Day: January 25, 2018

Creative Writing: Getting Started

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Creative Writing: Getting Started

Creative writing can be a fulfilling artistic activity and it's never too late to give it a try! We provide a safe, inspiring, and supportive space to help you develop a daily writing practice and generate new work through weekly writing exercises, readings, and discussions of a wide range of published materials.
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Rick Ross Names New Manager: Publishing Vet Juan Madrid

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Rick Ross Names New Manager: Publishing Vet Juan Madrid

Music publishing veteran Juan Madrid has moved into the management arena as manager for rapper and five-time Grammy Award nominee Rick Ross. Ross, who is also working with Madrid on a new TV show, is set to release his next album, Port of Miami 2: Born to Kill, this year. Madrid's Cruz Control
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Florence man pleads guilty to fourth offense OWI

Lawrence S. Bosworth, 58, of Florence, pled guilty to a felony charge of OWI fourth offense in Florence County Circuit Court on Tuesday. One remaining felony charge of OWI and a misdemeanor charge of operating a vehicle with a revoke license was dismissed. With three prior OWI convictions, one
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Seniors news for the week of Jan. 26

30 – Dominoes and Poker, 9 a.m.; Creative Writing, 10 a.m.; Day Save and closeOld Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Party Bridge, noon; “Ole & Lena Win a Cruise” at Lakeville Area Arts Center, 1:30 p.m. Deadline: Diamond Jo Casino. Wednesday, Jan. 31 – Yoga, 8:15 a.m.; Poker & Hearts, 9 a.m.; Line Dancing,
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Publishing Briefs: Jazz Musician Cameron Graves Gets Down With Spirit; Notting Hill Promotes …

Spirit Music Group has signed songwriter and artist Cameron Graves, a founding member of jazz collective the West Coast Get Down, to an exclusive worldwide publishing agreement. In addition to working on Kamasi Washington's The Epic, he has also worked with Jada Pinkett Smith and hip-hop
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Read It & Eat with Benjamin Ludwig

Benjamin Ludwig is a former English teacher and holds an MFA in creative writing. He was inspired to write “Ginny Moon” by his own experiences adopting a teenage girl with autism. He lives in New Hampshire with his family. The gathering begins at 11:30 a.m., with the program and lunch at noon.
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Richard Corben Wins Grand Prix of Angoulême 2018, Named President for 2019

After working as a professional animator, Corben started doing underground comics, including Grim Wit, Slow Death, Skull, Rowlf, Fever Dreams and his own anthology Fantagor. In 1970 he began illustrating horror and science-fiction stories for Warren Publishing, his stories appeared in Creepy, Eerie,
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LA firm tells brands how to protect themselves from the likes of Logan Paul

The study examined how brand-safety concerns are impacting the advertising industry, investigating how brands, agencies and publishers are addressing the issue as well as how companies can identify and reduce exposure to unsafe content. “When brands are damaged, we all suffer,” said GumGum
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SUNY Potsdam installs new vending machine for original art

“There's been some students involved with creative writing who expressed interest in it, and then the student art association,” said Ms. Vasher-Dean. Mr. Whittington creates the machines to become part of their communities, and hopes professors will use the Art-O-Mat to give their students assignments,
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'The X-Files' Comics Return to IDW Publishing

After a short publishing hiatus, IDW Publishing will resume publication of comics based on The X-Files in April, just as the venerable FOX series prepares to wrap what appears to be its final season. The X-Files: Case Files will be a series dedicated to short stories from a variety of creative teams,
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Mountain, Jules

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Mountain, Jules

by Catalog. Trafalgar Square Publishing (1). by Number of Pages. 201-500 pages (1). Browse All Jules Mountain Titles. Narrow Your Search →. Titles Found: 1. Aftershock (3 Formats) >. By Jules Mountain. Trade Paper ISBN 9781785635014. Trade Paper Price 13.95. Trade Paper, EPUB, Mobipocket.
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Facebook should pay news publishers a fee: Murdoch

Murdoch's comments come on the back of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announcing changes to the site's news feed, which would start to prioritize posts from friends and family over news from publishers. Facebook will push up “trustworthy” publishers, determined by user feedback as it faces
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Carol's Nears Closing

Authors like Jay Parini, a professor of English and creative writing, have written entire books within the café's confines. The café's high ceilings, ocher walls and chalkboard menu seem to encourage linger over an espresso. “For many years I considered Carol's my study,” Parini said. “I sat at a small table
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After long wait, time is right for local man's novel

A new agent sold the book to Blackstone Publishing, which is based in Ashland, Oregon and is one of the largest independent audiobook publishers in the country. Blackstone is bringing the book out in hardcover and as an audiobook and has already contracted with Dudley for a sequel. He has also
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UNL student uses passion, poetry to pave paths to justice

We're born alone, we die alone and in between that most of us write alone. That's how Celie Knudsen, sophomore English major at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, felt when she first began writing creatively in middle school. That changed when she started attending a creative writing camp at UNL
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Sharon Bala's Boat People haunted by enigmas of arrival

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Sharon Bala's Boat People haunted by enigmas of arrival

Growing up in Pickering, Ontario, she'd taken writing courses by correspondence and later completed the first draft of a novel, but it wasn't until she was in her 30s that she embraced the craft. The first story she wrote that pleased her was about an adult daughter's reaction to her mother's death, and this
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Remembering another side of Aharon Appelfeld

Almost 18 years ago, Appelfeld spent several weeks on campus at York University in Toronto as a writer-in-residence. During that intensive visit, he taught and mentored students in Jewish studies, literature, and creative writing. He met with faculty, and offered public talks in English and Hebrew.
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Princeton Migrations community project will feature exhibitions, performances, lectures and more

This is the first of four author talks in a migrations-related series at Labyrinth Books. Neel Mukherjee is the author of :A Life Apart: and winner of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for best fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author and teaches creative writing at the Lewis Center for the
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Beware of Publishers Clearing House scam

Some households in the Gallatin area have recently received bogus phone calls in an effort to defraud victims of more than $300. Here's how the scam works. The caller claims to be calling for Publishers Clearing House and first asks to verify your address. Then the caller announces that you have won
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HTML not publishing to website!!

I am trying to post this embedded code to my website and it is not working. please help… require([“mojo/signup-forms/Loader”],
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AppNexus Delivers Prebid Video Client Success, Seeing eCPMs up to 100% Higher Than Tags

NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — AppNexus, the world's leading independent advertising technology company, today announced client success with Prebid Video, built on Prebid.js, the industry's most widely adopted open source header bidding technology. Premium publishers, including
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