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In the summer of 2008, McSweeney's issue 27 published Jollett's short story, "The Crack", which appeared between short stories by Liz Mandrell and Stephen King. [12] He was a frequent contributor to All Things Considered on NPR [13] and the Los Angeles Times, an editor at large for Men's Health, and the managing editor of Filter magazine. [14]
Orna Ross is the pen name of Aine McCarthy, [1] born 1960. She is an Irish author, [2] former literary agent, blogger and an advocate for creativism. [3] [4] She is the founder of the Alliance for Independent Authors, [5] [6] a professional association for authors who self-publish their work, and has been named one of the top 100 most influential people in publishing by The Bookseller, the UK ...
The National Literary Awards defines independent or "indie" literature as "books published outside mainstream publishing." [permanent dead link ] Such books are rarely recognized and hard to pin down, but some examples include "Damastor" by Dimitri Iatrou, "Returning Home" by Marcus Blake and "Hope...Joy (and a Few Little Thoughts) for Pregnant Teens" by Rachel Brigoni.
[1] [2] "Indies" include small presses, larger independent publishers, university presses, e-book publishers, and self-published authors. [3] Established in 2007, it is the largest international awards program for indie authors and independent publishers and is presented by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group.
Steve was born and raised in Los Angeles, the eldest of four kids. During his childhood, Steve went to a private Jesuit high school. [2]On January 27, 1991 Pavlina was arrested for grand theft in Sacramento, California and given 60 hours of community service. [3]
His 2013 novel Cataract City was named as a shortlisted nominee for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize. [8] In addition to his literary fiction, Davidson has also published several works of horror literature using the pseudonyms Patrick Lestewka and Nick Cutter. In 2014, he released the thriller novel The Troop, with The Deep following in 2015. [9]
The Huffington Post crunched the stats on every Oscar nominee of the past 30 years to produce a scientific metric for predicting the winners at the 2013 Academy Awards. Follow the Oscars with live updates here.
The Rubery International Book Award (founded in 2010 by Heather Painter) is the largest cash award for books published by independent publishers and self published authors in Great Britain. [1] The London Review of Books described it as "independent publishing's response to the Booktrust and the Orange Prize . [ 2 ]