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  4208 readersTurning a classic book into an app takes more than just formatting the text for a digital screen. For Space Dog Books, a new interactive publishing company that makes eBook apps for the iPad, adapting Robert Louis Stevenson‘s classic adventure novel Treasure Island into an app, meant making it interactive. In an interview with eBookNewser, Victoria Davis, founder/CEO

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  Social Game Tools for Publishers

  9320 readersShould more publishers think about entering the competitive and lucrative world of social games? At the Inside Social Apps conference this week, Disney Interactive senior VP of social games John Spinale (pictured) explained how Disney entered the evolving space. Here’s more from Spinale: “We started off making games for MySpace and it wasn’t obvious that

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  Penguin Launches Book Country Writing Community

  2625 readersPenguin Group (USA) has launched a new writing community dedicated to genre fiction called Book Country. Readers can review books, post their own writing, and meet other readers at the new site. Right now the site offers articles from publishing profes...

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  Writing Interactive Fiction Is Complicated? Not With Playfic

  5615 readersAdvertise here via BSA Last week, we featured a article (which we really hope you digged!) on the somewhat retro medium of gamebooks/interactive fiction, and the modern technology that is bringing such interactive stories back to the fore. You read the article, and want to write one, and now don’t know where to start, right? Meet Playfic. Playfic is

• Wanderlust and Lipstick Travel Writing Contest…

  9906 readersWanderlust and Lipstick are seeking entries for their fourth annual travel writing contest.Amateur and professional female travel writers are encouraged to enter this travel writing contest which features a grand prize of an Unlimited-Luxury® 7-day stay for two at Secrets Huatulco Resort & Spa in Conejos Bay, Mexico.The contest runs October 1, 2011 through

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  Gap Adventures Tags Top Travel Bloggers for their ‘Wanderers in Residence’ Program…

  4362 readersAdventure travel leader 'Wanderers in Residence' program.Working as ambassadors for Gap Adventure Company, the chosen travel bloggers will have the opportunity to participate in various Gap Adventure trips, all the while writing about the experiences, providing feedback, and offerings travel tips, expertise, and advise.Gary Arndt of NomadicMatt, JD Andrews of legalnomads are a few of

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  3 Secrets to e-Book Cover Design Success

  4510 readers The move to e-books has brought with it a new challenge for those who do book cover design, amateur and professional. The first challenge, of course, if you’ve been designing book covers for any time, is to understand exactly what an e-book cover really is. Unlike print books, which we can pick up and examine, e-books don’t

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  Quick Answers

  1687 readersI am a professional illustrator, and I've just started writing my first children's book, which I plan to illustrate as well. I've seen different advice on how and what to submit to publishers and agents as an author/illustrator. Some say you should submit a dummy book, and others say you should submit a

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  Blogs for Writers Contest and Book Award Season

  5881 readers I was surprised Friday when I received an email from friend and fellow blogger Joanna Penn of TheCreativePenn.com. Joanna’s blog is one of the best anywhere for writers and last year it was chosen as one of the Top 10 Blogs for Writers in a contest run by WriteToDone.com. In her email Joanna told me this

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  2570 readersKath here.  Each year Therese and I look forward to devising a writing contest for the WU community. Last year’s Original Analogy contest was one for the books, and this year’s contest was no different.  Therese and I want to thank you fo...