Day: February 16, 2018

Snapshot: CHS students sign letters of intent

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Snapshot: CHS students sign letters of intent

Eleven Carmel High School students recently signed letters of intent to play sports at the college level. They are, back row from left, Ben Godden (University of Evansville, soccer), Riley Shives (IUPUI, soccer), Ethan Lee (Xavier, soccer), Trey Harris (Butler, cross country), Jack Williams (University of
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City watchdog hands over RBS report to MPs but stops short of publishing

… said in an earlier letter: “If the committee decides itself to publish the report, it will no doubt want to consider carefully the precedent of publishing a document obtained from the FCA under Parliamentary Privilege where the FCA considers that it is legally constrained from publishing the document itself.”.
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LEO Lecturer I, Creative Writing

The Residential College Creative Writing Program https://lsa.umich.edu/rc is seeking to hire a non-continuing Lecturer I to teach Creative Writing for the Fall 2018 and Winter 2019 semesters. This position will be a 33.33% position for the equivalent of one course in each semester (9/1/18 – 4/30/19).
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City watchdog hands RBS scandal report to MPs without publishing

The City watchdog has handed over a damning report into RBS's mistreatment of small business customers to MPs, having decided not to make it public. The Treasury Select Committee had given the Financial Conduct Authority until Friday to publish its report into RBS's Global Restructuring Group,
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Michael Terence Publishing Announces the Release of 'Does Anyone Care?' by Steven Trinkwon

Michael Terence Publishing Announces the Release of 'Does Anyone Care?' by Steven Trinkwon. Books News Desk BroadwayWorld.com Feb. 16, 2018. Tweet Share. Michael Terence Publishing Announces the Release of 'Does Anyone Care?' by Steven Trinkwon Michael Terence Publishing is
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What are the health benefits of being creative?

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What are the health benefits of being creative?

… a lot of research in the medical field has actually suggested that art — and, more specifically, being creative — is, in fact, quite useful for our mental and physical well-being. Below, we look at some of the benefits that creative endeavors — from writing to dancing — can bring us, and we encourage you
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oligarch conversations

LRA urges legal committee to get down to bill about publishing “oligarch conversations”. RIGA, Feb 16 (LETA) – The opposition Latvian Association of Regions (LRA) has called on the parliamentary legal committee to stop stalling and to start reviewing the bill about making public the so-called oligarch
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Tegan and Sara Join The Archies in This Exclusive Preview—But is the Band Calling it Quits?

“Archie and his friends have been around for 75 years, so it's a challenge to carve out your own place in the tapestry of the characters' publishing history, but I think we did,” Segura added. “I grew up on comics like Love & Rockets, Box Office Poison and Clumsy, and this was, in some ways, a love letter
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Google Discloses Results Of 'Exchange Bidding,' Boosts Publisher Yield >40%

It has been working with a variety of ad exchanges and publishers to test a more transparent way of auctioning digital audience impressions to boost yield for publishers and effectiveness for advertisers. Google has not disclosed which publishers or exchanges it has beta testing with, other than OpenX,
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IT Project Manager

Salary: £50k – £55k pa + Package, Job Type: Permanent, Duration: , Start Date: ASAP – Apply Now for IT Project Manager – Publishing vacancy.
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BC: 15 bestselling books of the week, Feb. 10

You Hold Me Up — Monique Gray Smith, illustrated by Danielle Daniel (Orca Book Publishers). 6. Hello Humpback! — Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd, illustrated by Henry Vickers (Harbour Publishing). 7. The Spitfire Luck of Skeets Ogilvie: From the Battle of Britain to the Great Escape — Keith C.
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International Journal of Business Information Systems

Pages, Title and authors. 277-297, Investigating drivers of user acceptance of electronic treasury: a case study. Behrouz Zarei; Kasra Amanati; Amir Hossein Ghapanchi DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2018.10010582. 298-330, Developing and validating a comprehensive model of factors influencing consumer
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From the baseball field to the published word: how a UK outfielder became a poet

In 2010, even as Hairston was making spectacular dive catches as a baseball player and being named All-City, he was also becoming a writer: He attended the 2010 Governor's School for the Arts to study creative writing. His parents encouraged him in his diverse interests. His father, Donald Hairston,
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14-Year-Old Victim Of School Massacre Laid To Rest

