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Asham Award: the foremost short story prize for unpublished women writers

Posted by Book Group Librarian in August 31st, 2008  
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Ok so I’m a bit late with this but hopefully not too late! I know a lot of writers who can knock out a few thousand words in no time. *cough* nanowrimo *cough* It’s the editing and the finessing that takes time.
Anyway, here’s some info about the Asham Award. If you are female, [...]

Top picks for Richard and Judy summer reads

Posted by Book Group Librarian in August 22nd, 2008  
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Both of Orion’s titles selected for this year’s Richard & Judy Summer Read have been voted into the top three by readers, with Linwood Barclay’s No Time for Goodbye winning and East of the Sun by Julia Gregson coming in third. In second place was Sadie Jones’ The Outcast (Vintage).
Readers voted via the R&J website [...]

Richard and Judy ‘treat their readers as stupid’

Posted by Book Group Librarian in August 17th, 2008  
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I have to say that I really enjoyed reading this and I hope you do to.  I think he’s right, they could be doing more, a lot more.  I have written previously that the books are not even chosen by them but by their producer.  No doubt this will continue when they switch channels next [...]

The ITV Crime Awards

Posted by Book Group Librarian in August 8th, 2008  
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From the bookseller…
The Sun newspaper has signed a media partnership to support ITV3’s new Crime Thriller season and awards this autumn.
In the deal struck with production company Cactus TV, the newspaper will publish features during the week leading up to the awards, focusing on the literary categories: ––the breakthrough author of the year, author of [...]

Announcing The Paranormal Social Club

Posted by Book Group Librarian in August 2nd, 2008  
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This is purely for new and favourite paranormal fantasy/romance, urban fantasy and fantasy.  It will focus on new releases and on-going series chosen by the members of the club.  Members will suggest books they want to read in the coming months and then vote to chose the book/s that will be read.
Hosts will also be [...]