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Literature Curators

Today In Literature Curators Most Overlooked Books of 2011

Curated By Tom George

What’s your favorite overlooked book this year? Add it to our growing list… Today this GalleyCat editor joined New Hampshire Public Radio’s Word of Mouth show to talk about the most overlooked books of 2011 alongside Michele Filgate and Jodi Paloni. But don’t take our word for it! Below, we’ve included links free samples of [...]

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Video Trailer for My Book: A Question of Faith | The Daily Retort

Curated By Tom George

Here is the video trailer for my book – it’s just like a movie trailer you’d see at a theater for a movie but it’s for a book! This video is just over a minute long, let me know what you think! Via thedailyretort.com Related Reading: Timing for Animation, Second EditionA classic of animation education [...]

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New Christmas Classic Morgidoo’s Christmas Carol

Curated By Ann Marie Dwyer

Do you have your copy of Morgidoo’s Christmas Carol? Only 15 more days until Christmas! Morgidoo’s Christmas Carol is a new Christmas classic for all ages. Morgidoo, a young boy searches for the long lost Great Silver Bell. Christmas was celebrated with joy, and snow was warm as popcorn –until the Great Silver Bell disappeared. [...]

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Interview with Erin Morgenstern (Author of The Night Circus) December, 2011

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – Read Ye, Read Ye Two magicians compete in a decades-long duel with unknown stakes in The Night Circus, a fantasy-laced tale full of twins, kittens, and phantasmagoric attrac… Via www.goodreads.com Related Reading: Home, School, and Community RelationsThis is the most interesting, comprehensive, and practical educator resource available today for working with families. [...]

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Diary Of A Bibliophile: Review: On The Island by Tracey Garvis-Graves

Curated By Tom George

Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.’s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. Now Anna and T.J. [...]

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About Mind Games by Claude Bouchard-fReado

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards A string of sex slayings plagues Montreal and has Captain Dave McCall and his Special Homicide Task Force in a frustrated frenzy as they try to bring an end to the vicious butchery.Assisted officially by the noted psychiatrist, Doctor Samuel Bowman…   This is Mind Games Show original Related Reading: NATO [...]

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Best literature news from all the world. It will be amazing book from Spielberg called ‘Tintin

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards It will be amazing book from Spielberg called ‘Tintin. Our site gives you an opportunity to read and comment fresh book news from all over the world. Look at and read all information from the beginning and be informed! Show original Related Reading: Belgium – From the Roman Invasion to the [...]

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The Count of Monte Cristo

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Falsely accused of treason, the young sailor Edmond Dantes is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau d’If. Having endured years of incarceration, he stages a daring and dramatic escape and sets out to discover the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo, and to catch [...]

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Finalists Named for National Book Awards

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards For the second year in a row books about war and foreign locales enchanted the judges of the National Book Awards, whose finalists were announced on Wednesday. The finalists for fiction are Andrew Krivak, for “The Sojourn” (Bellevue Literary Press), a novel set during World War I; Téa Obreht for “The [...]

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How the Crowd Is Shaping the Future of Storytelling

Curated By Mike Ellsworth

Via Scoop.it – Enterprise Social Media Molly Barton is president of Book Country, an online community for genre fiction writers, and VP of Digital Publishing, Business Development and Strategy at Penguin Group (USA). This is a long piece, but worth it. Stories are central to social media, and Barton’s ideas on how the social aspect [...]

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All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books

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Via Scoop.it – Student of Success Writing her lover’s “autobiography” proved a witty way for American author Gertrude Stein to detail her own life as Parisian writer, salon host and arts patron. Ostensibly, readers can take in the… Show original Related Reading: Arts, Humanities, and Complex NetworksProduced in partnership with Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, [...]

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I was born inside the movie of my life – Roger Ebert’s Journal

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards The opening pages of my memoir, to be published September 13, 2011: I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily. Show original Related Reading: Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an [...]

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Amazon Won’t Let Me Give My Books Away For FREE

Curated By Tom George

Getting into the top 100 books at Amazon is a dream that everyone aspires to. Getting into the top 10 is an even loftier one. But getting there is very difficult and made more so by one interesting policy that Amazon has. Did you know that as a self-published (Indie) author you cannot set your [...]

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Internet Evolution – Joe Stanganelli – 23 Authors + 24 Hours + the Web = 1 Novel

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards An experimental project produced a full-blown novel in one day, via 23 hardworking authors collaborating on the Web. On May 28, 2011, I took part in the 24-Hour Novel Project. Organized by new media impresario John Herman, the project teamed up 23 writers to co-author a complete novel online within 24 [...]

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Looking For A Good Audiobook Player For Under $3 Bucks? Akimbo’s Got You.

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – Audiobook Business News Audiobook players are rapidly gaining ground in the Android Market and we thought it would be worth mentioning one in particular. Akimbo Audiobook Player for Android is one of the most comprehensive players on the market today and truly offers a big bang for your buck. The list of [...]

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