Top 50 Books News & Stories - July 10
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DeJean‘s new book attempts to prove there were really no cities before the Paris of the 16th and 17th centuries
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Wattpad announced a new acquisition to its growing family, this time in the form of traditionally published author community Red Room. Not to be confused with the reference from Fifty Shades of Grey, Red Room served as a bridge to connec...
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With no end in sight to the monthslong contract renewal standoff between Amazon and Hachette Book Group, Amazon reportedly sent a letter last weekend to some Hachette authors, dangling an offer of 100 percent royalties on e-books until H...
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When Harper Teen first announced Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen , I knew it was a book I had to have. With its exciting fantasy premise involving magic, secrets and rebellion, what's not to love? Am I right? And then a few weeks ago, they ...
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Via Jim Romenesko, a question from The Billfold Web site about what people’s first jobs were and what they paid, and what that particular job pays now. Romenesko’s spin on the question involves journalism (because his site is...
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Sci-fi author George R.R. Martin does not appreciate speculation that he won’t live to finish the last two books in the Game of Thrones series. In an interview with the Swiss daily newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, the 65 year-old author t...
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Today on Amazon’s Gold Box, save 50% or more on backpacks and bags for women, men, juniors, and kids. Today is the last day to take advantage of this deal: Select Kindle Books for $1.99 Each (KSO) Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is...
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For many authors, group blogs are a fun, relatively easy way to promote their work. And for readers, these blogs can be highly entertaining. There are tons of group author blogs, but the Holy Taco Church might be my new favorite. As far ...
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Today I was pleased to find a software update available for the Onyx Boox T68 Lynx. The update seems to have fixed most of the touchscreen issues—the accuracy is much better now and so is responsiveness. Onyx also added the ability...
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Despite the hordes of critics who have verbally assaulted Amazon for its greed in the Hachette dispute, an article for Forbes today demonstrated the outcome of the current contract negotiation holds a certain percentage of Amazon’s...
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Dear Ms. Ridgway, In his book The Art of Fiction, the late author John Gardner wrote: …whatever the genre may be, fiction does its work by creating a dream in the reader’s mind. We may observe, first, that if the... more Read the o...
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The darkest corners of our imagination
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New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe really shows her ability to craft a suspenseful and compelling young adult novel with her latest book Conversion . There's something strange happening to the girls at St. Joan's Academy. T...
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"The visitors wear afternoon dresses with rows of buttons up their fronts, and stiff wire crinolines beneath. It's a wonder they can sit down at all, and when they walk, nothing touches their legs under the billowing skirts, except their...
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Joost Hiltermann For Iraqi Kurds, the jihadist blitz through northwestern Iraq has offered an opportunity to take possession of areas they’ve long claimed as theirs and push for independence. At the heart of these “disputed areas” is the...
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We already knew doctors have strong stomachs. We just didn't know how strong. It turns out that medical education has a long and rich history of using food metaphors to describe body parts, diseases, symptoms, and everything else that st...
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There are currently four books on sale from HarperCollins, that they are calling BookPerk deals. However, these are not limited to their custom website and are also on sale at Amazon: Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombi...
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While we all love a strong hero, we love a strong heroine even more. Sadly, strong heroines aren't always as easy to find despite being incredibly important. Today, in celebration of her newest novel, The Kiss of Deception , YA author Ma...
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Nick McWhorter has been promoted to vice president of media licensing at Dark Horse Comics. McWhorter has been with the company for ten years. Prior to this advancement, he served as the director of custom projects. According to the pres...
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Author Elizabeth Lowell has been writing romantic thrillers for almost 30 years. The best selling author, who got her start in traditional publishing, is now taking advantage of her genre’s popularity in eBooks by self-publishing m...
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More than a decade after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, veteran journalists Peter Eisner and Knut Royce are releasing a new edition of their groundbreaking book, The Italian Letter . More relevant than ever, The Italian Letter provides explo...
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What do you do when the growing number of new reads causes your wallet to shrink uncomfortably? Shop the e-book deals, of course! In this column we highlight some of our favorite book buys that will cost you less than a medium-sized coff...
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In return for signing up for a daily email newsletter (which you can easily cancel), HarperCollins is willing to give you a free book … although they also want you to read it in their new HarperCollins Reader App, which is a modifi...
