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An Overnight Success—28 years in the making for best-selling author

It’s a familiar story for a writer. Form rejection letters from agents and publishers, publishing houses that seem great and then go bankrupt, and enough rejections to wallpaper an office—twice. But writer Cheryl Kaye Tardif kept to her motto of ‘Dare to Dream…and Dream BIG!’ and now after many years and 10 e-books later, she has finally arrived…in more ways than one.

New film searches for the 'worst people in the world'

Ikland, the compelling new documentary from directors Cevin Soling and David Hilbert, follows their journey to Northern Uganda to learn whether anthropologist Colin Turnbull's 1972 assertion that the Ik were the 'worst people in the world' was indeed true. The result is a powerful account of Soling and his team of cinematographers, audio technicians, guides, educators, interpreters, handlers, and helpers, struggling through war-torn regions of deepest Africa.

Author Peter Lerangis Writes New Epic Adventure Series

Author Peter Lerangis has a new a new seven-book series waiting in the wings, with the first part, The Colossus Rises going on sale worldwide on February 5, 2013. Lerangis is the author of three books in the New York Times bestselling series The 39 Clues.

Tom Hubbard, Author, is The New Nightmare On Every Street

There’s a new writer on the radar, and if you’re a fan of horror, you’re sure to have heard the blips coming across the internet alerting you to the arrival of Tom Hubbard.

A Childhood in China in new Graphic Novel Memoir

Little White Duck: A Childhood in China, a graphic novel written by Na Liu and Andrés Vera Martínez, is a collection of eight short stories based on Na Liu’s childhood memories of growing up in China during the years of rapid social and economic change after the death of Chairman Mao.

World's cities unprepared for soaring urban populations

New research in a book published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,  Planet of Cities suggests that most cities of the world are woefully unprepared for the urban population explosion that will occur through the 21st century.

NASA To Honour Neil Armstrong At National Cathedral

Neil Armstrong

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and other dignitaries will attend a public memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral to honor the life and career of astronaut Neil Armstrong on Thursday, Sept. 13. The memorial will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed online by the agency's and National Cathedral's websites.

Cambodian Mother Recycles Trash to Save Her Son's Life

Most of us recycle trash to keep our forest's green, our water clear, and our landfills manageable. For a young mother living at Stung Meanchey, a place once called the largest municipal waste dump in Cambodia, the act takes on a more pressing purpose—Sang Ly is hoping to save her son.

Fantasy Author Vin Jackson’s ‘Reborn’ Explores an Alternate and Barbaric Vision of Life After Death

Vin Jackson’s compelling and gritty novel ‘Reborn’ begins when two accident victims die. Hospital staff manage to bring them back, but the patients soon realise that something is amiss. Part of them is still trapped on ‘the other side' in a heartless, brutal land which defies belief. As their reborn alter-egos, Mireille and LaRoche, struggle to understand how they can be so different from the people they once were, they must also battle for survival in a world ruled by violence and depravity. This is Lonfay, the terrifying future everyone who dies will have to face.

Did Stieg Larsson Fake His Own Death?

Anonymous source leaks new novel, That Girl Started Her Own Country, Sixth in the Series of Sequels to the Count of Monte Cristo, by the Holy Ghost Writer, to select few journalists before it was actually scheduled to be published. According to The Kimble Group, the purported dissimilar novel to Stieg Larsson's Millennium-Trilogy has Larsson fans wondering if he actually faked his own death.

What is needed to save our planet?

Some call it the greed at the heart of the capitalist system, others call it the impossibility of infinite profit on a finite planet, still others call it the dead-urge of our entire industrial civilization. What we can - and should - all agree on, is that we are heading towards the biggest disaster in the history of our species.

New Novel Gives Cecil B. DeMille His Close-Up on Paramount Pictures’ 100th Anniversary

It seems that everyone in Hollywood is either talking about Paramount's upcoming 100th anniversary or giving out another award bearing the name of legendary director Cecil B. DeMille. Well get ready for the close-up because award-winning author and screenwriter Robert Hammond just released his latest novel entitled "C. B. DeMille: The Man Who Invented Hollywood.”

Filming Underway on Jennifer Aniston's, We’re The Millers

Principal photography is underway on New Line Cinema’s action comedy “We’re The Millers,” starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis. The film is directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber who made “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story”.

Aerosmith Releasing New Album, Music From Another Dimension

There has been a witch's brew boiling for 10 years, and America's greatest rock band is about to blow the cover off. On November 6, Aerosmith will release Music From Another Dimension. It marks the band's 15th studio album and their first studio album of all-new material in 11 years. The album was recorded in Los Angeles and at the band's studio in Massachusetts.

Self-Published Author Soars to No.1 with his First Novel

Canadian author Matthew Mather reaches #1 on Amazon science fiction within a month of self-publishing his first novel, Atopia Chronicles; over 30,000 copies in three weeks.

Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven to Be Remade in Japan

For the first time in Japanese cinema history, an American-made film is being remade and released in Japan with director Lee Sang-il's Japanese-language film, Yurusarezarumono, inspired by Clint Eastwood's, Unforgiven.

Cameras Roll on “Hidden” starring Alexander Skarsgård

Principal photography is underway in Vancouver on Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Hidden,” starring Alexander Skarsgård and Andrea Riseborough.

53,000 bulls killed as €2.8 billion is spent on bullfights in the last 5 years

According to independent research conducted by casinoenlinea.es, Spain spent €2.8 billion subsidizing organized bullfights in the last five years alone. This despite 72.1% of Spaniards having no interest in bullfights. Moreover, these bullfights have resulted in the deaths of more than 53,000 bulls during this period.

Hamlet Z- A New Version of 'Hamlet' with Zombies

"Hamlet Z," a reinvention of Shakespeare's classic play featuring Denmark under siege by zombies, is available now for purchase on Amazon.com, and is in pre-production for a 2013 stage production in Austin, Texas by Assembled Productions, LLC.

Lancelot and The Wolf Author Victim of Gay Hate Campaign

Author Sarah Luddington has come under attack from a barrage of homophobic hatred following the release of her Arthurian fantasy series, The Knights of Camelot, in which the main protagonist is bisexual.

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