington Post
The Pentagon on Thursday warned a former Navy SEAL that it was considering taking legal action against him for publishing a first-hand account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, implying that he had divulged classified information. It remained ...

CBS hides ID of Navy SEAL who wrote bin Laden book
Huffington Post
CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager said Thursday he'd make the same decision to withhold the identity even if the network hadn't landed an exclusive interview with the author, who participated in the May 2011 raid in Pakistan. Scott Pelley's interview with ...

The Readers' Writers: Author Cathy Lamb
Norwich Bulletin
The Readers' Writers: Author Cathy Lamb. Zoom. Photos. Cathy Lamb A Different Kind of Normal. A Different Kind of Normal. Yellow Pages. Find whatever you're looking for with Totally Local Yellow Pages. Search provided by local.com · Featured Business » ...

The FBI Investigated Author Ray Bradbury For Communist Sympathies
Business Insider
The 40-page cache of the late science fiction author's FBI files was obtained by the Daily Beast following a Freedom of Information request, and shows the extent to which the FBI had Bradbury in its sights in 1959. "Raymond Douglas Bradbury, a ...

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Sheryl Sandberg, superhero (and now, author) | VentureBeat
By John Koetsier
Should we all just bow down to Cheryl Sandberg now? What can this woman not do? Smart, technical, superrich, twice-successful entrepreneur, powerful, beautiful, a successful public speaker, a smart dresser: Facebook chief operating officer ...
VentureBeat

Author Solutions to Remove Jared Silverstone Accounts - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
Following a GalleyCat article yesterday, self-publishing company Author Solutions will remove social media accounts for Jared Silverstone–a set of profiles for an “Awesome Publishing Consultant atAuthor Solutions” that used a fake image ...
GalleyCat

DoD may take legal action against SEAL author - Marine Corps Times
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top lawyer has informed the former Navy SEAL who wrote a forthcoming book describing details of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden that he violated agreements to not divulge military secrets and that as a ...
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Pentagon Finds Gossipy Navy SEAL Author in Breach of Non - Gawker
By Taylor Berman
Obama critic and former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette might be in a bit of trouble with his old bosses for writing No Easy Day, which includes a detailed account of the bin Laden killing. According Jeh Johnson, the general counsel of the ...
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CBS News Declines To Identify Author Of Book About Osama Bin ...
By THE DEADLINE TEAM
CBS News says it won't reveal the identity of a retired Navy SEAL who wrote a book about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, even though other media outlets have done so. CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager told The Associated Press that ...
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Pippa Middleton debuts as author with party book

Pippa Middleton debuts as author with party book
CBS News
(CBS/AP) Pippa Middleton is now an author. The 28-year-old younger sister to Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, is publishing her first book: A guide to home entertaining. Pictures: Pippa Middleton. Middleton says that "Celebrate: A Year of British ...

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Book review: 'No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed ...
Washington Post
Even before the book went on sale, the announcement by the publisher Dutton that the pseudonymous Mark Owen, one of the SEALs on the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, would be publishing an account of his role in the raid quickly propelled “No ...

Book review: "Paterno" should have been shelved for 3 to 5 years
Fort Worth Star Telegram (blog)
Play_e_paternobook_gb1_400 I have never met Joe Posnanski, but I felt bad for him. After spending months and months and months living in State College and having nearly unfettered access to the Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno to write his ...

Book Review: Between Eden and the Open Road by Philip Gaber
Blogcritics.org (blog)
There is a table of contents with intriguing title names and a terse dedication that does make one point about this book perfectly clear: “This book is for those to whom it speaks.” And given the fact that Between Eden and the Open Road is a candid ...

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Book Review: Motorhead: Live To Win by Alan Burridge
Blogcritics.org (blog)
More often than not, these oversized books are filled with pictures, very little text, and come with an astronomical price tag. True to the spirit of Motorhead though, this is abook made with the fans in mind. While it contains a many rare pictures ...

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Book Review: The Violet Flash by Mike Mason
Blogcritics.org (blog)
However, other things soon begin to go wrong in The Violet Flash, Mike Mason's second book in The Blue Umbrella series. Earth's atomic clocks are losing entire seconds, causing accidents and deaths. The disappearance of Ches's beloved sister Chelsea ...

BOOK REVIEW: 'The Best in Us'
Washington Times
I cheerfully predict you will begin to notice copies of this book in airport lounges across the country being devoured by the new generation of business go-getters. The obvious point being offered by business leadership-development guru Cleve W ...

Washington Times

Book Review: The Nature Of Risk
Seeking Alpha
I'm here to review another excellent book on risk control by David X Martin. This is a difficult book to review, because if I describe what happens, I end up spoiling the book. This is a small book, and I read it in less than an hour. This book came ...

Book Review: How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
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There is a theoretical physical side to Yu's book. The author portrays a world in which there is a different presentation of the universe each day. He explains that the universe has no cause. The state of the universe is one of entropy with an infinite ...

Book Review: Kill the Media by Jeffrey A. Friedberg
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Just when you thought there was nothing fun left to read, detective and vigilante Jack Vane returns in what may be his most surprising adventure yet. Author Jeffrey Friedberg is known for his social commentary in his novels, depicted through humor and ...

