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Georgina Harding, Author of Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlisted Painter of Silence (VIDEO)

Crane.tv | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Author, Orange Prize for Fiction, Fiction, Writer, Travel, Ceausescu, Stalism, London, Novel, Painter of Silence, Georgina Harding, Communism, Eastern Europe, Romania, crane.tv, Book, World War, Video, Arts News

Painter of Silence, Georgina Harding's third novel -- recently shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction -- is set in Romania in the early fifties ...

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Sales Appeal

M.J. Rose | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Bestsellers, Authors, Publishing, Book Publishing, Author, Writing, Books, Self-Publishing, Marketing Authors, Books News

Bridges of Madison County, The Da Vinci Code, The Help and Sarah's Key have very little in common with each other. But they all had that certain indefinable something that appealed to readers.

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Let's Hear it for the Self-Published Author

Warren Adler | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Book News, Warren Adler, Publishing, Writers, Writing, Fiction, Self-Publishing, Novelists, Author, Books News

"Self-publishing" is now a reasonably respectable process that allows anyone who writes a book to be digitally "shelved" alongside authors published by traditional routes.

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What is Transformation?

Tom Butta | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: 21 Weeks, Thought Leader, Author, Thomas Butta, Change Catalyst, Change Agent, Platform Computing, Strategic Marketer, Business Leader, 21weeks, Brand Consultant, Tom Butta, Transformation Architect, Adage, Ceo, B2c, Cmo, Ibm, B2b, Business News

I recently read an article in The Economist about Jim Collins, the author of Built to Last, Good to Great, and, most recently, Great by Choice. The pi...

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The Road to Value (Part 2)

Tom Butta | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: 21 Weeks, Thought Leader, Author, Thomas Butta, Change Catalyst, Change Agent, Platform Computing, Strategic Marketer, Business Leader, Brand Consultant, Tom Butta, Transformation Architect, Adage, Ceo, Cmo, Ibm, B2b, 21weeks, B2c, Business News

A value roadmap can provide a number of sustainable benefits inside the company that invests in the effort. The capabilities section of the value roadmap showcases the gaps between what the roadmap says is needed and what the company can actually provide.

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AIDS. Remember Me?

Kergan Edwards-Stout | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Rememberance, HIV/AIDS, Lgbt, Tribute, Author, Literary Fiction, Honor, Gay, Book, Songs for a New Depression, Books News

Everyone has their own way of honoring our fallen, lost to AIDS. There is no one correct way of doing so. For me, I chose to write.

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National Medal Awards at the White House

Barbara Ernst Prey | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Classical Music, President, America?S Artists, Music, Writer, Arts, Award, National Medal of Arts, Charles Rosen, America, The White House, Author, Creativity, Painting, President of the United States, Rita Dove, Portrait, Pianist, National Medals, Economics, Mel Tillis, Contemporary Art, Artist, Al Pacino, Andre Watts, Sculptor, Washington DC, John Ashbury, United States, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The National Endowment for the Arts, Art Patron, Country Music, Nobel Laureate, First Ladies, Martin Puryear, Actor, Culture, Visual Arts, Painter, Philanthropist, Jim Watson, Printmaker, Arts News

Every visit to the White House is special, but there is something very exciting about witnessing this event. Perhaps it is because I am a painter and I understand the years of work that went into what they have achieved and I can rejoice with them in their successes.

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"I Hope My Suffering Was Not In Vain"

Esther Joseph | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Depression, Child Abuse, Abuse, Memoirs, Author, Alcoholism, Suicide, Prayer, Domestic Abuse, Books News

Just laying there, all I wanted was for the pain to stop. I was convinced dying was my only way out. My hope is that, by offering a voice and a face to the cause of ending abuse, my own suffering was not in vain.

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How to Get Your Book Published When Everyone Keeps Rejecting It

David Henry Sterry | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Authorship, Publishing, Muslim American, Muslim, Writers, Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published, Author, David Henry Sterry, Writing, Books, Sex, E-Books, How to Get Published, The Book Doctors, Love, Books News

When Nura pitched her anthology revolving around the love lives of Muslim-American women, we were blown away.

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Mystery Writer, Sara Paretsky

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Breakdown, Author, Crime, Chicago, Mystery, Mystery Writer, V I Warshawski, Book, Feminism, Sara Paretsky, Novel, Video, Books News

Sara Paretsky is a game-changer. In 1982, Sara came out with her first V. I. Warshawski novel, Indemnity Only, now celebrating its 30th year in print...

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How to Have a Perfect Book Tour

Lev Raphael | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Authors, Memoirs, Germany, Author, Author Readings, Books, Memoir, Book Tours, Author Tours, Books News

Authors often feel like DHL parcels on a book tour, delivered from one venue to another. Small things can feel like big problems. So how do you maintain control?

