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July 21, 2018

Here is the top literary news of the week:

Authors steer boys from toxic masculinity with gentler heroes

Stig of the Dump author King dies aged 94

7 BOOKSHOPS WORTH TRAVELLING FOR

Bookstore writers in residence, winner of poetry chapbook contes

The Works plans £100m float

Search Full-Text within 4M+ Books

Behind the Counter at America’s Smallest Indie Bookstores

ON FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE LANGUAGE I’VE SPOKEN MY ENTIRE LIFE

Survey shows celebrities sharing #MeToo stories see boost in marketing credibility

'Alarming' study reveals only 4% of children's books feature a BAME character

Close two libraries, cut economic development, add police, says Wichita budget plan

Obama recommends African literature

* A Winnie-the-Pooh illustration has sold for more than any other book illustration ever

Libraries: talking stock

Literary themed hotel is basically a bookworm's dream with its own library and a gin bar

UW Libraries Receives Grant to Digitize Stereograph Images of Wyoming

He Was the Best We’d Ever Seen: On Baseball, Greatness, and Writing

“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language

Arthur C Clarke award goes to 'classic' novel exploring the limits of pregnancy

British publishing breaks revenue records but textbook sales are hit

British Library extends grant for UTA-led project to digitize endangered colonial documents in Cuba

This Restaurant Gives A Gift With Each Meal, And Nerds Love It

This week: Authors are taking a unique approach to writing boys, there’s a new writer-in-residence program in Boston, Sharing your #MeToo story may help your appeal, a map of the Hundred Acre Wood is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, the Arthur C. Clark Award is handed out, the U.S. House of Representatives refuse to cut arts funding, and Pakistan censors the media ahead of elections.  All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.

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This podcast is also brought to you by the stage play of Interlude to Sentimental Me!, the original poetry by aois21 Creative Michael B. Judkins. Tickets start at just $15 with discounts for youth and seniors. Both performances will be at Rosemont Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, PA. Get your tickets from EventBrite today!

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July 14, 2018

Here is the top literary news of the week:

Maisie Williams Says Goodbye to Game of Thrones and Arya

Bookstore Owner Calls Cops After Woman Accosts Steve Bannon

Buckingham Palace celebrates 50 years of Man Booker Prize

Four Houston Schools Receive 27,000 Books To Restock Libraries Damaged By Harvey

As Their Publicists Cringe, Best-Selling Authors Enter the Political Fray

Why aren't schools teaching black literature?

Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient wins prestigious Golden Man Booker Prize

Dracula revived by Stoker descendant

Fifty years ago, a Navajo group recorded oral histories from 450 elders on 1,700 reel-to-reel tapes. Now, the collection is being preserved for future generations.

Saoirse Ronan is the Queen of Book-to-Film Adaptations

James Dashner says he's working on his first book since being dropped by publisher

Films based on books take 44% more at the box office

The Players’ Tribune eyes European expansion

ALA approves Graphic Novel Roundtable

LIU Post project digitizes pieces of Long Island history

VISITING AN EXPERIMENTAL, DO-IT-YOURSELF LIBRARY IN BROOKLYN

Doughty pleas with politicians to 'support copyright and libraries'

The Must-Read Book Empowering Young Black Women

New library website provides digital front door to Harvard resources

Justice Among the Jell-O Recipes: The Feminist History of Food Journalism

Tommy Orange and the New Native Renaissance

WHY I ADDED, THEN DELETED, TRUMP  FROM MY NOVEL

How young writers are leading a poetry comeback

Alice Williams launches children’s literary agency

Research Library Associations Commit to Principles of Net Neutrality

Harry Potter auction: How much are signed books worth?

R.L. Stine Is Working on a Creepy New Line of Graphic Novels

Keira Knightley Fights for Authorship, Sexual Expression in First ‘Colette’ Trailer

ON WRITING A SHORT STORY: ‘EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS HAPPENING, ALL THE TIME.’