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Book Review: iPhone Photography: How to Shoot, Edit and Share ...
By Marty Yawnick
Book Review: iPhone Photography: How to Shoot, Edit and Share Great Photos. Photographer and iPhoneographer Misho Baranovic has been creating and sharing iPhone photography since the art's early days. He's a charter member of the ...
Life in LoFi: iPhoneography | Mobile ...

S. Krishna's Books: Book Review: The Darkness Gathers & Twice ...
By Swapna
Her curiosity provoked, Lydia takes the case. Review: In books two and three of the Lydia Strong series, the main character sees her life change before her eyes. In the first book of the series, Angel Fire, Lydia was headstrong and a risktaker.
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Finance for Freelancers – Book Review | Envato Notes
By Adrian Try
A couple of weeks ago we let you know about our brand new book from Rockable Press, Finance for Freelancers. Have you had a chance to check it out yet? Travis “Kingdog” King has, and has written a helpful and detailed review over on ...
Envato Notes

Book Review: Animation Under the Swastika: A History of Trickfilm in ...
By dsarto
Everyone knows about all the World War II animation produced in the United States, from Disney's Academy Award-winning Der Fuehrer's Face to today's Politically Incorrect You're a Sap, Mr. Jap and Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips. But did Nazi ...
AnimationWorld Magazine :: Complete...

Nonverbal Communication Book Review
By Humintell Admin
Below is a review of Dr. Matsumoto's newest book: Nonverbal Communication: Science and Applications written by Humintell affiliate Eric Goulard, a nonverbal and.
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Book Review: Drupal For Designers - Slashdot
Michael Ross writes "Of all the open source content management systems used for building websites, Drupal has a reputation for being one of the most flexible ...
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Book Review: Eco House Book - Environmental News Network
Book Review: Eco House Book. RELATED ARTICLES. Plant a Tree for Every Book You Read March 18, 2008 09:37 AM; Former Bush aide defends book ...
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Book Review: 'The Scope of Skepticism'
Swift. Written by D.J. Grothe. Tuesday, 28 August 2012 15:39. I first met Kylie Sturgess a number of years ago at Dragon*Con, the large Southeast science fiction ...
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Heirs of 'The Godfather' author fight with Paramount in NY over rights to ...
Washington Post
They said Paramount also got nasty in trying to prevent publication of the new sequel by contacting the publishers of the book and insisting that neither the publishers nor the estate had any right topublish it. The estate asked the court to declare ...

Author who detailed bin Laden raid has humble roots
The Virginian-Pilot
Author who detailed bin Laden raid has humble roots. Posted to: Military Virginia Beach · Login or register to post comments. [X]. Click a thumbnail to view the full-size image. Buy Pilot photos here. Loading... Close Gallery. VIEW VIDEO LARGER ...

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Cuomo announces state author Alison Lurie, poet Marie Howe
Albany Times Union (blog)
Andrew Cuomo announced the appointments of Marie Howe to serve as the State Poet and Alison Lurie as the State Author. Both are the 10th to hold the two-year titles, which were established under the administration of Cuomo's very literary father, Gov.

Paramount and 'Godfather' author heirs clash in NY
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The dispute over the future of "The Godfather" franchise is moving to federal court in Manhattan as Paramount Pictures and heirs of the story's author face off at a hearing Thursday. The son of "The Godfather" creator Mario Puzo wants ...

Fall's Book Festivals, Author Appearances And Poetry Programs
Hartford Courant
Writers At Renbrook: Jean Kwok, author of "Girl in Translation" (Riverhead, $25.95), her best-selling debut novel about a girl who leaves Hong Kong for Brooklyn and hard work in a sweatshop, will give a free talk Thursday, Sept. 13, at 7 p.m. at ...

Hartford Courant

Author makes impassioned plea at 'Don't Shoot' forum
Peoria Journal Star
David Kennedy, author of "Don't Shoot", started off his visit to Peoria by speaking to members of the media Tuesday afternoon. Kennedy's book has been used to help model a new method for combating gun violence and crime in Peoria. Kennedy will be in ...

Central Booking Author Q&A: Quiana
The Source (blog)
Featured in this issue's "Central Booking" section, Uptown Princess tells the story of your typical girl from Philly who gets caught in the clutches of a slick talking hustler. The book's author, Quiana, chops it up with TheSource.com about how she ...

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Author collects patterns for the curvy girls
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (blog)
Author collects patterns for the curvy girls. Joyce McCartney | The Journal Gazette. Do you crochet? Are you a curvy girl? Do you find standard magazine patterns don't work for your body type? Well, you can rejoice: Mary Beth Temple feels your pain and ...

'Power Chord' Author Talks About Learning Guitar from Ace Frehley ...
By Matt Wardlaw
'Power Chord' Author Talks About Learning Guitar from Ace Frehley, Steve Vai. by: Matt Wardlaw 3 hours ago ... Of course now, just in the last couple of years, it's like everybody with a Marshall amp stack has a best seller. So publishing has ...
Ultimate Classic Rock

