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Stephen King Short Stories and Novellas That Have Made It to Screens Big and Small

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Stephen King may be the most recognizable name in the history of horror fiction. He’s certainly one of the most prolific in the genre.

King, like other well-known authors such as Neil Gaiman, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Leonard Elmore and many many other amazing authors, writes short stories.

King has published many short story collections and has talked publically regarding the fact that it is its own art and you have to exercise that artistic muscle or you can lose the knack for it.

Stephen King is well known for his non-fiction work entitled On Writing, which is still one of the best books about writing in circulation. But, he also wrote about writing short stories in the introduction of his Just After Sunset collection that is worth reading.

King talks more about this in an interview on Bibliostar.TV

FACTOID: Misery and Gerald’s Game started out as short stories and ended up full novels.

Many of King’s short stories have been turned into movies, television series or cable series. Some of these are considered classics such as Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me.

Below is a list of King’s short stories or novellas that have made it to either movie, television, vignettes in other shows, or cable for your viewing pleasure.

ALPHABETICAL ORDER

 

1408 (based on the short story of the same name in the Everything’s Eventual collection)

1922 (In the Full Dark, No Stars collection.)

A Good Marriage (In the Full Dark, No Stars collection.)

Apt Pupil (In the Different Seasons collection.)

Big Driver (In the Full Dark, No Stars collection.TV movie.)

 

Chattery Teeth (From the Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection. Quicksilver Highway)

Children of the Corn (From the Night Shift collection. This story spawned several movies. Children of the Corn 666: Isaac’s Return. Children of the Corn II: The Final. Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest. Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering. Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror. Children of the Corn: Genesis.  Children of the Corn: Revelation.)

Creepshow (A collection of horror comedy short stories in an anthology film. It inspired sequels. Creepshow II and Creepshow III

Cycle of the Werewolf (Novella. Seen as Silver Bullet movie. This was a pretty lengthy novella and standalone, but we included it since it’s not a full novel)

Dolan’s Cadillac (Found in the Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection)

Gramma (From the Skeleton Crew collection. In an episode of The Twilight Zone 1984)

Graveyard Shift (Found in the Night Shift collection)

In the Tall Grass (This is a novella standalone written with his son Joe Hill)

Low Men in Yellow Coats (In the Hearts in Atlantis collection)

Nightmares and Dreamscapes (mini-series; eight episodes based on eight short stories)

Quitters, Inc. (From the Night Shift collection. Seen in Cat’s Eye.)

Riding the Bullet (Found in the Everything’s Eventual collection.)

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (As found in the Different Seasons collection. Seen in the movie The Shawshank Redemption)

Secret Window, Secret Garden (Found in the Four Past Midnight collection. Seen as Secret Window)

Sometimes They Come Back (From the Night Shift collection. Has sequels in TV film. Sometimes They Come Back… Again and Sometimes They Come Back… for More.

The Body (Found in Different Seasons. Seen in the movie Stand by Me)

The Cat from Hell (In the Just After Sunset anthology. Seen in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie)

The Crate (Appears in comic book form in Creepshow)

The Langoliers (As found in Four Past Midnight collection. It was a mini-series)

The Lawnmower Man (As found in the Night Shift collection. This has sequels as well. The Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace and The Lawnmower Man: A Suburban Nightmare)

The Ledge (From the Night Shift collection. Seen in Cat’s Eye.)

The Mangler (As found in the Night Shift collection. This has a movie and two sequels. The Mangler 2 and The Mangler Reborn)

The Mist (From the Skeleton Crew collection. The Mist was a movie twice and a TV series.)

The Moving Finger (Short story from the Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection. Episode of Monsters.)

The Night Flier (Short story from the Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection)

The Raft (From the Skeleton Crew collection. Seen in Creepshow)

The Revelations of ‘Becka Paulson (Was in a limited edition of the Skeleton Crew collection and incorporated into The Tommyknockers. Seen in an episode of The Outer Limits)

Trucks (Found in the Night Shift collection. Seen as Maximum Overdrive movie)

Weeds (Appears in comic book form in Creepshow called “The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill”)

Word Processor of the Gods (From the Skeleton Crew collection. In an episode of Tales from the Darkside)

Uncanny Timing for a Dark Season

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Sheila English
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Guest blogger Sean Patrick Hazlett celebrates Halloween and the release of the anthology Weird War III!

