The Lit Chick Show is Horrrrrrrrific!!!

In this latest edition of The Lit Chick Show, host Sylvia Massara features author, S.D. Hintz, a writer of horror novels and short stories, some of which have won awards. S.D. also runs his own publishing company. In this interview, S.D. discusses his latest novel,...

The best of the Lit Chick Show for 2010

As 2010 comes to a close, the Lit Chick Show is featuring some of the best interviews we've had for the year. In November, 2010, the Lit Chick Show featured Indian author and filmmaker, Dr. Manjiri Prabhu. Here is...

The Lit Chick Show catches up with Mark Coker, CEO of Smashwords

  This week, the Lit Chick Show (LCS) had the honour of catching up with Mark Coker, CEO of Smashwords, a digital publisher based in the US that distributes thousands of ebooks to major retailers such as...

The Lit Chick Corner is "Poles Apart"

Welcome to ‘Lit Chick Corner!’ I am a Sydney-based novelist, dedicating this weekly forum to all those hardworking, and often unrewarded, authors out there. So, be it fiction or non-fiction, my aim is to...

Lesson One: Revolution! Released for Kindle

Lesson One: Revolution! was released this week for the Amazon.com Kindle device and compatible reader software.  This new novel by Stuart J. Whitmore was originally published in early August in paperback form...

Introducing The Lit Chick Show!

Run from two continents, The Lit Chick Show, a virtual TV show blog, will feature interviews with new writers from all English-speaking countries. "The Lit Chick Show is a play on the words...

The Lit Chick Corner features 'Murder in Real Estate'. Read on!

Welcome to ‘The Lit Chick Corner!’ (that is, ‘literary chick’). I am a Sydney-based novelist, dedicating this weekly column to all those hardworking, and often unrewarded, authors out there. So, be it...

Is The Constellation Orion The Lost Symbol?

Informed speculation suggests the lost symbol in Dan Brown's new novel of the same title will be the constellation Orion, represented by an X on a talisman which is called the Solomon Key. The Solomon Key may have been lifted by Brown from a 16th century handbook on...

"Off With Those Pants" Bill O'Reilly Reads Sexy Parts of his Book

Village Voice recently compiled some racy clips from Bill O'Reilly's audio book version of "Those Who Trespass," his 1998 novel about an O'Reilly-esque TV journalist who is trained by an Irish Republican Army...

The famous British Library mislays 9,000 books

The world famous British Library, which holds some of the most famous books in the world, many of them first editions and originals that are irreplaceable, now claim that they have lost over 9,000 books, including an...

Wheel out the Dinosaurs

By Darren E Laws I tuned into BBC’s The Money Programme with high expectations to see an investigation into the current state of play in the world of publishing but was disappointed to find a programme that...

Pratchett 'Flabbergasted' by knighthood

Terry Pratchett has made his first public response to the news that he has been awarded a Knighthood in the Queen's New Year's Honours List. Pratchett has sold over 55 million books and is a campaigner for more...

Cyn Mobley to host Internet radio call-in show on publishing

Best-selling thriller novelist Cyn Mobley will host her first Internet radio call-in show on what it takes to get published on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008 at 7 p.m. EST at Talkshoe.com. The link to the show is here:...

Four Exciting Author Interviews for Summer Book Reading

Alisa Valdes-RodriquezDirty Girls on TopAlisa Valdes-Rodriguez jump-started the Latina chick-lit movement when she published the best-selling Dirty Girls Social Club five years ago.Now she's back with a sequel, Dirty Girls on Top,which follows Lauren, Usnavys, Rebecca, Amber,...

Opinion - Gore Vidal, 82 and Cantankerous as Hell

Unlike many of you here, I am not a reader. Simply put, unless it's a news story on the web or in the occasional magazine, it doesn't appeal to me. I'm much too manic-y to sit still for much more. But this Time Magazine interview with Gore Vidal [by Deborah Solomon] may...

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