Amazon Pulls Kindle Fire Sales Ahead of September 6 Tablet Refresh
By Matt Brian
A best-seller sells out: Amazon pulls Kindle Fire sales ahead of September 6 tablet refresh. 30th August 2012 by Matt Brian. 6192233444_50db57ef75_b. With its ... About the Author. Matt is based near London and is the Mobile Editor for The Next Web. You can follow him on Twitter, subscribe to his updates on Facebook and catch up with him on Google+. You can reach Matt via email atmatt@thenextweb.com. 0 comments 0 people listening. Sign in. Livefyre logo. Comment help; Get ...
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'No Easy Day': Osama Bin Laden Book Author Defends Decision To ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
The author of a new book on the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden included a defense of his decision to publish his insider account in the final pages of the text, saying that the White House's willingness to publicize details of the ...
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"Monkey Mind" author talks chronic anxiety - CBS News Video
CBS News video: "Monkey Mind" author talks chronic anxiety - AuthorDaniel Smith has ...
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Al Qaeda calls for death of Navy SEAL who authored book on bin ...
One posting on al-Fidaa called on Allah to kill the author sooner or later. ... A day after the authorannounced that he is publishing the book Navy Admiral Bill ...
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Becoming a Transformational Author: Tips From Christine Kloser
Huffington Post
Do they need an agent? Is their book marketable? How do they find a publisher? Should they self-publish? What's the difference between traditional and self-publishing. Writing a book can be intimidating for a new author. There are lots of decisions ...

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SEAL book offers different account of bin Laden's death

SEAL book offers different account of bin Laden's death
CBS News
4, because of a surge of orders due to advance publicity that drove the book to the top of the Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com best-seller lists. ... In another possibly uncomfortable revelation for U.S. officials who say bin Laden's body was treated ...

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Book review: 'Capital' by John Lanchester
Los Angeles Times
When an author finds a one-word title that fits his book perfectly, it's usually a good portent for its content. And certainly "Capital" is doubly eponymous here, for London — the great city, once capital of an empire and now, since the deregulatory ...

Book Review: Resilience - Why Things Bounce Back by Andrew Zolli and Ann ...
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Why Things Bounce Back by Zolli and Healy explains how to survive and thrive in the dynamic environment that characterizes life in today's world. The authors blaze new trails for leaders in academe, business, science, government, and the social sciences.

Practical Malware Analysis: Book review
ZDNet
Practical Malware Analysis: Book review. Summary: This comprehensive, practical and well-written book helps you understand how malware works, so you can keep your Windows PCs, servers and associated systems free from infection. Mary Branscombe...

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Book Review: Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion is the novel that continues the adventures of Jim Hawkins, protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Stevenson's book was originally published in 1883 and is considered a classic.

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Book Review:Maps of Fate: Book Two by Reid Lance Rosenthal
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The Old West of America was a lure for many in the 1800s. Freedom and rumors of gold created a frenzy of movement, wagon trains were the mode of travel, and danger lurked at every turn. In Maps of Fate, a novel by Reid Lance Rosenthal, we follow the ...

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Book Review: Shock Troops of Justice by Robert R. Mill
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Back when I was a teen, I remember going on a tour of Universal Studios California while the second run of Jack Webb's Dragnet was being shot. One thing I still recall from that tour was being shown some of the show's sets, which were somewhat unique ...

Book Review: Think Fast - The Racer's Why-To Guide to Winning
Technorati
Roberts explores decision-making and time management issues involved with creating and managing a winning racing effort. The author addresses four major topical areas in this book — driving skills, the mental game, automobile tuning, and engineering.

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Book Review: The Kill Order by James Dashner
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The Kill Order by James Dashner is the prequel to the Maze Runner trilogy, a young adult post-apocalyptic series. I found Dashner's latest novel to be a deliciously dark adventure that hooked my attention from the prologue to the epilogue. One of the ...

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Book Review: Who's Counting?
Forbes
Book Review: Who's Counting? 0 comments, 0 called-out. + Comment now. + Comment now.BOOK REVIEW: “Who's Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote At Risk” By John Fund and Hans Von Spakovsky. In Who's Counting?, authors John Fund and Hans ...

Book review: Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death by Bernd Heinrich
Seven Days
books · book review. If there's one thing that freaks most people out more than dying, it's the prospect of becoming carrion. Sophocles' Antigone faced death rather than let her brother's body go to the scavenging beasts. Poets use gruesome imagery of ...

Seven Days

Book review: Conflict 101
By Elizabeth
by Elizabeth · Conflict, Summer of books · Tweet ... The aim of the book is to help you manage better by resolving conflict at a lower level – before it gets to the point where you yell at your project team for not working hard enough. Shearouse ...
A Girl's Guide to Project Management

Book Review: Renegade Magic by Stephanie Burgis | The Book ...
By Thea
Find out in this second book of Stephanie Burgis's Regency-era fantasy trilogy. Nowhere in England is safe from the mischief and magic of Kat Stephenson. With her eldest sister finally married, it seems things are settling down for Kat.
The Book Smugglers

Author behind "Lawless" novel pleased with film, hopes others like it
WSLS
Author behind "Lawless" novel pleased with film, hopes others like it. By: Tim Ciesco | WSLS Published: August 29, 2012 Updated: August 29, 2012 - 9:14 AM. » Comments | Post a Comment. ROANOKE, Va. --. A Southwest Virginia community is at the center ...

Hampton author's political fiction offers true-life lessons at Republican ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Mark Rogers isn't attending the Republican National Convention, but the first-time Milton author is well represented in Tampa. "Smeared," a self-published work of political fiction about a man from the time of America's founding who suddenly appears in ...

