Driscoll signs new two-book deal with Amazon Publishing
Amazon Publishing's Thomas & Mercer imprint has signed two new titles from former BBC journalist, Teresa Driscoll. World English language rights were acquired from Madeleine Milburn, who said the Amazon Publishing platform had enabled Driscoll to reach “hundreds of thousands” of readers in the
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For young writers who are disconnected from contemporary Australian literary networks but confident about the quality of their work, the freedom promised by recent technological advances in publishing and book distribution must be hard to pass over. This is especially the case for those who write the
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Others came to know Johnson as a creative writing teacher. He had been a student himself at the famous Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was taught by Raymond Carver. (The older writer's scrupulously plain, stripped-pine sentences clearly didn't influence him too much.) Kelly Luce, now herself a
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The prize money for this contest is derived from the Bob Schulze Fund for Creative Writing maintained at the Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation. Schulze was a longtime summer resident of Emmet County. He won such a prize at his Springfield, Illinois, high school. After his death, his
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CHARLOTTE â Author Margaret Bigger is teaching a writing course, âRecalling Memories for Your Family or the Public,â to raise money for the Charlotte Writers' Club. Bigger has written several books, including âMotherhoot: The Lighter Side of Motherhoodâ and âYou've Got to Have a Sense of Humor to
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Despite what teachers, parents and bosses might preach, Emma Glass is proof that leaving things to the last minute does not always end in tears. Only a few days from the due date for the final assignment of her creative-writing course and exasperated by failed attempts to start, a desperate Glass
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It's important to face taboos in particular, I think, because the Somali culture, in terms of its creative side, which is mostly poetry, doesn't really deal with taboo subjects. I think that it's really important to talk about difficult things under the umbrella of creative writing?â?to understand that also, when you
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Eric Hirshberg is perhaps better known as the face of Activision Publishing. The energetic executive who introduced many Call of Duty reveals on many different stages in the past few years, and perhaps the most recognisable of Activision's top brass. Hirshberg has announced that he will be leaving the
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Writing Skill Group (RR): 7 p.m. Jan. 23. Learn and apply creative writing tips, tools, and techniques shared by published authors and other writing experts. Open to all who want to improve their creative writing skills and get their work published. When registering, provide your email address so you can
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FICTION. 1. âThe Woman in the Windowâ by A.J. Finn (Morrow). 2. âOriginâ by Dan Brown (Doubleday). 3. âThe Rooster Barâ by John Grisham (Doubleday). 4. âLittle Fires Everywhereâ by Celest Ng (Penguin). 5.âThe Immortalistsâ by Chloe Benjamin (G.P. Putnam's Sons). 6. âSing, Unburied, Singâ by
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