 

 

THE YEAR TO END ALL YEARS

 

 

To say 2020 has been a tumultuous year would be an understatement. Each month could’ve been a standalone geopolitical thriller. A once-in-a-century pandemic that swept through the United States killing roughly two hundred thousand souls to date; one of the most contentious election cycles in US history muddied by conspiracy theories and Russian intrigue; the adverse economic impact of COVID-related business shutdowns driving the highest US unemployment rate in decades; civil unrest in major US cities resulting in the most costly riot damage in US history; Western wildfires causing billions of dollars and destroying millions of acres that turned the sky blood-red; and increasing tensions between the world’s two most populous nations over the contentious Line of Actual Control in the Himalayan foothills.

 

 

THE SEASON OF SAMHAIN

In the wake of these dark times, we prepare to celebrate Halloween, a holiday tracing its origins back to the melding of Christian and ancient Celtic traditions. Samhain, the pagan forerunner of Halloween, was a festival that marked the midpoint between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice—when the harvest ended and the darker half of the year began. It was a time when ancient peoples believed the veil between worlds was weakest; when otherworldly beings could enter our realm from their dark and dismal dimensions.

For those of us born in these darker months, Halloween has a special place in our hearts. The cooler temperatures, the darker days, the falling leaves, the pumpkin patches—all aspects of the season that bring us all back to our beginnings.

WHERE TO BUY

Weird World War III: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Indiebound | Powell’s | Bookshop

AUTHOR BIO

Sean Patrick Hazlett is a technologist, finance professional, and science fiction, fantasy, horror, and non-fiction author and editor working in Silicon Valley. He is a winner of the Writers of the Future Contest, and over forty of his short stories have appeared in publications such as The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, Terraform, Galaxy’s Edge, Writers of the Future, Grimdark Magazine, Vastarien, and Abyss & Apex, among others. He is also an active member of the Horror Writers Association.

 

In graduate school, Sean assisted future Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter at the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project where he developed strategic options for confronting Iran’s nuclear program. For this analysis, he won the 2006 Policy Analysis Exercise Award at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Sean also worked as an intelligence analyst focusing on strategic war games and simulations for the Pentagon, where he drew on his experience training the US military as a cavalry officer in the US Army during the Iraq and Afghan wars.

 

Sean holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and bachelor’s degrees in History and Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

 

SOCIAL MEDIA

Website: seanpatrickhazlett.wordpress.com

Twitter: @seanphazlett

Instagram: @seanpatrickhazlett

Facebook: @sphazlett

Amazon: Author Page

 

 

Weird World War III: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Indiebound | Powell’s | Bookshop

 

 

 

National Book Foundation Announces Finalists for 2020 National Book Awards

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Jocie McKade
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The twenty-five Finalists for the 2020 National Book Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature (YPL) were announced with the Washington Post online. The five Finalists in each category were selected by a distinguished panel of literary experts, and were advanced from the Longlists announced in September. Between the five categories, there are two writers who have been previously honored by the National Book Awards: Lydia Millet who was Longlisted in 2016 and Charles Yu, a 2007 5 Under 35 honoree. Eight of the twenty-five Finalists are debuts.

Publishers submitted a total of 1,692 books for this year’s National Book Awards: 388 in Fiction, 609 in Nonfiction, 254 in Poetry, 130 in Translated Literature, and 311 in Young People’s Literature. Judges’ decisions are made independently of the National Book Foundation staff and Board of Directors; deliberations are strictly confidential.

The Winners will be announced on Wednesday, November 18 at the 71st National Book Awards Ceremony, which will be held exclusively online. Two lifetime achievement awards will also be presented as part of the evening’s ceremony: Walter Mosley will be recognized with the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, presented by Edwidge Danticat, and Carolyn Reidy will posthumously receive the Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.

