![]() Blythe, who had become his wife in the year 1997 was an enthusiastic promoter of Brown’s work, she organized interviews, wrote press releases and booked talk shows. It was 1994 four years later, in 1998 Dan Brown was already a full time writer and had his first thriller published with the title “ Digital Fortress ”. ![]() Writing careerĪbout the start of his writing career, Brown himself tells that after finishing “ The Doomsday Conspiracy ” by Sidney Sheldon during an holiday in Tahiti he just thought “ I can do that ”. Despite Dan Brown’s talent as a songwriter he never seemed able to gain sufficient appreciation as a performer, so in 1993 he decided to go back to New Hampshire to work as an English teacher at the Phillips Exeter Academy. The will to establish himself as a singer and songwriter brought him to move to Los Angeles, where he worked as a Spanish teacher at Beverly Hills Preparatory school and where he met his wife to be: Blythe Newlon. In the year 1986 he graduated in English and Spanish at the Amherst College. His father being a mathematics teacher at the Phillips Exeter Academy, the young Dan Brown grew up in the Campus with his two younger siblings and his mother, a singer and musician. The author of the best-seller “ The Da Vinci Code ” was born on Jin Exeter, New Hampshire. ![]() ![]() Dan Brown, the Author of the Fastest Selling Adult Novel in History. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Marina unknowingly weaves her magick spell on them a sensual spell that pulls them into a vortex of churning emotions, forcing them to decisions that could alter all their lives. Caise and Kai’el Sashtain, focused solely on convincing the innocent young Sorceress to bond with them, get a lot more than they anticipated. But when the hated Seculars gain in strength and dark magic weaves an insidious, invisible threat to all she holds dear, she discovers there is more to be gained by aligning her magick with the Sashtain Wizards than she thought. ![]() Relentless, they plague her days and torment her dreams wickedly erotic dreams that make her body pulse with the promise of dark desires revealed and a sexual heat that will send her up in flames. Desperate to avoid a Joining with the wickedly handsome Sashtain Twins, Marina escapes them at every turn. ![]() ![]() ![]() Concluding that the beggar children are a burden to society, Swift seeks to find a solution to the concerning issue. He also addresses the issue of overpopulation, and the problems that arise due to large families with multiple mouths to feed. ![]() ![]() The essay opens with Swift’s recognition of the squalor and poverty in which the Irish people live, as they are reduced to beggary, forced to panhandle for food on the streets. Focusing on numerous aspects of society including government exploitation, reckless greed, hypocrisy, apathy, and prejudice, the essay successfully exemplifies Swift’s satirical skills. Furthermore, Swift ventilates the severity of Ireland’s political incompetence, the tyrannical English policies, the callous attitudes of the wealthy, and the destitution faced by the Irish people. A satirical essay written by one of the most renowned satirists, Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal expresses the author’s exasperation with the ill treatment of impoverished Irish citizens as a result of English exploitation and social inertia. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is freedom in this life and there is power, and I was ambitious for the latter. Friendships-new and long-forgotten-beckon, lethal enemies circle, secrets accumulate, and the fragile hopes of the little kingdoms of Attolia, Eddis, and Sounis hang in the balance. Pursued across rivers, wastelands, salt plains, snowcapped mountains, and storm-tossed seas, Kamet is dead set on regaining control of his future and protecting himself at any cost. ![]() When Kamet flees for his life, he leaves behind everything-his past, his identity, his meticulously crafted defenses-and finds himself woefully unprepared for the journey that lies ahead. If Nahuseresh’s fortunes improve, so will Kamet’s, and Nahuseresh has been working diligently to promote his fortunes since the debacle in Attolia.Ī soldier in the shadows offers escape, but Kamet won’t sacrifice his ambition for a meager and unreliable freedom not until a whispered warning of poison and murder destroys all of his carefully laid plans. As a slave, his fate is tied to his master’s. Carefully keeping the accounts, and his own counsel, Kamet has accumulated a few possessions, a little money stored in the household’s cashbox, and a significant amount of personal power. Deep within the palace of the Mede emperor, in an alcove off the main room of his master’s apartments, Kamet minds his master’s business and his own. ![]() ![]() ![]() What she did not count on, was that she should wake up with a killer hangover, and find a half-naked man covered in tattoos in her room, and find a large diamond ring on her finger. ![]() Evelyn Thomas headed to Vegas with one goal: to have a great twenty-first birthday. This series features different lead characters in each book, but with some of the same cast of characters from the fictional band Stage Dive. “Lick” is the first book in the “Stage Dive” series. ![]() Her favorite color is blue and plans to write more in the “Flesh” series. She has written over ten novels included in this are the “Stage Dive” series, the “Flesh” series, “Colonist’s Wife” series, the “Dive Bar” series, and the “Heart’s A Mess” series. She lives, reads, and writes in her home located in Queensland, Australia. She loves B Horror, rock n roll music, and love stories. Kylie Scott is a New York Times and USA Today Best selling author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Miller was born to Lutheran German parents, Louise Marie (Neiting) and tailor Heinrich Miller, at their home, 450 East 85th Street in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, New York City. ![]() He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism, and painted watercolors. