If you were author Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket (his pen name that originates from A Series of Unfortunate Events where it appears as both a character and narrator), you could surely afford establishing an annual prize worth of $3,000 (£1,800) for whoever you think should be getting the award. To Handler, it is librarians who are in a serious need of being rewarded and recognised for what they do. According to him “Librarians have suffered enough" and therefore a new annual US prize will be "honouring a librarian who has faced adversity with integrity and dignity intact". "This seems like a better way to channel money to librarians than my previous strategy, which was incurring exorbitant late fees", he adds. The winner of the first Lemony Snicket Prize has recently been named!
By Agnieszka Ramian
If you were author Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket (his pen name that originates from A Series of Unfortunate Events where it appears as both a character and narrator), you could surely afford establishing an annual prize worth of $3,000 (£1,800) for whoever you think should be getting the award. To Handler, it is librarians who are in a serious need of being rewarded and recognised for what they do. According to him “Librarians have suffered enough" and therefore a new annual US prize will be "honouring a librarian who has faced adversity with integrity and dignity intact". "This seems like a better way to channel money to librarians than my previous strategy, which was incurring exorbitant late fees", he adds. The winner of the first Lemony Snicket Prize has recently been named! By Agnieszka Ramian A book is always a perfect gift idea. For everyone out there, there must be something they will enjoy reading. What is more, a time is always right to appreciate your father with a good read. Perhaps it was he who got you your first adventure book or introduced you to the world of sci-fi books? You could be sharing a common interest for particular authors or genres, like father, like son. Or, maybe, you remember very well, how he read to you your favourite bedtime story over and over. Well, it might be the time to return the favour! Does it seem like a hard choice to pick a title? Let us give you some clues. By Agnieszka Ramian There are many ways of celebrating Father’s Day, but I am always up for those involving some exciting exploration. No opportunity to broaden readers’ horizons should be omitted and time is always right to introduce some foreign literature. Today I will be looking into literary figures popular in their motherlands and somewhat known on an international stage, Fathers of Literature they will be called today. We are curious whether you have heard about any of those authors or perhaps, read their work or if you think you could be doing so soon! By Agnieszka Ramian “What’s important when you’re behind the wheel? Is it control? Reliability amid chaos? Or a clear view through darkness? Whatever you look for in the car, Stephen King knows… what drives a killer!” King’s fairly developed marketing campaign revolving around his new novel Mr Mercedes simply cannot be overlooked. After looking at so many book trailers recently, surprisingly there are more coming! Being amongst those convinced to buy a book at early stages of its promotion, I wonder what is too much in that case. We have had a series of trailers preceding the release of the novel and they were designed to capture one’s attention, to cause intrigue and to raise questions that only a book can answer, which hit the jackpot. They were fancy, creative, rich and quite complex even though simple animation techniques were used (check out our reviews of Mr Mercedes’ book trailers: #1 - #5). And now, after Mr Mercedes is out on the shelves in bookshops already, Scribner offers us something refreshingly different. By Agnieszka Ramian Have you had enough of Mr Mercedes by Stephen King yet? No, of course not! Readers who decided to go for it might be at different stages of this deliciously created novel’s consumption: be it waiting-on-the-delivery, reading-in-progress, engulfed-already, but certainly latest news will shake everyone’s worlds equally. Stephen King is a master of building the tension on many levels. The dust has not even settled yet, as it has only been 10 days after Mr Mercedes’ much anticipated release, but water in this pot simply needs to keep boiling. What is it that he has got prepared for us this time? By Agnieszka Ramian Loved for his Discworld series, Sir Terence David John Pratchett, aged 66, is planning something special for younger readers. A beautifully illustrated new collection of children’s short stories is to be released by Random House Children’s Publishers (RHCP) UK this fall. Dragons at Crumbling Castle. So what exactly should we expect? By Agnieszka Ramian The big day has come. Stephen King’s new novel has finally been released. It is available, it is there; YES you can buy it and yes you can have it for yourself now, the wait is over! Were you amongst the crowds of people flooding into the bookshops all over the UK or have you perhaps made a purchase on-line or had your pre-order sorted and secured weeks ago? The series of short animations have now come together into a full book trailer which not only gathers them and presents in the right order but also an extra eight second scene is added, which is relevant to Mr Mercedes’ awaited disclosure. By Agnieszka Ramian Just one more day before Mr Mercedes is here and some of the mysteries are unveiled. It is day four of the short book trailers that are being published and there's only one more left to go. For those who have just joined the countdown, the idea is that King's existing book characters, which at this point are widely recognized if not a classic figure of the horror/thriller genre, introduce Mr Mercedes by throwing some clues and making references to motives relevant to the novel they have come from. Trailer four we owe to Andy from Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. By Agnieszka Ramian It is day three of the short promo book trailers being released, preluding the big exposure of highly anticipated Mr Mercedes by Stephen King. Each day until June 3rd, which is the day of novel’s release, the world gets to see another short character trailer which uses King's former book characters to introduce the big unknown, aka Mr Mercedes. The honours of narrating the third one out of five trailers planned will do, this time, Pennywise from IT (1986 horror novel). By Agnieszka Ramian With Stephen King’s new novel, Mr Mercedes, release being just around the corner, the Promo Page of the book provides us with daily portions of teasers. The count down is on; only four more days till the most dedicated King fans, along with those whose attention has recently been caught due to a well-thought out marketing campaign, will get to lay their hands on King’s new exciting work and sink their teeth in to what promises to be an unconventional read. |
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