The 2015 Edward R. Murrow Awards entry period is now open. Submit your entries using our online registration system. Entries will be accepted online through February 3. Stories told between January 1 and December 31, 2014 on radio, television and digital media are...
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2015 San Francisco Book Festival Call for Entries
The 2015 San Francisco Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best books of the spring. The 2015 San Francisco Book Festival will consider non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books,...
Nominations for Depicting Marines in Arts and Writing Open until January 9
The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation will be accepting nominations for its Annual Awards program through January 9, 2015. Actor, Marine Corps veteran and founder of Arts in the Armed Forces (AITAF), Adam Driver, and actress and AITAF’s Artistic Director, Joanne...
2015 Paris Book Festival Call for Entrie
The 2015 Paris Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual awards honoring the best of international publishing. The 2015 Paris Book Festival will consider non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books, compilations/anthologies, young...
BN Offers Largest-Ever Signed Editions for Black Friday-2014
All Barnes & Noble Stores to Feature Selection of 100 Signed Editions by Authors Including David Baldacci, Mario Batali, George W. Bush, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jeff Kinney, Anne Lamott, Joel Osteen, Amy Poehler, Rick Riordan, Lisa Scottoline and Many More New...
Ember Island by Kimberly Freeman
Ember Island Kimberly Freeman Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . good addition to anyone's must read list." Nina Jones owns the house on Ember Island once occupied by her great-grandmother. The house, an abandoned whale watching business, was in need...
2014 National Book Awards Winners
The National Book Awards Ceremony for 2014 was held November 19 at Cipriani Wall Street Wall Street in New York City. Here are this year’s winners. For complete coverage, see http://www.nationalbook.org/. WINNER: Phil Klay, Redeployment (The Penguin Press/ Penguin...
2015 Great Southwest Book Festival Call for Entries
The 2015 Great Southwest Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best books of the late winter/spring season. The Great Southwest Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...
S&S Modifies Library eBook Program-2014
Simon & Schuster announced today that, effective immediately, ebooks from its catalog would be made available to libraries nationwide irrespective of whether or not the library participates in the publisher’s “Buy It Now” merchandising program. By lifting the...
Booksellers Alliance Receives $40,000 grant-2014
The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) announced today that it has received a $40,000 grant from the Reba and Dave Williams Foundation for Literature and the Arts. The grant, which honors SIBA’s 40 years of support for Southern independent bookstores,...