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer (1934), Black Spring (1936), Tropic of Capricorn (1939) and The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy (1949–59), all of which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris, and all of which were banned in the United States until 1961. ![]() He was known for breaking with existing literary forms, developing a new sort of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association and mysticism, always distinctly about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet also fictional. Henry Valentine Miller (Decem– June 7, 1980) was an American writer. ![]() ![]() However, being in the spotlight did not seem to suit her and she chose to live a hermit like existence with her partner Tuulikki Pietilä. She created paintings and wrote novels and short stories though these were eclipsed by the fame that Moomin brought her. Not only an illustrator, Tove was also a writer and fine artist. Telling stories in a far off made-up land, where evil and fear take the form of apocalyptic comets, giant volcanoes and shadowy monsters. ![]() When she created the Moomin family, Tove would sometimes use them as a way to deal with and work through the difficulties of the real world. ![]() She fell in love and had relationships with women at a time when it was still illegal to be homosexual. She drew political comic strips during The Second World War and was deeply effected by the tragedy and violence of the period. At times, the Jansson family struggled to cope with their Father Viktor’s drinking and infidelity. ![]() But until recently I knew next to nothing about her.Īfter watching the brilliant BBC documentary ‘Moominland Tales, The Life of Tove Jansson’ I learned that her life had been tumultuous. I’ve been a fan of Tove Jansson’s distinctive style for a while always able to recognise one of her drawings and constantly spotting new pieces of Moomin merchandise in Brighton boutiques. Alice Parsons does some self-initiated research into Tove Jansson, the Finnish illustrator and Artist who created the ever-popular Moomin: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mitchell said Miss Marple was a “cracking character” who was “rocking it for single ladies, for post-menopausal women”, while Mosse called her “one of the great unsung heroines of literature”. “She’s patronised, she’s overlooked, she’s slighted yet she runs rings around everyone.” Miss Marple is a “feminist icon in a way”, according to Foley. She was partly based on Christie’s grandmother and her grandmother’s friends, although Christie wrote that her fictional sleuth was “far more fussy and spinsterish than my grandmother ever was”. The first full-length Miss Marple novel was The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930, and the character went on to appear in a total of 12 novels and 20 short stories. Jane Marple first appeared in 1927 in the short story The Tuesday Night Club, which was included in the collection The Thirteen Problems. ![]() ![]() When Gwendolyn Passmore was eighteen, she slipped on a muddy lane and broke her leg. He is the only connection between the two collaborations, though. that when we decided to team up again for The Lady Most Willing., I quickly claimed him as my hero. I loved the Duke of Bretton's dry sense of humor so much in The Lady Most Likely.There is no mention of an innkeeper, but I am sure his wife is named Rosemary. Eloisa James named the local village Parsley, so naturally I had to name the inn The Sage and Thyme.Gwendolyn's mother makes up an impromptu song called, "A House Party La La La." This was inspired by "A Weekend in the Country," from the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music.Gwendolyn is often compared to Botticelli's Venus in his seminal painting The Birth of Venus.I ended up using Marcus as the hero's name in Just Like Heaven. Since I already had an Alex (in Splendid), I figured I was unlikely to use Alec for a full-length novel. ![]() I changed it because I realized that I'm running out of good hero names. ![]() ![]() Eventually we decided that even though it fit the book very well, it wasn't very interesting, so we changed it. The original title for The Lady Most Likely.So we took a fabulous long weekend to New Orleans-we got a ton of work done (and gained about six pounds-each!) When Eloisa James, Connie Brockway, and I decided that we were going to collaborate on a novel in three parts, we knew that we would need to get together to plot the book and develop the characters. ![]() ![]() The picture above is of a one time rooming house on Newbury Street (Ģ71) which I was a denizen of from (1978-1983). Stream of consciousness-portrait of an artist as a young poseur. ,edited the Boston Literary Review for many years, headed anĪward-winning theatre troupe, and is a widely published poet andĬourtesy of Shabunawaz Photography © 2010 ( Picture first appeared in Oddball Magazine)īoston 1978-83. ![]() Years as an editor, publisher, director, poet, and her commitment toĬommunity, and grassroots organizing. Gloria Mindock is being awarded this honor for her long The winner is given a small cash reward, and a Of these Awards were presented at the Somerville News Writers Festivalįrom 2003 to 2011. Johnson ( Poet, first Ibbetson Street Press poetry editor) Robert Pinsky ( Former Poet Laureate of U.S.) Jack Powers ( Founder of Stone Soup Poets)Īfaa Michael Weaver ( Poet- Tufts/Kingsley Award-winner) ![]() ![]() ![]() Louisa Solano ( Former owner of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop)ĭavid Godine ( David Godine, Inc.-publisher) The Ibbetson Street Press Lifetime Achievement Award has been awarded to many prestigious, and community- minded poets, publishers and writers over the years. ![]() |