Month: November 2019

Teenage Entrepreneur Writes Amazon Bestseller

November 29, 2019 admin 0

Andre Haykal’s book became an Amazon Bestseller. What They Won’t Teach You is a new bestselling book about How Young Entrepreneurs Can Find Success Outside of the Classroom. Haykal is a 19-year-old college sophomore at Binghamton University. He recently released his first book: What They Won’t Teach You: How Young Entrepreneurs Can Find Success Outside of the Classroom. The teenage entrepreneur adopted a system to write his book in less than three months developed by […]

Who Album Will Get Graphic Novel Treatment

November 27, 2019 admin 0

Love Heavy Metal magazine? Love The Who? Then you are likely going to think Lifehouse, based on the uncompleted rock opera, will be a must read. From Variety: Sci-fi fantasy magazine Heavy Metal and Pete Townshend are partnering on the Who’s uncompleted rock opera “Lifehouse” for a graphic novel, with an eye to developing a movie and television projects. “Lifehouse,” which had originally been planned as a movie for Universal in 1970, will be published […]

It’s Raining Cats! It’s Raining Dogs! It’s Raining Bats! And Pollywogs! by Sherry West

November 27, 2019 admin 0

For pooped-out parents who pine for brief bedtime reads, this funny and fast-paced children’s picture book with a zoo full of anxious animals is just what the veterinarian ordered. Author/illustrator Sherry West and co-illustrator Larkin Stephens-Avery share an artistic appreciation for antsy animals and feathered fowl which they put to good use in It’s Raining Cats! It’s Raining Dogs! It’s Raining Bats! And Pollywogs! (Morgan James). Avery is the proud progenitor of the pudgy poultry […]

Trump Jr’s Triggered Gets $100,000 RNC Push

November 22, 2019 admin 0

Want your book to be a bestseller? It turns out it’s very helpful to have powerful friends… or fathers, as the case may be. The Huffington Post reports that Donald Trump Jr.’s Triggered, published early in November, had an unexpected push to the New York Times bestseller list: The Republican National Committee spent $95,000 buying up the books, according to a campaign finance listing spotted by The New York Times. Records from the Federal Election […]

Author and Feminist Icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Honored

November 22, 2019 admin 0

Sometimes it can feel very lonely trying to prove that sexism exists, that we haven’t achieved basic equality for women around the world. Tonight is an oomph that shows me that it truly matters.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie     Bestselling Nigerian author and feminist icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was honored this week in New York City at the annual “Make Equality a Reality” gala, hosted by international women’s rights organization Equality Now. Each year, […]

Wings Not Strings Equips Parents to Empower, Not Control

November 22, 2019 admin 0

Signs are everywhere that young adults are struggling after they leave home, while parents are overwhelmed by the practical and emotional demands of preparing their teens for independence. These concerns are linked. In response, co-authors Dennis Trittin and Arlyn Lawrence created Wings Not Strings: Parenting Strategies to Let Go with Confidence (LifeSmart Publishing), to position the entire family to flourish. “We wrote this book to answer the most pressing parenting question we receive: ‘When and […]

Birther News: Columbus Wasn’t Italian

November 22, 2019 admin 0

Newly published research aims to validate Columbus as a blue-blood descendant of Slavic Royalty, not Italian even though, for the longest time, conventional wisdom held that Columbus was a citizen of Genoa. Popular thought has it he was the son of a humble weaving peasant who came to Portugal to challenge, not only the social classes and the political powers of his time, but also the dark abyss of seafaring ignorance. Manuel Rosa’s latest book, […]

Collection of Short Stories by Acclaimed Armenian Writer Karine Khodikyan

November 21, 2019 admin 0

The short fiction of Karine Khodikyan can be described as intellectual fiction for women. These short stories with a “mystical touch” tell stories about women – young and old, happy and sad; even when the protagonist is not a woman, the immerses the reader into the life of a woman, revealing her role in anything and everything. Karine Khodikyan is an acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, fiction writer and journalist. She was the editor of the fiction […]

Sneak Peek: Jane Austen’s Emma in Theaters February 2020

November 20, 2019 admin 0

This coming February, Focus Features will release Emma, Jane Austen’s beloved comedy about finding your equal and earning your happy ending. This version of the timeless classic is reimagined in a delicious new film adaptation directed by Autumn de Wilde; written by Eleanor Catton (The Luminaries, Out of the Mist) and produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin. Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in […]

Fiction: Leonardo’s Handwriting by Dina Rubina

November 16, 2019 admin 0

Leonardo’s Handwriting (Glagoslav) is a romantic moral tale, with an unconventional woman at its heart. Nature has given Anna the gift of clairvoyance. It is this that determines her singular fate. The characteristic “left-handed mirror handwriting,” which in psychology came to be known as “Leonardo’s handwriting” (since that’s how the Renaissance genius wrote his notes), simply adds to the weirdness both of Anna’s personality and the twists and turns of the novel. Is the divine […]