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Venice has inspired not only the best artists and scientists and scholars throughout ages, it inspires now twenty million tourists per year, from every walk of life including humorists.

Film-maker Robert Wynne-Simmons will be giving readings, using the original Middle English text, of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” at St Alfege’s Church, Greenwich, London at 1pm on the 12th and 19th December 2008.

American Welsh heritage site - Americymru publishes exclusive interview with Welsh author - Lloyd Jones.

The Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation welcomes Michael Garrett, an internationally published author, as he presents a series of five writer workshops that will give you a jump start into the next level of writing.

Robert Edge explains to the press, how it came about on writing and publishing his fictional worked named, The Satana.

A new historical fiction novel, Grave Disorder by Charlotte de ne Guerre, tells the tale inspired by true events that haunted her family for centuries - of how the legend of the Vampire began. Two tales connected by one truth.

Stacy Blair’s debut novel, Ripper, is a suspense-filled thriller ripped out of the pages of the history books. The unsolved 1888 crime of Jack the Ripper has eerily reared its ugly head one hundred years later.

The Madness of Avlon Klynn is a fantasy-filled book in which main character Randle Lee tries to destroy his former master and save all the people of his land from the fierce Hell Mountain.

Iris’s life of monotony and financial despair takes an otherworldly twist when she receives a phone call from a beguiling stranger in The Pull of Blood.

Superb Book of Boys Names, by author Oren Davies reveals an eclectic list of distinctive names that include: famous writers, explorers, sportsmen, artists, actors, scientists and inventors.

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The Greater Los Angeles Writers Society to host two consecutive panels of experts to reveal powerful secrets for successfully marketing and selling publications.

Author/Playwright MG Hardie, who has been compared to Tyler Perry and continues to earn rave reviews and honors from the literary world, speaks bluntly in a new interview with Cyrus A. Webb.

Author Michael John’s First Book in Series is a Fascinating Tale of Good and Evil, Otherworldly Beings, and Visions that will Help Save Human Kind

Hip Hop book author MG Hardie continues to earn rave reviews and honors from the literary world both of which bode well for the future of Hip Hop’s newest.

Portia Berry Allen, Daughter of Fred Berry Who Portrayed “Rerun” on “What’s Happening” is Making a Name for Herself and Up and Coming Authors with her BlogTalk Radio Show

Chestnut Hill College placed third among the 14 colleges at the Intercollegiate Quidditch World Cup on October 26, 2008. The Griffins made the Final Four in the Middlebury College Tournament, defeating Princeton University and three other colleges.

A new, terrific book of short stories where political humor reaches its apex. "Wisdom In Smile" - by Askin Ozcan - ISBN 142577153X (Xlibris)

Meet Gwendolen Gross, author of The Other Mother, for an author talk and discussion at the Ramsey Public Library in Ramsey, New Jersey on Sunday, November 16th at 2:00pm. The event is free and open to all.

After teaching writing and literature for twenty years in Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Idaho, Dean Davies left to write novels and poetry. He offers his first published collection of poetry, We Had Our Best Discussions in the Bathtub.

Author Cavin Wright explores the mystery of Stonehenge with specific focus on the 56-hole Aubrey Circle, the purported, sophisticated calendar and clock and its link to the Great Pyramid.

Isabelle and Chris Wooly are two young sheep who learn a valuable lesson in If I Only Had One Wish.

Literary Database 2009 releases a new database to help emerging writers submit their stories, poems, and creative nonfiction essays to 400 top literary journals and online magazines.

In this latest installment of Allan McLeod’s exciting mystery series, Paige Harrington, renowned free-lance journalist, is caught up in international money-laundering when two bank executives are murdered and her best friend’s life is threatened.

Melaniesha Abernathy and Khalif Brown recently published their works in the Villanova Junior Law Review. Both Abernathy and Brown are undergraduate students at Cheyney University and enrolled in the university's Keystone Honors Academy.

ReadMe Publishing is a new publishing company focusing on short story, flash fiction, micro fiction and poetry.

Poet ANASTASIA CLARK returns as a Guest Speaker for a free tele-class offered by the Behind Our Eyes Writers Group. The event will take place on Sunday, Dec 7, 2008 from 8:00pm- 9:00pm. EST.

MG Hardie’s EveryDay Life earns a 5 Star review from Conversations Book Club. (978-1-60594-036-6), $11.95

Announcement of the all-new Direct-to-DVD release of "Almanzo Wilder: Life Before Laura", a documentary inspired by the Laura Ingalls Wilder children's classic "Farmer Boy".

A ‘curved ball’ smacked me in the kisser; Parkinson’s disease had left its calling card. Welcome to my poems that beam you up and boldly go where no Parkinson’s poetry has gone before.

Saga-Whyte Press recently announced that Wayne Harris from Bristol won Best in Category for his short story entitled “With The Blue Dress On”. This has resulted in his novel SINS OF THE ANGEL being considered for publication by Saga-Whyte Press.

Albany Public Library Staff Present at the New York Library Association Conference

In 2007, over 900,000 cases of child abuse occurred; 700,000 incidents of domestic violence were reported, and one million marriages ended in divorce. These are the dire statistics that lead author, Sandy Cicero to write her book, They Do Remember.

In The Pickle Man: Dreaming of the Majors, eight-year-old Zach and his older brother, Josh, spend most of their time playing baseball.

You and your children will delight in the tale of Peaches the Private Eye Poodle: Finding Dipsey Doodle!

What goes on behind closed doors of the highly successful? Author Kathy Turner writes an illuminating novel of a family who had everything but lost all in a single act.

Have you ever wondered what really goes on in our prison systems? Doing Time gives readers an up close and personal view of the violent world that is locked away from the rest of us.

St. Louis’ Own Delivers New Murder Mystery

Nancy Moses, author of Lost in the Museum: Buried Treasures and the Stories They Tell, will have a book signing and panel presentation at Cheyney University. She will be joined by Cheyney University professors Drs. Shirley Parham and Shirley Page.

EveryDay Life by MG Hardie will be AAMBC’s last book of the month of 2008. (978-1-60594-036-6), $11.95

Cheyney University undergraduate student, Subena Perry, presented her work of fiction, "Pinch of Salt to an Open Wound," at the 2008 English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities (EAPSU) conference at Kutztown University .

The shadowy origins of the man who became known as Jesus Christ

I spend a lot of time rewriting other people’s work or worse trying to decipher press releases and editing reams of paper which make up reports. And then I meet up with other freelancers who complain of how quiet it is right now and I wonder?

"WISDOM IN SMILE" by Askin Ozcan (ISBN 142577153X) (Xlibris) contains twenty two witty, interesting and humorous short stories and other writings which will make you laugh, think, get inspired and recommend the book to your friends.

Poetry is an hors d'oeuvre before the main meal. And like in other art forms, a poem too, can not be described, but must be experienced in itself.

Alretha Thomas' Debut Novel "Daughter Denied" Makes Conversations Book Club's Top 50 Fiction Books of 2008

Qlubb Helps Book Clubs Get Online and Organized In Just A Few Minutes

Immortal Defense is a story-focused, abstract game in which the main character, K, gave up his physical body, leaving his pregnant wife, for a chance to defend his family and planet from an invading force.

DIRTY THE DOG AND THE KING OF MUD PUDDLES - Dirty is a dog. A smelly, scruffy, flea-bitten dog. And what do you think is his most favourite thing to do? ROLL! Dirty will roll in anything…the smellier the better!

Ambience Productions announces the much anticipated publication of Real Life Dramas: Volume One by author Darren G. Burton and published by Lulu Press.