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Why risk getting bumps and bruises playing outside throughout the summer when you can stay indoors reading and get scarred for life? From creeptastic finger puppets to ingesting insects, Jimmy Fallon's latest " Do Not Read List " contain...
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Open Road Integrated Media has formed a partnership with Humble Bundle. The two have crafted a special eBook package tailored for science fiction readers. According to the press release, this deal “offers eleven science-fiction tit...
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You ask, we answer! This is our new weekly feature where we pick one or more questions from our readers, open the Cuddlebuggery Vault of Secrets and share the goodies with you. Or something. These questions can range from completely rand...
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What’s Next? is a meme hosted by Icey Books. For more information about how to participate, head over here! Here are a few books that I want to read soon! Can your heart be put to a popular vote? As yearbook photographer, Harper i...
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The author, most recently, of “The Last Kind Words Saloon” says that meth-heads are the worst part of being a bookseller. “Anyone can walk into our bookstore in the age of meth — it’s a constant worry.”
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The Kindle Deals of the Day for those in the UK is a bonanza for Margaret Thomson Davis and Wilbur Smith fans: Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream by Deepak Chopra The Gourlay Girls (The Clydesiders Trilogy) by Margaret ...
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Nobel Prize-winning author and Canadian icon Alice Munro turns 83 today. CBC Books celebrates by rounding up our coverage of her accomplishments from the past few years.
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Ridley Scott is planning yet another Bible-based epic. The director of "Exodus: Gods And Kings" has plans to write "David," reportedly centering on his post-Goliath reign as King of Israel. Variety reports that Scott will team up with "E...
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Now that we all carry around constantly updating, infinitely detailed maps on our smartphones, the world should feel small and brightly lit, right? Not so, says Alastair Bonnett, a “psychogeographer” at Newcastle University, which is som...
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Steampunk, the repurposing of Victorian culture and technology for contemporary fun and profit, is so ubiquitous -- in media, books, fashion, music, cosplay, and maker culture -- that we tend to imagine its superficial aspects are all th...
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How do you feel when you finish reading a really good book? The Epic Reads team has posted a video about “Book Hangovers” on their YouTube channel. The video embedded above features Johnna Scrabis , Riley Soloner , and Abby H...
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Imagine if all book covers are black, and the titles and the authors' names are printed in white. There is no visual language, no identity, no warmth, no genial introduction. And the feeling is not different when we see books with covers...
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Sometimes books are funny. Other times, according to stock photos, they are really, really, maniacally hilarious: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him." "The world is indee...
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Have you ever been in a conversation and realized you weren't connecting? You were making perfect sense, but the other person just wasn't getting it. Wasn't getting you. We all tend to talk about things that energize us, but unless you c...
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I get an interesting reaction when I tell people what I do for a living. "Erotica author" was initially the answer. The typical response was an aghast look, pale face, and a panicked attempt to change the subject. Now, with the publicati...
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I'm a huge admirer of literary fiction and of edgy, ground-breaking, literary fiction in particular: Nineteen Eighty-Four , Brave New World , Fahrenheit 451 , The Jungle . The list goes on, but each work challenged (and continues to chal...
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“Every child knows how the story ends. The wicked pirate captain is flung overboard, caught in the jaws of the monster crocodile who drags him down to a watery grave. But it was not yet my time to die. It’s... more Read...
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Marja Mills’ engrossing first book, The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee , is an extraordinary account of roughly a decade in the day-to-day life of the reclusive writer behind one of America’s seminal texts: To Ki...
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I got into writing because I wanted to write, I didn’t want to pitch/wait/re-pitch/pray/wait and I figured I could do that by self-publishing. M.H.J. Rice – 10 July 2014 The Back Flap What is a person’s potential? When strug...
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What is the function of the social movement academic?
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Also: Police arrest a man in connection with an attack on author Colum McCann; Ted Scheinman asks his favorite writers what they do about writer's block.
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There’s a system to things — especially magic. Why is there a system, and what is its function in telling a story? D.B. Jackson has a few thoughts on the matter, and how it matters to his latest colonial-era fantasy novel, A ...
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When sci-fi legend Octavia E. Butler died in 2006, fans mourned the loss of works she could have written. Now, two unpublished stories are being released after a scholar found them among her papers.
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When sci-fi legend Octavia E. Butler died in 2006, fans mourned the loss of works she could have written. Now, two unpublished stories are being released after a scholar found them among her papers.