We need it now! These kids need safety now!” Her mother also paid tribute to her daughter on social media writing, “Alyssa was a talented soccer player, so smart, and amazing personality, incredible creative writer, and all she had to offer the world was love. She believed in people for being so honest.”.
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Black History Month In Focus: Lerone Bennett Jr

While at Johnson Publishing, Bennett released a catalog of articles on Black history, even compiling and publishing some of them into collections and books. His 1954 article, “Thomas Jefferson's Negro Grandchildren” was considered very provocative and, according to mainstream ideology, apocryphal
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'Maze Runner' author James Dashner dropped by agent amid sexual harassment accusations

The bestselling novelist Dashner is one of several children's authors who have been caught up in the #MeToo movement. On Medium, children's author Anne Ursu revealed the responses to a widely shared survey she had run on sexual harassment among children's book writers, agents and publishers,
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Harvard Graduate Course Examines Importance of Poop in French Literature

The course explanation furthermore will: 'Provide another angle from which to approach the question of gender and writing, as gender organizes both literature and defecation. 'Offer an alternative theory of the significance of fecal matter to the dominant one provided by psychoanalysis. The goal of the
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Chinese police snatch a Swedish publisher and parade him on TV

Born in China, Mr Gui became a Swedish citizen while studying in Europe in the early 1990s. The publishing house he ran in Hong Kong pumped out loosely sourced tales of sex and corruption among China's political elite—legal in the former British colony, but infuriating to officials in Beijing. In October
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St. Louis Blues Sign Deal With Reely For AI-Generated Highlights

Max Rettig is a graduate of Columbia University with a B.A. in Creative Writing. He has been writing for SportTechie since January 2017. Max has held internships at Bleacher Report, Philadelphia magazine and the Philadelphia Daily News, and he has reported for the Columbia Daily Spectator and
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Desktop Publishing Coordinator

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Desktop Publishing Coordinator

Job Description for Desktop Publishing Coordinator in Regional, India – Covance 17551.
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Get ready for this year's Geneva Writers' Conference

Founded more than 20 years ago to bring together creative writers, the group brings writers together from across Switzerland. This season marks the 11th biennial Conference. The GWC will host writer/instructors who range from the best-selling author in English here in Switzerland, to a ranger of writers
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Word Buzz presents Patricia O'Donnell on March 1

KINGFIELD – Rolling Fatties' Word Buzz series continues Thursday, March 1 at 6:30 to 8 p.m. welcoming local novelist, short story writer and memoirist Patricia O'Donnell. O'Donnell is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Maine at Farmington, where she is Director of the BFA Program in
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5 things to know about 'Black Panther' director Ryan Coogler

While on a football scholarship to Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California, Coogler was taking a creative writing class. According to Filmmaker Magazine, Coogler was given an assignment to write about a personal experience, so he wrote about the time his father almost bled to death in his arms.
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Abrams to Publish Sequel to John Lewis' March Trilogy

The book deal was negotiated by Andrew Smith, senior v-p and publisher of Abrams Children's Books and Abrams ComicArts; and Charles Kochman, editorial director of Abrams ComicArts, who will edit the book. Rep. Lewis was represented by Jeffrey Posternak of the Andrew Wylie Agency.
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A Reimagined BookExpo is Unveiled

After an extensive listening tour in which BookExpo executives met with a range of industry members, the organizers of book publishing's largest trade show have added new elements to the event aimed at adding more value for booksellers. “While we will take care to support the entire distribution chain,
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The Bookshelf: Meg Kearney's Adoption Stories, Real and Imagined

So, why do you think (A) it's so difficult for families to talk about the emotional aspect of adoption, and (B) why do you think it was so difficult for you to break through and find a way to talk about that in your creative writing? Well, I think at the least, in terms of my family, my siblings really insisted that
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Banish the Block: Overcoming Fear and Finding Inspiration for Your Writing

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Banish the Block: Overcoming Fear and Finding Inspiration for Your Writing

EGL 187 W — Banish the Block: Overcoming Fear and Finding Inspiration for Your Writing. Quarter: Spring. Course Format: Online (System Requirements). Duration: 5 weeks. Date(s): Apr 2—May 4. Drop Deadline: Apr 5. Unit: 1. Tuition: $330. Instructor(s): Stacey Swann. Limit: 75. Status: Registration
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Bauer launches $12.99 food magazine with zero ads

