Ever hear of Book News, Inc.?

Book News prepares concise, descriptive reviews of new books in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities for librarians and other buyers of scholarly books. We cover titles from hundreds of English-language publishers worldwide, and we license our material to a wide range of booksellers, aggregators and database publishers. Book News’ content appears in Bowker’s Books In Print, Baker & Taylor’s Title Source 3, YBP’s GOBI, the databases of Major’s Education Solutions, Eastern Book Company, ProQuest, Gale-Cengage, EBSCO, and online bookstores such as Powells.com.

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Ever wonder who’s getting a book deal via their agent and a “traditional” publishing house. Check out Publishers Weekly news. There’s many deals being made out there in the publishing world. Maybe you can be one of them.

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Imagine if Facebook, Google and Twitter built a privacy-killing surveillance machine to help the federal government spy on us.

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Have you heard of the National Book Awards?

According to their copy: Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. A pantheon of such writers as William Faulkner, Marianne Moore, Ralph Ellison, John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Robert Lowell, Walker Percy, John Updike, Katherine Anne Porter, Norman Mailer, Lillian Hellman, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, Donald Barthelme, Flannery O’Connor, Adrienne Rich, Thomas Pynchon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Alice Walker, Charles Johnson, E. Annie Proulx, and Colum McCann have all won the Award.

Once an author has been a National Book Award Finalist or Winner, he or she becomes a permanent member of the National Book Foundation family. We do our best to keep in touch with both the authors and publishers, promote the authors’ new books and upcoming readings, and invite them to future National Book Award-related events.

If you are a published author, your publisher can enter you into this prestigious “contest”. If you have the gumption, you should check this out. It may help you get the recognition that you and your writing may deserve.

Books are due to the Judges by July 15

Do you know about the International Book Awards? Deadline is coming up fast – 04/30/13

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Is your novel in need of promotion? Check out The Independent Author Network.

What they’re about:

The Independent Author Network (IAN) is a community of like-minded authors who are self published or published by a small indie press. The authors actively promote their books at social networking websites like Twitter, facebook, and LinkedIn etc. The members share info, ideas, and experiences from self publishing and promotion. The group works together to promote each other online. Each member receives an IAN Member page with an author BIO and up to six books included with buy links. (more than 6 books can be promoted upon request) Browse the membership in the Author Directory.

Clearly this site is an excellent opportunity for authors to actively promote not only their work but that of others through various social networking sites and the IAN site as well. It has been proven that those who help others tend to receive help in kind.

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Go check out IAN and see how it works out for you!

Ever hear of Andover Bookstore? They’re only the second oldest bookstore in the United States! They’ve been around since 1809. Yeah, you read that right. 1809, folks!

Visit them! We need more mom and pop style bookstores to keep different literature and views out there so people can have access to bright (or not so bright) ideas, stories, and knowledge.

Have you heard of TheNextBigAuthor.com? They’re actually a pretty cool site for budding authors.

According to their copy – The Next Big Author Competition Entry is free for all nationalities. The publishing groups of many of the world’s most famous authors – including Dan Brown, Terry Pratchett and Stephen King – join to support The Next Big Author in our competitions, and read and provide feedback on winners opening chapters. If you have written the opening chapters of a book at any time you can participate in our competitions. Join now and the site will alert you when we introduce the next competition in the next few months.

If you think your current manuscript or developing project has most excellent opening chapters then check out TheNextBigAuthor.com It may be the kick start that you’ve been looking for.