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Tony Tulathimutte, the dark wizard behind 2025’s seismic Rejection, has won a new (and massive!) literary prize. As the inaugural recipient of the Jack Galef Literary Arts Award, Tulathimutte will receive $150,000. The award is designated for graduates of Iowa’s prestigious...
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More than two years ago I wrote an angry piece about how lame the bulletpointization of books is: the point of reading and engaging with books is not so the reader can consume little bullet points of knowledge. But since...
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Our new book... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 Rich Ronat is a seasoned screenwriter/director based in Los Angeles. Over the past ten years, he's been consistently hired by independent producers, production companies, and major studios like Universal, Paramount, Lionsgate, Saban, Millenium, and VMI Worldwide. His writing credits include the war epic "THE RISING HAWK," the character-driven thriller...
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I tracked 146,603 people who directed a first feature to see what separates the ones who got to make another....
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Since Edelweiss changed hands recently and increased prices on publishers, there’s been an opening for a competitor to step into the space....
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Agent Brent Taylor has launched July First Literary, specializing in commercial fiction. They are not yet open to submissions....
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A former bookstore owner in Chicago has launched an online platform that connects readers with local author events and literary programming....
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Cincotti strives to bring back the magic found in iconic early 2000s romantic comedies: a whimsical feel paired with wholesome, relatable characters....
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Activity books are booming as screen-free entertainment, panic over Gen Z’s reading habits is overblown, and more recent news....
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In the 1960s and 1970s, Ursula K. Le Guin wrote speculative fiction shaped by her interests in environments and ecologies, her pacifist anarchist feminism, and her anti-Vietnam War activism. A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), one of the great fantasy novels...
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For the true beginner, there can be no end. From the moment they sit at the desk, the unemerged writer faces a step-by-step gauntlet of workshopping, applying, contesting; of liking screenshots of Publishers Weekly deals announcements, making astral connections between...
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“Wild swimming” is a term coined by British nature writer Roger Deakin in his cult classic Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain (1999), about his year swimming outdoors all over the UK. A paean to the joys of daily, year-round...
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Our new book... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 After beginning his career as a graphic artist, Ron quickly realized his true passion was storytelling. That realization led him to Loyola Marymount University, where he pursued a graduate degree in screenwriting—and before graduating, sold his first screenplay to Columbia Pictures. That early success opened the door to work...
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I saw Spiderman: Far From Necessary over the weekend and, like everyone else in the cinema, I sat through the entire end crawl to watch the ‘post-credits scene’ that has become so ubiquitous among superhero movies....
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"Maybe the philosophers were right. Man is the center of the universe. We stand in the middle of infinity; between outer and inner space..." -Dr. Duval (Arthur Kennedy) ponders the miracle of life in Fantastic Voyage.This memorable Richard Fleischer effort was the special effects spectacular of 1966; an imaginative, big budget (6.5. million dollar...), award-winning science fiction adventure. If you grew up in the...
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Our new book... STORY QUESTIONS: How To Unlock Your Story One Question At A Time - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 Deborah Correa is an award-winning Colombian-American producer and director. Her feature directorial debut, The War Between, was shot entirely on location in Arizona. After graduating from Emerson College, Deborah was chosen for the prestigious AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Her work spans television,...
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Our new book... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 Brandon Violette was most recently the Head Writer for RoboGobo and Pupstruction at Disney Television Animation and the Co-Creator/Head Writer of CoComelon Lane (Moonbug/Netflix), one of Netflix's top-performing preschool series. His writing credits span hit shows including Dew Drop Diaries (DreamWorks), Pupstruction (Disney Junior), T.O.T.S. (Disney Junior), Thomas &...
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Inexperienced authors may believe generative AI use improves their manuscript, but there’s a cost—extra fees charged by freelance editors....
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Former president Barack Obama will discuss six books that shaped his life as part of a limited-series Audible podcast launching on Sept. 24....
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For authors, the question is whether personally pursuing it works—and if it’s possible to pay for it in a way that leads to meaningful sales....
