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MooPig Wisdom (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Excerpt: " ...The smoke house informs the modern interpreter that an annual event on the Dickinson Plantation was the slaughter and presentation of meat supplies." How to Cure Shingles Without a Smokehouse . by D2R2, (First of a Series) Now in Edible Beast Cellars Everywhere -- d2r2 said... " ... Remember, you can always make a car title loan to pay the interest on your payday loans,...
warrior ant press (Free subscription) | yesterday
Books fall from trees and Warrior Ant Press rakes them up and bags them for your fall enjoyment. Let the Great World Spin. Colum McCann.2009, Random House. A book that stretches a long thin wire between Philippe Petit's wire walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center and 9/11 and dares to take the reader along the route. With a cast of New Yorkers that makes you long for a big city escape....
Paramus Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
There's a fifth taste? Absolutely — just as there was a fifth Beatle. Most people know the John, Paul, George and Ringo of taste buds: sweet, salty, sour and bitter. But scientists insist there is a fifth, a gustatory Billy Preston: umami. Preston, naturally, played keyboards for the "Let it Be" album and most of "Abbey Road." But umami? What's that? If the term sounds foreign...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The as the ticker-tape parade for the Yankees winds down in New York City, Triumph Books is running off a 63,000-copy first print run of " The Best! Yankees Bring the World Series Title Back Home "--a rushed 128-page book about the team's 2009 World Series-winning season. According to Publishers Weekly , Triumph will spend a considerable amount of money sending the short book to New York...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Freemasonry and the New Age Guestblogger Arthur Goldwag is the author of "Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more" and other books. On September 15, 2009, THE LOST SYMBOL came off press. Fans of THE DA VINCI CODE, with more than 80 million copies in print perhaps...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
New York Times,November 5, 2009, No. 1 Omission From Top 10 Book List: Women By Dave Itzkoff Right - Publishers Weekly The Nov. 2 issue of Publishers Weekly contains its PW Top 10 list. The trade publication Publishers Weekly likely wanted to provoke discussion with its annual list of the year’s best books, but not like this. In its issue of Nov. 2, Publishers Weekly compiled its PW Top 10, a...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
For those of you reading this in New Zealand, just a reminder of an interesting seminar to be held on December 2 (or as you say 2 December). It will be led by Random House of Canada’s Heather Sanderson and will cover: · How the internet is changing book marketing · How to build a global [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Last Night in Twisted River By John Irving (Random House; 554 pages; $28) To be an avid reader of John Irving is to court disappointment. The very attributes that make much of his work so enjoyable - his eccentric sense of humor, the vividness he brings to...
Romance Bandits (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Bestselling author Julie Kenner returns to the Lair to chat about her new series, the Blood Lily Chronicles, and just to generally catch up with us. Welcome back, Julie! Tell us about the Blood Lily Chronicles. The series is about a young woman, Lily, who goes out to murder the man who’s raped and torment her little sister. But things don’t go as Lily planned, and she’s the one who...
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Panic? No one's panicking. Everything's all swell. Really. Why would I lie to you? Oh, and check out my interview with the awesome Melanie Fazi . RIP Louise Cooper . Interviews Jonathan Moeller interviews Dave Smeds . The Agony Column interviews Kim Stanley Robinson (podcast). The Creative Penn interviews Mur Lafferty (podcast). Lark Neville interviews Amy Grech . Fantasy Magazine interviews Garth...
Pub Rants (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
STATUS: Phone conference in 10 so I’m trying to dash this entry out before it begins. What’s playing on the iPod right now? NESSUN DORMA by Paul Potts If you read my Agenting 101 entries on royalty statements (see right side bar), you should know why Kristin wouldn’t like net amounts received. But if you haven’t, then I happy to just rant about it and tell you. There are two...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
INTERNET MARKETING OF BOOKS & E-BOOKS Message from Martin Taylor There's less than TWO WEEKS left to register at the special Earlybird rate of $160+GST for the seminar that will show you how to market books and ebooks online. Full details and a registration form are on our website at digitalpublishing.org.nz/events. Our experts, led by Random House of Canada's Heather Sanderson are hands-on practitioners...
Ebury Publishing Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
In the spirit of all things cheerful, Random House Audio ran a competition to offer copies of Good Times! by cheeky chappie Justin Lee Collins on CD. All entrants had to do was tell us one of their Good Times. Below are the winning entries. They made us giggle, groan and gag in the case [...]
local ecologist (localecology.org blog) (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Update: Stay tuned for a review. With a comment (see below) to Garden Rant's contest - "Win the awesome book Flora Mirabilis " - I won a PDF copy of the book. Yesterday I received an email from Garden Rant's Susan Harris with details on receiving my prize. Source: Random House My comment: My plant geek credentials. Well, I studied for the Massachusetts arborist exam by exploring the grounds...
Writtenwyrdd (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Betsy Mitchell, Editor at Random House, has kindly provided me with several copies of Child...
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