Finalists for Fiction:

  • Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind
    Ecco / HarperCollins Publishers
  • Lydia Millet, A Children’s Bible
    W. W. Norton & Company
  • Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
    West Virginia University Press
  • Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain
    Grove Press / Grove Atlantic
  • Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
    Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House

  • In Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam, Brooklyn couple Amanda and Clay head out on a family vacation to Long Island, but their trip turns uneasy when the homeowners seek refuge following blackouts in New York City. As the world outside moves towards greater unrest, the group faces their perceptions about each other and the very concept of safety. Civilization’s future is at stake in A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet, who holds a master’s degree in environmental policy. The cast of young characters in Millet’s novel easily fend for themselves as their parents remain indifferent to the devastation of the world around them in allegorical tale that defies rationalizations about climate change. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw draws us into the multifaceted lives of Black women across several generations as they engage in self-discovery and seduction. In Philyaw’s first work of fiction, her characters push the boundaries of thought around morality, Christianity, and their community’s expectations. Set in Glasgow in the 1980s, Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart is an epic portrayal of a working-class family haunted by alcoholism. Each of their experiences are portrayed with great care through the eyes of lonely Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, who finds himself at the margins of his own family. Everyone embodies a role in Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu and protagonist Willis Wu strives to land the best one available to an Asian-American man: Kung Fu Guy. Yu’s novel takes the concept of allegory and uses the familiar landscape of Hollywood tropes to create a nuanced, heartfelt, and stylistically unique portrait of Asian-American identity.

Finalists for Nonfiction:

  • Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
    One World / Penguin Random House
  • Les Payne and Tamara Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
    Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company
  • Claudio Saunt, Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
    W. W. Norton & Company
  • Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
    Tin House Books
  • Jerald Walker,  How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
    Mad Creek Books / The Ohio State University Press 

Finalists for Poetry:

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s thirteenth collection of poems, A Treatise on Stars, implores that we connect with the larger natural and cosmic world. Two Finalists for Poetry are debut collections, Fantasia for the Man in Blue by Tommye Blount and Borderland Apocrypha by Anthony Cody. The title poem in Fantasia for the Man in Blue is a series of poems ranging throughout the book, a quartet that speaks to the experience and threat of police violence upon Black people. The complex and layered collection is drawn from reality, and exemplifies how desire lives in proximity to the danger of being a marginalized body. A work of documentary poetics, Borderland Apocrypha details the history of trauma and survival at the U.S.-Mexico border. Cody utilizes imagery, historic documents, multi-lingual erasure poems, and more to force a reckoning with history’s silence. Deeply rooted in the personal and political, DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi is structured in eight sections and includes transcriptions of conversations with activist Ahn Hak-sop, her father’s work as a photojournalist, hand-written texts, and more. Choi deftly explores the histories of South Korea and the United States via her return from South Korea in 2016 after years of living in the states. Natalie Diaz‘s second collection, Postcolonial Love Poem, engages with love and history in an anthem of desire against erasure while simultaneously celebrating her survival as an Indigenous queer woman.

Finalists for Translated Literature:

  • Anja Kampmann, High as the Waters Rise
    Translated from the German by Anne Posten
    Catapult
  • Jonas Hassen Khemiri, The Family Clause
    Translated from the Swedish by Alice Menzies
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers
  • Yu Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
    Translated from the Japanese by Morgan Giles
    Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
  • Pilar Quintana, The Bitch
    Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman
    World Editions
  • Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
    Translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette
    New Directions 

Translated from the German by Anne Posten, High as the Waters Rise by Anja Kampmann explores the emotional life of an oil rig worker whose bunkmate fell into the sea and drowned, setting off a chain of events that force his reckoning with the exploitation of natural resources. Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s The Family Clause, translated from the Swedish by Alice Menzies, provides insight on one family across a span of only ten days, during which relationships change and memories are brought to the surface. In Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri and translated from the Japanese by Morgan Giles, ghost narrator Kazu visits the park in which he last lived as a homeless man. As the book unfolds, the reader learns more about his earlier years and the ways in which Japan’s modernization pushed many to the margins of society, where they were subsequently ignored. The Bitch by Pilar Quintana is a portrait of a woman wrestling with abandonment, love, and her need to nurture. Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman, the narrative follows the main character’s adoption of a dog that disappears into the jungle; when the dog returns, she nurses it to health but when it flees once more, there are brutal consequences. Written by Adania Shibli and translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette, Minor Detail is split between two interrelated narratives, the latter half following a young woman’s search to discover more about the tragic murder of a Palestinian teenager in 1949, who died the day she was born.

Finalists for Young People’s Literatured:

Kacen Callender, King and the Dragonflies
Scholastic Press / Scholastic Inc.

