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Once upon a time the only place you saw movie
trailers was in your local
theater, shortly before the
movie started. These days, all you have to do is "Google" to find a trailer
for an upcoming movie—any
upcoming movie. Have you looked around out there? Now it’s not just movies
getting their thirty to
forty-five seconds in the spotlight, but books too!
I’ve been writing for...let’s just say Read More...
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It’s the holiday season, yes I know that here in the States, Thanksgiving is
still three weeks away, but we’re already doing the holiday shuffle. We have two
birthday parties, one to attend and one to throw. We’re hosting the family for
Turkey Day or in our case, Honeybaked Ham Day. There are school projects and
writer’s conferences, a book release and school vacation, not to mention a panel
on vampires Read More...
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Matthew Peterson,
best-selling and award-winning author of Paraworld Zero,
is interviewing over 50 of the top fiction authors in the world for his
online radio show, The Author
Hour: Your Guide to Fantastic Fiction, which
airs every Thursday at 9 a.m. pacific / 12 p Read More...
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Captive of
Sin by Anna
Campbell
Available: October 27, 2009
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October has been dubbed "Steampunk month" by genre heavyweight Tor.com, and it’s no surprise with all
that’s been going on this month!
Steampunk Fashion and Design will be featured this Saturday, October
24th, at the Brooklyn Read More...
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The newest Jane Wheel mystery, Scary Stuff, will be available on September 29.
Number 6 in the series finds Jane chasing down her brother's possible evil
twin, sorting out a giant house sale, teaming up with Tim, Detective Oh, and,
reluctantly, with Nellie, to solve more than one mystery close to home. Oh,
and there's a bit of ghost-busting as Read More...
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Writers Digest taped video of Anna DeStefano, Charles Ardai, Leanna Renee
Hieber and Jack
Ketchum at their August signing and reading at Barnes and
Noble's NYC, Lincoln Center store. Each author talks about current Read More...
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HOW? It's really easy! Just send us a picture of you and a book in your, uh,
natural habitat and you'll be entered to win. The more photos you send, the more
chances you have to win the $50 Amazon Gift Certificate. Think of all the
shopping you can do!
Rules
The photo must contain a book cover and a reader. You can hide your face if
you're Read More...
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Just wanted to let you know that I'm guest blogging on Sue Grimshaw's Borders True Romance
blog today [September 22nd] about my new book, THE SARI SHOP WIDOW. If you
find a minute in your super-busy schedules, please do visit the site and post a
comment. Sue also adds an editorial video to Read More...
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If you've never been backstage during a television taping it's something to
behold! On the "set" the walls are beautiful, the floor gorgeous, comfortable
chairs or sofas and then blink and you'll see the surrounding set with cables,
equipment and other strange bewildering things.
We had the opportunity to go on the set with Candace Havens as
she was interviewed for an Read More...
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Books you should get:
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Fear the
Worst hits bookstores in just a couple of weeks, and many
readers are already calling it the best of my thrillers so far. Fast-
moving, loads of suspense, a real page-turner. But something no one
seems to have zeroed in on is the thing that makes this thriller very
different.
The hero is a car salesman.
In most thrillers, our Read More...
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Par-teeeeeeeeeeeee!
Thursday August 6 6:30 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. The Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren Street
New York, NY
Please join me at the launch party for PANIC ATTACK. Beer, wine etc. will be
served, and I will read from, discuss and sign Panic Attack. Afterwards, the
party will spill over to the bar across the street. Bring friends! (I think I'll
have advance copies of The Chill, my forthcoming graphic Read More...
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Daniel Silva
signing THE DEFECTOROriginally uploaded by Read More...
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Customers Can Download Barnes & Noble Free Apps and Get Access to the World’s
Largest eBookstore -- Exclusive Content
NEW YORK, JULY 28, 2009 – Barnes & Noble, Inc., the world’s largest bookseller,
announced today a strategic agreement with AT&T that will provide complimentary
in-store Wi-Fi to any customer that visits a Barnes & Noble bookstore
nationwide. All customers shopping in Barnes & Noble stores can now freely
download and preview any of the over 700 Read More...
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Jane Aiken Hodge: prolific author of romance and suspense novels
Literary reviews do not sell the sort of romantic fiction in which
Jane Aiken Hodge specialised. “What sells,” as Martha Duffy observed in Time
magazine in 1971, “is the author’s name on the jacket and that illustration
showing a girl and a castle.”
As Jane Aiken Hodge’s reputation grew, her name on her book covers seemed to
become ever larger, and the Read More...
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Paradox rides Dark Horse film deal
Duo pact to publish comics based on films
Paradox Entertainment, which is developing a reboot of the "Conan the Barbarian"
film franchise, has inked a deal with Dark Horse Comics to publish books based
on its slate of films in development.
The comicbooks to be published will especially focus on material created by pulp
author Robert E. Howard, behind the Conan, Kull and Solomon Kane characters, as
well Read More...
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The fabulous contests for "Christmas in July" end today July 26th, so be
sure to stop by and enter so you can win!!
Click Here to enter
What are we talking about? How about gift cards to Starbucks, Barnes &
Noble, Amazon, Borders? And books, books, books...including some not
yet-released! And gift baskets of all types of goodies! You really do NOT Read More...
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She’s following the success of last summer’s five-week New York Times
bestseller LEFT TO DIE
with CHOSEN TO DIE,
on sale July 28th. In it Lisa takes readers back to Montana where the worst
blizzard Pinewood County has seen in fifty years continues to rage. They’re
also reunited with the Grizzly Read More...
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On Tuesday, July 14th, best-selling author Jennifer Weiner
will be in New York to promote her new novel Best Friends
Forever (Atria Books, July 14, 2009). She will be
speaking, answering questions, and signing books at Barnes
& Noble (Lincoln Center--1972 Broadway at 66th Street) at
7:30PM.
WHO: Best-selling author Jennifer Weiner
WHAT: Jennifer Weiner will be speaking, answering questions
and signing books from her new novel Best Friends Forever
WHERE: Barnes Read More...
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Someone mentioned it would be nice if I told people when we add photos of the
fun stuff we do at Fresh Fiction. So here goes...
Went to TWO signings this weekend:
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So last week-end I had the privilege of being a featured speaker at the Historical Novel Society’s conference. It’s a smaller
conference of about 300 people, most of whom are more educated than...well, me.
And even if they’re not more educated, they seem to be because they know things
about history. A lot of cool things about history Read More...
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New York City—Dorchester Publishing and Textnovel announce their
partnership in an innovative writing competition for aspiring novelists.
Beginning today, authors ages 18 and older are invited to participate in
America’s Next Best Celler, a literary challenge that pairs the emergent
cellular generation with the traditional publishing model. The contest will
award a guaranteed publishing contract with Dorchester, the publisher who
discovered and nurtured the careers of New York Times Read More...
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Long-time and beloved romance author Edith
Layton passed away this morning following a long bout with ovarian cancer.
She leaves behind three grown children, her grandchildren, and tens of thousands
of readers who enjoyed her historical romances.
WordWenches.com which
Edith was active on until a few weeks ago, is doing a commemorative post for
Edith tomorrow Read More...
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