Zweibel, one of the original writers of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” also co-created the innovative series, “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show,” and has written for numerous television programs, including “Monk,” and served as consulting producer on “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

He will teach workshop participants how to write, rehearse, shoot and edit an original, professionally produced situation comedy.

The workshop will take place in the Ed McMahon Mass Communications Center, which has an all-digital, high-definition television studio. Those interested in writing, producing and acting for television are encouraged to attend.

The program is being conducted by Michael Calia, director of the Ed McMahon Mass Communications Center. For more information, please contact Calia at 203-582-3414 or e-mail michael.calia@quinnipiac.edu.

“We are delighted to partner with Bowker and offer our members access to this streamlined, online and eco-friendly system,” said Florrie Kichler, President of IBPA. “Publishers are continuously overwhelmed and interrupted with unsolicited manuscripts that don’t match their interests.   BowkerManuscriptSubmission.com applies a proven method for addressing this issue, allowing publishers to review book proposals in an efficient, time-saving manner. This is really a win-win situation for publishers and authors alike.”

Through this partnership IBPA publishers and acquisition editors will have access to an online portal where prospective authors have uploaded book proposals, complete with sample materials, making it easy to find the ideas they find most interesting and marketable. Each proposal in the Bowker Manuscript Submissions system includes subject category, topic, the writer’s background and publishing history, a book synopsis, and writing sample. IBPA member publishers will use the system’s filters to target the manuscripts that fit their publishing interests and then, review the sample materials to evaluate quality.

“The traditional process of getting the right publisher to review the right book proposal is both time-consuming and frustrating for both sides of the relationship,” said Kelly Gallagher, VP of Publishing Services. “Through this partnership, IBPA member publishers can take advantage of this time saving self-service tool by accessing book proposals through BowkerManuscriptSubmissions.com and authors will have the opportunity to put their book ideas in front of thousands of independent publishers.”

Bowker Manuscript Submissions brings publishers, authors and agents together in an efficient online system. This central portal enables authors to submit proposals and materials one time, with the confidence that hundreds of publishers can view them. Publishers can avoid piles of paper to view book proposals in a clean, green and time-saving method. The service’s e-tools sort and filter by genre, audience, author, and more, enabling acquisition editors to focus their time and energy on the exploration of just the right works.

About Bowker Manuscript Submissions
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Entry Fee: £5 ($8/EUR6).

Deadline for entries: May 31, 2011.

To read on and enter, please go to: http://shop.editorial-consultancy.co.uk/shortstorycompetition/

Book Blurb:
“Laurel can’t handle her new authority as editor of the yearbook, especially when it comes to Matt, the new guy at school who has her head spinning!”

Author’s Web Site: http://annherrickauthor.com

More about All’s Fair in Love and Words, including purchase links: http://bwlpp.com/herrick.php

Written in two volumes, the first which is what you’re about to read starts from the very beginning of a childhood that speaks honestly about the destruction that a child experiences from witnessing first hand domestic violence between his two parents.

Parents who at one stage did very much love one another but an affair soon rocked that marriage and pulled the family apart.

The onslaught of heavy drinking by a father who lost his grip on his own family and became a violent man. Something any child should never have to witness.  Watching a father who was always such a loving man but towards their mother, he would turn anger into fists of fury.

Christian escaped his broken home into a world of gangs. A gang culture that is ripe throughout the land of most of New Zealand. Gangs, which can at times become like another family where a young lost soul can find a sense of belonging within. But with gang culture comes trouble.

He was in trouble with the law, trouble with others and most of all trouble with himself. With no father figure at home to keep him in line but only a loving mother who now couldn’t cope. Christian had become the man of the house protecting his sister and mother but also running wild living a life of danger and corruption.

Read through this epic tale of one child’s struggle to belong. The battles that life presents him with and the heartache of such sorrow and sadness that any person will find upsetting.

With the highs and lows in his destructive teenage years came one phone call from Britain?s most notorious gangland figure, Reggie Kray. This encounter with the Kray family changes it all, even making the New Zealand television and newspapers.

It truly is a fascinating story that ends with success. A story of hopes and dreams, where one man never gave up. A lost youth that didn’t stop him from proving them all wrong.

Struggling with dyslexia, against all the odds he has produced two astonishing books without the help of anybody. Too much to include in just 1 volume, volume 2 continues this journey to London, where Christian pursues a career brushing shoulders, not only with the heavy weights of the British underworld such as the Godfather of British Crime, Freddie Foreman, but also the rich and famous, including foreign royalty and some of the biggest names in the music industry.

This book is an inspiration to anyone who has ever suffered or given up on their hopes and dreams. It’s what films are made of. Hollywood will be sure to be knocking soon!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR :
Christian Simpson lives in London with his fiance.He has a beautiful daughter Angel-Grace from a previous relationship.He is a successful bodyguard, looking after the rich and famous including foreign royal families.

