Day: December 31, 2017

Designer Best Sellers of 2017

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Designer Best Sellers of 2017

Get the most wanted styles by the luxe labels you love.
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Bookmarks: Pete Souza in Portland, new titles from Ursula Le Guin and Chuck Palahniuk

Poet Matthew Dickman has a new collection about his Portland childhood, “Wonderland” (W. W. Norton & Company, 96 pages, $26.95), in which he “journeys back into the dark edges of youth, violence, race, class, and masculinity,” as Publishers Weekly puts it. The book is scheduled for release March
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Oh My God! Aisling beats David Walliams to coveted Christmas bestseller slot

“When we started turning in the first few chapters of the first book to the publisher, they responded that they couldn't tell who had written what. We are good friends and have a similar sense of humour.” They will be spending New Year's Eve together in Sarah's house. “Somebody gave us a nice bottle of
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Extreme Overflow Publishing Announces a New Book – Build Your Own Way – Demolish Barriers …

Boston, MA, December 31, 2017 — Extreme Overflow Publishing is excited to announce the launch of a new book entitled, “Build Your Own Way: Demolish Barriers and Discover the Power of You,” by author Taisha Crayton of Boston, Massachusetts. Based on her 20+ years of experience as a mentor,
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Kiel High School students dip feet into screenwriting | School notes

Kiel High School students in the creative writing English class collectively created a movie using their script-writing skills, video formatting techniques and overall creative abilities. The movie, titled “School Spirit,” is a short story about the tale of young woman who fatally trips on clutter resulting in her
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Global Publishing & Subscriptions Software Market on Trend, Cost Structure, Share, Demand …

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Global Publishing & Subscriptions Software Market on Trend, Cost Structure, Share, Demand …

The research covers the current market size of the Global Publishing & Subscriptions Software market and its growth rates based on 5 year history data along with company profile of key players/manufacturers. The in-depth information by segments of Publishing & Subscriptions Software market helps
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Grayscale

Over several weeks the students work with young teaching artists to build and tell their stories through art — from theater to creative writing and visual art. “It's teaching them various creative forms for giving voice to their experience,” said Melissa Johnson, executive director of the community-based arts
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The Amazon Economy

It can tilt the playing field (fulfillment, search and recommendation algorithms, or even removing the sell button or the seller altogether) in order to extract better conditions, something which it regularly does with publishers. It can also use the seller data to see what sells best and to produce similar items
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Katie Mullaly aims to help aspiring author write and publish their first book

To do this, the author of the “Land Of” children's book series has penned her first nonfiction book titled “Self-Publishing Your Children's Book: A Practical Guide to the Planning, Printing, and Promotion of Your Children's Book.” The 56-page guide includes chapters about good story components, book
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Meryl Streep, "The Post" and the Essence of Being a Publisher

Meryl Streep's performance as Katherine Graham in “The Post” is so exceptional because she brings to the screen the anxiety, thrill and stress that comes with holding the title of publisher. It was especially fitting to see such a portrayal as I'm still processing the loss of a publisher I knew and admired so
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Editor's Notebook: Projects, new publisher highlight 2017

As we welcome the new year it's customary to take a look at what happened over the past 365 days. The Register-Mail had some news of its own in 2017. David Adams started the year as our new publisher replacing Scott Carr, who replaced Tony Scott. Tony was named publisher after longtime
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Transforming Punjab's economy

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Transforming Punjab's economy

Let me first share why I appreciate publishing of this report and then will turn to key gaps in the report and strategies. First, the publication of reports demonstrates that the provincial government is willing to take a greater responsibility to steer economic development. Second, the report is based on an
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Just Crack'n offers Southern seafood take-out

“It is really an awesome felling for me to hear that people think our food is really good.” What would you say is your key to success? Lindsey said that he believes that it is important to talk to customers and get to know them on a first name basis. “Cooking is easy, but making people comfortable with you
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The Shocking Net Worth of These 10 Richest Pastors Will Blow Your Mind

