More than 100 proud parents, school officials, teachers, authors and local dignitaries gathered today at the City of Boca Raton's Spanish River Library and Community Center to witness 45 middle and high school students from 15 different School District of Palm Beach County schools realize their dreams to become published authors. The students participated in the third annual Oce Future Authors Project summer writing workshop, where they compiled poetry, short stories and essays into a book they named, "Confessions of a Teenage Author."

Google Inc has reached a legal settlement with authors and major publishers that paves the way for readers to search through millions of copyrighted books online, browse passages and purchase copies.

Under Tuesday's settlement, Google will pay $125 million to create a Book Rights Registry, where authors and publishers can register works and receive compensation from institutional subscriptions or book sales.

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It is the old story of David and Goliath – only this time Goliath is standing on top of a 40-storey New York building. Sadly for a first-time author the pavement is the closest they’re ever going to get to ever meeting an executive of big six book publishing conglomerates. Want proof? Go to any of their websites. Random House, Penguin Putnam, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster all say ‘Sorry we do not accept unsolicited submissions, proposals or manuscripts of any kind’.

An important issue has been preoccupying the transatlantic blogosphere in this post-Obama world, and it concerns the question: What do Malcolm Gladwell, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and AC Grayling have in common? It is not a joke about the search results for the world's worst dating profile on mysinglefriend.com, and nor is it an advert for hair tonic. The answer is that all these people have published big, philosophical, opinionated treatises recently about the state of the world and their ever-so important views on it.

John Walter, a founding editor of USA Today and former executive editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has died. He was 61. Walter died Thursday at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., from complications of surgery, the Atlanta newspaper reported. A hospital spokeswoman confirmed he died there.

Jeff Rivera: So now how did this all begin?
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David Elliot Cohen had done "Day in the Life" to death. But the editor of the coffee-table books was still alive and needing to publish, so he went to the Barnes & Noble closest to his Tiburon home to find out what couldn't be found in documentary photography.

Nothing, it turned out. It has all been done and is being done this minute by every kid with a cell phone camera. Saturation is a situation Cohen helped create.
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IDW Publishing's book series collecting Chester Gould's "Dick Tracy" comic will have a new size, editor, and designer starting with the seventh volume.

The fourth hardcover volume was released this past May.

Dean Mullaney, known for his editing and design of IDW's award-winning "Terry and the Pirates" series, will be editor and designer of the "Dick Tracy" books.

He said the "Dick Tracy" books, starting with the seventh volume, will be bigger so that the Sunda continue reading

Having pushed forward in recent weeks with their efforts to bridge the consumer interests of literary entertainment and television animation produced for the same demographic of youths, Italian animation production company Atlantyca Entertainment has recently appointed an individual to a prominent position where the company's light novels will become an even higher priority.

L. Rust Hills, an editor who used charm, taste and cajolery to bring many of the nation's foremost writers of fiction to the pages of Esquire magazine, died Aug. 12 of a heart ailment while visiting Belfast, Maine. He was 83 and lived in Key West, Fla.

Ted Solotaroff, a writer, critic and editor who founded New American Review, an influential literary journal in the 1960s and '70s, and who helped shape the works of prominent writers while at Harper & Row publishers, died Aug. 8 at his home in East Quogue, N.Y., of complications from pneumonia. He was 79.

A "man of letters" in the tradition of Edmund Wilson, Alfred Kazin and Lionel Trilling, Solotaroff was "one of the last of the great editors," said novelist and short-story writer Bobbie Ann Mason, who worked with Solotaroff on her first novel, "In Country" (1986).

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Admit it. You've secretly pined to be a book editor, but didn't want to move to ultra-competitive New York, one of the world's largest publishing centers. As with many things these days, the Web has made it possible for you to open a new chapter in your life.

From the time she was in college, Cynthia Chapman Willis fantasized about being a writer. "But, I needed to pay the bills, so I got a job as close as possible to it so that I could hone my writing skills," the Branchburg resident said. She worked in the textbook industry in Manhattan, reading and editing materials for grades kindergarten to 2. "I liked my career but always had an eye on being a writer," she said.

Are you dreaming of writing a book? Yes. Then just do it. Not many things hold the potential for life changing experience like writing a book does.

You can receive life long income from writing a book. You can affect the lives of hundreds even thousands for the good. You gain the added respect of your colleagues after writing your book. You can leverage the increase of fees exponentially in your business.

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Dorrance Publishing Company recently released the following titles. They are available for purchase at http://www.dorrancebookstore.com, brick and mortar bookstores, on-line bookstores or by calling (800) 788-7654. Media review copies are available by calling (800) 788-7654.

Johnny Big Ears, The Feel-Good Friend
($17.00) ISBN: 978-0-8059-7496-6, paperback
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