June 2012
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“I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their...”
– Emily Blunt, via BrainyQuote
This is a book deal announcement.
I’m so happy for Justin!
animalstalkinginallcaps:
There was a time, long ago, in a world not unlike our own, where a writer would produce a manuscript after many laborious hours spent hunched over a typewriter of such heft and weight it could easily be used to bludgeon a burglar to death. Writers would not bash ne’er-do-wells’ heads in, of course, for multiple reasons, chief among them...
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Coming June 30, 2012
Highland soldier Callum MacDonell battled lowland Covenanters at the service of the King. Now charged with hunting an assassin, his journey would lead not to justice, but to a murderer’s passionate Covenanter sister, Mari McEwan. Betrayed and abandoned by the man she loved, Mari faced judgment by a tribunal of her people demanding she name the father of her unborn child, or be exiled...
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War, passion mark 'Hemingway & Gellhorn' -... →
In between, the pair dodge bombs and bullets that at times serve as a dangerous backdrop for their sexual encounters (played with gusto, and a fair amount of nudity, by the film’s stars).
“It’s about storytelling, what was necessary to show the heat that existed between them and especially in the heat of war,” said Kaufman.
<J.L. raises an eyebrow.> When...
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Queen Victoria's Journals →
Now online!
A message from HM Queen Elizabeth II
In this the year of my Diamond Jubilee, I am delighted to be able to present, for the first time, the complete on-line collection of Queen Victoria’s journals from the Royal Archives.
These diaries cover the period from Queen Victoria’s childhood days to her Accession to the Throne, marriage to Prince Albert, and later, her Golden...
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I've been nominated for an eFestival of Words... →
I wasn’t expecting this!
eFestival of Words Best Cover Nominees
The goal of the eFestival of Words Awards is to highlight those independent authors and publishers that have worked to raise the bar in terms of the literary quality and production value and of digital books. Check out the nominees for Best Book Cover, and then go to efestivalofwords.com May 1, 2012 to see all the nominees!
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Carlos Fuentes, Mexican Novelist, Dies at 83 -... →
…Mr. Fuentes was one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world, a catalyst, along with Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Julio Cortázar, of the explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and ’70s, known as El Boom. He wrote plays, short stories, political nonfiction and novels, many of them chronicles of tangled love…
…Mr. Fuentes...
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THE DAILY STAR :: Culture :: Books :: British... →
Curator Jamie Andrews, head of English and Drama at the British Library, selected thematic snapshots of different types of places for the exhibition, which he describes as “choose your own adventure” in style.
The hope is that visitors will navigate their own way through and find their own connections in sections which range from “wild places” and “rural dreams” to “dark satanic mills” via...
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Ten questions on Jane Austen | Books | The... →
John Mullan
guardian.co.uk,
Friday 18 May 2012 17.45 EDT
Jane Austen’s admirer Virginia Woolf said that “of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness”. It is a brilliant insight. The apparent modesty of Austen’s dramas is only apparent; the minuteness of design is a bravura achievement. But it cannot be shown by some grand...
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Country Living Rise of Rural Romance Books -... →
PUBLISHERS are clamouring for country courtships.
A new genre has arrived on the publishing landscape, and rural romance writers such as Fiona Palmer are bringing home the bacon.
“My girls are ‘go get ‘em’ sort of girls,” said the 33-year-old mother of two from Pingaring (population 140) in Western Australia’s eastern wheatbelt.
“My books reflect...
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New Survey Reveals That Biggest Frustration For... →
Seriously?
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Writer’s Cramp: In the E-Reader Era, a Book a Year... →
“It used to be that once a year was a big deal,” said Lisa Scottoline, a best-selling author of thrillers. “You could saturate the market. But today the culture is a great big hungry maw, and you have to feed it.”
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Michael Mann looks back on 'The Last of the...
Indeed, it is still the film’s sweeping romance, its epic sadness, its viscous sense of honor that resonates emotionally to this day.
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Waiting for Robert Capa by Susana Fortes
A big, sweeping romance in the face of danger and against the backdrop of war? Sign me up (to read—not to live.)
Gerda Taro and and Robert Capa: reinvented themselves and war photography. Photograph: Fred Stein Archive/Getty Images
Robert Capa and Gerda Taro: love in a time of war Capa and Taro lived, loved and died on the frontline, becoming the most famous war photographers of their...
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“All I want to be is the Jane Austen of South Alabama.”
-Harper Lee,...”
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Answers to Questions About Harper Lee
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President in Petticoats! Civil War Propaganda in... →
As the American Civil War ground to a dispiriting and unheroic end after the surrender of General Robert E. Lee’s rebel forces and the shocking assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in mid-April 1865, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, became a political fugitive. At dawn on May 10, 1865, a contingent of Michigan cavalry captured Davis in a makeshift camp outside...
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Typewriter Fact #1
typewriter-love:
‘typewriter’ is the longest English word you can type using only the top row of letters on a standard QWERTY keyboard.
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Cinco de Mayo Myths Debunked, in UCLA Professor's... →
To find out what “Drinko de Mayo” is really about, read this.
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