Smashwords has garnered at tremendous amount of media attention with the announcement that self-published authors can have audiobooks generated for them via Findaway Voices. This is not really newsworthy because all Smashwords does is redirect authors to the Findaway platform and
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HELEN Kay from Nantwich is researching the relationship between poetry and dyslexia/dyspraxia as part of her MA in creative writing course at Manchester Metropolitan University, writes Jonathan White from Wistaston. Helen staging an exhibition about dyslexia, dyspraxia and poetry at Crewe Lifestyle
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The EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a new set of European Union consumer protection regulations designed to protect the data privacy of EU citizens. GDPR works beyond personally identifiable information like email, names, demographics, purchases, etc. GDPR also uses
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Looking at the February best sellers, the Renault Zoe returned to four-digit results (1,155 registrations), but it was still down 26% YoY. The Nissan LEAF returned to its most natural position (#2), with 306 deliveries. That was the LEAF's best result in 11 months. Two plug-in hybrid models — the Volvo
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Noting the laughter, Albrecht said the point of creative writing is to make people feel something. Albrecht concluded each presentation by asking the students if they remembered the money he mentioned earlier and presented each of them with a new book. He gave the fourth-grade students “The One
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DC Entertainment announced at WonderCon in Anaheim Saturday that writers (and sisters) Julie Benson and Shawna Benson will be heading up a new creative team for the monthly Green Arrow comic book series, beginning this May. The two writers, who worked on the CW's The 100 as well as the
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Since DC kicked off Rebirth in 2016, one of its constants has been Ben Percy writing Green Arrow. Arguably the best creative run on the character in a decade or more, Green Arrow has been a consistent highlight of DC's output for the last two years. But DC continues to shake up its creative teams this
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Among 3 analysts covering Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (LON:BMY), 3 have Buy rating, 0 Sell and 0 Hold. Therefore 100% are positive. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC had 33 analyst reports since July 23, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. As per Wednesday, July 13, the company rating was maintained by
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Poet Laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith will visit Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond on Monday as part of the university's Common Read program. Smith, author of the book “Life on Mars” and the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities and director of the Creative Writing
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Dwin The Stoic's greatest asset is his songwriting, which has been honed by years of creative writing and story telling. As he tells in a few short lines of love that has fractured to the point where both parties have to choose whether to mend their relationship or move on to other things. That allows him
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… books to the region, the UAE Board on Books for Young People (UAEBBY), in collaboration with the UAE Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development (MCKD), has held a three-day workshop on 'silent books' at the Riyadh International Book Fair to encourage Saudi illustrators and publishers to
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During its Meet the Publishers panel at WonderCon 2018, DC's Jim Lee, Dan DiDio, Bob Harras, and Scott Snyder announced that following the weekly No Justice series, the publisher will launch “New Justice,” a Justice League-centric imprint that will include three Justice League titles as well as other
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Some major bombshells were dropped at the Publishers Panel hosted by DC Comics at Wonder Con in Anaheim, California. With the panel emceed by publishers Jim Lee and Dan Didio, we learned a ton about DC's new imprints: Ink, Zoom, and Black Label as well as what books we'll be seeing for
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets may have been a bust in the US and the UK — but it was a blockbuster in France, home to the comic it was based on. As a result of the film's success, a series of new Valerian and Laureline comics by new creators were commissioned and, in June,
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Attention, sports fans! I know you've all been wrapped up in the NCAA basketball tournament, that delightful invention that takes the country's 68 best teams and ensures that all but one will end their year in bitter disappointment. (And how American is that?) But March is ending, so toss away your
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Helicopter pilots usually don't have difficulty finding work. They can get jobs in everything from medical transport to law enforcement. They are hired for gigs in the timber and oil industries. A career in helicopter aviation is an open field. But not the field Kyle Collins prepared to fly over this weekend.
