York County resident Brian Keene will sign copies of his new four-issue "Devil Slayer" comic from 1 to 4 p.m. Sept. 6 at Comix Connection-York at the West Manchester Mall.
Keene, two-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, is the author of "Jobs in Hell" and "The Rising." His most recent novel, "Ghost Walk," was released July 29.
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Writers of original science fiction are invited to submit entries on the theme, "Yesterday, I
Will" in a science fiction writing contest.
"All sentient species of the known universe" are eligible to submit entries, according to the official rules.
Entries may be original works of poetry, one-act plays or short stories of up to 5,000 words. Deadline is Sept. 15.
The winning entries will be included in an anthology to be published by Fortress Publishing, Inc. of Harrisburg.
For contest rules, entry forms and details, click here .
Bantam Dell has officially launched the audiobook podcast of New York Times best-selling author Karen Marie Moning's "Darkfever." This the first joint effort between Bantam Dell and one of its authors to release the full version of a book for free as a podcast.
The book will be presented in its entirety, with four episodes per week available for download. "Darkfever" is the first book in Moning's "Fever" series which features protagonist MacKayla "Mac" Lane, a woman who possesses the gift to see beyond the world of man and into the dangerous realm of the Fae.
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The final book of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series managed a million-selling debut.
"Breaking Dawn," the fourth of Meyer's sensational teen vampire series, sold 1.3 million copies in the first 24 hours after its midnight, Aug. 2 release, the Associated Press reported.
It was also the top-selling book at Borders Books & Music in Springettsbury Township this past week.
The numbers for "Breaking Dawn" don't approach the unveiling of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." The seventh and final volume of J.K. Rowling's fantasy series sold 8.3 million copies in its first 24 hours in the United States alone.
Voni Grimes will sign copies of his book, "Bridging Troubled Waters," from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday in the Chamber Theatre at William Penn Senior High School, 101 W. College Ave. (enter the Beaver Street side of the building).
The event is sponsored by York 21st Century Afterschool Program. Light refreshments will be served.
Author Salman Rushdie is threatening to sue a publisher over a book by a former bodyguard that he says portrays him as cheap, nasty and arrogant and depicts his police guards as drinking on duty.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books exposed and chronicled the vast network of Stalin's slave labor camps, died late Sunday of heart failure at 89.
"The Tales of Beedle the Bard," the book J.K. Rowling wrote and illustrated and auctioned off to benefit the charity she co-founded, the Children's High Level Group, will be available to all Harry Potter fans beginning Dec. 4.
Finish reading 'J.K. Rowling's "Beedle" available Dec. 4' »This review is by staffer Teresa Cook:
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
Jill Bolte Taylor was a brain scientist, when, at the age of 37, she suffered a massive stroke. But as part of her brain shut down, the other part allowed her to feel a deep inner peace.
