Hay Festival Wales 2010, Woodstock of the Mind Opens May 27

If there is one drawback to writing as I've been doing for the past 5 plus years on 'Serge the Concierge', it is the lack of time to read books as a leisure activity.I should say fiction in my case as I receive mostly food, wine and travel related books for review.In many...

Book self-publishing interests surges among new writers

Writing, they say, is easy. Getting the manuscript published is the hard part. While you may consider your manuscript a gem of a material, getting big name publishing houses interested in your book is not easy at all. Your option? Publish your own book. Do you have great...

WHY WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY AT THE AGE OF 23?

Memoirs, autobiography, life story, whatever you call it, usually contains human experiences, views, and crucial events that happened in the life of an individual. Most of the memoirs I read during my teenage years were written by people in their mid-life or late life. I mean...

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...

Will New Brown Novel Refute the Virgin Birth?

Will The Lost Symbol take on and try to refute the Virgin Birth by alleging that Jesus was created by aliens? Dan Brown and Doubleday, his publisher, may be on the verge of releasing a work of fiction to the world’s readers and the global media which could become part two...