Katie Couric's first guests include '50 Shades of Grey' author E L James
Examiner.com
MSN reported on Wednesday, August 29, that Katie Couric's has announced her first month's line up of celebrity guest interviews will include, "Fifty Shades of Grey" authorEL James to talk about the phenomenal success of the "50 Shades" books, and what...

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Author Blog: Remembering the Camondos
Forward (blog)
Her blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning's Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit: Now that I live part-time in Paris, I explore the city's complex and ...

Forward (blog)

Author seeking historical materials
Albany Democrat Herald
Author Ed Loy is writing a book about the history of Albany and he needs some help. “I'm seeking primary source material such as letters and diaries that deal with things that went on in Albany, and I would love to have good photographs of noteworthy ...

Meet Reyna Simnegar, Author of Persian Food From the Non-Persian Bride
Epicurious (blog)
For this year's high-holiday celebration, we spoke to cookbook author Reyna Simnegar who shared recipes for Quince Stew, Persian Steamed White Rice, and Persian Cream Puffs, and explained the Persian community's unique Rosh Hashanah Seder ...

More shoes drop for Chinese author who made up peer reviewer ...
By ivanoransky
Last month, we brought you the story of Guang-Zhi He of the Guiyang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China, an enterprising fellow who got caught faking the email addresses of potential peer reviewers. At the time, Elsevier, who ...
Retraction Watch

Glif Creators Studio Neat Publish Book on Crowdfunding Hardware
By Matthew Panzarino
About the Author. Matthew Panzarino is the News and Apple Editor of TNW. Matthew brings 20 years of computing experience and mobile tech obsession to delivering the latest and greatest tech news and views. You can follow him on Twitter ...
The Next Web

Boiling Frogs: Activist and Author David Swanson on the Thinning ...
By davidswanson
David Swanson, author and tireless, inspiring activist, joins us for this Boiling Frogs interview, co-hosted with Sibel Edmonds.Author and peace activist David Swanson joins us to discuss our nation's perpetual war status, the latest in the peace ...
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (video)

Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo' book highlights the stories of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities, Mumbai.

Pentagon, CIA reviewing SEAL book; author could face charges
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
The author, a former Navy SEAL who participated in the raid, did not submit the book for pre-publication review that is required by the military secrecy agreements officials say he signed. Pentagon regulations stipulate that retired personnel, former ...

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Roger Fisher, author of 'Getting to Yes' best-seller, dies at 90
The Republic
HANOVER, N.H. — Roger Fisher, a Harvard Law School professor and co-author of a best-sellingbook in the 1980s on how to negotiate titled "Getting to Yes," has died. He was 90. Fisher died Saturday at a retirement community in Hanover, according to ...

Amazon's Kindle-Exclusive Books Surge Past 100 Million Mark
Fox Business
Other best-selling exclusive books include several titles from Debora Geary, particularly "A Modern Witch," which recently ranked first on the Kindle best seller list, briefly unseating erotic romance novel "Fifty Shades of Grey," and "Our Husband" by ...

'No Easy Day' Knocks 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' From Top Of Amazon Best Seller List
The Inquisitr
The Navy SEAL autobiography No Easy Day has knocked the popular erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey from the top of Amazon's best-seller list. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the controversial tell-all is the first book this summer to bump E.L ...

Gregg Hurwitz's new thriller, 'The Survivor'
Washington Post
W. Somerset Maugham, that master of the backhanded compliment, famously quipped that nobody could write a bestseller by accident. The cliches? The hackneyed characters? The commonplace story? Sure, they might make us laugh, but the bestseller ...

Audio Bestsellers: Week of 08.28.12
Publishers Weekly (blog)
This week's Audio Bestseller List from Publishers Weekly again sees Kenneth C. Davis's Don't Know Much About Anything (narrated by Jeff Woodman with Quincy Tyler Bernstein and Oliver Wyman) sitting pretty at the #1 spot. Climbing two places to #2 is...

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'Just One of the Guys' author Kristan Higgins interviews her cover model
USA TODAY
The author (oh, wait, that's me) says: "Women love Trevor. All women. Five minutes after seeing him for the first time, they fall deeply in love, move heaven and earth to be with him, are incredibly happy for a very short period before he gently breaks ...

USA TODAY

Self-Published Author Soars to No.1 with his First Novel
Kalkion (blog)
Canadian author Matthew Mather reaches #1 on Amazon science fiction within a month of self-publishing his first novel, Atopia Chronicles; over 30,000 copies in three weeks. Canadian author Matthew Mather is the newest star in the self-publishing arena, ...

Kalkion (blog)

Author Bill Sargent to speak in Orleans
Wicked Local
Naturalist and writer Bill Sargent, whose family has a home on Barley Neck and deep roots in Orleans – his father (and former governor) Frank Sargent helped start Goose Hummock – will talk about his new book, “Beach Wars: Ten Thousand Years on a ...

Atria Books Inks Deal With Indie Author Tina Reber
Sacramento Bee
NEW YORK, Aug. 27, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Atria Books announced today a two book deal with bestselling self-published author Tina Reber. The originally self-published novel LOVE UNSCRIPTED will be released as an Atria ebook September 10, 2012 ...