  • Traci Chee, We Are Not Free
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Candice Iloh, Every Body Looking
    Dutton Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House
  • Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed, When Stars Are Scattered
    Dial Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House
  • Gavriel Savit, The Way Back
    Knopf Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House 

The 71st National Book Awards Ceremony will be streamed on YouTube and also available at the Foundation’s website, www.nationalbook.org. Winners of the National Book Awards receive $10,000 and a bronze medal and statue; Winners and Finalists in the Translated Literature category will split the prize evenly between author and translator; Finalists receive $1,000 and a bronze medal.

The Awards Ceremony is the culminating event in a series of entirely virtual National Book Awards events to be held in the coming months. This year, 5 Under 35, the Foundation’s celebration of emerging fiction writers selected by National Book Award Winners, Finalists, Longlisted authors, and former 5 Under 35 honorees will take place on October 20 in partnership with the Miami Book Fair online. The annual National Book Awards Teen Press Conference will take place on November 16 in partnership with the Miami Book Fair online. The traditional National Book Awards Finalists Reading will again be hosted by The New School on the evening of November 10 in which all the Finalists will read from their work; this event will be online, free, and open to the public.

The U.S. Selfies Awards for Self-Published Works Opening for Submissions

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Jocie McKade
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The U.S. Selfies book awards for self-published authors have expanded the 2021 categories for submission to include children’s books, as well as adult fiction. Publishers Weekly, the international news platform, and BookBrunch, the daily online news service for the U.K., today announced the new categories along with key dates for the second year of the wildly popular awards.

 

With the expansion, there will be two winners in 2021: one winner in the children’s book category, which includes all age groups and formats, from picture books to middle grade to YA; and one winner in adult fiction. The awards each carry a cash prize of $1,000 and a $5,000 advertising package from Publishers Weekly and selected sponsors. Books must have been published during the calendar year 2020 and demonstrate solid sales via sustained marketing and publicity efforts.

The 2021 awards submission period opens on January 1, 2021 and closes on the night of March 1, 2021. Two juried shortlists, one for each category, will be announced during the week of May 24, 2021. The U.S. Selfies awards will be presented at the American Library Association annual conference on June 26, 2021, in Chicago.

“BookBrunch are thrilled to work with Publishers Weekly and BookLife again on an expanded U.S. Selfies book awards to include children’s books as well as adult fiction, as we seek to discover the best self-published books in the country,” said Jo Henry, managing director of BookBrunch, which administers the Selfies in the U.K, where the children’s book category was added in 2019.

With the mission to discover new talent and reward the best self-published titles each year, BookBrunch launched the Selfies Awards to great acclaim in the U.K. in 2018. In 2020, BookBrunch teamed up with Publishers Weekly and its self-publishing arm, BookLife, to launch the awards initiative in the U.S. With a great deal of enthusiasm, sponsors jumped on board, including IngramSpark, the e-book and print-on-demand publishing services company, and Combined Book Exhibit, which showcases published works at trade shows and expos around the world.

Cevin Bryerman, executive v-p and publisher of Publishers Weekly, said, “The launch of the U.S. Selfies was an overwhelming success, supporting self-published authors and helping their books gain even more traction in the library and general book market.”

Tim Westover took top prize in 2020 for The Winter Sisters, a novel of science and superstition that takes place in antebellum small-town Georgia. Westover donated the entire proceeds of his book sales, more than $50,000, to the Atlanta Children’s Hospital. He was presented the award at the American Library Association in an online ceremony on June 24, 2020. He received national publicity in the Washington Post and other media and was invited to attend the Sharjah Book Fair in November in the United Arab Emirates.

“The U.S. Selfies provide real inspiration and encouragement for indie authors whose work merits wider recognition by librarians, booksellers and book lovers,” said Carl Pritzkat, v-p, general manager, Publishers Weekly and president of BookLife.

Eligible titles in the adult fiction and children’s books categories must have been published in the United States during the calendar year 2020 by authors and/or illustrators who live in the U.S.; authors and illustrators need not be U.S. citizens. Entries cost $50 each and will only be accepted from authors and/or illustrators who are predominantly or solely self-published, defined as authors and/or illustrators who act as publishers and/or creative directors. The deadline for submission is March 1, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. EST.

What the judges will be looking for:

Stories that entertain and delight readers

  • High production values in e-book or print format
  • Enticing covers and blurbs that successfully nab the target audience’s attention
  • Effective and creative marketing and publicity strategies with the potential for significant sales

Each author or illustrator who submits a book will receive a free subscription to the BookLife Report, a weekly newsletter for indie and self-published authors. Shortlisted authors and illustrators will receive free entrance to the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago in June 2021. The winning authors, in addition to receiving $1,000 cash, receives a $5,000 package of advertising in Publishers Weekly’s print magazine and online. Co-authors or author-illustrator teams will share the prize.

