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These books, guides, and cards offer interesting trivia and facts, engaging formats, and lively illustrations; a perfect combination to pique interest for hours of casual reading, followed by days of reciting trivia, and hopefully, years of knowledge about these important people in American history.

NO FEE WRITING CONTEST

Contest is open to residents of the U.S., its territories and possessions, including Puerto Rico who are 18 years of age or older at the time of entry.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 31, 2015

Tell us your original poem, in 15 lines or fewer. The entry must not be lewd, obscene, sexually explicit, pornographic, disparaging, defamatory, libelous or otherwise inappropriate or objectionable, as determined by the Judges and/or Sponsor in their sole and absolute discretion.

Prize(s): One grand-prize winner will receive $500 and his/her story will be published in Reader’s Digest Magazine. Reader’s Digest will also select three (3) runner-up winners to receive $100.

Winners and finalists will be notified by email and regular mail within two months of the closing date.

SUBMISSION LINK: http://www.rd.com/poetry

Read Rules: http://www.rd.com/magazine/poetry-contest-rules/#ixzz3MaCPeJpR

Talk tomorrow,

Kathy

Herve Tullet is a picture book hero! His best selling picture book Press Here (Chronicle Books, 2011) has been joined on the best selling picture book list by his incredibly fun Mix it Up!

To celebrate the publication of Life…The Reader’s Digest Version: Great Advice, Simply Put, Reader’s Digest will host the “Your Life…” contest. The grand prize winner will receive $25,000, and ten runner-ups will win $2,500. The eleven honorees’ stories will also be published on ReadersDigest.com.

In addition, Facebook fans will have the chance to vote for their favorite stories. The most popular Facebook entry will also receive $2,500. To enter, submit your life story in 150 words or less on Reader’s Digest‘s Facebook page. The deadline has been set for November 1st. Glee actress Jane Lynch submitted the first entry in the contest. Perhaps it’s a teaser for her soon-to-be-published memoir Happy Accidents?

Global editor-in-chief Peggy Northrop had this statement in the release: ”We’ve collected hundreds of thousands of stories and jokes from our readers over the years.  This opens the door for them to share in a whole new way and to get their friends, families and fellow readers involved in the action.”

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

The Power of Good: True stories of great kindness from total strangers

This book counters the overwhelming media bombardment about a violence, cruelty, war.

The world has also KINDNESS.

One just has to see the terrible disaster in Japan with the earthquakes and read the stories of human kindness – neighbour helping neighbour.

The Power of Good is a celebration of those acts of kindness we have all experienced.

Let brotherly (and sisterly) love continue.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers:

for thereby some have entertained angels unaware.

Hebrews 12:1-2

 A percentage of sales of this book go to the Australian charity HOPE STREET www.hopestreet.org.au

There are seventy very short stories – easy to read, easy to relate to, easy to care.

Some of the stories are written by:-

Writers:  Peter FitzSimons, Geraldine Brooks, Libby Gleeson,  Susanne Gervay

Media personalities: Jean Kittson comedian, Anthony Ackroyd comedian

 TV Reporters: Simon Reeve presenter ‘Sunrise’ channel 7; news presenter Tracey Spicer; Anton Enus SBS World News

Leaders of Charities: Simon Rountree Camp Quality; Father Chris Riley Youth off the Streets; Stephen Murby Cystic Fibrosis Victoria

Sports, politicians, many others: Eric Bailey former NBA player;  Tim Fischer AC former Deputy Prime Minister; Professor David de Kretser AC Governor of Victoria .

This book of acts of kindness – ‘the power of good’-  is being launched now.

For more details contact: www.mccrindle.com.au; [email protected]

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The nice people at MARV films invited me to a magazine launch dinner last night. (A free magazine for men called Shortlist.) The food was lovely, and I met Rob Brydon; I'm a huge fan of Rob's, from Human Remains to Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story. MOre importantly for me, he was in MirrorMask, playing the father and the Prime Minister, but was not filming the days I was around, and so I wanted to say thank you. I wasn't really sure what to expect -- probably that I'd wander over and say "Hullo, I'm Neil Gaiman. Er I wrote MirrorMask, thank you for being in it," and he'd say "Not a problem, nice to meet you Mr um," and that would be that. But it didn't go like that at all -- he started talking about this blog, and then we had to explain MirrorMask to the other people, and then we talked about everything else. He's an astonishingly nice man who, he told me rpoudly, has a film of him reading The Wolves in the Walls to his kids. I kept telling him how much I love his work, and I do. I never found out why I should read Barry Gibb's blog, though.

In a couple of weeks the BBC World Service will be recording a dramatisation of ANANSI BOYS, starring Lenny Henry and Matt Lucas (as Fat Charlie's boss). I'll put more details up as I get them.

Right. They just posted that my plane for Stockholm is boarding... Read the rest of this post