Salon Gets Smacked Around By An Author That - I Own The World
By BigFurHat
by Colin Flaherty/ Colin Flaherty is an award-winning reporter and author of “White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence to America and how the media ignore it.” Enter Salon and its review of “White Girl Bleed a Lot.” The first part of the ...
iOwnTheWorld.com

'Five-Finger Discount' Costs Billions, Says Author of Shoplifting Book ...
Shoplifting—is it little Johnny swiping a pack of gum, or a multibillion-dollar crime epidemic? Well, it can be both, says Rachel Shteir, author of The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting, and the public perception of shoplifting has shifted ...
ABA Journal Daily News

Why William Zinsser's writing book is still number one
Poynter.org
Not long ago I purchased yet another edition of “On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to WritingNonfiction,” written by William Knowlton Zinsser, that prolific author, editor, and teacher who turns 90 this October. To be honest, Zinsser already looked ...

Book Review: Buddha In Your Backpack: Buddha In Your Backpack by Franz ...
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The practice of Buddhism has been around long enough in America to fill shelves withbooks on mindfulness, meditation and Eastern solutions for the suffering life imposes on us. Most of these works are for seeking adults dissatisfied with the direction ...

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Book Review: Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips For Improving Your Skills by ...
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The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle is an excellent reference book for articulating and managing self improvement issues. There are 52 pearls of wisdom all aimed at moving readers closer to redefining themselves and working toward internalizing ...

BOOK REVIEW:'The Transformational Decade'
Washington Times
In his new book, Herbert London has attempted to explain the first 10 years of the millennium. Mr. London, now in his 70s, established himself in the 1960s as a defender of the Great Books tradition and later served as president of the Hudson Institute.

Washington Times

Book Review 247: China's Wings
Maui News (blog)
CHINA'S WINGS: War, Intrigue, Romance and Adventure in the Middle Kingdom During the Golden Age of Flight, by Gregory Crouch. 498 pages, illustrated. Bantam, $30. Gregory Crouch absolutely delivers on the war, intrigue, romance and adventure in this ...

Book Review: Unnecessary 'The Dark Knight Rises' Novelization Brings Noir ...
Indie Wire (blog)
The continued existence of the movie novelization is perhaps one of the more curious and enduring elements of blockbuster tie-ins. During the '70s and '80s, when you could only see a movie in theaters, a book of your favorite film served a more ...

Book review: Author, Jesse Andrews, taps into local flavor and teenage pathos
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
In order to find out, you'll have to read "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" (Amulet Books, $16.95, 14 and up), Jesse Andrews' funny, perceptive and occasionally painful coming-of-age novel of friendship and loss. Through first-person narrative Greg ...

Book Review: The American War by Don Meyer
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Don Meyer captures the realities, the nuances, and the futility of war as well as the strategy and nightmare of battle in The American War. The story parallels the details of the 101st Airborne's return to the Shau Valley in South Vietnam in the summer ...

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OpEdNews - Article: Book Review -- The Mirage of Our Lives
"Alan opened the fire door and a roar of echoes flooded through. He was in a large raw space full of men, some in their underclothes, some in red jumpsuits, all yelling. It looked like pictures he'd seen of prison gyms converted to dormitories.
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Writers Gonna Write
Publishing platforms are fine, tools lacking friction even better, but the platform/ tool does not make the writer. A few friends called out my thinking (always a good ...
chrisbowler.com/journal/writers-gonna-write

Obama Punching Bag Top Seller at Pop-up Shop
HispanicBusiness.com
Moore said the punching bags have been one of his best sellers: About 20 in the first day. Source: (c)2012 Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, Fla.) Distributed by MCT Information Services. Related Stories. Obama Orders Flags at Half Staff for Space Hero ...

A Rare Glimpse Into What It Takes To Be An Amazon.com Best Seller
Seeking Alpha
It's not a secret that Amazon.com (AMZN) has long been touting the Kindles (Fire, Touch) as their best selling products. Indeed, if you checked Amazon.com's best sellers' list, these routinely topped the "Electronics" section, as seen in the ...

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Are Paid Book Reviews Ethical or Legal?

Book Reviewers for Hire Meet a Demand for Online Raves - NYTimes.com: "  . . . The Federal Trade Commission has issued guidelines stating that all online endorsements need to make clear when there is a financial relationship, but enforcement has been minimal and there has been a lot of confusion in the blogosphere over how this affects traditional book reviews. The tale of GettingBookReviews.com, which commissioned 4,531 reviews in its brief existence, is a story of a vast but hidden corner of the Internet, where Potemkin villages bursting with ardor arise overnight. At the same time, it shows how the book world is being transformed by the surging popularity of electronic self-publishing. . . " 

Paid Reviews are the Next Great Promotional Tool for Self-Published
If you're a self-published author who is still struggling to get noticed, now might be the time to swallow the rest of your pride, jettison your code of ethics, and start ...
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Must have marketing tool for authors...
by Sherrie Wilkolaski A marketing tool all authors need to utilize to market and promote their books is the author interview. It's quite simple t.
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Ex-Navy SEAL behind bin Laden book faces threats, investigation ...
From Yahoo! News: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former U.S. Navy SEAL who authored a soon-to-be-published book about the raid that killed Osama bin ...
news.yahoo.com/ex-navy-seal-behind-bin-laden-book-faces-0...

The Book We're Talking About: 'Lionel Asbo: State of England' by Martin Amis
Huffington Post
Thematically similar to Amis's "Money," this book is the story of a British thug who wins the lottery, shedding light on what England's lower classes say about the state of the society as a whole. Why are we talking about it? Amis' name is a stand-out ...