FOLLOW THIS LINK TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE BOOK SUBMISSION PROCESS.

FOX News to Launch Fox Book News

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Jocie McKade
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FOX News Media has signed a three book deal with HarperCollins Publishers, announced Suzanne Scott, Chief Executive Officer of FOX News Media. FOX News Books will feature titles from FOX News personalities, including FOX & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth and FOX News @ Night anchor Shannon Bream, among others. HarperCollins’ Broadside Books will oversee the publishing program.

Brian Murray, President and CEO, HarperCollins Publishers, added, “The combination of FOX News Media’s powerful content and marketing with HarperCollins’ print, digital and audiobook publishing and distribution in the US and internationally, is a winning combination for authors, readers, listeners and viewers of FOX News Media everywhere.”

FOX News Books will make its debut on November 24 with Modern Warriors: Real Stories from Real Heroes by Pete Hegseth, building on the success of Hegseth’s popular FOX Nation series, Modern Warriors. The book will showcase some of the nation’s most highly-decorated veterans as they share their war stories, combat moments, thoughts on military morale today, and why they served. Earning two Bronze Stars and a Combat Infantryman Badge for his time served in the Army National Guard, Hegseth will also detail his experience on the front lines in Afghanistan and Iraq.

FOX News @ Night anchor Shannon Bream has also signed on to publish an inspirational faith-based publication celebrating the women of the Bible. Slated to debut in the spring of 2021 alongside a featured program on FOX Nation, the book will examine the most influential women from the Bible and how their sisterhood helped to shape the Christian faith as we know it today.

FOX News Media is home to some of the most successful bestselling authors in the news industry, including Bret Baier, Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, and Martha MacCallum, all of whom have published national bestsellers. Additionally, FOX News Media has long been known as a valuable platform for book sales, with many established authors choosing its platforms to launch their book tours.

About FOX News Media

FOX News Media operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio and the direct-to-consumer digital streaming services FOX Nation and FOX News International as well as the newly announced FOX News Books. Currently the number one network in all of cable, FNC has also been the most watched television news channel for more than 18 consecutive years, while FBN currently ranks among the top business channels on cable. Owned by FOX Corporation, FOX News Media reaches 200 million people each month.

About HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers is the second largest consumer book publisher in the world, with operations in 17 countries. With 200 years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world, HarperCollins publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year in 16 languages, and has a print and digital catalog of more than 200,000 titles. Writing across dozens of genres, HarperCollins authors include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery and Caldecott Medals and the Man Booker Prize. HarperCollins, headquartered in New York, is a subsidiary of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) and can be visited online at corporate.HC.com.

Siegfried Wyner’s The Life of a European-American Ingrained in New York

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Sheila English
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We caught up with Siegried Wyner to discuss his biography – The Life of a European-American Ingrained in New York
• Hall of famer in Civil Engineering • Laureate Elite Emeritus Mr. Siegfried Wyner B.S,M.S,C.E • Renowed, Noted, Pre-Eminent, Pivotal Figure, • Enormously, Deeply and Broadly Influential • Most Skillful And Important Engineer • Professor Emeritus • Member of The New York Academy of Science https://authorreputationpress.com/pro…

 

 

 

Sheila’s Book Review: Marked Prince by Michelle M Pillow

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Sheila English
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I’ve only recently discovered this author and I’m so happy I did!

If you love alien romance, or simply love science fiction, the world-building, character development, and great writing of the Qurilixen World Novel is something not to miss out on!

This is book 2 in the series and I’ve read them out of sequence and it didn’t matter. They can be read as standalone books.

These are shifter books and you get both dragons and cats. Very sexy with characters you really care about. The storylines are as strong as the romance which is part of the reason I love these books so much!

ABOUT:

Prince Jaxx’s inner dragon-shifter is at war with his human side. He knows what is right and what is prudent, and those two impulses rarely line up. With so many people in need and the planet in chaos, how can he even think about finding a mate? But when he helps to rescue the alluring Fiora from her captors, something inside him shifts, and all he can think about is winning her love.