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Kindness Arrives in Sin City

Leon Logothetis | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Traveler, Travel Tv, Author, Adventure Travel, Traveling, Travel Book, Travel, World Travel, Budget Travel, Leon Logothetis, Tv Host, Kindness Cab, Travel News

The highlight of the day was taking a soon to be married couple to their wedding. It was a special moment to have these two lovely and infectiously smiling people in the cab.

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Smile Chicago, You're In The Kindness Cab.

Leon Logothetis | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Traveler, Travel Tv, Author, Adventure Travel, Traveling, The Kindness Cab, Travel Book, Travel, Budget Travel, World Travel, Leon Logothetis, Tv Host, Travel News

I was off to pick up a Panamanian family visiting Chicago for the first time. I drove them to the famous navy pier and had a rip roaring time.

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The Kindness Cab: Hoosier Style!

Leon Logothetis | Posted 01.03.2012

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Both girls loved their ice creams and their mother was thrilled that the Kindness Cab had battled through traffic to keep its promise of brightening a child's day.

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The Kindness Cab Stops (And Starts Again) In The Capital

Leon Logothetis | Posted 01.02.2012

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My next few rides included a chap who used to work in the White House and gave it all up for a life of adventure, a hedge fund manager, a pharmacy student and, my favorite, a Bolivian soccer journalist.

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Behind the Scenes at the Chicago Literary Awards

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Literature, Nelson Algren, Writers, Gwendolyn Brooks, Cyrus Colter, Author, Chicago Literary Awards, Books, Writer, Art Shay, Don Evans, Carl Sandburg, Saul Bellow, Theodore Dreiser, Sara Paretsky, Studs Terkel, Mike Royko, Authors, Rick Kogan, Fear No Art, Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, Chicago, Richard Wright, Ida B. Wells, Book, Lorraine Hansberry, Harriet Monroe, Chicago News

It is wonderful to live in a city so rich of history, so rich of character, so rich of talent and art. But do we celebrate it enough?

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The Kindness Cab is Coming to Town

Leon Logothetis | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Traveler, Traveling Light, Travel Tv, Author, Adventure Travel, Travel Book, Travel, Budget Travel, World Travel, Leon Logothetis, Tv Host, Travel News

Starting at Times Square, I will be travelling across America in a vintage London cab winding my way ultimately to the Hollywood sign. Along the route I will be picking up anyone who wants a free cab ride.

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How To Get Your Memoir Published: The Book Doctors Interview Sam Benjamin

David Henry Sterry | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Pornography, Book Publishing, Authorship, David Henry Sterry, Author, Books, How to Get Published, Memoir, The Book Doctors, Books News

"My parents were the most supportive people you could wish for. They rose to the challenge of having their son be a participant in the sex industry admirably."

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Life advice from an English chap...

Leon Logothetis | Posted 11.13.2011

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"We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves." Author Unknown When you are feeling down, what do y...

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Mongol Rally: End of the road is the start of something good

Leon Logothetis | Posted 11.07.2011

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"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neithe...

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London's Literary Salons

Crane.tv | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: David Nicholls, Video, Bridget Jones Diary, Shoreditch, Author, Writer, crane.tv, Literary, David Mitchell, Shoreditch-House-Literary-Salon, Damian Barr, London, Trend, Helen Fielding, UK Lifestyle News

London has long been seen as a purveyor of all that's cool - hipsters and trendsetters are constantly piled into the latest IT bar watching undergroun...

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Margaret Atwood Talks About Fun And Religion

Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Author Interview, Religion, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Atwood Interview, The Year of the Flood, A Handmaid's Tale, Author, Writing, Books News

From Narrative Magazine: Canadian author Margaret Atwood has published more than fifty works of fiction and criticism, including her well-known dystop...

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Today's Tribute to the Struggle Against Slavery

J. L. Morin | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Women, Anti-Slavery, Author, Modern-Day Slavery, Fiction, Slavery, Travelling Light, International, Novel, World News

People around the globe are celebrating today's International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition and the day that slavery became illegal in the Western world.

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Finding My Way, Inspired By A Photograph

Leon Logothetis | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Tv Host, Traveler, World Travel, Adventure Travel, Author, Traveling, Travel Book, Travel, Budget Travel, Leon Logothetis, Travel News

I often find that too many of us plod through our lives failing to fully grasp the greatness we possess. Photographer John Millios is not one of those people.

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Find Your Inner Silliness...

Leon Logothetis | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Tv Host, RV Trip, Traveler, World Travel, Adventure Travel, Author, Traveling, Rv, Travel Book, Travel, Road Trip, Budget Travel, Leon Logothetis, The Adventurists, Mongol Rally, Travel News

"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older." ~Tom Stoppard> I have had enough. I have had enough of people telling me I shou...

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