PAPERCHASE: Fourth MiddleGate fantasy to launch

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Local kids’ author Rae Bridgman will launch the fourth entry in her MiddleGate fantasy series, Kingdom of Trolls, at McNally Robinson Booksellers on Feb. 10.

Bridgman is a professor in the city planning department in the University of Manitoba’s faculty of architecture.

Her MiddleGate series, which follows the adventures of cousins Wil and Sophie who live in a magical city, is inspired by the Narcisse snakepits. The first three titles, The Serpent’s Spell, Amber Ambrosia and Fish & Sphinx, were published by Winnipeg’s Great Plains Publications.

 

 

Kingdom of Trolls is from New Brunswick-based Sybertooth Inc. 

 

 

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Perhaps the griping of a Nobel Prize winner will get the English-speaking world to pay more attention to writers in other languages.

Speaking at the Jaipur literary festival in India earlier this week, Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, author of the novels Snow and The Museum of Innocence, complained that “for those writing in other languages, their work is rarely translated and never read,” reports The Guardian in England.

The result, Pamuk continued, is that “much of human experience is marginalized.”

We wonder if the Chinese agree.

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The Comics Code Authority, the voluntary comics industry self-regulation group in force since 1954, shut down this week after DC Comics announced it would no longer carry the Code’s Seal of Approval, reports Publisher’s Weekly.

DC’s move was announced in a blog entry by co-publisher Jim Lee. The company’s greatest rival, Marvel Comics, pulled out of the Code in 2001; after Archie Comics followed DC, the CAA was left defunct and without members.

Compared by some to Hollywood’s Hayes Code, the CAA was formed as a reaction to the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings, which focused on comic books as a potentially dangerous influence on children.

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Bloomsbury USA has signed a book deal with an anonymous freelancer, who wrote an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about his flourishing career writing papers for cheating university students.

The mystery author, known only by the pen name Ed Dante, plans to reveal his identity when the book is published in 2012, reports the New York Times.

Peter Miller, director of publicity at Bloomsbury, said the publisher had met with Dante and took measures to confirm he is whom he claims.

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Sixty years after his former employer’s death, the one-time personal secretary of Nobel Prize-winning author Sinclair Lewis has finally published the novel he always promised to.

The Second Life of John Wilkes Booth, which imagines that Abraham Lincoln’s assassin escaped capture and began a new life on the American frontier, is the book 88-year-old Barnaby Conrad pledged Lewis he’d write in 1947, he told the New York Times.

 

 

In the interim, he’s written 34 others, including the 1952 bestseller Matador.

Lewis and Conrad had a contract dated Aug. 7, 1947, stipulating that upon publication Lewis would collect 30 per cent of the earnings. Lewis died in 1950.

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