The Reading House, a New Learn-to-Read Program Coming in January 2021

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Jocie McKade
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Random House Children’s Books is launching The Reading House, a new learn-to-read program developed by reading and literary specialist Marla Conn, it was announced by Tom Russell, VP & Publisher of Princeton Review & Sylvan Princeton Review Editorial. Designed with a clear, step-by-step method and recurring characters and stories, the books teach essential reading concepts to children ages 4–8 in a fun, engaging format.

Consisting of 12 boxed sets all releasing in 2021, The Reading House program guides children from letter recognition to phonemic awareness all the way to independent reading. Each boxed set contains 12 leveled storybooks, an activity sheet, a classroom guide, and a progress sticker sheet, making the program accessible for use both at home and within a classroom. The storybooks use recurring characters and stories, helping kids recognize words and understand meaning through context clues and familiarity.

The Reading House Sets 1–5 (on sale 1/5/2021) include The Reading House Set 1: Letter Recognition A–L and The Reading House Set 2: Letter Recognition M–Z, which help young readers identify lower- and upper-case letters and identify beginning sounds; and The Reading House Set 3: Introduction to Short Vowel Sounds, The Reading House Set 4: Short Vowel Clusters and Sight Words, and The Reading House Set 5: Short Vowels and Reading for Fluency, which introduce children to short vowels sounds, clusters, and sight words, as well as short vowel word families.

“We’re very excited to be working with Marla Conn on this new program,” says Russell. “With so many students participating in remote learning, we’ve seen skyrocketing demand from parents and educators for engaging workbooks and activity books. The Reading House fits into this perfectly, providing children and their families with an effective tool for developing strong reading skills and fostering a lifelong love of reading.”

The Reading House Sets 6–8 (on sale 3/2/2021) include The Reading House Set 6: Introduction to Long Vowel Sounds, The Reading House Set 7: Long Vowel Blends and Sight Words, and The Reading House Set 8: Long Vowels and Reading for Fluency, which help young readers recognize long vowel sounds, blends, and sight words, as well as long vowel word families. They also help children read more complex sentences with sight words and varied long vowel sounds for meaning.

The final four boxed sets in the series, The Reading House Sets 9–12 (on sale 5/4/2021), use nonfiction life-science concepts to teach young readers to read for meaning and include The Reading House Set 9: Introduction to Reading for Meaning, which teaches young readers to identify a story’s main idea and details; The Reading House Set 10: Sequencing Events; The Reading House Set 11: Comparing and Contrasting; and The Reading House Set 12: Cause and Effect Relationships.

Marla Conn is a reading and literary specialist with a masters of science in elementary education and reading. She has worked with HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, and many others, and is the creator of Dear Dragon Developing Readers, based on the work of Margaret Hillert. These leveled readers (A–D) enable emergent readers to build early literacy skills in decoding, fluency, and reading comprehension.

Barnes & Noble Selects Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind as October 2020 National Book Club Selection

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Barnes & Noble Selects Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind as October 2020 National Book Club Selection

Barnes & Noble, Inc., today announced Leave the World Behind  by Rumaan Alam as the October 2020 selection for the Barnes & Noble Book Club, a monthly book club designed for readers across the country to discuss the most compelling books. Barnes & Noble is selling a special, exclusive Book Club edition of Leave the World Behind  as well as hosting a free LIVE virtual event on B&N’s Facebook Page with Rumaan Alam in conversation with Laura Lippman, the bestselling author of numerous novels including the most recent Lady in the Lake, about the book on Tuesday, October 27, at 7pm East Coast Time. Customers can purchase the exclusive edition in-stores or online at BN.com.

“Rumaan Alam’s writing is striking, smart and brilliant. His new book Leave the World Behind is atmospheric and provocative, painting a familial picture that soon devolves into cinematic catastrophe,” said Jackie De Leo, Vice President, Bookstore, Barnes & Noble. “This is a striking novel that will leave you looking at your own world in a different way. Vibrant, tense and thrilling, it’s an absolute must-read and will leave you feeling like you need to talk about it with anyone and everyone around you, which is why we’ve made it our October 2020 B&N Book Club selection”

While Barnes & Noble can’t hold its usual monthly Book Club meetup in stores for readers to discuss the book, the bookseller is encouraging customers to engage with this important and gripping novel on social media and join the new B&N Book Club Facebook Group, as well as through a special virtual Book Club event a month after publication.

