 | What’s so Funny ’Bout Fiction by Magdalena Ball |
| Another day, another literary scandal. First (Well maybe not first. See this list here) there was Helen Darville’s faked history behind her Miles Franklin winning novel The Hand that Signed the Paper, then there was James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces, novelist JT LeRoy, who finally admitted to being Laura Albert, Nasdijj, the Navajo memoirist who turned out to be porn author Timothy Patrick BeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| Azam Gill - The Warrior Bard |
| Azam Gill is a writer and a warrior. And his thrillers are based on first-hand experience of front line fighting, covert commando operations, under-cover intelligence work … and on a seemingly incongruous lifetime’s love-story with literature, study and teaching.
Now a French citizen, Gill was born in Pakistan, the son of a renowned jurist father and a talented playwright mother. He is fluent BeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| Silenced Cry at New York Book Festival |
| Congratulations to Marta Stephens.
Her debut novel, Silenced Cry, has been awarded an Honourable Mention at the 2008 New York Book Festival.
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| 25 for 25 - Free Books! |
| We are offering an exclusive opportunity for people to get their hands on 25 pre-publication eBook copies of Harry Hughes' debut novel The Bait Shack.
The book itself isn't out until late October, so this is a chance to read this book before anyone else. All we ask is that you promise us a review of 25 words. Why 25 words? Well 25 copies for 25 words! We'll then chose a winner at random from BeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| Review: ALLAKAZZAM! by Daniel Abelman |
| I was predisposed to like ALLAKAZZAM!, though I didn't know that when I started reading it: Daniel Abelman's debut novel is a trickster tale, and I've always loved this kind of story. Every culture has tricksters: in some Native American stories, he is known as Kokopelli or as the coyote; in Zora Neale Hurston's collection, it is the slave named John who outwits his white master, God and Satan. BeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| Book signing at the Indiana State Fair |
| A chance to meet local author, Marta Stephens, at the Indiana State Fair.
Marta will be selling and signing copies of her debut novel, Silenced Cry.
Silenced Cry received an Honourable Mention at the 2008 New York Book Awards, so don’t miss your opportunity to buy a copy of the book and meet the author.
The table is located just inside the main door of the Home and Family Arts Building on BeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| Review: Good Americans Go To Paris When They Die by Howard Waldman |
| Although the saying is ascribed to a number of writers, most sources cite the phrase “good Americans go to Paris when they die” to Oscar Wilde’s Woman of no Importance. For many Americans, particularly the well heeled, Paris might well be considered a kind of heaven, for others, the full irony and uncertainty of the notion of a “good American” might play out. So what if the saying were true? WhatBeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| The Art of a Three Second Pitch that can Make a Best-Seller - Part Two |
| Read Part One here.
The high-octane terrorist thriller, Deep Ice, centred on a world held to ransom, was published by BeWrite Books in 2003. His Young Adult novel, Joko, also from BB, tells the story of a runaway teenager and his Big Foot friend coming to terms with their individual versions of civilisation. It was released in 2006 and was shortlisted this summer for the international Dream BeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| Developing an Internet Presence: An Author's Website |
| This is the second in a set of six articles based on the things I learned during my first year as a published author. The articles outline a few steps authors should consider in order to gain an Internet presence. I have a background in public relations and several years experience in project management and promotions in higher education. My experiences has been in the area of campaign BeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| Pincushion by Anne Morgellyn |
| Coming Soon - 6th September 2008
Outrageous artist August Stockyard - attention-seeking heir to a media and property empire - dies in typically theatrical fashion ... and the mischief that drove his life's work culminates in the bequest of adjoining houses to his pregnant girlfriend, Cressida, and to his former comrade-in-arms, Louise Moon.
But was August's demise simple suicide, was it the BeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| The Art of a Three Second Pitch that can Make a Best-Seller - Part One |
| Sci Fi and Fantasy artist Karl Kofoed can reveal with a magic brush-stroke what it takes a writer tens of thousands of words to say.
And in over three decades as a world-class pro - illustrating and covering work from Isaac Asimov to Twisted Tongue Magazine - he's earned an international reputation as the author's best friend; the guy who sells stories at a glance.Because Karl works to a BeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| Zimmercon - 8th August 2008 |
| ZimmerconWhere: Chester ... When: Saturday 30th August 2008 ... Time: 1pm until 6pmQuaker Meeting Rooms. Union Walk, Frodsham Street. See mapAn afternoon devoted to the Small Press, editors, writers & poets. Come along and meet, listen too, and maybe take part, with some of the stalwarts of the Small Press. This is 'real' grass roots publishing. Already booked:Steve Sneyd of Hilltop Press, writerBeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| Out Now! |
| ALLAKAZZAM!
Wickedly humorous Daniel Abelman is our guide on a magical mystery tour of African and Jewish culture, apartheid, the holocaust, telepathy, police corruption, rigged boxing, exploding dogs and orthodontics ... while a lovable psychic conman tries to peddle a miraculously discovered manuscript to gullible publishers with $$$ in their eyes.
The astute reader navigates a labyrinth of BeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| Upcoming interview with Howard Waldman |
| Magdalena Ball will be interviewing Howard Waldman on the Compulsive Reader Talks show. The author of Good Americans Go to Paris When They Die will talk about his latest novel, his unique premise, his settings, characters, themes, sales, next novel, and a whole lot more.
Listen to the show live here on 30th July 2008 at 02:00
A recorded version of the show will be available here after the show BeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| ALLAKAZZAM! by Daniel Abelman |
| Release date: 8th July 2008
Man, myth and magic in lightest AfricaWickedly humorous Daniel Abelman is our guide on a magical mystery tour of African and Jewish culture, apartheid, the holocaust, telepathy, police corruption, rigged boxing, exploding dogs and orthodontics ... while a lovable psychic conman tries to peddle a miraculously discovered manuscript to gullible publishers with $$$ in BeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| Author Chat with Magdalena Ball |
| Join LibraryThing to talk to Magdalena Ball, author of Sleep Before Evening. She'll be on LibraryThing to discuss her work and answer questions until July 4th.
Join in the chat here: http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?newpost=1&topic=39419#lastmsgBeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| Silent Actor by J. Michael Wahlgren |
| Out Now!
This collection of poems by J. Michael Wahlgren invites the reader to follow an ongoing process of both discovery and reflection for the poet.
With a wry, quiet humor and compelling vision, Wahlgren’s search for grace and understanding throughout life is wrought with passion, yet his poems remain quietly elegant and straightforward as he discusses sex, heartbreak, marriage and other BeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| When it's Time to Type 'The End' - Part Two |
| Read Part One hereWhen he was thirteen, Howard’s mother died and he moved with his father into a Manhattan hotel apartment where he lived until he was twenty-two. Then he moved to Paris, where he fell in love with the country, the food, the language, the culture … and the girl who was to become his wife and
He said: “It’s true that the hero of my novel Back There falls in love with a French BeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| Peter Tomlinson book signing |
| A chance to meet author, Peter Tomlinson, and purchase signed copies of all his novels.
Location: The Castle Book Shop, Castle Street, Ludlow, UK. Map
Time: 11am - 1pm
Date: Monday 26th May 2008.BeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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| International Writing Award Honours Sleep Before Evening |
| Sleep Before Evening, a fast paced coming of age novel by Magdalena Ball, has been named as a Finalist in the Regional Fiction category of the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. The heart-wrenching novel, released last July by BeWrite Books, tells the story of the teenager's struggle against a self-centred artist mother, a succession of drive-by stepfathers, her desperate escape into a BeWrite Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15125027071732354302noreply@blogger.com |
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