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Calling Arkansas ducks

She now heads the Susan Schadt Press and confided to an interviewer last year: “If someone had told me eight years ago when I published my first book that I would start my own publishing company, I would have made a huge wager against that probability. Becoming a publisher, editor and occasional
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Deb good: The story behind Debenhams Christmas Campaign

While John Lewis and BBC One continue to command much attention, Debenhams' Christmas spot is emerging as one the most impressive of this season. Commissioned by London agency J Walter Thompson and featuring a cameo from Ewan McGregor, who also narrates the film, it tells the story of a
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Parish pupils' poems are prize-winners

Two pupils from Parish Church Primary School are celebrating after their creative writing has landed all the children in school a prize through the Primary League Stars programme. Following a … Using the title of Try, Try Again, the Parish pupils had to write poems based on the theme of resilience.
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Putting the needle on the Kiwi record

They were a publishing firm and had started to do some educational recordings.” When he was told he had to stop the extra work by his main employers, AH and AW Reed offered him a full-time job. He stepped into the recording department in Wellington and Kiwi Records became a division of the Reed
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Twitter, Facebook and Google attacked by MPs for publishing 'stuff that incites people to kill, harm …

Social media companies were urged to accelerate efforts to tackle hate crime after facing tough questions from MPs over their handling of online abuse. Senior executives from Twitter, Facebook and Google, which owns YouTube, were accused of profiting from violence and criticised for failing to remove
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George Smith: Book provides more reasons to be a proud Mainer

Griffin also recognizes some of our famous authors and poets, including Stephen King and Edna St. Vincent Millay. I was in a creative writing class with King at the University of Maine. In my book talks I mentioned this and report that we both became writers — and together we've sold more than 300
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Bulgarians Hail Discovery of Oldest National History

A team of philologists and historians are working on translating and publishing it in Bulgaria later in 2018. “The research of the text of Petar Bogdan will have a great significance for shedding light on the intellectual history of Bulgarians, the capacities of our educated ancestors, who used the higher
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Making a living as a literary author is damn near impossible, a report says

Considering some of these top authors have multiple books published, that's fewer than 1,000 authors making this much or more. And it seems to be getting worse. As the report notes, the 100th book in 2011 sold 55,000 copies, compared to just 35,000 copies in 2015. Of course the disparity gets much
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