But the key is having a universal theme that people can relate to.” Generally, period drama is more expensive than contemporary TV fiction. For the BBC's Wolf Hall, based on Hilary Mantel's best sellers depicting the rise of Tudor courtier Thomas Cromwell, a cool £20,000 ($28,000) was blown on paying
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Her novel Going to Water received the Morning Star Award for Creative Writing and was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Lorraine Lopez, another PEN finalist (her collection Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories was in contention for the PEN/Faulkner Prize), will
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The books are themed at professional development, and they are generally best-sellers aimed at a general audience, not just the military or even just leaders, although Drew calls it a leadership book club. The first book was “Daring Greatly” by Brene' Brown. February's book was “Difficult Conversations”
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A quick cruise through Amazon's best sellers suggests bedside drawers across the country are heavily stocked with rabbit styles. But that said, not all rabbit-style vibrators are created equal, and many are disappointing. My first vibrator, for example, was an uninspiring rabbit-style vibe, with a hard shaft
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Recent release “What's for Dinner” from Page Publishing author Dilene A. Smith is an engaging children's book highlighting the frustrations parents and other caregivers often experience during mealtimes. Two difficult-to-please boys strain their parents' patience when they reject meal after meal, forcing
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Alltech's annual global conference will offer a new ticket option this year for Bluegrass locals looking to attend the event. ONE: The Alltech Ideas Conference, which will be held in Lexington on May 20-22, is organized to bring together business leaders, entrepreneurs and marketers in a global exchange
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Jerome Corsi's red-hot new book “Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump” is a runaway bestseller – but you'd never know that from reading The New York Times. “Killing the Deep State” debuted last week at No. 10 on the non-fiction hardcover list compiled by Nielsen BookScan, the
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Limón read a collection of her poems during a poetry reading sponsored by the Sherwood Anderson Endowment and the Department of English and Creative Writing. Held on March 21 in the Hege Library Art Gallery, the reading was free and open to the public. Attendees were able to buy their own
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Whether you'd like to read a comic about competitive dodge ball, adapting to college life or a half-man, half-machine police officer, then BOOM! Studios makes a comic book for you. “We believe comics are for anyone, so we make them for everyone,” said Filip Sablik, president of publishing and
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Robin Caudell was born and raised on Maryland's Eastern Shore. She holds a BS in Journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park and a MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She has worked at the Press-Republican since 1990. Follow Robin Caudell. Close
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They don't have a history of blockbuster success, and their comics haven't been best-sellers for over a decade. That's why Marvel canceled the ongoing Fantastic Four series back in 2015 in the first place. Part of the problem seems to be that the FF just haven't aged well; they were created back in 1961,
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Trinity University professor of creative writing Kelly Grey Carlisle is one of the featured authors. Her memoir, “We Are All Shipwrecks,” about the unsolved murder of her mother and her unusual childhood growing up on a boat in the Los Angeles Harbor, will be the subject of a discussion titled A Mother's
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From English and creative writing to chemistry and geography, courses across UCSB found learning opportunities in Lab Girl. … Now those scholars, their students and the general public will hear from the author when paleobiologist and writer Hope Jahren visits campus as part of UCSB Reads, which
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Kleinberg's lecture focused on the theme of his latest book, Haunting History: for a deconstructive approach to the past (Stanford U Press) which advocates for a deconstructive approach to the practice of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing about the past are undergoing a
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Writers: The South Shore Writers Club will hold an event in honor of the club's 25th anniversary for writers interested in self-publishing, to be held at the Abington Library, at 600 Gliniewicz Way, on Wednesday, April 4, from 6 to 8:15 p.m. Lisa Akoury-Ross, founder and owner of SDP Publishing Solutions,
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