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… where young and seasoned writers used to meet and interact every Monday. “Every week a tour of World Literature” (Vaaramvaaramvisvasahityaviharam) being the tagline, Mosaic marched, sailed and flew through the creative expanses both traditional and modern. The range of programmes included
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As does Yolanda Franklin, Ph.D., who teaches Creative Writing at FAMU and was among the poets reading their works. “Historically, the voice of reason has always come from the artist,” she says. “Reading works that can represent the victims and survivors of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, is a way of not
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As part of organization-wide restructuring, GateHouse Media announced Friday that Telegram Publisher Dena Sattler has been named publisher of The Dodge City Daily Globe, The Pratt Tribune, Kiowa County Signal and St. John News. Sattler will continue as publisher of The Telegram in her role as a
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Some major bombshells were dropped at the Publishers Panel hosted by DC Comics at Wonder Con in Anaheim, California. With the panel emceed by publishers Jim Lee and Dan Didio, we learned a ton about DC's new imprints: Ink, Zoom, and Black Label as well as what books we'll be seeing for
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By Jesse Schedeen Unicron is about to make his first major appearance in IDW Publishing's Transformers universe. Today at WonderCon the publisher revealed first details about Transformers: Unicron, a new miniseries that promises to profoundly reshape the Transformers franchise. First, check out
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Disrupting the user behavior data and digital advertising industries will not be easy by any means. Zohem aims to use smart contracts so online publishers can pool their data and be rewarded with the native Zohem Data Token in the process. It is a very different take on the data economy as we know it,
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His door was always left ajar. For appearances' sake. And while there was never any suggestion of anything untoward going on — it was a different matter when he got to class. For when he left, I took over his writing course only to discover that much precious time had been wasted by telling students the
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WILMINGTON — This year's town election will put David Ragsdale on the ballot for School Committee. Ragsdale's background in education includes teaching for the Princeton Review and now working for the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education since 2011. “Education has always been
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A newspaper publishing company v Trinidad and Tobago, Admissibility, Communication No 360/1989, UN Doc CCPR/C/36/D/360/1989, IHRL 2455 (UNHRC 1989), 14th July 1989, United Nations General Assembly [UNGA]; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [OHCHR]; United Nations
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A SELF-PUBLISHED Bromsgrove author who found international success with a post-apocalyptic book series set in the Midlands has returned with a new dystopian book series. Devon C Ford, whose 'After it Happened' series sold more than 200,000 copies and became a number one bestseller in the
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At today's 'Meet the Publishers' panel at WonderCon, DC's co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee ran down various corners of the DC publishing line, from DC Ink and Zoom to Vertigo to Mad. Aside from revealing a new Mad logo and the cover to the first issue of the re-launched magazine, there wasn't
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DC started Wondercon Saturday morning with a bang, courtesy of a livestreamed panel hosted by DC Publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee. Streaming live to fans nationwide, Dan and Jim, along with some of DC's top editors and finest comic book talent, discussed some of the upcoming initiatives that
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All is set for the Abuja Writers' Forum (AWF) to feature Dickson Salami Adama, Alexander Ochega, and Umar Yogiza Jnr in its 31 March edition of Guest … “The Guest Writer Session also features a Q and A segment and a raffle-draw for books, aside the weekly Critique Session and a regular Creative
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However, one excellent example of creative writing is the following line: “I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black.” This is basically a love song trope. It's the classic “I wish I could take the pain away from you” that inhabits every love song in the most obvious terms, but Cobain takes that cliche
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My first of creative writing competition, where my mother cheered in every award ceremony and bought books when she realized my interest. My first sports day, where she reminded me to never give up and to keep moving. Horse riding; Taekwondo; swimming classes; art classes; Quran recitation.
