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ArtsBeat: New Two-Book Deal for 'Gone Girl' Author Gillian Flynn

Source: International Herald Tribune, Nov 15 2012, 7:41am CST

Two new works of fiction will soon be coming from Gillian Flynn, the author of the best-selling thriller “Gone Girl.” But as with anything Ms. Flynn seems to touch, both are cloaked in mystery. The Crown Publishe ...

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Mary Ward Brown, 95, Award-Winning Short Story Writer, Dies

Source: International Herald Tribune  |   May 22 2013, 5:29pm CDT

Mary Ward Brown, a small-town farmer’s daughter who resumed a literary career 25 years after putting it aside to run the family farm and raise a son, producing award-winning short stories set in the Deep South and a poignant memoir of life in rural ...

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Amazon Publishing Introduces "Kindle Worlds," a New Publishing Model for Authors Inspired to Write Fan Fiction

Source: The Futon Critic  |   May 22 2013, 11:25am CDT

Amazon Publishing Introduces "Kindle Worlds," a New Publishing Model for Authors Inspired to Write Fan Fiction - Launching with an Initial License of Popular Titles from Warner Bros. Television Group's Alloy ...

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Amazon Unlocks The Value Of Fan Fiction With ‘Kindle Worlds’

Source: Forbes Blogs  |   May 22 2013, 9:40am CDT

Amazon knows that fan fiction is big business. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) In a funny way, fan fiction is the purest form of literary art there is, the one most untainted by commerce. It’s hard to make money from it because ...

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1 day ago

MacKenzie Fraser-Bub of Trident literary agency seeks women's fiction

Source: Quick Brown Fox  |   May 21 2013, 8:38am CDT

Trident Media Group is a large New York agency, one of the largest and most diversified agencies in the world. Trident represents over 700 authors in a range of genres of fiction and nonfiction, many of whom have appeared on the New York Times Best S ...

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2 days ago

Book Deals: Week of May 20, 2013

Source: Publishers Weekly  |   May 20 2013, 10:06am CDT

John Boyne, author of the 2006 crossover bestseller The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Random House/Fickling), struck a two-book deal with Laura Godwin at Henry Holt Books for Young Readers. Eric Simonoff at William Morris Endeavor ...

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4 days ago

WINNERS: 2012 Aurealis Awards

Source: SF Signal   |   May 19 2013, 12:15am CDT

A science fiction blog featuring science fiction book reviews and with frequent ramblings on fantasy, computers and the web. The winners for the 2012 , given to works of SF, fantasy, and horror by Australians, have been announced! BES ...

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6 days ago

Reminder: National Book Critics Circle BEA Events

Source: National Book Critics Circle  |   May 16 2013, 12:53pm CDT

The 2013 annual meeting of the National Book Critics Circle will take place the day before Book Expo begins in New York City. Our host will be the Center for Fiction at 17 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017. We'll kick off at ...

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6 days ago

Turning the corner? E-book revenue props up publishing industry

Source: Deseret News  |   May 16 2013, 8:42am CDT

E-book sales are soaring — especially in genres like adult fiction and children’s/young adult — according to a new survey of the publishing industry. BookStats, which calls itself “publishing’s most comprehensive ...

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6 days ago

Op-ed: Gay Fiction Is Everybody's Fiction

Source: The Advocate  |   May 16 2013, 3:19am CDT

Gay writers have been passing for centuries. From Shakespeare’s sonnets — now widely believed to be addressed to a man — to the deceptively simple romances of E.M. Forster, an author’s personal experience of desire has often been mor ...

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6 days ago

Online Book Club, Harvard Professor & Author OUTSMARTING ANGER on the "Your Book Is Your Hook!" Show

Source: 24-7PressRelease.com  |   May 16 2013, 2:49am CDT

BROOKLYN, NY, May 16, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Kristen Weber, co-founder of Shelf Pleasure, a destination website for women who love to read, and Harvard medical professor and author, Dr. Joseph Shrand, wi ...

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