Mark Twain Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
James Carswell Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
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Scottsdale, Arizona, resident Mik Wilkens’ new novel, The Silver Cage, marks her debut as a fantasy writer, but Wilkens’ residence isn’t the novel’s only tie to Arizona. The main character, business consultant David Conner, was born and raised in Flagstaff and now lives in Scottsdale. “People tell you to write what you know,” Wilkens said. [...]
CONTOOCOOK, NH: Spencer Hill Press has signed author Jennifer L. Armentrout. Her debut novel, Half-Blood, will be released on September 15th, 2011. Half-Blood The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi–pure-blood–have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortals–well, not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become [...]
Ingram Content Group Inc. and Springer today announced a new integrated distribution services model that combines traditional physical book fulfillment with single-copy print-on-demand solutions for Springer’s entire Americas publishing program. Starting in the first quarter of 2011, Ingram Content Group will fully manage warehousing, fulfillment and print-on-demand for Springer using the new model. Ingram will [...]
Nov 10, 2010 – Amazing Books app brings children’s pop-up books to your iPhone®, iPad™, or iPod®. Based around their exclusive and interactive Flomotion™ control system developed for mobile platforms, Amazing Books™ ( www.theamazingbooks.com ) updates the classic pop-up book for the digital age. Simply by running your finger back and forth across the screen, [...]
BN: Tell us about what you have written. AA: I’ve eleven published books so far – a collection of Oscar Wilde-like fairy tales which appeared in the UK in 1995, an autobiographical volume about my childhood in Africa (“Houses in Africa”), an email epistolary novel co-written with the man I would subsequently marry (“Letters from [...]
Fantasy novelist Alma Alexander has recently experimented with the Espresso POD machine installed in her local independent bookstore, Village Books in Bellingham. “It wasn’t a hugely commercial project,” she said, “and it probably wouldn’t have been interesting to my regular publishers – so I put it together myself, this little book of a selection of [...]
Charlotte: Ghost in the Machine podcast, hosted by fantasy author Gail Z. Martin (Chronicles of the Necromancer: The Summoner, The Blood King, Dark Haven), welcomes authors Lynn Abbey (Thieves World) and Victoria Laurie (Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun, Crime Seen). Lynn Abbey talks about her new re-releases, plus Closed Circle, her brand-new publishing venture. [...]
Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places, Gustavo Bondoni’s debut collection, has just launched from Altered Dimensions press. This is a collection of amazing, thought-provoking, and most of all entertaining science fiction stories from this modern master of short fiction. These stories have been published all over the genre – from mags to anthos to websites - and are together in book form [...]
BN: Tell us about what you have written. TB: The Blooming is an erotic novella about different kinds of appetites. I find sexual desire and raw hunger are similar in nature, both leaving us with the overwhelming need to consume until one is sated. The Blooming takes these basic drives and overlaps them within the [...]
BN: Tell us about what you have written. BLP: My novels so far include my Jack the Ripper Trilogy, comprising A Study in Red – The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper, Legacy of the Ripper and Requiem for the Ripper. All three books have been signed for movie adaptation by Thunderball International Films and [...]