Book World: 'The Lost Prince,' by Selden Edwards, is a time-traveling sequel
Washington Post
It's common in reviews to praise a sequel by saying that it stands on its own; that a reader needn't have read, say, “Tarzan of the Apes” to enjoy any of Edgar Rice Burroughs's many other Tarzan novels. “The Lost Prince,” however, is that most impudent ...

Book recommendations from Mrs. Dalloway's
San Francisco Chronicle
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child,. by Bob Spitz: There was more to the old gal than "The French Chef." The California native, part-time spy, world traveler, original foodie and beloved warbly voiced 6-footer would have turned 100 this month.

San Francisco Chronicle

Book on bin Laden raid coming out Sept. 11
Seacoastonline.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — A member of the U.S. Navy SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden has written a firsthand account of the operation, triggering more questions about the possible public release of classified information involving the historic assault of ...

Random House Canada's new online digital program puts publishing houses in ...
Toronto Star
The strategy seems to be that reading the magazine is one way to build a brand and entice readers to buy e-books under the new line Hazlitt Originals. “The boundaries have been dissolving. It's not just to sell books. It's a way to connect with readers ...

Toronto Star

The Lure of a Good Book: Who's Reading What? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Mashable
When you're curled up with a good book that you just can't set aside, whether it's a physical book or an ebook, do you know what makes it so compelling? Is it the mystery, the suspense? Maybe it's the romance. Turns out men and women have very ...

iPads in Use in Wabash Classrooms
Wabash College
Dr. Rhoades shows students the books they will read as eBooks on their iPads. IT Services' Kitty Rutledge hands out iPads on the first day of class. Dr. Rhoades said she's found apps that students will use for careful annotation of the texts they read ...

Wabash College

Digitizing Textbooks
PC Quest
While the concept of e-books have set off years back, digitizing textbooks started only recently. The Govt of India has encouraged the use of tablet devices across educational institutes by introducing Aakash tablet. And recently, many other players ...

Number One Book System Launched to Help Budding Authors Self-Publish on ...
PR Web (press release)
The Number One Book System, a leading-edge eBook publishing program from Digital Marketer, has launched today and is accepting subscriptions to become a member. The unique program is helping people find their calling as a published author, and ...

2012 Global Ebook Winners: Dan Poynter's Global Ebook Awards Dinner
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release)
GlobalEbookAwards because he believes that ebooks are the future for authors. Dan Poynter loves ebooks and he is committed to helping ebook writers and publishers. Since 1969 he has written and published 133 books. He is the leading authority on ...

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Learn How to Publish on Amazon with Number One Book System, to be ...
Melodika.net (press release)
Digital Marketer has also released “The Kindle Publishing Revolution” and “How to Sell 100 Books a Day,” two eBooks that describe the advantages of self-publishing on Kindle than, say, a traditional print publishing deal. According to “The Kindle ...

Booktrack and Indaba Music Announce the First Crowdsourced eBook Soundtrack
MarketWatch (press release)
"The book was wonderfully 'directed' within the notes, and the vivid imagery conjured by the text made composing feel natural and spontaneous. The Booktrack idea is innovative, and 'The Time Machine' is a great, classic story. I loved every part of ...

EDITORIAL: Professors' own textbooks unreasonably priced
University of Northern Colorado The Mirror
Another problem with ebooks is the price. They eliminate cheaper versions, and it also eliminates the possibility of getting extra money at the end of the semester. Rarely is the money received duringbook selling close to the amount paid, but a little ...

Amazon - How Long Can This Stock Keep Rising?
Seeking Alpha
Amazon's business plan is to make money off all the content it sells through the Kindle, includingbooks, magazines, games and videos. The idea is to give the customer the device at a fairly low price, then hope he or she downloads enough ebooks and TV ...

Libraries and Ebooks | Book View Cafe Blog
By Ursula K. Le Guin
Pay-on-Demand: Require the library to pay the publisher a sum each time the ebook is ordered.This is an ironic reversal of the system obtaining in Europe whereby the author is paid a small sum every time the book is taken out of a library.
Book View Cafe Blog

Kindle EBooks – How to Make More Money with Them | learn in ...
By sam
Just making your books available via the Kindle store and praying they sell is not an effective approach to making money with Kindle eBooks. You need to market your book and make sure people purchase it because it's the only way to turn all ...
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Book Marketing on Amazon Tidbits — Internet Marketing
By Phyllis Zimbler Miller
As I explain in my short ebook TOP TIPS FOR HOW TO MARKET YOUR BOOK ON AMAZON AND FACEBOOK, if you have a book in both physical and Kindle formats on Amazon (and have told Amazon that these are the same book) you still ...
Miller Mosaic Social Media Marketing

71 FREE Kindle eBook Downloads - Hunt4Freebies
By Mike
Click here to see a bunch more FREE Kindle Ebook Downloads! Be sure when you add the Kindle to your cart that it is $0.00 as these prices do change frequently. Also the books that say (FREE with Prime) are only Free for Amazon Prime ...
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FREE IS MY LIFE: REVIEW: Joy Tales eReader books for iPad
By J.R. Harper
There are two ways to read the ebooks. The first way is like a regular book with pages that you turn with a stroke of the screen. In this mode you can read the book yourself, listen to the pre-recorded British voice reading the story, or record ...
FREE IS MY LIFE

