"I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all." -Richard Wright
Welcome to Echo Sounded, an online e-zine and community forum where USA students can publish their fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and other creative writing, network with fellow writers, and receive creative feedback for their work.
The forum, Echo Sounded @ mixxt, is a closed community for Jaguar students and alumni only, where writers create their own account and post their work. The e-zine will feature the latest news from the writing world and will also feature select, standout pieces from the forum.
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The Hobbit Blog, official blog of the upcoming movie, has released the following update on film production.
Warner Bros. has officially announced the beginning of production on The Hobbit, Peter Jackson’s two film epic adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s timeless classic.
The Hobbit is set in Middle-earth 60 years before Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in the blockbuster trilogy that culminated with the Oscar-winning The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
The Hobbit follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakensheild. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers.
For further news and updates on The Hobbit movie production, visit The Hobbit Blog.
HarperCollins's Avon Books has launched Avon Impulse, an imprint dedicated to digital titles. Avon Impulse will focus largely on e-books; it will also publish POD novels/novellas by Avon writers and new authors. Senior v-p and publisher of William Morrow/Avon Liate Stehlik said the new imprint will give Avon the opportunity to give romance readers titles in a format they have long embraced, as well as to publish more quickly "with an eye to what’s trending in fiction.” Avon Impulse is looking to do multiple titles every month, working up to releasing titles on a weekly basis.
The line launches with A Lady's Wish, an original e-novella by Katharine Ashe set for release March 15.
Read the full article HERE.
By DAN KOIS
Published: March 4, 2011
“A book itself threatens to kill its author repeatedly during its composition,” Michael Chabon writes in the margins of his unfinished novel “Fountain City” — a novel, he adds, that he could feel “erasing me, breaking me down, burying me alive, drowning me, kicking me down the stairs.” And so Chabon fought back: he killed “Fountain City” in 1992. What was to be the follow-up to his first novel, “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh,” instead was a black mark on his hard drive, five and a half years of work wasted.
Read the full article HERE.