His sermons can be seen on Trinity Broadcasting Network and other religious channels. Jakes' net worth has been estimated at $18 million. He talked about his wealth with Oprah in a 2012 interview, and stated that he draws income from his megachurch, in addition to earning money off his best-selling
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By Kyle Gaudette kgaudette@eagletribune.com

1. “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner: $26) A woman and her two children journey through the South to pick up their father from prison. 2. “Manhattan Beach,” by Jennifer Egan (Scribner: $27) The first female diver at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during World War II seeks to uncover the reason
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Jarrod's homage to the 'Hoover'

… launch of the English Electric Class 50 diesel-electric locomotive, has just been published by Somerset-based publishing company Haynes, famous for producing specialist manuals. … “They are part manual, part history and part information on how the remaining models are being maintained today.
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3 Ways Writing Down Your Goals Can Help You Become Top Of Mind

Of course, the act of writing won't magically make all your dreams come true. (If only!) However, writing notes forces you to think through what you want and why, and writing can actually help you become a better leader. That's because documenting your ideas and goals allows you to process them in
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2018 is hours away! This is how to make resolutions that stick

TV and the Internet portray an unreal world where everyone seems better looking, fitter, more intelligent and successful. Making you feel bad. So resolve to limit your exposure. Instead, try something creative: writing, making music, learning to draw. Resolve to spend a few moments every day just being
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5 new books you won't want to miss this week, including Stuart Woods' latest

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5 new books you won't want to miss this week, including Stuart Woods' latest

The buzz: Woods goes into the new year with five Top 10 USA TODAY best sellers under his belt for 2017 alone. 2. In the Shadow of Agatha Christie, edited by Leslie S. Klinger (Pegasus, fiction, on sale Jan. 2). What it's about: As the subtitle says, this book collects “Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten
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Ring in the new year with a look back at some of the best of 2017

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Ring in the new year with a look back at some of the best of 2017

The Fresno County Library's Bookshelf column shares suggestions for books, music, and other items, and provides information about library programs. Prizewinning Nonfiction of 2017. ▫ “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” by Matthew Desmond. Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in General
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The Lights Between Tunnels

What do a comedy podcast about death, time dilation, Billy Joel, Harry Potter, and the Lascaux cave paintings have in common? They are all part of the Beckett Scholarship Competition. Jennifer Beckett, a wealthy alumni of Harrington High School, returns to her alma mater to introduce a new
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Bookmarks: New book releases and events

Bookmarks: New book releases and events. EMAIL US … to brandysbookmarks1@outlook.com (don't forget the 1) seven days before the Sunday of publication. … The Florida Authors and Publishers Association is accepting submissions in 45 categories for the 2018 FAPA President's Book Awards.
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Extreme Overflow Publishing Announces a New Book – Build Your Own Way – Demolish Barriers …

Boston, MA, December 31, 2017 –(PR.com)– Extreme Overflow Publishing is excited to announce the launch of a new book entitled, “Build Your Own Way: Demolish Barriers and Discover the Power of You,” by author Taisha Crayton of Boston, Massachusetts. Based on her 20+ years of experience as a
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History

Booksamillion.com offers deep discounts on bargain books, audio books, overstocks and clearance books.
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Singleton Snyder a force for change in church, city

She switched to advertising, and when it came time to decide what to do for graduate school, she was torn between creative writing and seminary. “I mean I was interested in religion, but it wasn't really until I started — you have to remember this was in 1983, and I hadn't seen a woman pastor,” Singleton
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How I chose my list of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

Among nonfiction classics, the most treacherous category is that creature beloved of publishers – “the contemporary classic”. A second cousin to that notorious impostor is the “instant classic”. Such books will have been judged by slippery criteria: popular and literary critical fashion, a changing
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Thriller keeps reader's interest

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Thriller keeps reader's interest

As a serial killer lurks around southern Florida, stalking young women with red auburn curly hair and fair complexions, Detective Al Warner is baffled by the bizarre way they died and were left to be discovered. Each had been smothered, dying peacefully while apparently in a chloroform daze of some
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Car dealerships in the area report a solid year

