Never Ceese and Forever Richard, Sue Dent's first two installments in her Thirsting for Blood Series, do well with a market Ms. Dent never expected to appeal to. Recent responses from a Christian blog tour show this appeal is only getting stronger.

Saoirse Redgrave, 1st prize winner of the 2008 Textnovel Writing Contest (www.textnovel.com), accepted a three book publishing deal with St. Martin's Press. Represented by Stan Soper of Textnovel. Michael Homler at St. Martin's was buyer.

Geoff Harrold utilizes digital and traditional methods of illustration including gouache, collage, water colours, pencils and pen and ink

Innovo Publishing, LLC, has released The Thousand Year Voyage. This captivating book by US Army Chaplain Assistant Casey Sean Harmon—an active duty soldier scheduled to deploy to the middle east in the fall of 2009—is an account of the end of time.

Native Philadelphian Lawrence Johnson Sr, author of the 2012 science fiction novel Escape 2 Earth will be attending the third annual Free Library of Philadelphia Festival. This will mark the first book fair he will be attending of his hometown.

The pending release of Forever Richard, the second werewolf and vampire novel by novelist Sue Dent has caused much excitement--and threatens a first printrun sellout-- from a surprising source: Christian readers.

Unholy Domain, a compelling new SciFi thriller by Dan Ronco, enters a wonderful age for science fiction. Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke would have given anything to experience the brave new world just coming into focus. Robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, genetics, and more .

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More than 80 volunteers have wrapped up two rounds of judging in the first-ever Children's and Young Adult Bloggers Literary Awards (Cybils). Bloggers sought a balance between literary quality and "kid appeal" among the 482 titles nominated by the public.

Philadelphia native Lawrence Johnson has managed to combine the Mayan Calendar, Crop Circles, and Stonehenge into one science fiction story that is getting attention from the conspiracy theorist on the web.

Though its primary concern is science, the following book is relevant to world peace because it concludes that everyone's life is scientifically unified with all other life beyond the range of our senses and experiences (but within the range of our understanding).

Emerging fantasy fiction author, Tracy Falbe, whose new series "The Rys Chronicles" was published in January by Brave Luck Books TM, is promoting paperback sales by offering Book I "Union of Renegades" as a free ebook download.