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Video: Kate Price Shows Authors How to Do a Booksigning in Style
Authors: now this is how you do a book signing. Glamour model Katie Price's second novel Paradise has zoomed to the top of the British fiction bestseller charts and we're sure the elegant ensemble she wore to her first booksigning had something to do with it. The ghostwriter (oh, come on now, you know there's a ghostwriter) is no doubt cashing her check and drowning her sorrows in a stiff drink. Take a look:
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Anne Rice Quits Christianity
Anne Rice has posted on her Facebook page that she has quit being a Christian.
Anne Rice says she remains committed to Christ but not to "being 'Christian' or to being part of Christianity." She posted the following message on her Facebook account today.
As I said below, I quit being a Christian. I'm out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.
Yesterday, she posted this message.
For those who care, and I understand if you don't: Today I quit being a Christian. I'm out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being "Christian" or to being part of Christianity. It's simply impossible for me to "belong" to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I've tried. I've failed. I'm an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.
Anne Rice has also been quoting the Bible on her Facebook account, which can be found here.
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Sloppy Joe's Bar Holds 30th Annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest
Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West host a Hemingway Look-Alike contest each year. This year was the 30th Hemingway Look-Alike contest. The contest is one of many events in Key West to celebrate the birthday of Ernest Hemingway and honor his work as author and sportsman.
The winner of this year's Hemingway Look-Alike contest was Charles Bicht from Vero Beach, Florida. Bicht, a retired construction project manager, told the Sun-Sentinel that his favorite Hemingway novel is To Have and Have Not. You can see more photographs of the winners and finalists here and here.
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Janet Evanovich Signs Four Book Deal With Random House
Janet Evanovich is leaving St. Martin's Press for Random House Publishing Group. The publisher acquired worldwide hardcover, paperback, audio, and ebook publication rights for four new Evanovich novels from Peter Evanovich, the author's agent and son.
More than 75 million copies of Ms. Evanovich's 33 novels have been sold around the world. Her June title, Sizzling Sixteen, debuted at #1 on the N.Y. Times Hardcover Fiction list, as did the previous 10 books in series starring Stephanie Plum. Actress Katherine Heigl will be playing Stephanie Plum in an upcoming motion picture.
The world publication rights for the new Evanovich novels were acquired by Jennifer Hershey, Editor-in-Chief, Ballantine Bantam Dell. Two of the books will be Stephanie Plum novels, and the other two will be in the author's newer "Unmentionable" series. The first will be published simultaneously as a Bantam hardcover and ebook edition in Summer 2011.
Janet Evanovich said in a statement, “I started my career as a Bantam author, and I'm very excited to be returning. Their sales, distribution, and marketing make them the perfect partner for me and my work. Load up the U-Haul; break out the pizza and the beer -- it's moving day for Stephanie, Joe, Ranger, Diesel and me!”
Janet Evanovich reportedly failed to land a $50 million advance from her former publisher St. Martin's Press. Forbes says the $50 advance request was reasonable, considering "Evanovich's selling power is comparable to a Ken Follett or James Patterson."
William Faulkner's University of Virginia Lectures Digitized
William Faulkner was the writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia for two years in the last 1950s. Faulkner gave lectures and readings and answered questions from students. NPR reports that these lectures and question-and-answer sessions were recorded on reel-to-reel tapes. The tapes have now been digitized and published online at faulkner.lib.virginia.edu. The Faulkner audio archive also includes essays, news articles, photographs and other materials.
Stephen Railton, a professor of English at UVA who led the effort to digitize Faulkner's lectures says, "I've spent an awful lot of my life in the last decade in virtual reality, exploring the ways in which these new technologies can help us tell the story about American literature and culture."
Anne Rice has posted on her Facebook page that she has quit being a Christian.
Anne Rice says she remains committed to Christ but not to "being 'Christian' or to being part of Christianity." She posted the following message on her Facebook account today.
Janet Evanovich is leaving St. Martin's Press for Random House Publishing Group. The publisher acquired worldwide hardcover, paperback, audio, and ebook publication rights for four new Evanovich novels from Peter Evanovich, the author's agent and son.
William Faulkner was the writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia for two years in the last 1950s. Faulkner gave lectures and readings and answered questions from students. NPR reports that these lectures and question-and-answer sessions were recorded on reel-to-reel tapes. The tapes have now been digitized and published online at 
