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This will be the 35th post I’ve done that relates in some way to Joe Konrath. He was very successful when he used a recognized publisher and he became even more successful when he went Indie. And, if I can offer an idea for a writer’s New...

William Shakespeare for kids. It already sounds like a great idea, doesn’t it? I love English literature but honestly, Shakespeare has always frightened me a bit. I am a book lover but I have never been fond of the works of Shakespeare. Until S...

The author of The Three-Body Problem explains how science fiction emerged from the Cultural Revolution’s shadow, with the potential to speak across culturesWhen he was a schoolboy, Liu Cixin’s favourite book was Journey to the Centre of the Earth...

The Sleater-Kinney riot grrrl and Portlandia creator on sci-fi, Steve Gunn’s guitar-playing and the joy of simple curry Born in Seattle, Carrie Brownstein studied sociolinguistics at Olympia College in Washington, centre of riot grrrl, the feminist...

Emmaus Road Publishing has put together six of their favorite titles which are sure to inspire, encourage, and enlighten our spiritual fathers. Buy the whole bundle, and you’ll receive $40 off.The bundle includes Jesus is the Gift by Regis Flaherty...

The picture shows a screenshot of Qatar's most popular English-language news website Doha News on December 4, 2016.Qatar’s leading independent English-language daily news website has announced that it is going to scale back operations less than a w...

From dazzling biographies to fantastic fantasy and wry observation, the year’s graphic books would make great Christmas presents When I began writing about graphic novels a decade ago, I remember worrying slightly about the supply line: would I rea...

Monkey has been learning all about the Stone Age at school this half term so when we were offered the chance to read Stone Underpants, I knew we had to say yes. Published through Maverick Arts Publishing last month this … Continue reading ͛...

Doha News Publisher Omar ChatriwalaAs many are aware, Doha News became inaccessible to most online users in Qatar as of yesterday, Nov. 30.Our URL – dohanews.co – was apparently blocked by both of Qatar’s internet service pr...

This photo shows a Qatari man surfing the Internet.A popular news website has become inaccessible in Qatar, with reports suggesting that authorities deliberately blocked it over articles it published earlier in the year.The management team of Doha Ne...

Robert Langdon, the famous "symbologist" from Harvard, created by writer Dan Brown, wipes dust off the tweed jacket and on his shirt the color of coal and engage in solving another mystery in future novel author c- s, Brown announced his publishers.T...

Mickey's Spooky Night 1.0.4 is a Android App developed by Disney Publishing Worldwide. It is a Books & Reference kind of App with lots of features listed. This App already downloaded around 10,000 - 50,000 times from initial release. Mickey's Spo...

In August 2016, Oamaru, New Zealand, broke the world record for the greatest number of steampunks gathered in once place – but what is steampunk? First used in 1987, the term refers to a sub genre of science fiction that imagines a Victorian vision...

As far as publishing goes, regular readers of this blog know I lean toward Self-Publishing; but, I don’t completely abhor Traditional Publishing…  If you go to those last two links, you’ll find 151 posts at Self-Publishing and 41 p...

Today is the official start of a festival known very much to a those of a certain Christian ilk. It’s been running over 40 years around various parts of England, sometimes in the grounds of stately homes, sometimes on a … Continue reading...

Demigods of Olympus 2.0.0 is a Android App developed by Disney Publishing Worldwide. It is a Books & Reference kind of App with lots of features listed. This App already downloaded around 10,000 - 50,000 times from initial release. Demigods of Ol...

Monkey has been a fan on Alice Hemmings for a while, having discovered a few of her picture books, so we were eager to read Rickety Rocket together.  This Junior Fiction paperback book will be published through Maverick Arts Publishing … Conti...

Children of Time, about humans who leave a dying Earth for a terraformed planet where they meet a strange new species, praised for Clarkean sense of wonderBritish author Adrian Tchaikovsky has won the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction for a n...

Free Books - 23,469 Classics 1.3.10G is a Android App developed by Digital Press Publishing s.r.o.. It is a Books & Reference kind of App with lots of features listed. This App already downloaded around 1,000,000 - 5,000,000 times from initial re...

Blake Crouch, author of the Wayward Pines trilogy, opens up a new and infinitely filmable world The first thing to know about Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter is that it is not, by any means, a sensible book. It stars one Jason Dessen, an atomi...

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