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Educational Publisher Grows

March 2, 2020 admin 0

The announced acquisition of Paradigm Education Solutions by Iowa-based Kendall Hunt Publishing Company leverages content and customer base for accelerated growth in higher education. Paradigm is one of the nation’s leading post-secondary providers of print and digital learning solutions for computer technology, health careers, business technology and career development. Paradigm will continue to operate under the Paradigm Education Solutions name and maintain its office in Minneapolis. Kendall Hunt has been family owned and operated for […]

Erasmus Prize 2020 Awarded to Grayson Perry

February 27, 2020 admin 0

One of the best-known contemporary artists, Grayson Perry has been awarded the 2020 Erasmus Prize. The theme of the Prize this year was “The power of the image in the digital era.” At a time when we are constantly bombarded with images, Perry has developed a unique visual language, demonstrating that art belongs to everybody and should not be an elitist affair. According to the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, “Perry receives the prize for the insightful […]

Award Winning Horror Novel Dark Harvest Will Be Feature Film

February 24, 2020 News Editor 0

MGM Film Group is planning a feature adaptation of Dark Harvest (TOR) by Normal Partridge, a Bram Stoker Award winner and a novel acclaimed as one of the top books in its publication year of 2006. From Deadline Hollywood: Dark Harvest is set on Halloween in 1963 and centers around the October Boy aka Ol’ Hacksaw Face aka Sawtooth Jack. Whatever the name, everybody in this small Midwestern town knows who he is. He rises […]

Central Impeachment Player Marie Yovanovitch Lands Seven Figure Book Deal

February 22, 2020 admin 0

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media has acquired a memoir by former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch. The as yet untitled memoir will recount her long career in the U.S. foreign service, which took her from Mogadishu to Moscow to Kyiv and finally back to Washington, DC—where, to her dismay, she found a political system beset by many of the same challenges she had spent her career combating overseas. In addition to tales from her […]

Ageless Authors Writing Contest

February 20, 2020 admin 0

In this contest, you must make every word count.” — Executive Director Larry Upshaw Authors age 65 and older have until midnight Saturday, February 29 to submit their best work to the Ageless Authors Writing Contest titled “Short … Everything.” Ageless Authors is the only international writers group and publisher that exclusively encourages and promotes older writers. While a majority of submissions are from senior writers in the United States and Canada, Ageless Authors […]

Art & Culture: Watch & Learn: Sign Language for Beginners by Sushil Thind

February 17, 2020 admin 0

Watch & Learn: Sign Language for Beginners (Michael Terence) is a learning and teaching guide to British Sign Language (BSL), with the alphabet shown in both uppercase and lowercase letters. The book is ideal for teaching young people and easy to understand. Useful, also, for anyone experiencing deafness for the first time. This large format, fully illustrated book is aimed to assist sufferers to be included and treated equally. Author Sushil Thind addresses the issues. […]

New Graphic Novella Line Plunders the Pirate Persona

February 8, 2020 admin 0

Clover Press and the Eisner Award-winning Yoe Books will seek fortune and fame with Pirates: A Treasure Of Comics To Plunder, Arrr! when the book debuts March, 2020. This Pirate-themed graphic novella collection features comics and art from industry titans including Wally Wood, Frank Frazetta, Reed Crandall, Graham Ingels, and many more. Craig Yoe bellows, “Ahoy ya swabs! I love our deep-as-the-shining-sea relationships with other publisher crews, but I am beyond stoked to hoist sails, […]

Author and Screen Icon Kirk Douglas Dies Age 103

February 5, 2020 News Editor 0

Screen icon Kirk Douglas has died at the age of 103. Born Issur Danielovitch Demsky in Amsterdam, New York in 1916, Douglas was one of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s golden age. The star of the iconic Spartacus and many other films also helped to end the infamous Hollywood Blacklist. Douglas’ son, the actor Michael Douglas, made the official announcement today via Instagram: It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce […]

Vilcek Foundation Awards $250,000 to Immigrant Authors

February 5, 2020 admin 0

Edwidge Danticat is the recipient of the 2020 Vilcek Prize in Literature for her dazzling prose and genre-spanning work that explores the Haitian diaspora and other personal narratives. The winners of the 2020 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Literature are Yaa Gyasi, Valeria Luiselli, and Jenny Xie. “The winners of the 2020 Vilcek Prizes in Literature deftly explore themes of identity, agency, and belonging across a span of genres,” says Marica Vilcek, cofounder and vice […]

Americans go to the Library More than the Movies

February 2, 2020 News Editor 0

There have been many discussions in recent years about whether or not libraries are still necessary to our culture. With the rise of tech culture and the Internet where, at a glance, the information of the world is at everyone’s fingertips, who even needs a building dedicated to knowledge and learning in their town? A new poll says the answer is: almost everyone. From Smithsonian Magazine: The debate over whether public libraries are on their […]