Bauer Publishing may have hit on a unique formula to beat the ad crunch in the print world: Start a new magazine with zero advertising — but a sky-high cover price. Food to Love hit newsstands this week with a $12.99 cover price and initial distribution of 240,000. It's not seeking any subscribers.
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Reality Bites: Writing Sci-Fi and Fantasy

EGL 137 W — Reality Bites: Writing Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Quarter: Spring. Course Format: Online (System Requirements). Duration: 10 weeks. Date(s): Apr 2—Jun 8. Drop Deadline: Apr 5. Units: 3. Tuition: $880. Instructor(s): Lauren Kate. Limit: 17. Status: Registration opens on 03/05/2018. Spring.
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Google removes 'view image' button: Great for publishers, frustrating for users

Now the new button in that same place says 'save' which doesn't save the image to your device. 0. SHARES. 0. SHARES. 0. COMMENTS. 0. SHARES. 0. SHARES. 0. COMMENTS. Have you noticed that once you have a searched for a certain image on Google, you can no longer view image as Google
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The Craft and Business of Travel Writing

EGL 138 W — The Craft and Business of Travel Writing. Quarter: Spring. Course Format: Online (System Requirements). Duration: 10 weeks. Date(s): Apr 2—Jun 8. Drop Deadline: Apr 5. Units: 3. Tuition: $880. Instructor(s): Chaney Kwak. Limit: 17. Status: Registration opens on 03/05/2018. Spring.
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Maze Runner author James Dashner dropped by UK publisher

Maze Runner author James Dashner has been dropped by his UK publisher, Chicken House, following allegations of sexual harassment. The publisher's stance follows that of Penguin Random House in the US, who confirmed it was dropping the author yesterday, after Dashner's agent left him earlier in
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An Introduction to Screenwriting: You Oughta Be (Writing) in Pictures

EGL 126 — An Introduction to Screenwriting: You Oughta Be (Writing) in Pictures. Quarter: Spring. Day(s): Tuesdays. Course Format: On-campus. Duration: 10 weeks. Date(s): Apr 3—Jun 5. Time: 6:30—9:20 pm. Drop Deadline: Apr 16. Units: 3. Tuition: $660. Instructor(s): Adam Tobin. Limit: 21.
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Creative Nonfiction, Book II: Diving Deep and Surfacing

This course will help you expand and amplify the initial ideas behind the creative nonfiction book you seek to write, leading to a solid sense of the book's direction and scope. We will work on the minute questions (your sentences and style) and the larger aspects (structure and intention), as well as
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Review: MARVEL'S BLACK PANTHER: THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF A KING – THE …

Like the Guardians book, most of the art in Marvel's Black Panther: The Illustrated History of a King – the Complete Comics Chronology is finished. Culver re-presents covers and panels from throughout Black Panther's publishing history, and he does so wonderfully. Personally, I would love to see more
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Publishers continue to invest in platforms, but research finds they get little in return

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Publishers continue to invest in platforms, but research finds they get little in return

Digital Content Next (DCN) recently released findings from its second annual DCN Distributed Content Revenue Benchmark Report. The research provides marketplace intelligence on distributed content strategies and the challenges confronting publishers when working with third-party platforms like
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MLC course graduates first VING member

“Master Leader Course, is a 15-day resident course, of instruction on communications, leadership, management, and unified land operations that will better … Lewis expounded on his thoughts of the course's purpose by preparing one for the new “wave” that's coming for the Army in professional writing,
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Amazon Partners with Bank of America to Expand Business Lending

Amazon does not promote its business loans program, as it is only available to the top sellers on the marketplace. The online retailer is not looking to make money off interest payments on loans, but rather, wants to help merchants obtain more inventory to sell more goods on Amazon's marketplace.
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Colby College students named to dean's list

Allison M. Wehrle, of Wiscasset, a sophomore, attended Lincoln Academy and is the daughter of Paul and Ginger Wehrle of Wiscasset. Her major is English with a concentration in creative writing and educational studies with a schools, society, and culture concentration. Students named to the dean's list
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The latest mystery in publishing? That pulp is not dead.

