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April 17, 2009 12:26 PM EDT --
This week on WritersNewsWeekly.com Karen Bence writes about adding paranormal elements to mystery fiction.
"At a recent author event, I was asked what possessed me to include “ghosts” in my “mystery” . . .
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April 07, 2009 04:07 PM EDT --
Fans of Scribd be warned: The days of downloading books for free onto your computer may be numbered. Scribd is a California-based website that allows users to download books for free and upload new documents, . . .
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March 09, 2009 05:33 PM EDT --
Would you like to get your work onto WNW? Would you like a basket of free books? Are you trying to kill time at work, but the boss has blocked YouTube?
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, . . .
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February 19, 2009 04:13 PM EST --
Britney Spears is getting ready to ‘write’ a tell-all memoir detailing her recent behavior in the past few years, and top publishers are abuzz with who will get the deal. Editors with Dutton and Harper . . .
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February 11, 2009 03:58 PM EST --
If WNW readers are anything like the WNW staff, then they are probably addicted to Lost, the ABC hit show about the goings-on of a mysterious island. What’s even better are the literary references . . .
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January 23, 2009 11:01 AM EST --
TheBabyWebsite.com is reporting that 50% of British parents polled by the site said they would not read fairytales to their children until they were at least 5 years old. The reason? 20% said that the . . .
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January 08, 2009 03:31 PM EST --
This week on WritersNewsWeekly.com Karen Bence, author of Midnight Revelations (SterlingHouse Publisher 2008), writes about the kind of ghosts that you keep locked in your head–those counter-productive . . .
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January 05, 2009 01:35 PM EST --
Two other WritersNewsWeekly columnists awarded Honorable Mentions
Carlotta Holton, WNW columnist and author of Salem Pact , Touching the Dead and Vampire Resurrection (SterlingHouse . . .
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November 12, 2008 01:40 PM EST --
Congratulations to Joshua Barnak, winner of the WNW Horror Short Story Contest! Lamia was chosen by a panel of judges for its creativity, story structure and surprise ending!
Michael sat up in bed . . .
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October 21, 2008 04:32 PM EDT --
Oprah publicly chastised James Frey after his memoir, A Million Little Pieces was found to be a fake account of his drug addiction and subsequent withdrawal. When readers learned the truth about Frey . . .
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October 15, 2008 11:45 AM EDT --
Attention all horror writers: Have a short story that is truly terrifying? Enter your short story in the WNW 2008 Horror Writing Contest! A panel of judges will determine the most shockingly horrific tale, . . .
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September 29, 2008 11:39 AM EDT --
A new announcement from Google this week has the literary world abuzz—Google has made the books that it features in Google Book Search available to embed on any website or blog.
The new feature . . .
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September 10, 2008 11:43 AM EDT --
Make room Cat in the Hat, Berenstain Bears and Curious George—you’re being replaced with John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Believe it or not, it’s true. Three new children’s books on . . .
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September 05, 2008 05:49 PM EDT --
This week WritersNewsWeekly.com asked Barbara Wilhelm (Mela Barrows Bennett), author of Murder Makes the Rounds: What makes a thriller a medical thriller?
"What makes a thriller or a suspense . . .
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August 28, 2008 02:30 PM EDT --
Industry insiders are calling it a sign of the times: More and more publishers are encouraging authors to promote their books online in what is being called a virtual book tour.
The way it works is . . .
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August 13, 2008 02:34 PM EDT --
Random House is pulling the plug on the much anticipated historical novel by Sherry Jones, titled “The Jewel of Medina.” The book was to be released August 12, however the book publication has been canceled . . .
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August 07, 2008 10:52 AM EDT --
This week on WritersNewsWeekly.com:
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced that the 27th anniversary of Banned Books Week (BBW) will take place September 27- October 4, 2008 at libraries . . .
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August 06, 2008 03:08 PM EDT --
This week Barbara Harris Whitfield shares the story of her interview with Don Imus along with tips for authors doing radio interviews.
"...It’s April 1990. My first book, Full Circle: The Near-Death . . .
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August 01, 2008 11:36 AM EDT --
In WritersNewsWeekly.com's first issue, Dan Wright wrote an editorial on his opinion of the Chick-Lit genre.
"Now, I don’t want to discourage anyone who writes Chick-Lit, nor do I want to . . .
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July 29, 2008 02:14 PM EDT --
An Iranian family has won a last minute reprieve from deportation this week after being wanted for allegedly having a copy of The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. The book has caused an uproar in Muslim . . .
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