Book Making: Hyphens do not poison books. USE them, dammit.
By Michael N. Marcus
The increasing use of the Internet (where the appearance of a website is affected by the web browser and PC of the person viewing the site), and the increasing use of e-books (where the appearance of abook page is controlled by the ...
Book Making

Book Junkies - Book Discussions: Paperbooks or Ebooks? (showing ...
14 discussion posts. Martha said: Which do you prefer and why?, Worm said: Nothing beats flipping real pages and using real bookmarks., Ellese said: Rea...
www.goodreads.com/topic/.../999554-paperbooks-or-ebooks

Feed Your Reader (Ebooks Only) Giveaway Hop | There's A Book
I'm thrilled to be part of a giveaway hop where you could potentially win your very own eReader, Kindle or Nook, you choose!
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Good e-Reader Week in Review - Aug 20th to Aug 25th 2012
Good E-Reader (blog)
Welcome to your favorite weekly roundup of all the latest digital publishing, eBook, e-Reader and Tablet PC news. Over the last week I went on vacation for a few days to sunny Salts Spring Island in British Columbia! Aside from that, lots of news has ...

HarperCollins' Head on the Changing Role of Publisher
Good E-Reader (blog)
According to Garside, “HarperCollins appears to have wholeheartedly embraced the e-book revolution that followed the arrival of Amazon's Kindle reader in the UK in 2009. Barnsley .... Good E-Reader –ebook Reader and Digital Publishing News Copyright ...

Publishers Breaking Down Print, Digital Barriers
Good E-Reader (blog)
Random House Canada, a division of the major print publisher, has launched an online magazine and an ebook platform that is blurring the lines between the expected roles of the publisher and the current popularity of digital publishing. Named after a ...

Publishing Innovation Awards Bestows Prestigious QED Seal to Audrey Press ...
RedOrbit
To be considered for this award, ebook submissions first pass a thorough, professional 13-point design review, focusing on its readability across multiple devices and in multiple formats. The QED is then judged on criteria based on recommendations from ...

iBookstore introduces welcome support options for publishers
Macworld
When it comes to electronic publishing, the waters of ebook creation are murky and deep, full of confusing exceptions, varied formats, and non-existent support. Even Apple's clean, simplistic style is largely absent from its iBookstore publishing ...

Why should I read this blog, eBook and listen to the weekly podcast ...
By Henrik de Gyor
If you are interested in Digital Asset Management (DAM), there are few places where you will find the user and administrator perspective discussed publicly. That is why I started this blog over 3 years ago and recorded over 100 weekly ...
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Why a Used Ebook Ecosystem Makes Sense - Typepad
By Joe Wikert
In an earlier post I mentioned my plans to speak with ReDigi, the company making waves by helping consumers resell their digital music. One day consumers will also be able to resell their ebooks via ReDigi and that has some...
Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 Blog

Amazon has launched a new e-book and e-reader store in India
By Joanna
The India Kindle Store will offer over one million e-books, all priced in Indian rupees, including 70 of the top selling editions as per Brecorder.
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'The Washington Post' To Publish eBook Series - AppNewser
The Washington Post has teamed up with book publisher Diversion Books to produce an ...
www.mediabistro.com/.../the-washington-post-to-publish-eboo...

Michigan Author Dreams Up A Deadlier Ann Arbor
NPR
Michigan Author Dreams Up A Deadlier Ann Arbor. by Noah Adams. August 27, 2012. Listen to the Story. Morning Edition. [7 min 19 sec]. Add to Playlist; Download; Transcript. The Dangerous Streets Of ... Ann Arbor? Harry Dolan sets his David Loogan...

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Self-Published Canadian Author Soars to #1 with his First Novel
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
27, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - Canadian author Matthew Mather is the newest star in the self-publishing arena, reaching #1 on Amazon science fiction and over 30,000 copies of his series shipped within three weeks of the release of his first book, Atopia ...

Colorado vampire author Jeanne Stein on her latest Anna Strong novel and the ...
Westword (blog)
Forget Edward Cullen and his sparkly friends: If you want a modern take on vampires with a dash of romance and some real bite, check out Jeanne Stein's Anna Strong vampire series. Stein's heroine has starred in eight books since 2006, starting with The...

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10 Movie Questions with Author Saba Teklegiorgis
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Author Saaba Teklegiorgis, co-author of the book The Art and Science of Success Vol 4, sat down to answer 10 movie questions. Her journey from Seattle to Houston and from modeling to being an author have helped reignite her passion for personal ...

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Pulitzer Winning Author Jon Meacham Speaks at College of Saint Elizabeth ...
Morristown Green
Award-winning author and former editor of Newsweek Jon Meacham will deliver his speech, Healing a Nation Post Election 2012, in the Annunciation Center's Dolan Performance Hall at the College of Saint Elizabeth (CSE), 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J., ...

Martin Amis weighs 'State of England' from new US home
Reuters
Author Amis reflects on celebrity culture. * Leftist leanings seen in desire to tax the rich. * Thinks latest books are among his best. By Christine Kearney. NEW YORK, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Devotees of British novelist Martin Amis anxiously awaiting his ...

Author Blog: An Intentional Detour
Forward (blog)
His blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning's Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit: In my last few blogs, I wrote of my hope that The Promise of Israel can ...