Print books are back. I think. “People thought physical books were goners,” said Jed Lyons, chief executive of Lanham, Md.-based Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. He should know. Lyons, 66, ships about 41,000 books a day across the United States and to Europe. He has been in the publishing
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Idyllwild Arts Foundation Reception for Prospective Families

The Idyllwild Arts Summer Program's 300-plus artists teach dance, film, music, theatre, creative writing, computer animation, fashion design, painting, sculpture, print-making, ceramics, jewelry-making, and more to people of all ages and skill levels–and countless workshops in Native American arts offer
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CSU Students Win Southern Literary Festival Writing Competition Awards

Columbus State University will be bringing home three awards this year from the Southern Literary Festival Writing Competition. For the second time, CSU's literary-arts magazine, Arden, won first place in the print journal competition. CSU creative writing student Justin Briley was editor in chief, and CSU
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NBA All Star Weekend Secures Top Billing on Secondary Market

The annual NBA All Star weekend is now upon us, and fans are flocking to the festivities per sales data from TicketClub.com. Sunday's NBA All Star Game, which features a face-off between Lebron James and Stephen Curry-led rosters, was the site's the best-selling event yesterday. Tonight's Rising Star
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Amazon India Launches New Categories For Sellers Under Local Finds Program

Talking about the expansion, Mahendra Nerurkar, Director – Amazon Pay said, “Our Local Finds program is is in line with our objective of providing our sellers with the best opportunities to grow and our customers with the widest selection to choose from. We are humbled to see over 70,000 sellers list
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Author event Feb. 19

Creative Arts of Mount Pleasant will be hosting an evening with children's book author Rebecca Petruck. Petruck will be discussing writing for the children's book market. She will share her writing journey, insights on the industry, practical advice to writers seeking publication, tips and resources, as well
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Chrome adblockalypse will 'accelerate Google-Facebook duopoly'

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Chrome adblockalypse will 'accelerate Google-Facebook duopoly'

Analysis Google's own ad-blocking initiative was introduced yesterday via its Chrome browser. Ad folk mag The Drum calls it a “hatchet” for publishers. Online media trade site Digiday agrees, finding publishers glumly resigned to the move. We found broad agreement that it's going to be web content
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Google Discloses Results Of 'Exchange Bidding' Test, Boosts Publisher Yield >40%

The initiative, dubbed “Exchange Bidding,” has been in beta since the fall of 2016, and it has been working with a variety of ad exchanges and publishers to test a more transparent way of auctioning digital audience impressions in a way that boosts yield for publishers and effectiveness for advertisers.
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Curtain drops on Book Fair

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Curtain drops on Book Fair

The guild had to refuse many publishers in order to accommodate food sellers and other artisans who help draw the crowds. All did brisk business. The Book Fair probably is the most sought-after platform for budding as well as already famous writers to release their new books. It attracts the star writers
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6 Amazing Immigrant Entrepreneurs Who Came to the US Seeking the American Dream

The author received a $100 advance for his first book to be published in the U.S. about the Holocaust. Wiesel moved to … Following working as a busboy and other menial jobs while studying, Meradji climbed the corporate ladder and in 2006 started his own self-publishing service, Booklogix. Check out
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Novel inorganic tin phosphate gel: Multifunctional material

Here, we report a remarkable 15Å nanolayered tin phosphate, Sn(HPO4)2 3H2O (SnP-H+ or SnP) and its clay-like gel, which are multifunctional and are prepared with earth-abundant Sn and P chemicals using a facile, environmentally benign and potentially a cost-effective process. This new energy
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Production of monoclonal antibodies in microfluidic devices

Here is presented a microfluidic device with cisterns design for cultivation of adherent eukaryotic cells for the production of recombinant proteins. The geometric configuration of the microchannels in the device provided laminar flow with reduced velocity profiles in the cisterns, resulting in an adequate m.
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Bastian's battle against the stigma of female facial hair

Four years ago Bastian took on the Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) challenge to write a 50,000-word book in one month. “I wrote something that just was the biggest sort of brain dump about my life that's ever been written,” Bastian says. “I basically put that draft in a drawer and never looked at
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What They Don't Tell You About Self-Publishing

Since releasing my book in December, the most common questions I've been getting asked aren't about the book's contents, they're about the self-publishing process. People are immediately curious as…
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Ajit Bhandal's New Book “STEM, The Future of America” Purposefully Emphasizes the Gravity of a …