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My reason for this is basically because, students tend to put in their best in their exams when they are aware that they are writing the tough courses first.' 'On the contrary,' Ayoola refuted, 'I feel the exam timetable should be reordered. That is, courses with low units should be written first before the high
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Over the past few years, it has became easier than ever to self-publish a novel thanks to services such as Amazon, Createspace, and Smashwords. However, that lower barrier of entry has not extended to audiobooks, where production can often be prohibitively expensive for new authors. Smashwords
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The man is The Washington Post assistant managing editor Ben-Hur H. Bagdikian, and in this scene from June 1971 he is 51 and a respected media critic, although still a dozen years away from publishing the book that would cement his reputation as one. Here, the movie that is “The Post” veers away
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The US digital publishing industry, which has allowed itself to become heavily dependent on Facebook traffic, has been deeply worried about something like this happening. So chatter about the change from Slovakia quickly hopped in the US publishing trade press. It created an immediate firestorm
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Last year, a former Rolling Stone employee came forward to say the Rolling Stone co-founder and publisher had sexually assaulted them in 1983, and Wenner has yet to deny the accusations. “There's some truth to it, but it does not fit any illegal, immoral, or unethical, or go in any way that direction.
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The current state of DC's multifaceted publishing plans — which now includes the DC Universe, Vertigo, Young Animal, DC Black Label, MAD, DC Zoom, DC Ink and more — will be discussed Saturday morning during the DC Publishers panel at WonderCon in Anaheim, with Jim Lee and Dan DiDio
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Neil, in his unique style, teaches how to write compelling and cliché-free courtroom scenes, reflecting the pomp and protocol of the British criminal justice system and of course the law. He speaks eloquently on how lawyers and judges behave and think and what happens if you land the nightmare client.
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With its Hitchcockian cover and an atmospheric prologue that imagines a man's bird-pecked body recovered from the sea, Tangerine lures the reader into its story with the promise of being every publisher's dream – the literary thriller. Christine Mangan's debut novel was the subject of a bidding war in
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Usman's book, published by Juggernaut, one of two biographies coming out this year, is already on bestseller shelves in bookstores. An authorized biography is also in the works—the one I am least looking forward to. An abundance of “bad boy” chronicling, a different kind of “me too”. The Sanjay Dutt
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Of course, I was quite happy when the book was unbanned. After all, Chinese society has leapt forward, people's mindsets changed, now they're able to view the novel from a purely literary perspective. Q. Times have changed in China since the 1960s. Are you more comfortable as a writer there today?
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It added comics as a category in 2015, and already offers a total of 13,164 titles from every major comics publisher. The president of publishing and marketing for Boom Studios, Filip Sablik, told Publishers Weekly last year that the independent comics publisher “hadn't seen a ton of immediate great
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In central Indiana, few organizations embody the spirit of high-quality music education quite like the Indianapolis Children's Choir, a choral musical program which serves about 5,500 young people in nearly 20 Indiana counties — including Hamilton County, where more than 130 students participate at
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Jane Acton and Christine McKeon had been close friends as youngsters in their Carmel neighborhood. Acton lived in Carmel from kindergarten through second grade. Acton and McKeon lived next door. When Acton moved to Auburn, they lost contact for decades. “We hadn't seen each other in over 40
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Where's Amy attended the Indiana red carpet premiere of the short film “I Lived on Parker Avenue” March 14 at the Studio Theater at The Center for the Performing Arts. The documentary is about a mother's agony in choosing what's best, the joy of a couple starting a family and David Scotton's search for
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Taipei, March 24 (CNA) The Ministry of Culture has been promoting the works of Taiwanese authors by featuring them on its “Books from Taiwan” … Since 2013, the Ministry of Culture has hosted an annual Taipei Rights Workshop that brings together publishers and agents from all over the world to
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Nimesh Mehta, author of Sales Booster: The New Science & Art of Selling (Leadership and Sales Turnaround Wisdom from the World's Top Leaders and Organizations), is offering a free copy of his book through his website, www.nimeshmehta.net/book, to expand his mentorship to a wide audience.
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