If your kid is unable to see but read braille, now would be an excellent time to present him or her the Braille version of Harry Potter. 13 volumes of braille Harry Potter will be released in the market.
Who killed Harry Potter? Is it Rowling or one of his best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger? No one knows the about the real murderer, but the hacker named ‘Gabriel,’ claims to have taken a digital copy of author J.K. Rowling’s seventh book, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,’ by flouting into a computer at Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. The computer hacker posting claims that what he said were key plot details regarding the mysterious ending of the fictional British boy wizard Harry Potter’s saga but the publisher warned that details could be false.
The hacker, Gabriel has posted information at Web site InSecure.org that would answer that question. Gabriel said,
We make this spoiler to make reading of the upcoming book useless and boring.
However, a Bloomsbury spokesperson declined to say anything on the hacker’s claims. And Kyle Good, a spokesperson for U.S. distributor Scholastic Corp., didn’t confirm that the posting was correct but he warned readers not to believe anything on the Web that claims to have inside information on the book’s plot. She said,
There is a whole lot of junk flying around. Consider this one more theory.
David Perry, a rep for computer security company Trend Micro, said that Gabriel’s claim could be a hoax. He said,
We’ve had hypes like this on the last couple of Harry Potter books. There is a very high level of spurious information in the hacker world.
Even the stolen copy of the sixth Harry Potter novel ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ surfaced in Britain about month before its official release in July 2005, and two people were charged who were reportedly trying to sell a copy to the London tabloid The Sun. Four ‘Harry Potter’ movies made by Warner Bros. film studio, a division of Time Warner Inc., have brought in $3.5 billion in global ticket sales, and a fifth film is due in theaters in early July.
The ‘Harry Potter’ books have been global best-sellers with 320 million versions sold worldwide, and anticipation for ‘Deathly Hallows’ is high. In April, U.S. retailer Barnes & Noble said advance orders for the book had already topped 500,000 copies, setting a chain record. Scholastic plans to release a record 12 million copies of ‘Deathly Hallows’ to meet demand.
Northern Light, the book by Philip Pullman was declared the finest book for children from the past 70 years. It was declared the winner of the Carnegie medal. The trilogy written by Pullman sold 15 million copies world over. The Carnegie medal had also won him a £192,000 prize money. Pullman, regarding the honor said that
‘without any question the most important honor I have ever received, and the one I treasure the most.’
The book was published some 12 years ago. Milton, Blake and Tom Paine have an influence over Philip writing style. Northern light is a story which revolves around a girl and a boy, basically describing their struggle. The book also won Pullman awards like Guardian children’s fiction prize. Pullman, however, considered the book, ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’ by Philippa Pearce, who was the runner up deserved the award more.
The Carnegie medal, which is decided by voting won Pullman 40% votes for his book. Tom’s book won16% votes while David Almond’s Skellig came third with 8%. People were given a choice of ten books that were selected by children’s book experts. The book experts have been appointed by the librarians’ association CILIP.
The day also marked the 50th anniversary of the Kate Greenaway illustrators medal, the award was won by Mini Grey for ‘The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon’.
Source: Guardian
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Renowned author Robert Jordan, also famous for his fantasy series ‘Wheel of Time’ has died at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston of complications from primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy, a rare blood disease. James Oliver Rigney Jr. who adopted the pen name Robert Jordan was of 58 years only.
After getting worldwide attention and winning multiple awards for her Harry Potter series the English writer, J.K.Rowling has once again made herself busy in penning down two new books. The millionaire writer is not set to take a break after her final novel of the Harry Potter series that was released just a few days back.
Currently she is working on one book for adults and one for children. She discloses that this time too she has started writing the same way as she had begun writing Harry, as that time also she had worked on two simultaneous projects.
It’s because of her Harry Potter books that she owns a great fortune. She is the 136th richest person in the world and also happens to be the 13th richest woman in Britain. Her last book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has become the fastest selling book of all time.
Source: Femalefirst
‘Vogue India’ the new version of Vogue has finally hit the racks and we have a whole bunch of beauties on the cover. The cover photograph has been taken by fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier and the girls look smoking hot!
The cover features Bollywood divas Bipasha Basu, Priyanka Chopra, Preity Zinta, Indian supermodels MoniKangana Dutta and Laxmi Menon, and also Gemma Ward, the Australian supermodel.
It is seen that men usually keep themselves out of kitchen because usually they don’t cook. Esquire, the magazine for men has come up with the stuff that will definitely drive the men towards their kitchen to try new recipes. It is book that reflects the changing role of men in society. So, it is very good for the men who want to boost up their hidden talent (cooking) through making new dishes for him and family.
Hey! This book can help you to calm down your partner/spouse through preparing favorite dishes for her, after having heated arguments on any issue. Definitely it will help you to perusing, keeping, saving your relationship to some extend. So, what are you waiting for? Rush and buy a copy for you!
After creating masterpiece series ‘Harry Potter’, the magical author has been lately spotted working on her new book. As per reports, her new book is a crime fiction - most probably a detective novel. Ian Rankin, a neighbor, who himself is an author, at Edinburgh literary festival said, ‘My wife spotted her writing her Edinburgh criminal detective novel.’
Stuart Dybek, the famous author, also a winner of this weeks MacArthur ‘genius’ grant has also won the $30,000 Rea Award for ‘originality and influence’ in short stories. The Chicago native, 65 now, is well known for his ‘The Coast of Chicago’ and ‘I Sailed With Magellan’.
Here comes another opportunity to tap the minefiled of potentials in the world of literature.
Two leading booksellers have added another brick in the wall of the industry’s unending search for budding talent by announcing literary competitions among aspiring writers.
The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award has been anounced by the Amazon.com, Penguin Group (USA) and Hewlett-Packard Co. The award includes a contract with Penguin and a small advance, $25,000.
Meanwhile, Borders Group Inc., Court TV and Gather.com announced The Next Great Crime Novel competition, with the winner receiving $5,000 and a publishing deal through Borders, the superstore chain.
With an indefinite number of books being written every year and even greater number of books never been published, both these contests would be a stepping stone in the process of discovering a new and talented novelist. It would be serving as a platform for those writers who have been searching for an opportunity to start off with.
However, there are also certain lacunas in such contests. The popularity of the contests and the public attention derived is very unpredictable. There are certain examples where such contests could not generate much interest among the masses
Moreover, the success of the winning entries is not always guaranteed.
Better response is expected of The Amazon award. Authors with ‘an unpublished English-language novel manuscript’ can submit their work till November 5 for this contest and there is no entry fee.
Amazon’s leading customer reviewers will analyze the manuscripts and industry professionals are the judges for the contest.
The winner, to be announced April 7, 2008, who will also receive an additional gift 50-inch plasma TV and a PhotoSmart Digital camera from HP.
The Next Great Crime Novel competition too has no entry fee and the last date for submitting manuscripts is Nov. 11.Experts would judge the entries and the winner would be announced Feb. 4, 2008
Via: Yahoo
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Writer / Director Cecil Castellucci’s first young adult novel, ‘Boy Proof’ came out spring 2005, in the same year, she was named as a Flying Start by Publisher’s Weekly.
