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The annual Quill Awards was hosted at New York for a third time in a row, where the best in the world of publishing was honored and felicitated for their exceptional work. The events witnessed Best selling author Nora Roberts attaining maximum glory by bagging the Book of the Year award for her romantic novel, ‘Angels Fall’. The book published y G.P. Putnam’s Sons won the accolade thanks to those who voted for Nora and her piece of literary work.

The night also witnessed honors given to former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore who was among the 19 other winners for his book, ‘The Assault on Reason’, which won the coveted prize in the history/current affairs/ and politics category. This is not the first time Al Gore received a Quill award. He was felicitated with the best book in the same category for his historic work ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. Attended by top most celebrities like Brooke Shields, Joan Allen, Sarah Ferguson and The Duchess of York, the night saw excellence in literature being honored with pride and red carpet extravagance.

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!

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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.

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

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Tulsa native S.E.Hinton, once got a ‘D’ in creative writing while in school. Now she is one of the celebrity authors. Her book The Outsiders tells a story of neighborhood gangs and their rivals. The book features a narrator Ponyboy curtis. The best selling novel talks about the clash between the socs and greasers gangs. The Tulsa native is now a cult figure.

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’.

Richard Russo, the voice of the working class is back with his latest novel ‘Bridge of Sighs’. Readers hold high expectations from him as his last work ‘Empire Falls’, won a Pulitzer Prize. The novel which has been set in an upstate New York town revolves around three characters. The basic theme can b interpreted with the help of one line from a character, which reads, ‘Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that poisons us?’

We know John Grisham for his thrillers. But, he is altering his way with his new novel, Playing for Pizza, where his last novel The Broker exemplified his love for Italian culture, this one revives both football and Italy in an amalgamation.

Devil’s Bible, a manuscript written in the early 13th century in the Benedictine monastery of Podlazice in Bohemia is on exhibition at the Czech National Library in Prague. This manuscript was regarded as a wonder of the world during the Middle Ages.

‘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.

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.

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. She also received an Honorable Mention in PW’s annual cuffie awards as Most Promising New Author. Her second novel ‘The Queen of Cool’ came out in February 2006 followed by ‘Beige’ her subsequent novel in May 2007. Recently she wrote and directed her first feature film ‘Happy Is Not Hard To Be’. It debuted in Los Angeles at the Alternative Screen series at the Egyptian Theatre.

Madeleine L’Engle, the well known author has died at the age of 88. She breathed her last at a nursing home in Litchfield and as per her publicity manager the death was natural. The author has written more then 60 books, which include from poetry to fantasies to memoirs. The author due to her book, ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ has been often classified as children author.

The Naked and the Dead’s author the great Norman Miller was hospitalized for difficulties in breathing. The 84 year old writer had an asthama attack and spent 5 days in a hospital at Bostan where numerous tests were being conducted.

Amusing but the latest cover of STAR magazine, features 45 best and worst bodies, which soaked the sun, on the beaches this year. However, I don’t like making fun of the flab that others carry but getting this one would be real fun.

You’ll find a list of celebs featured in the list from J.Lo to Zac Efron. You can seriously catch out the flab they carry around and truly, some of the celebs have such yuck...bodies. Well, the ‘hottie’ Zac is in the best category. The feature also includes the tragic suicide attempt of Zac. You can go through the reasons that are being speculated for his step here. For one reason I am sure that I’ll be grabbing one as I wanna check out who this lady in blue, white (featured on the cover) is.

Source: Allwomenstalk