Forward (blog)

Disabled author plans to travel Kerouac's 'Road'
The News Herald
Next month, Bruce Gamble, a Lynn Haven author, will set out on the “Sweet Chariot” Tour, a five- to six-week road trip across America and back. If the premise sounds reminiscent of an iconic novel from the '50s, it is by design. “I was surfing the ...

Revealing Eden author needs some Good Black Friends
The Guardian
Revealing Eden author needs some Good Black Friends. If Victoria Foyt is serious about portraying the horrors of racism in her young adult trilogy, she should listen to those who know. Share · Tweet this · Email · Bim Adewunmi · guardian.co.uk, Monday...

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Sex in China: Q&A with author Richard Burger | Danwei
By Jeremy Goldkorn
Richard Burger is the blogger behind Peking Duck, a record of his thoughts on China since 2003, when her first wrote about being in Beijing during SARS. Burger is also the author of Behind the Red Door: Sex in China, published by Earshaw ...
Danwei

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Riverfront Times (blog)
You've made Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl the number-one local bestseller. (And it is local, sort of: Much of the action takes place in North Carthage, Missouri, a fictional town on the Mississippi, near Hannibal, but there are detours to the St. Louis are ...

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New Bestseller List Looks at Money, Not Copies Sold - EContent ...
Apparently the number of copies sold is no longer a good enough indicator of bestsellers. With more inexpensive indie books hitting the ebook 'shelves' and, ...
www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID...

OBL raid book author to be on "60 Minutes" - CBS News Video
CBS News video: OBL raid book author to be on "60 Minutes" - "60 Minutes" is interviewing ...
www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7419124n

Author Rowling schedules NYC appearance Oct. 16 - Yahoo! Finance
From Yahoo! Finance: This fall, British writer J.K. Rowling plans to make her one and only in-person appearance in the U.S. to promote her first novel for adults.
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Sacramento author learns the hard way about Facebook impostors ...
Hi to you my lovely facebook friend's this is my New account now i got a Trojan virus on the other account so that why i send you a new friend request thanks for ...
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SURVEY: Do You Self-Publish or Opt for a Small Press? | Publishing ...
Given a choice, would you opt for more control with self-publishing or work with the team at a small publisher?
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3 Really Good Self-Publishing Ideas and 5 Hilariously Bad Ones by ...
Self-publishing is also just so darn easy now. With just a few clicks of the mouse, you can have your book available for sale on Amazon, the Barnes & Noble ...
www.thebookdesigner.com/2012/08/alan-petersen/

Self-Publishing Stigma: Let's End It! — Self Publishing Team
My fellow indies, we have a problem. Before I climb atop my trusty soap box to expound on my feelings about this problem, I need to make something really clear ...
selfpublishingteam.com/self-publishing-stigma-lets-end-it/

The Best Book Review Money Can Buy - Neatorama
By Alex
the book review gushes, but deep down, you wonder whether it's real. Welcome to the world of fakebook review service, where enthusiastic reviews are bought and sold like any other two-bit market commodity. The New York Times has the ...
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Book Review: The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
Blogcritics.org (blog)
The reason I requested to be on the tour for this book is actually quite nostalgic. Many years ago, what seems like 100 years ago (and unfortunately, what seems like 100 lbs. as well) I walked along the Inca Trail in Bolivia (slightly less famous than ...

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Book Review: “Illustrated Guide to Home Forensic Science Experiments”
Tucson Citizen
by Jonathan DuHamel on Aug. 27, 2012, under Book Reviews. This rather heavy, 425-page, soft-cover book is intended for anyone, from teenagers to adults, who want to get a better understanding of forensic science. You can get some understanding from ...

Book Review 'Fire in the Ashes' by Jonathan Kozol
Boston Globe
Boston-born education activist Jonathan Kozol has been following the lives of marginalized children in the South Bronx for decades and through a dozen books, describing in award-winning detail how this nation's “savage inequalities” have devastated the ...

BOOK REVIEW: 'Freedom Manifesto'
Washington Times
Instead, this book is about the practical effects of go ernment policy — its talk of “morality” does little more than reflect an assumption that good policy is moral and bad policy isn't. A less bombastic subtitle might be, “why free markets make us ...

Washington Times

Book Review: A New Myth for America by James Hilgendorf
Blogcritics.org (blog)
I discovered A New Myth for America among my Google+ circles. The author, James Hilgendorf, mentioned it in a post, and I was immediately intrigued. The combination of Buddhist philosophy and pride in the potential of our country is unusual, despite ...

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Book Review: Taste of Home: Best Loved Recipes
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Of course, just like Taste of Home magazine, the book is loaded with gorgeous color photographs (400 of them) of many of the recipes. The recipes also include the contributor's name, city, state, and the year that it appeared in the Taste of Home magazine.

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Book Review 245: Wily Violets & Underground Orchids
Maui News (blog)
There are 100 books about sharks for every book about minnows; and for every book about sharks, a hundred about birds. It does take a deft touch to write as engagingly about plants as about animals, and Peter Bernhardt has it. Many of the essays in ...

Book Review: Publish Like the Pros: A Brief Guide to Quality Self-Publishing ...
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The book market is flooded with how-to books on getting published. The difference with PublishLike the Pros: A Brief Guide to Quality Self-Publishing is that the author, Michele DeFilippo, runs a book design company that helps authors succeed with a ...

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