CLARKSBURG — Two groups of students from Pressley Ridge — a local nonprofit residential education facility in Clarksburg — are now published authors. Students from two classes worked together to produce two illustrated children's books, “The Prized Egg” and “Lilly the Ladybug Learns Her ABCs,”
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The fair will feature current best sellers from more than 150 publishers, many specially priced books that include newly released and award-winning titles, educational products, children's classics and a selection of books in Spanish. Participants may buy one book at the regular price and get the second
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TWIN FALLS — Times-News and Elko Daily Free Press Publisher Travis Quast is stepping down later this month to lead eastern Idaho publications. … Eastern Idaho publications have a good reputation, he said, noting there's unmatched dominance in the region with Adams Publishing Group.
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Last November, the site gave a small group of local and national publishers the ability to include a “Breaking News” label on their stories. Starting today, Facebook is expanding its “Breaking News” label test run to more than 50 additional publishers in North America, Latin America, Europe and Australia.
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AUGUSTA — Lithgow Public Library will host Maine author Diane L. Dunton for a presentation, “The Creativity Connection: The relationship between writing, art and wellbeing” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 12, as part of the library's March Wellness Series, according to a news release from Barbara
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For about 63 hours in 1977, two men in Indianapolis walked the tightrope between life and death. Tony Kiritsis, a man who fell behind on his real estate payments, took mortgage broker Richard Hall hostage with a shotgun to his dead. It was rigged with a wire that would make the gun go off if anyone
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By Current Publishing on March 5, 2018 Night & Day. By Rick Morwick. Michael Pettry, longtime director of the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, has been named vice president of development for the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. Pettry. In his administrative role with the ISC, where he had
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Interacting with the professors, other auditors and some students has been a great way to stay mentally active. I may have lived through the 1960s, but one course showed me what I had missed. I also took several creative writing courses, and in workshops, people 50 years' my junior critiqued my stories
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Tessa Woodward, editor at William Morrow, said, 'from the moment I started reading The Jade Lily, I knew I wanted to publish it. The book spoke to me on so many levels—as an exploration of an unknown-to-me part of Jewish and Chinese history, as a well-researched look at the harsh realities of war,
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The new initiative adopts the moniker of the moment, the Barnes & Noble Book Club, and the first selection is Meg Wolitzer's highly-touted THE FEMALE PERSUASION, publishing April 3. BN's exclusive edition will include an essay by the author and a reading group guide. The first of their “seasonal”
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David Scotton always knew he was adopted. He grew up in Louisiana and was told about his birth parents in Columbus, Ind., but never asked too many questions. Scotton. It wasn't until his birth mother, Melissa Coles, decided to update her contact information with adoption law firm Kirsh & Kirsh, which
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The Chicago Tribune unveiled plans today for a sweeping reorganization of its newsroom, aimed at becoming what publisher and editor-in-chief Bruce Dold called “more nimble, more entrepreneurial, more responsive to our readers' current interests and permanent passions.” Dold outlined the changes,
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Google has agreed to pay $11 million to settle a class-action by publishers who accused Google of wrongly withholding ad revenue. The proposed settlement stems from a 2014 class-action complaint brought by small web site operators, including Free Range Content and Coconut Island Software, who
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Paintings can help a person write different stories.” Adly launched her blog “Gallery” 10 years ago, where she has been posting her writings. She also writes for the Emirates Culture magazine. In 2010, she wrote “Sakhab al-Samt” (“The Clamour of Silence”). “This book helped me in creative writing, and
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INK, the College's student-run creative writing club, hosted Slam Down The Walls, a biannual slam poetry competition, for student-artists to debut 10 minutes of their best spoken-word poetry in the Bliss Hall Lounge on Thursday, March 2. Contestants put emotion behind their words to win over the judges
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His performance at 7:30 p.m. March 10 will be the 28-year-old's third with the CSO since capturing the 2013 DeHaan Classical Fellowship as the winner of the 2013 American Pianists Awards. Most recently, he was named a 2015 fellow by the prestigious Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the
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The publisher of a coming-of-age book is offering to send free copies of it to the “manchild in your life”. Tin House Books is offering 20 free copies of Joe Dunthorne's The Adulterants to men who need a reality check. The competition, launched on Monday, is inspired by the book's protagonist Ray Morris,
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Talented Veterans from across Central New York received awards today in the Creative Arts local competition, and some could be advancing to the national level of the contest. … Hawes said they had national winners last year in art, creative writing, and music after going up against 150 other VA's.
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You know those cute little sets that Sephora sells during Christmas and Valentine's day? well, good news ladies! At the moment, Sephora has over 100 items on sale on their online store. With many of those convenient sets containing travel size samples of Sephora's most popular brand's best sellers.
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Publishers and writers can create licenses for their work and enforce them automatically as content is purchased or syndicated. Dicker said publishers don't know what their content is worth, which is why they are continually coming up with new revenue models and that — even though he hates the term
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