As a writer at Dabel Brothers, he has helped bring to the comic medium best sellers such as Dean Koontz's Fear Nothing, Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, and Becca Fitzpatrick's Hush, Hush. Neil Schwartz, a longtime comic book enthusiast, brought his passion for comics into reality by working at both
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Almost every amateur writer wants to know whether creativity is given to one by one's Muse or some demon in a dream, or whether one gets inspired instantaneously and happens to end up writing great stories like Borges or poems like Rilke. One wants to go deep down into oneself, find out the mythical
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At the beginning of the school year Meredith Miller, who is in Jennifer Ellis' third grade class at Truman Public School (TPS), approached Truman Community Education with a service project she wanted to work on. She had seen a video on YouTube that talked about how when youth have to be placed
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The Irish Times has agreed a deal to buy Landmark Media, the publishing group which owns the Irish Examiner, for an undisclosed fee, bringing to an end months of negotiations. The deal includes all of Landmark's publishing and media interests including the Irish Examiner, Evening Echo, seven
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She had reached The New York Times best-seller list with her novel “We Have Always Lived in The Castle” in 1962. Her two humorous books about raising children had been well received by critics and had sold well. She was a frequent and popular speaker at the Bread Loaf Conference, the Columbia
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Last month, I organized a poetry workshop with Winnipeg Public Library's Writer-in-Residence, Jennifer Still. I lead a creative writing group at the Brandon Library, and spend several hours a week critiquing the work of emerging poets. Not to mention the time I spend scribbling my own blank verse.
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Heinen said the timing for her departure felt right as the newspaper transitioned corporate ownership this fall when Pioneer Newspapers sold the 108-year-old paper to Adams Publishing Group. She said she informed TVN's regional publisher Andy Pennington last Tuesday that she would be leaving at
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The first problem is that a “book” comes in many different forms, carrying implications about relative status. Student textbooks or chapters in lightly edited collections from minor academic conferences are bottom of the pile, while single-authored academic monographs with prestigious publishers sit at the
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In a new interview with the New York Times, the 45-year-old actress and author of the New York Times bestseller We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True said that she found out after the book was released that some book stores (where in particular wasn't
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At the time of this writing, Dec. 6, it's day three of the raging Thomas Fire, which began somewhat innocuously, in Santa Paula, close to Thomas Aquinas College. It grew to a fever pitch with strong winds pushing it rapidly to Ventura and Ojai. Burning through homes and dry vegetation, safety experts
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