The ancient library where the books are under lock and key

Library of the Year: shortlist spotlight

Chibundu Onuzo Recommends a Reading List of African Authors

$25M rehab at Providence Public Library to focus on ‘lifetime education’

Title Wave Use Bookstore is a Retirement Home For Portland’s Use Library Books

Adams Ave bookstore, a Normal Heights landmark since 1965, is closing

Joe Dunthorne: ‘On the Road takes longer to read than it did to write’

Iranian authorities arrest ‘Instagram celebrities’, in effort to assert control over social media

PRH strikes two-year partnership with National Literacy Trust

Long-Time Employees Buy Capitol Hill Books From Its Beloved, Curmudgeonly Owner

BRITAIN’S LITERARY ELITE IS BECOMING LESS MULTILINGUAL AND GLOBAL

Why Bharathi is called a 'Mahakavi'?

Ultra-Orthodox Protesters Burn Jewish Prayer Book as Women Visit Western Wall

Sunsetting of the Open Access Fund

aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card.

This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us!

This podcast is also brought to you by HIVE: A Matter of Gravity by James D. King. The third volume in the HIVE series, it comprises two stories of the centuries long war between the Earth Empire and the insectoid race known as the Hive. Find it everywhere eBooks are sold!

Additional support is also provided by ePress21. Written your masterpiece? Have something you want to say? Visit ePress21.com and check out our competitive rates and we’ll help you share your story with the world!

Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com.

You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon.

For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter.

If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

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July 7, 2018

Here is the top literary news of the week:

The Man Booker at 50: flawed – but still the best way to judge our literature

Griffiths tops Dead Good Reader Awards shortlists

Deadpool Artist Bong Ty Dazo Has Died

With elections approaching, Pakistani journalists and activists face rising risk of assault, abduction

Field Note-Worthy: Thousands of Field Notes Now Available in BHL Thanks to the Field Notes Project!

A beach and a book: Beach libraries pop up worldwide

SP Books Finds Niche with Reproductions of Classic Manuscripts

POLICE OFFICERS CHALLENGE BOOKS ON A SOUTH CAROLINA SUMMER READING LIST

DHA to hold open day for underrepresented writers

A Race Against Time to Preserve University Media Collections

PW's Star Watch Announced for 2018

Leisure reading in the U.S. is at an all-time low

Quartz is being sold to Uzabase, a Japanese business media company

Diaz denies all allegations against him in first media interview

America’s Literary Hotshots Once Shunned TV, Now They Want to Run the Show

New Report From OCLC: “U.S. Public Libraries: Marketing and Communications Landscape”

Relaunched AudioUK to support booming audiobook industry

WILL A WOMAN WRITER WIN ITALY’S  STREGA PRIZE THIS YEAR?

Barnes & Noble Fires CEO Without Severance Over Policy Violations

Jane Harley appointed chair of PA’s Educational Publishers Council

DC FINALLY UNVEILS DC UNIVERSE: DIGITAL COMICS…AND A WHOLE LOT MORE

The Times Literary Supplement launches digital archive with Exact Editions

9 GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS BY AUTHORS BORN IN OTHER COUNTRIES

aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card.

This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us!

This podcast is also brought to you by HIVE: A Matter of Gravity by James D. King. The third volume in the HIVE series, it comprises two stories of the centuries long war between the Earth Empire and the insectoid race known as the Hive. Find it everywhere eBooks are sold!

Additional support is also provided by ePress21. Written your masterpiece? Have something you want to say? Visit ePress21.com and check out our competitive rates and we’ll help you share your story with the world!

Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com.

You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon.

For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter.