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Car dealerships in the area report a solid year

best sellers,” Sweet said. He said pick-up trucks are so luxurious they have become the “main” vehicle for many families. Aaron Feather, manager at Great Lakes Auto in Ashtabula Township, said sales figures are very close to 2016. “Buicks are way up for us. Trucks are slightly down,” Feather said.
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Customer kindness takes bitterness out of bookstore's closing

“In the beginning the focus was on best-sellers,” Stomberg explained. “But special orders and figuring out what people were interested in ahead of time became more important. Local authors and books were popular. 'Boom, Bust, Exodus' was a national book, but a local story and did well. We got used
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The Switch is Great, but Here are Some Improvements to Make it Greater

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The Switch is Great, but Here are Some Improvements to Make it Greater

So, these publishers have essentially been placing the extra cost on consumers by using a smaller cartridge and making consumers buy a microSD card for the Switch. One way to fully this situation is by Nintendo giving the Switch at least 64GB of internal memory rather than just 32GB. My theory as to
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BookTV starts a fiction series on Jan. 7

(Publishers Weekly). If writing more – or better – is one of your New Year's resolutions, the Muse Writers Center might be able to help. Its next round of classes begins Feb. 1. Topics include poetry, fiction, nonfiction and memoir; cookbook writing, comic book writing and screenwriting; and songwriting,
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Amazon KDP Support: Publishing success…

Hi, I'm Tony Brady. I'm a relatively new author, as I had my first piece published in august 2017. In the less than six months that have passed since then I've managed to publish four more titles. I'm part of the KDP program with Amazon and so far so good. I haven't made much money yet, but I have been
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Clean Romance Stories – 10000 words

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Clean Romance Stories – 10000 words

I am seeking competent romance writers that not only write well but who can also deliver in a timely manner. You will be writing in a themed subgenre of romance. I will provide all plots for you to follow along with example stories and background for the genre. There will be regular ongoing work in the
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Looking forward – 2018: When it comes to literature, mythology rules the roster

Publishing is an unpredictable business. Even so, one of the trends in the world of books that I discern in 2018 and coming years, is mythology. The space for books based on Indian mythology has grown immensely since the time I wrote the children's Mahabharata and In Search of Sita (2009), and I
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Book review: Writer's Luck: A Memoir: 1976-1991 by David Lodge

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Book review: Writer's Luck: A Memoir: 1976-1991 by David Lodge

A similar desire to escape the tame confines of propriety shows up in The Writing Game. This was inspired by an Arvon fiction-writing course where he and the novelist Deborah Moggach tutored a group of students. Nothing improper occurred, and they dispersed peacefully at the end. In the play
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Salt Lake City woman offers warning about phone scam

SALT LAKE CITY – When Salt Lake City resident Helen Joe Stoddard got a phone call Wednesday morning, she thought of the old adage: if it's too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true. A man on the phone told her she had won the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes. “You've just won
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The biggest media and advertising stories of 2017

Mashable agreed to sell itself to trade publisher Ziff Davis for about $US50 million ($64m), a fraction of its $US250m valuation less than two years earlier. The troubles faced by independent digital publishers are at least twofold: native advertising can be tough to scale, making it increasingly difficult for
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Taking a Look at What's Behind the Numbers for Samsung Publishing Co., Ltd (KOSE:A068290 …

The price index of Samsung Publishing Co., Ltd (KOSE:A068290) for last month was 1.01271. This is calculated by taking the current share price and dividing by the share price one month ago. If the ratio is greater than 1, then that means there has been an increase in price over the month. If the ratio is
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New Year resolutions

More important than writing down your goals, is making a plan (and writing it down, of course). You will need to come up with the What, Who, Where, When, How of achieving your goals for the year. The What – This is the easy part. You can wish for anything; a new job, losing a couple of kilos, starting a
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Quincy Media Inc. names Wallace publisher of The Herald-Whig

QUINCY — Herald-Whig General Manager Ron Wallace has been named publisher of the newspaper, effective Jan. 1. He replaces Thomas A. Oakley, who is retiring after 63 years with the company. Wallace will continue to serve as vice president of newspapers for Quincy Media Inc., the parent
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