The Booksie Award was created to honor all types of innovation and invention in the publishing industry, in anything from printing techniques to character development. BookSwim.com will announce a new Booksie Award each week during Author Appreciation Month. Honorees, like Collins, are selected by a panel of publishing professionals and receive recognition on the BookSwim site and through    .. more …

Like other online games, hidden object games are also equally popular among children of all ages. Even adults enjoy playing hidden object games in their free time. The mysterious and curious element in hidden object games makes them even more exiting and thrilling to play.Hidden object games usually revolve around a mystery which you need to solve or discover in order to move to the next levels or    .. more …

So you’re tanned, you’ve toured – in fact, all the items in your guidebook have been checked off, one by one. So what better way to refresh yourself than by seeing Cape Town through the eyes of a fellow traveller? Discovering the quirks of a holiday destination through stories and novels has been a time-honoured tradition for generations of travellers, and Cape Town provides a superb canvas when    .. more …

Kate Atkinson began as a prize-winning literary novelist with Behind the Scenes at the Museum and has, like Michael Dibdin and Ian Rankin before, reinvented herself by using the tropes of detective fiction. She’s just as serious and formally interesting as ever, only her novels featuring the ex-policeman Jackson Brodie involve unravelling a couple of murders. With their startling first chapters,    .. more …

A science fiction magazine is one of the best possible forms of therapy for anyone with an imagination. In This article I’m going to review a new science fiction magazine that is a rising star on the cutting edge of film and magazine publications. From Eyelumination Studios in hollywood California comes Moot Mag and Moot Mag Movie with its star, Cindera Che who werer recently seen at Wondercon in    .. more …

Writer’s CornerTuesday, August 31, 2010 12:59 PM CDT EDITOR’S NOTE: The Journal will publish on the first Wednesday of each month a listing of local authors who have recently published books and/or area book signings. Please e-mail information to cmarty@yourjournal.com .NEW RELEASES- Ferguson resident Alvin Zamudio’s first book, “The American Sandbox Dictionary of Children’s Mispronounced    .. more …

Robbie Williams has fuelled rumours he is to become a father, only days after marrying long-term partner Ayda Field.The British pop singer, who married Field at his Beverly Hills home on Saturday, has    .. more …

3:16pm Sunday 22nd August 2010 A 33-year-old man was attacked in his own bedroom yesterday by intruders in Burnley. Police say the victim was asleep at his home in Waterbarn Street, in the Daneshouse area of Burnley, at around 1.30am when the trio burst in. He heard them banging at his front door before the gang ran upstairs and confronted him in bed. The victim has said he was punched twice in    .. more …