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Can J.K. Rowling conquer TV with new BBC series?
This writing thing might work out after all for J.K. Rowling - the BBC wants to make a series out of her latest novel. Rowling, the U.K. novelist who became a billionaire from the "Harry Potter" series, will have her first adult novel, "The Casual...
Tags: BBC, Fiction, J.K. Rowling , Authors, United Kingdom
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Vince Flynn, author of Mitch Rapp thriller series, dead from cancer
ReutersBy Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES, June 19 (Reuters) - Vince Flynn, the best-selling author of the Mitch Rapp series of political thrillers that includes "American Assassin" and "The Last Man," died on Wednesday at age 47 after a battle with prostate...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Reviews, Television Industry, Authors, David Brown
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Tales of triumph over terror win top children's UK book awards
ReutersLONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - The stories of a dyslexic hero and a little girl who overcomes her family's fear of a stray dog won two of Britain's most coveted children's literature prizes on Wednesday. "Maggot Moon" by Sally Gardner outshone Booker prize-...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Dyslexia, Authors, United Kingdom, Arts and Culture
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Column: Snowden versus the dragons
Reuters(Reuters) - One measure of our culture's disdain for whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden can be culled from the pages of a thesaurus. Beyond "source" and "leaker," few neutral antonyms exist to describe people who divulge alleged wrongdoing by the...Tags: Edward Snowden, Journalism, The Detroit News, Gaming, Barack Obama
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Noted authors Lori Roy, Karen White to appear in Mount Dora
MOUNT DORA — Novelists Lori Roy and Karen White are genre-benders. Edgar Award-winner Roy writes what has been described as literary suspense: serious fiction that includes the element of not quite mystery but is still page-turning. New York...
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'The Impossible' Director Juan Antonio Bayona to Direct Showtime's 'Penny Dreadful'
ReutersJun 18 (TheWrap.com) - Juan Antonio Bayona, director of "The Orphanage" and "The Impossible," has been tapped to direct the first two episodes of "Penny Dreadful," the Sam Mendes-produced drama series coming to Showtime. The eight-episode series, which...Tags: Arts and Culture, Skyfall (movie)
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Steven T. Seagle, Teddy Kristiansen graphic novel probes 'Genius'
Near the end of Steven T. Seagle and Teddy Kristiansen’s haunting graphic novel “Genius” (First Second: 126 pp., $17.99 paper), the main character, a physicist named Ted, has an epiphany of a kind. Ted was once a prodigy, a kid so...
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Kathy Ebel on her journey from TV procedurals to coming-of-age novel
Kathy Ebel’s debut novel, “Claudia Silver to the Rescue,” chronicles three months in the life of a young woman as she navigates through employment woes, hapless romantic entanglements, and helping out her sister from whom she has been...
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Twelve writers vie for 2013 international writing prize
ReutersLONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - Six awarding-winning writers are among a group of 12 poets, authors and academics vying for the 2013 Warwick Prize for Writing with themes ranging from the Australian war effort in France to opium sellers in 19th century India....Tags: Awards and Prizes, Genres, Jonathan Franzen, Authors, Poetry
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Special Report: Syria's Islamists seize control as moderates dither
ReutersALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - As the Syrian civil war got under way, a former electrician who calls himself Sheikh Omar built up a brigade of rebel fighters. In two years of struggle against President Bashar al-Assad, they came to number 2,000 men, he said,...Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Theft, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government, Islam
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Allen Iverson accused of abducting own children
Former Philadelphia 76ers star Allen Iverson's personal life continues to spin out of control long after he played his last game. The latest ugly saga, according to TMZ, has his ex-wife Tawanna Iverson taking legal action to regain custody of their five...
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Leesburg's Kingstone Comics launches graphic novel by Randy Alcorn
LEESBURG — A publisher of Bible-based comics and graphic novels wants to become king of the Christian comics publishing world and has teamed up with a New York Times bestselling author to help them reach their ambitious goal. Kingstone Comics,...
Tags: Fiction, Religion and Belief, Authors, Religious Texts, The New York Times
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