“I’ve been extremely lucky to have the support of Barnes & Noble and its booksellers throughout my career,” said Rumaan Alam. “It was such a great honor when my first novel, Rich and Pretty, was chosen for the Discover program, which I continue to consider one of the best ways to find the most interesting new writers. And I could not be more thrilled to find my third novel is a Barnes & Noble Book Club pick.”

The virtual event on October 27 will be hosted on Barnes & Noble’s Facebook Page and will include a conversation between Rumaan Alam and Laura Lippman. Before the virtual event, customers can also join in discussion at their convenience in the new B&N Book Club Facebook group and on social media via the hashtag #BNBookClub.

SNEAKPEEK: A MIND BENDING THRILLER FROM RACHAEL TAMAYO — CARNAL KNOWLEDGE

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Jocie McKade
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AWARD WINNING AUTHOR RACHAEL TAMAYO TO DONATE 50% OF ROYALTIES TO HELP WITH POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION

It started out as an innocent experiment that led to surprise and shock for Houston’s own Rachael Tamayo. Rachael, an award-winning author and former 911 call dispatcher had just set up her very own TikTok account and was sharing stories about from her years as an award-winning 911 dispatcher. Initially for Rachael, the initiative was one that would let her revisit past memories both good and bad and educate the public on the ins and outs of what it really means to be a 911 operator. 

The end result of this was not something she ever expected.  Within one day of Rachael posting her first video, the video had 600,000 views and Rachael herself had gained 11,000 followers within two days. Continuing to gain thousands of followers daily,  results like this speak for themselves and it became all too clear for Rachael what her next step was to be, and it’s a big reason for this message today. Due to the content of the video itself, and thousands of comments on PostPartum Depression, she was moved to do something to bring attention to this little talked about issue. Going forward and for the next two sales quarters, Rachael will be dedicating 50% of her overall sales on her newest novel, Carnal Knowledge to help support postpartum depression for both men and women. 

Carnal Knowledge, the second book in Rachael’s Deadly Sins series has achieved critical acclaim since its release in July, and the series itself has propelled Rachael to international best-selling status. It is only fitting that Rachael lead the charge in a very important initiative with this book,  her newest and likely most focused novel to date. The willingness to help also speaks to the quality individual that Rachael is and is a true testament to the sacrifices that she is willing to make to help others.  We are hopeful that the general public and her many fans will also embrace the initiative and join Rachael in this journey,  one that she has the utmost passion and belief in!

“Carnal Knowledge” is a twisted tale of lust, but not the kind of lust that anyone is expecting. A woman is hunted by a killer in a world that is turned rapidly inside out as her life is put on a countdown by a madman. This killer has authorities baffled, and will leave readers with one question: What do you do when you know you’re on a serial killer’s hit list?

One thing is certain, some appetites are best left unsatisfied.

A serial killer on the loose, driven by darkness and obsession. A woman determined to not go down without a fight and refuses to be a victim. International bestselling author Rachael Tamayo is back with a highly anticipated Deadly Sins novel. With twists and turns to keep readers gripped, fans of Teresa Driscoll and Rachel Caine will be hooked in this unforgettable thriller.

“A well-written thriller that keeps the reader guessing until the end!” – InD’Tale Magazine

“Intense, original, and detailed thriller.” – Power of Three Reader

Rachael Tamayo is a former 911 emergency operator and police dispatcher.  After twelve years in those dark depths, she’s gained a unique insight into mental illness, human behavior, and the general darkness of humanity that she likes to weave into her books.  A formerly exclusive romance author tried her hand at thrillers in her award-winning novel, Crazy Love, and loved it so much that she decided not to turn back.   Rachael is also the author of the internationally renowned domestic thriller, “Break My Bones and her newest

Born and raised in Texas, Rachael lives in the Houston area with her husband of sixteen years, and their two small children. More information can be found about Rachael at:

TikTok  https://bit.ly/2SvApkh
Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/RachaelTamayowrites
Facebook fan page https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheRTAsylum
Twitter https://twitter.com/rtamayo200
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B01HC2VZ0C
Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15251093.Rachael_Tamayo
Bookbub https://www.bookbub.com/profile/rachael-tamayo

To request additional review copies or an interview with Rachael Tamayo, please contact Mickey Mikkelson at Creative Edge Publicity: mickey.creativeedge@gmail.com / 403.464.6925.    

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