Day: May 7, 2017

Publishers do well to ponder nature of life after journalists

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Publishers do well to ponder nature of life after journalists

With its prime metro mastheads sold off, along with the key growth business of Domain, Fairfax will be reduced to a regional publishing unit, a 54 per
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WYO Arts Calendar

LARAMIE: UW Creative Writing Program MFA students will read from their theses, 7 p.m., May 8 and May 10, at Night Heron Books, 107 E. Ivinson Ave
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Thin-skinned publisher needs to face new mediaworld

But his over-the-top response revealed a deeper truth; it's been a long, hard fall for newspaper publishers. No longer do they stand as immortals on
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Writing course complete set

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Writing course complete set

Everything you need to get published. Never used. Bought as a gift as part of a course but there is.
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BC Book Awards

Publishing is obsessed with “winners,” but I've always thought literary prizes are earned while winners are for lotteries. Still, awards recognize writers,
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Local writer Cooley hopes to inspire others

Over the next 10 years he would send his book to publishers, receiving only formal rejection letters, leaving Cooley wondering if he would ever get
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Books: New Murakami, after 'The Girl on the Train,' a forgotten surrealist and more

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Books: New Murakami, after 'The Girl on the Train,' a forgotten surrealist and more

Paula Hawkins had a worldwide bestseller on her hands with “The Girl on the Train,” which she has now followed up with “Into the Water,” another
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2017 AWARD WINNERS LIST

The Academic and Professional Publisher Award, supported by Research Information. WINNER: OECD Publishing. The Educational Initiatives Award.
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Publisher's Perspective: Yet more growth

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Publisher's Perspective: Yet more growth

Publisher's Perspective: Yet more growth Last month, I wrote about the personal and business growth I'm currently experiencing. We've again
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History & Quotes

On this date in history: In 1718, city of New Orleans was founded. In 1789, the first U.S. presidential inaugural ball, celebrating the inauguration of
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French election authorities warn media – and public – not to publish #MacronLeaks documents

Election authorities in France have waned the media – and public – against publishing documents obtained in a “massive and coordinated hacking
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Indie publishing event offers expert advice for authors

The Spacecoast Authors of Romance (STAR) is hosting a “Master Class in Indie Publishing” from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. May 20 at the Franklin T.
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An Unkempt Jeremiad

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An Unkempt Jeremiad

Spinrad's next novel, Mexica, a chronicle of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, was spurned by American publishers (it came out in the United
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Best-Selling Author Coming to Nantucket for Lecture, Workshop

The next morning Rosenblatt leads a creative writing workshop for writers of all abilities at the NHA's Greater Light historic property from 9 a.m. to noon
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FUTURE PROOF: E-books: download or read online?

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FUTURE PROOF: E-books: download or read online?

There was a time when you had to secure a book publishing deal to get a book out. Now, you can very easily create your own e-book. The question is
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Best-Selling Author Cheryl Strayed Visits WellFit Girls at Venue Naples

Her books, Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, Brave Enough and Torch, New York Times bestselling and bestsellers, have been translated into 40 languages
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Author and professor Lily Hoang visits Diablo Valley College

“A Bestiary,” winner of the 2015 Essay Collection Competition, is part of the required reading for a few creative writing classes among multiple
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Lancaster woman publishing poetry to inspire others

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Lancaster woman publishing poetry to inspire others

Denesha Degraffenreid decided at the end of a four-day trip to Texas that she would drive on to California and pitch an idea at a book publisher.
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Publisher's Award: One man's meat is another man's poison

Editor's note: This is 2017 winner of the “Publisher's Award” for essays written as part of a food safety litigation class at the University of Arkansas Law
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