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Lee & Miller's 2008 Yule chapbook announced
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Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's 14th Yule chapbook will contain two original Liaden Universe stories, and is now available for pre-order...

Jeffrey A. Carver giving away volumes 1-3 of "The Chaos Chronicles" to prepare for number 4
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Presaging the publication of Sunborn, the fourth in Jeffrey A. Carver's "The Chaos Chronicles," he's offering the first three volumes as free ebook downloads...

The Deadbooks debuts as "the next step in the evolution of the novel"
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Creator Hasso Wuerslin announces the launch of The Deadbooks, and seems intent on issuing a manifesto that this is a new form of entertainment, the new version of the novel...

Harry Potter, Bolt, and Twilight do a three-part scheduling dance
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The film version of the sixth Harry Potter novel is moving from November to next July, so Disney's Bolt and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight film are moving up to take its spot...

Audible's Frontier's August Offerings, including Fafhrd
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Audible.com's sf imprint Frontiers is releasing all seven of Fritz Leiber's "Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser" stories with introductions by Neil Gaiman, as well as a host of other new and classic titles...

Dorling Kindersley plans two big comic retrospectives
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Dorling Kindersley will be releasing coffee table books covering DC's Vertigo line and the entire Marvel Universe...

L. Ron Hubbard's pulp fiction available as paper or audio
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Galaxy Press will be publishing all of L. Ron Hubbard's pulp fiction as both paperback books and audiobooks (filling out the shorter books with short stories)...

Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn a publishing phenomenon its first day
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The fourth and concluding volume of Stephenie Meyer's YA vampire love story, Twilight, hit the stores to massive first-day sales...

Electric Velocipede cancels Lavie Tidhar chapbook
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Lavie Tidhar's chapbook, Fortean Signs of Rain, which John Klima had expected to publish this Fall, has been cancelled

J.K. Rowling's previously unavailable The Tales of Beedle the Bard to be widely published
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J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which until now has only existed in seven hand-written copies, will be published by Bloomsburg, Scholastic, and Amazon.com, as a charitable project to benefit...

Judith Moffett concludes Holy Ground Trilogy after 16-year hiatus
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The first two books in Judith Moffett's Holy Ground Trilogy, about the Hefn invasion that saves Earth from human abuse, were published in 1991 and 1992...

WotC cancelling all non-Magic, non-D&D publishing
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Wizards of the Coast is canceling its new Discoveries publishing line, and "refocusing" their efforts on Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons...

Clarkesworld still staffing up, but chapbooks now appearing
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Neil Clarke is taking longer than expected to replace editor Nick Mamatas, but for good reasons. On the other hand, his planned chapbook reprints of the online 'zine are now reality...

Karen Traviss writing Gears of War novelization
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Karen Traviss's Gears of War novel The Battle of Aspho Fields is scheduled to be published at the end of October...

Last chance to get Tor's free ebooks
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Tor's free ebook program ends with one final chance to download any or all of the titles they've been offering, as well as one new book...

Hadley Rille Updates
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Hadley Rille Books will be publishing The Best of Abyss & Apex, reading for Footprints, and announcing the winners of the "Return to Luna" writing contest...

Derek Gunn offers chapters of second Vampire Apocalypse novel; first being shopped for film
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Irish author Derek Gunn's Vampire Apocalypse series follows vampires which are monsters as they take over the world. The film rights are currently...

Tor's weekly free e-book and wallpaper
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This week, Tor is offering Soul by Tobsha Learner, along with wallpapers by Rick Berry and Lars Grant-West...

Audible's Frontier's July Offerings, and a Free Audiobook
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Audible.com's sf/f imprint, Frontiers, has a guest editorial by Robert J. Sawyer, Orson Scott Card's monthly pick, a slew of new titles, and a free, limited-time offer to download...

Tor's New Freebies... and News
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This week, Tor is offering Flash by L.E. Modesitt, Jr., along with wallpapers by Chris McGrath and John Harris...

Night Shade publishes Walter Jon Williams's Implied Spaces, and gives away treats
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To celebrate the release of Implied Spaces, publisher Night Shade Books is offering an excerpt, an interview with author Walter Jon Williams, and the complete text of his "The Green Leopard Plague"...

Lao Tsu's Tao Te Ching available in Klingon
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The Klingon Language Institute has once again translated a classic into Klingon. The Tao Te Ching will be available...

John Joseph Adams seeking reprint vampire stories for new anthology
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John Joseph Adams is editing an untitled reprint anthology of vampire stories and is looking for suggestions...

Paizo publishing original anthology of shared-world authors
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Paizo Publishing is releasing Worlds of Their Own, an ahtology of shared-world fiction with contributions by...

Del Rey publishing five Clone Wars tie-in novels
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Del Rey is publishing the first of five Star Wars: The Clone Wars tie-in novels next month...
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Mansfield Park and Mummies
by Jane Austen and Vera Nazarian
Unlike the other monster mash-ups, this witty, scintillating, insane and surprisingly romantic Jane Austen parody is written by a Lady.
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