If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

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Busy weekend for aois21

Last minute addition means multiple opportunities

aois21 is excited for this weekend and the numerous events we are fortunate to be a part of. On Monday we were honored to be chosen to exhibit at this year's DC AuthorFest, being held at the Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building. Taking place from 10 am to 4:30 pm on Saturday, the event brings together authors and literary organizations from across the city to discuss all things books! This event is sure to be enticing and no book sales will be taking place, so come prepared to ask questions and share stories! Before we head to Capitol Hill, our weekend starts at Walls of Books in DC for our Poetry Open Mic. aois21 Publisher Keith F. Shovlin will serve as emcee on Friday 4/20. He'll be reading classic poetry between local poets standing up and sharing their talent. To find out more visit wallsofbooksdc.com. Saturday night is the ePress21 webinar and the ask aois21 on the 21st webcast. Click on the links to the right for more information. Then the weekend closes on the main street of Kensington, MD, for the International Day of the Book festival! We're happy to be taking part for the fourth year in a row and will be joined by several aois21 Creatives including James D. King and Thomas P. Athridge. Visit events.aois21.com for more information on this jam-packed literary weekend!

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aois21 announces new service offerings

New staff, new abilities mean new opportunities

MOUNT VERNON, VA – aois21 media, LLC is now making its audio staff available just as done previously with the editorial and design staffs through the ePress21 self publishing imprint.

For those interested in having their podcast produced by our audio production professionals or need additional work, aois21 will offer several options. Basic podcast production, which entails the stitching of audio recording and music and saving to a ready to upload file will be done for $40 per episode. For more advanced work, an hourly rate is applied. This includes any audio editing or voice recording, each available at $10 per hour. For anything beyond that, interested parties can contact aois21’s Chief of Audio Production Zach C. Cohen through outreach@aois21.com.

The aois21 podcast network has been noted for its high level commitment to quality audio programming. Through out partnerships with Soundcloud and Podomatic, aois21 has been able to share over a hundred hours of content with a large and growing listenership. With these new service offerings, that same level of professional audio engineering is available to anyone.

“We have prided ourselves on the quality entertainment created through the aois21 podcast network,” said Keith F. Shovlin, aois21’s publisher. “There are so many stories that deserve to be shared and now we can do that in a way that supports the larger goal of our company.”

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aois21 media launching audiobook pilot program

Sector has seen impressive growth in past two years

MOUNT VERNON, VA – aois21 media, LLC is happy to announce its launch of a pilot program this summer to produce audiobooks. The company has begun hiring staff and constructing a facility to record fully produced audiobooks at competitive prices.

After our continued work in podcast production, aois21 is taking the next logical step in producing full audiobooks of aois21 titles. Starting with Polk’s Soliloquy by Keith F. Shovlin and The Will of the Magi by Paul Dickinson Russell, this will allow aois21 to move into a market that has seen high adoption rates and robust growth over the past two years.

Once the pilot productions are completed, audiobook production will be offered to other aois21 Creatives as well as to others on a pay-for-service model through the ePress21 self-publishing imprint. Chief of Audio Production Zach C. Cohen will oversee the recording and production of audiobooks, and aois21 is currently constructing a recording studio for both podcast and audiobook production. Vocal artists are also being recruited to offer authors the option of having their book read by one of our readers.

All audiobooks will be available on iTunes, GooglePlay, Audible, and market.aois21.com after they are completed. Additionally, aois21 will make them available for sale at in-person events on USB flash drives, just as we have done with eBooks since our launch.

"We have long planned to make this move into audiobooks, and I am happy to say that we have reached that mile marker,” said Keith F. Shovlin, aois21’s publisher. "I voraciously devour audiobooks, just as the audience has trended that way the past few years, so it is only right that our Creatives take advantage of the audiobook revolution."

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UPDATE: Canceled due to illness

Due to an ongoing illness, aois21 Publisher Keith F. Shovlin has had to cancel our trip to Charlottesville for the Virginia Festival of the Book. The illness has already caused the cancellation of the last two episodes of Literally This Week. That will continue again with no new episode this Monday. Additionally, so that Keith has adequate time to recover, we are also cancelling this month's ePress21 Webinar and ask aois21 on the 21st webcast. Hopefully, in time, Keith will feel better and we will see you all next month for the Webinar and webcast and at Kensington, MD., for the Day of the Book.