Recent release “STEM, The Future of America” from Page Publishing author Ajit Bhandal delves into the analysis of emerging educational trends in math and … Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create – not bogged down with complicated business issues like eBook conversion,
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Researching the Romance Conference: How Amazon has shaped the future of the Self-Published …

Not that long ago self-publishing was looked down upon and referred to as vanity publishing, insinuating the author had more ego than talent. All that has changed over the last decade. When Amazon launched the Kindle, they made ebooks easily assessible to everyone. The voracious appetite of the
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Kim: Lessons from performance poetry

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Kim: Lessons from performance poetry

Among the crowd is the creative writing club of Case Western Reserve University, Writers Writing Words. Its members lounge near the back and make small talk with a group from Kent State University. Minutes later, the emcee hops up on stage, tosses out a few Black History Month facts and calls the first
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Gas-generation Reaction for Point-of-Care Testing

Gas-generation based measurement is an attractive alternative approach for POC (Point-of-care) testing that relies on the amounts of generated gas for corresponding target concentrations. In the gas-generation based POC testing, the integration of a target recognition component and a catalyzed
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Another ugly item on Trump's wish list: Destroying the NEA

Destroying the NEA would be deeply damaging to the creative culture of the country. The attempt to kill it reflects the false premise that federal support … Another $10,000 went to 826LA to help fund “a creative writing and publishing program for youth.” Such efforts are precisely what I want my tax dollars
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Side Effects: Caution, Lost Dreams Can Awaken

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Side Effects: Caution, Lost Dreams Can Awaken

When I was in college in 1978 I took a creative writing course. The final assignment was to write a short story. We had to make copies for the whole class. The class then took the stories home to read and critiqued. At everyone's scheduled time we each had to listen to 28 people say what they thought of
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What's the Buzz – Unsheltered

On Sale Date: 10/16/18. Imprint: Harper Print Run: 500K Format: HC Pages: 480. Price: 29.99. ISBN: 0062684566. ISBN 13: 9780062684561. Other Formats Ebook 9780062684745. Digital Audio 9780062865502. Large Print 9780062859907. ABOUT THE BOOK. Willa Knox has always prided herself
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What does a beverage maker have to do with publishing? Plenty, if you ask Paper Boat Drinks

So it ventured into publishing with reprints of classics such as Three Men in a Boat and The Jungle Book, which were given away with the beverages as sales offers. However, the latest book to be published by them, Half Pants Full Pants, by advertising professional Anand Suspi, was an original title that
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The Big Fella

On Sale Date: 10/23/2018. Imprint: Harper Print Run: 500K Format: HC Pages: 528. Price: 29.99. ISBN: 0062380222. ISBN 13: 9780062380227. Other Formats Ebook 9780062380241. Audio 9780062865847. Digital Audio 9780062865793. Large Print 9780062860255. ABOUT THE BOOK. From Jane
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Why Brands Doing Native Advertising Should Partner up with Publishers

It can be challenging as a brand doing native advertising to find the right publisher to partner with. But the partnership can be crucial for your campaign.
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Publisher's View: Boring

“Ugh, I don't want to go there!” my 16-year-old daughter, Sara, exclaimed. “It's so boring!” We were on one of our frequent meandering drives in and around San Francisco, a favorite Sara activity. She loves to wheel around freshly found neighborhoods, especially those with long, lovely, boulevards:
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Writing for the brand: The unfinished works of Louis L'Amour

According to Kirk Ellis, president of WWA, “Louis L' Amour probably did more to popularize the Western novel than any writer before — and many since. He casts a very long … “In some ways, this is the archive of his most ambitious work … and, of course, that is why it was difficult to write. In my opinion
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Five Reasons to Consider the Ketogenic Diet for Cancer

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Five Reasons to Consider the Ketogenic Diet for Cancer

The concept of food as medicine is nothing new. What's different now is that cancer research has given us a deeper appreciation of the changes that drive cancer at the cellular level. Evidence supporting the benefits of ketogenic diet therapies continues to mount, there is little to guide those who wish to
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Author Jillian Cantor talks about her religious side in Palm Beach

Cantor has an undergraduate degree in English from Penn State and a masters of Fine Arts and Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. She lives in Arizona with her husband and two sons. The next speaker in the series will be Amor Towles, author of A Gentleman in Moscow and a former Wall
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