Two romance novelists win contest
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Two aspiring romance novelists, one a 28-year-old doctorate student, the other a 56-year-old horse farmer, will have books published next year by Simon & Schuster after winning the First Chapters Romance Writing Competition.
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Ian McEwan, Lloyd Jones and Nicola Barker are among the authors who are shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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Variety - (Variety) &#151; Scribes David Rambo and Judi Ann Mason are among judges for First Stage Theater's one-act play contest, with the winner to be chosen Saturday.
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Think you have the next big novel? So do the hundreds of writers vying in a contest at Amazon.com.
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A Baltimore librarian's classroom project is now part of publishing history. "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices From a Medieval Village," first conceived a decade ago by Laura Amy Schlitz, is this year's winner of the John Newbery Medal for best children's book.
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E.L. Doctorow and Stephen King are up  against former presidential candidate Al Gore and a man who  made a fortune writing about his dog for The Quills, a book  prize that aims to bring some Oscar-style glitz to publishing.
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Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback
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This Valentine's Day, one publisher wants you to be the one doing the bodice-ripping. Book By You says it sells thousands of personalized romance novels each year with titles such as "ER Fever" and "Pirates of Desire," where the reader is the star. It's not Bronte, but customers are going crazy for the novels that make them the main characters.
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James Blake beats Mardy Fish to win the Pilot Pen event in New Haven, while Svetlana Kuznetsova wins the women's event.
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New York's Mary Gordon on Wednesday won the Story Prize, the largest cash prize for U.S. fiction, for her book "The Stories of Mary Gordon."
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A new literary prize was launched on  Thursday with a top award of $100,000 for one lucky unpublished  U.S. writer, but publishing insiders warned that the $85 entry  fee makes it akin to a lottery.
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Two winners of the Forward Prize for Poetry have previous successes in the competition.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Elfriede Jelinek, 57, won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her ability to reveal "the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power."   The decision to award the prize to a woman - and a poet - was the first since 1996, when Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska won. Since the prize was first handed out in 1901, only nine women have won it...
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Author Alan Hollinghurst has won the 2004 Booker Prize for his novel, The Line of Beauty. The prestigious award is for the best novel of the last 12 months by an author from a Commonwealth country or the Republic of Ireland.
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Austria&#39;s Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for novels and plays that starkly depict violence against women, explore sexuality and condemn far-right politics in Europe.
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Best-selling author Nora Roberts won  book of the year on Monday at the third annual Quill Awards,  which were created to bring glamour and red carpet extravagance  to the world of publishing.
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Sheila Frazier and John Atchison found romance and a spiritual connection in each other after many doubts.