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Spotify will roll out an AI Persona badge that signals an artist’s identity may be AI generated and does not represent a real person....
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Building on Catholic Bible Press, the effort will expand into spiritual classics, theology, devotional works, and memoir....
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Publishers don’t fact-check memoir, HarperCollins CEO calls for industry-wide solutions on AI, and more industry news....
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I asked 38 agents, managers and assistants who read cold scripts what earns a reply and what gets deleted unread...
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Our new book... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 A lawyer turned producer and studio executive, Peter M. Hoffman built a career that bridged the creative and the corporate, the visionary and the pragmatic. As the founder and CEO of Carolco and Seven Arts Entertainment, he brought to life acclaimed and enduring films including The Believer, winner of...
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With no platform and no publisher behind her, Ashli O'Connell built a six-month pre-launch plan around a single question she'd been asking marketing clients for 25 years: what is your goal?...
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I studied the biographies of 6,921 people, who wrote, directed, and starred in 2,600 top-grossing movies this century to discover how many had existing family ties in the film and TV industries....
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Our new book... STORY QUESTIONS: How To Unlock Your Story One Question At A Time - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 MASTERCRASH: A Crash Course In Spoof Comedy https://mastercrash.com BUY THE BOOK - Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! https://amzn.to/3FULs2N Born on October 16, 1947 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, director/writer/producer David Zucker, along with brother Jerry (Ghost, 1990) Zucker and...
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As Sondheim wrote, "Every Day a Little Death."By Jonas Schwartz-Owen Two worlds run through Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, and the whole trick of the movie is watching them bleed into each other. World one: the present day, where Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder play actual people. World two: Camp Miasma, a fictional 1980 slasher — a movie inside...
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS: How To Unlock Your Story One Question At A Time - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd Adam Argot has worked in film, TV, games, and publishing as a director, writer, author, story and concept artist for over 15 years for both major and independent studios. Along with...
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The Academy has never published its members’ ages, so I worked them out for 6,134 of its current members....
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd Nick Morton has produced nearly 30 movies / tv series which include RAY (Jamie Fox, Regina King, Kerry Washington), SAHARA (Mathew McConaughey, Penelope Cruz, Steve Zahn) and COOPER'S BAR (Rhea Seehorn). Nick is also a standup comedian,...
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Enigma is composed of the former staff of Archway Editions, and will publish a “genre-blind list.”...
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd John Vorhaus is best known for his comedy-writing classic, The Comic Toolbox: How to be Funny Even if You’re Not. He has taught and trained writers in 37 countries on five continents at last count, and created...
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Published 17 days ago
Using box off and audience data to determine when a meme is likely to actually put people in a cinema seat, versus when it just entertains people who were never going to buy a ticket....
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Published 18 days ago
Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS: How To Unlock Your Story One Question At A Time - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd Ryan McCoy was born and raised in Everett, Washington. Growing up, he made movies with his childhood friends. After high school, he attended the Art Institute of Seattle, where he studied...
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Published 19 days ago
In 1986, the comic-book adaptation Howard the Duck -- executive-produced by George Lucas -- landed in movie theaters with a splat. The fantasy film cost thirty-seven million dollars to produce (some sources report a budget as high as 52 million, however…), and barely made back its budget. Meanwhile, audiences and critics hated the film from director Willard Huyck and writer Gloria Katz. So much so,...
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Published 20 days ago
Sci-Fi Pulse's Raissa Devereux reviews Abnormal Fixation Season Two and calls it "hilarious" and heartfelt"Check out the full review here:In Review: Abnormal Fixation, Season 2 (Web Series)...
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It’s no exaggeration to state that The War of the Gargantuas (1966) was a staple of my childhood TV-watching. The Japanese monster movie -- released in America in 1970 -- aired frequently on our local station WWOR Channel 9 in the 1970s and 1980s; sometimes on The Million Dollar Movie, if memory serves.Rightly or wrongly, I have come to associate these viewings of The War of...
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