Day: November 3, 2017

Markets for your writing

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Markets for your writing

Various Creative Writing with Black Characters: Black Book Publishing has open submissions in a variety of categories. They have a general call out
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Can Sweek turn free mobile stories into a self-publishing empire?

Self-publishing, serialisation, gamification, sales – this Netherlands-based startup is a one-stop publishing shop with a mobile heart.
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Despite tough talk, Trump follows Obama's course on trying terror suspects

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Despite tough talk, Trump follows Obama's course on trying terror suspects

Holder expressed vindication after Trump changed course Thursday, writing on Twitter: “Those who criticized my decision to try 9/11 plotters in federal
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Cowboy agency tries to con US newspaper in fraud crackdown warning

A cowboy agency has begun approaching publishers to get onto white lists designed to weed out fraudsters in a bold attempt to circumvent the IAB's
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Experimental College: from personal finance to songwriting

There's only one place at Grinnell College where one can take classes about how to brew beer, freestyle, write songs or be wealthy: the Experimental
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Maverick Publishing appoints new editor

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Maverick Publishing appoints new editor

Du Plessis is to take over the editorial reigns from long-standing editor and co-publisher, Tanja Schmitz, as work commence's on the title's best-selling
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Maverick Publishing Corporation appoints a new editor for fitness magazine

Maverick Publishing Corporation, publishers of female health and fitness title, fitness, announces the appointment of Mariska du Plessis as the
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Poetry reading featuring Palen, Walker, Hart set

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Poetry reading featuring Palen, Walker, Hart set

He started writing fiction while attending the Creative Writing graduate program at EIU in 2008. It's there he won the James K. Johnson Creative
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Girl, 8, writes letter to Bolton Council asking to open new Horwich Leisure Centre

So, after a creative writing session at school, the youngster asked her mother if she could write to Bolton Council — and Mrs Rowlands agreed to
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Record label gets 7-figure boost from global music group, seeks bigger digs

Shockoe Bottom-based Spacebomb, the indie label co-founded by … the reach and resources of its recording, publishing and production capabilities.
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Countering extremist ideology

Al Ameri pointed out that Sharjah Publishing City (SPC), which was recently inaugurated by the Ruler of … “The true history of SIBF began when His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah wrote the first line of the event's biography in 1982.
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CMH Records Releases "Country Music Heritage" to Global Radio

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CMH Records Releases "Country Music Heritage" to Global Radio

AirPlay Direct is a professional B2B music business environment for artists, labels, publishing companies, radio promotion firms, PR / Media firms, etc.
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English professor talks findings in his book during National Novel Writing Month

Professor Matthew Jockers talks about “The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel” at Bailey Library in Andrews Hall in Lincoln,
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A Literary Gadfly: Doing the Job Without any Bosses

They're celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, and the exchange is from their comic-style history, Books without Bosses. The publisher has no
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Istanbul publishing house condemns arrest of Turkish advocate for Armenian-Turkish rapprochement

Aras Publishing House of Istanbul, Turkey, and which has published numerous books on Armenian Genocide, has issued a statement on the arrest of
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HERB BENHAM: Dodger blues? Not for this appreciative fan

The Dodger season made a glass of red wine taste good. … Our prices are well below other stores and include current best sellers as well as vintage
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Signs that Facebook food videos are losing their luster

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Signs that Facebook food videos are losing their luster

Monthly Facebook video views at several leading food-focused publishers are either flat or have declined over the past year, according to
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Video publishers on what happens after Facebook stops subsidizing video content

Unsurprisingly, Facebook was top of mind among video publishers at the Digiday Video Anywhere Summit. From producing shows for Facebook's
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Do People Actually Win The PCH Sweepstakes?

“Yes, people really win the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes,” said Chris Irving, assistant vice-president with Publishers Clearing House.
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East Haddam's iPark welcomes residency artists; open studios set for Nov. 19

Helen Betya Rubinstein is a writer and essayist from Iowa developing a … composition/sound art, creative writing and landscape/ecological design.
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'It's not the silver bullet': Media buyers see limits on the impact of ads.txt

The Interactive Advertising Bureau's ads.txt initiative, which is a text file on publishers' web server listing their authorized inventory sellers, is thought
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Texas Tech Creative Writing Program welcomes Kamilah Aisha Moon

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Texas Tech Creative Writing Program welcomes Kamilah Aisha Moon

Kamilah Aisha Moon poses before reading for the Texas Tech Creative Writing Program Reading Series in the auditorium of the English & Philosophy
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Book Publishing Reshapes The Comic Book World

James Lucas Jones, the publisher of Oni Press, says the no. 1 way readers find their book format comics is through libraries, with comic books and
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Wood: The writing on the museum walls

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Wood: The writing on the museum walls

While we were discussing the exhibitions, two exceptional shows on the Heisei period and the work of Yurie Nagashima, during the following course
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Weddings & Engagements Diamonds Womens Rings Romantic Christmas Gifts & Presents

Shop The Bradford Exchange Online for Christmas Gifts Women's Rings Romantic Weddings & Engagements Diamonds Best Sellers. Shop securely
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Louisiana Rebellion of 1811 focus of talk

Leon Waters, writer and founder of Hidden History Tours, a publishing, research and touring company in New Orleans, marries education and social
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Reaching out with your library | Sharon Lee

Each month, a customized selection of mysteries, best sellers, memoirs, adventure thrillers, science fiction and more in regular print, large type or
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Historical archive revived

Katandra and District History Group president Garry Wallden said the idea of publishing Ruth Tate's Scrapbook 1913–1923 was enthusiastically
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National Book Award breathes life into 'Aeneid,' a show of rare books

A Brookline resident, Ferry has been a visiting lecturer in BU's creative-writing program, a distinguished visiting scholar at Suffolk and is the Sophie
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Billionaire Joe Ricketts Shuts Down Gothamist and DNAinfo

The closing of the websites is another sign of how difficult it has become for online publishers to survive at a time when Google and Facebook are
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Frank Ocean Honors Rick Rubin; Mike Elizondo and Starrah Win Big at Spotify's Secret Genius …

Accordingly, many names familiar to only music publishers, other songwriters who toil away behind the scenes in Los Angeles or Nashville studio
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Periscope Sweetens 'Super Hearts' Deal For Publishers

Apart from a $1 “administration fee,” Periscope will now let members of its Super Broadcaster program keep all the earnings from the sale of Super
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Mazatlán transformed: it 'needed a shake-up'

… it capable of competing against any other tourism destination in the country, adding that the beach city had become one of the company's top sellers.
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DC Lawyer Gives Back with Second Children's Book

Jones, who self-publishes, said: “I found that self-publishing allows you to be in control of your art,” Jones said. “This can be a good or bad thing, but
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