He recently took two years off work to write two books telling his own story about his incredible life.He set out on his journey and wrote these books in such places as London, Paris and as far as Australia and Cuba, while it was a struggle from the very beginning, he has never written a book before and suffers from dyslexia, it is something he proudly accomplished.

He has hope that one day he can give up personal security work and become a full time writer.

Christian as a teenager was imprisoned in some of New Zealand`s most dangerous prisions for gang related volience.

He fought to turn his life around and make something of himself which he managed to do with huge success.

At the moment he in talks with the famous British music artist Tricky in hope that together they will set up a music academy and boxing school for the disadvantaged youth of today, who really just need a second chance in their own lives to give them opportunities of a brighter future for themselves. ]]> http://www.prcountry.com/pressrelease/lost-youth-volume-1-new-zealand-written-by-christian-s-simpson/feed/ http://www.prcountry.com/press-release-writers/international-creative-writing-camp-july-2-8-2011/ http://www.prcountry.com/press-release-writers/international-creative-writing-camp-july-2-8-2011/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:33:22 +0000 Admin http://www.prcountry.com/?p=200 The Rena’s Promise International Creative Writing Camp. Created to further the vision of Holocaust survivor Rena Kornreich Gelissen and in honor of her memory, Rena’s promise is a promise to create a more ecumenical world unhindered by prejudice, racism or hatred by bringing young people together from all walks of life and providing them with a place to develop the cultural and creative voices of Generation NEXT. This one week intensive writing program is for young people between the ages of 14-17, who want to explore their own unique gifts as writers by working with professional writers.   The camp will be held July 2-8, 2011 in Shelter Island, New York.  For more details about the camp you can go to www.renaspromise.com

Author Marcia Casar Friedman, having honorably fulfilled all the author requirements imposed by the powers that be, is hereby presenting the release of her book “Aging Is A Full Time Job.”

Take this encouraging journey of reading and writing to open the window to your soul, while exploring and processing the depths of past events. Get ready to go on an optimistic highway to self-awareness. Learn more about the unique person you are aging into, no matter what you identify as your chronological age number.

This distinguishing book provides valuable insights into appreciating the truth of not being perfect. The keys to being courageous with self-acceptance are presented in an easy to read, professional page format. With such a unique approach, the reader can review past events, their effects, and how to work in a positive manner with “Who am I?” instead of the usual negativity from judgmental reactions.

Ms. Friedman was a teacher for the Pittsburgh Public Schools, Los Angeles School District, and a Cal State University master student teacher.

Writing, sociology, and psychology have always been her passions. She conducted adult training programs in English as a Second Language, created “feelings workshops,” behavior modification classes and was a trainer for various businesses. Her enduring belief is that “learning never ends!”

Life changes gave Ms. Friedman the opportunity to follow her interests, to use these experiences to help others. She initially planned to write a life script, resume, or memoir, however was motivated to better understand and improve the present in order to move forward to the future. Then she realized it was important to share the learned tools so others could be rewarded by discovering their own path and be encouraged to pass the torch.

Marcia Casar Friedman: marcia@agingisafulltimejob.com

Sue Stewart, literary executor of the Andre Norton Estate, is collaborating with MPCI to produce an hour-long biographical tribute, profiling the prolific author’s life story.

Norton was the recipient of several respected honors, including being the first woman to win the Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy Award and the Nebula Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement, the later a title she shared with Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury.

In the early 1950s, Norton broke genre gender barriers with her stories that were initially only thought to appeal to young male readers. She went on to pen The Beast Master, the Witch World series, and more than 130 other novels in 67 languages during her long career. She operated High Hallack, a library for genre writers, in Murfreesboro, TN, as she provided opportunities for new writers and collaborative efforts with her expanding collection of stories.

The documentary-tribute working title: “THE LADY’S QUILL, A TRIBUTE TO ANDRE NORTON” will scan the early days of Alice Norton, as she began writing children’s books, continuing after she changed her name to “Andre” at a publisher’s request to be more marketable with readers in fantasy and science fiction. The broadcast will include sound bites of Andre Norton interviews from friends and other famous authors in the genre, and personal insights of her private life.

MPCI will begin pre-production and development of the documentary with further announcements on March 17, 2011, the six-year anniversary of Norton’s death at age 93. Clips, photos, and interviews of Norton are being cataloged. Many other authors and friends from around the globe will be participating with on-camera comments as they share stories and remembrances of the Lady and her Quill.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TO ALL MEDIAS
DATE: FEBRUARY 21, 2011
For additional information contact:
John Cummings
Chairman/Producer MPCI
818.480.4001 ext. 101
jcc@tmpc.us

Ruminate is thrilled to announce our first annual Ruminate Nonfiction Prize. The first place story will win a $500 prize and the runner-up will win a $50 prize. The entry deadline has been extended to February 15th, 2011 and the finalist judge is award-winning author, Al Haley. (Haley is the published author of Home Ground: Stories of Two Families and the Land and Exotic: A Novel, winner of the John Irving First Novel Award, and his work has been published in publications including The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly.)  For more information about the contest go to www.ruminatemagazine.org/contests