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Random House to Release Next Rusdie Novel and Two Grisham's

21/2/2017

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​According to Random House, the new novel by Rushdie "weaves together a gripping story of life over the last eight years: the rise of the Tea Party, Gamergate and narcissistic, media-savvy villain sporting makeup of coloured hair."

Random House Executive editor- Will Murphy stated they had acquired the U.S. rights for The Golden House from the Wylie Agency and called the book, "astounding, timely and extraordinarily moving."

On the flip side, Grisham's new novels - Camino Island and the new thriller (title yet to be released), will see 1.5 million copies released for the first round of printing.

Sonny Mehta - Chairman and Editor in Chief of Knopf stated the JG novels are some of his best work to date.  Further updates on the new "classic, suspense-filled legal thriller" would be disclosed closer to the release date.
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Spanish Publishers Take On the Publishing World

4/2/2017

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Spanish publishers La Casita Grande and Lil' Libros are hoping to fill void of Latino authors that presently dent the world of books.  ​
Patty Rodriguez and Ariana Stein are two long time friends that have joined forces to create the publishing company - Lil' Libros.  The friends found it difficult to find Latino books for their children to read and have since increased the number of books produced by such authors, two fold.Lil' Libros publishing  house is based in Los Angeles and began with a bilingual manuscript Counting with Frida/Contando con Frida, which combines an account of a Mexican life painter - Frida Kahlo with number learning.  It was this book that visited the rooms of many publisher with little success and has since enabled Lil' Libros to grow into the upcoming publishing house it is today.
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Literature of interest to readers appears to be science fiction, crime, romance, horror and experimental works.  Understandably, Marcantoni is not interested in receiving  "books about immigration or identity literature", he stressed.  La Casita Grande is dedicated to producing work that are experimental, innovative, genre-busting narratives in both English and Spanish. 

In late February, the first book is off the rank - Dysfunctional Males, which is a collection of short stories written by Argentinean author Fernando Sdrigotti.  The second title hitting stores is Coffee/Black, No Sugar
 - a bilingual poetry collection by A.B. Lugo, who is a Puerto Rican writer.
Lil' Libros publishing  house is based in Los Angeles and began with a bilingual manuscript Counting with Frida/Contando con Frida, which combines an account of a Mexican life painter - Frida Kahlo with number learning.  It was this book that visited the rooms of many publisher with little success and has since enabled Lil' Libros to grow into the upcoming publishing house it is today.
Likewise, Las Casita Grande have used the literary nous of author Jonathan Marcantoni - creator of 'Kings of 7th Avenue' (Editor-in-Chief of Aignos Publishing)  to increase the number of Latino titles produced and distributed each year.


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National Story Telling Week

1/2/2017

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If you love writing and storytelling - now's the time to investigate many of the short courses available at OpenLearn - Free Learning from the Open University.  If you have never had the time, money or opportunity, then the Open University might be just what you need to inspire you for 2017!
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Open University offers a variety of literary courses where you can take the first steps into learning the art of writing; a place where you can hone your literary skills; an online learning space for getting feedback on your creations and a place you'll feel comfortable to learn along side, like-minded individuals.  
If you are not sure how to get cracking, consider the introductory Start writing fiction course.  It's a twelve hour free course that will tempt your taste buds, tune your pen and cover all the basics of: character building; setting and will look at the the various fiction genres in play today. ...And, when you're all done and dusted, you'll receive a statement of participation.
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If story-telling is not your thing and you are crazy about writing poetry, they got that covered, too.  Again, another free course, but now you have five to choose from:
1.  What is Poetry? - 12 hour course to get you started
2. Poetry Prescription - a short activity to find out about poetry
3. Writing Poetry - am introductory short audio audio
4. Approaching Poetry -  20 hour course for intermediate learners
5. The Poetry of Sorley MacLean- 10 hour course for advanced learners
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to Writing and storytelling is not there just for kids, remember it all started way back as a way to entertain adults.  The writing of plays for theatre - as developed by the likes of Shakespeare were there to entertain the upper-class.  Nine times out of ten, it would poke fun at aristocracy, their ways, habits and the ruling party of the village or land.  Hence, it was not uncommon for comedy to flourish in these periods. It was a way for writers to become flavour of the month.  Being loved by royalty meant you could be commissioned to write for the crown.  You would be paid handsomely for your efforts, could attend all number of upper-class events and you'd live out a wonderful existence - wining and dining courtesy of the crown.  

So, if you find humour, comedy and the expression of language is your thing - maybe you should set your sights higher.  A course in applied linguistics, possibly theatre or would you prefer to laugh away the hours with these quick course starters.

Within The Language of Comedy you can view: creating a character, social class, innuendo, cross cultural humour and catchphrases and even crafting a joke.  

​This is everything you'll need, to set sail on a career of a lifetime! Happy penning!

Language of Comedy - Crafting a joke

Comedian and actor Isy Suttie looks at how language is manipulated to create jokes, especially one-liners.

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