Wildbound's Weekly Breeze 5/02/19
BOOK INDUSTRY NEWS
Don't be cruel to your brother...
Singer/songwriter and author Rhett Miller came under fire for espousing to "kill your brother with poison," in his new children's book. Well, for one, the book is titled No More Poems!: A Book In Verse That Just Gets Worse, so it was supposed to be funny, but many parents had no sense of humor about it. What say you? Is he guilty or not?
Clockwork Orange has a sequel...
A lost “sequel” to Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange has been found among papers he abandoned in his home near Rome in the 1970s. Read the full scoop in the Guardian.
A literary look at DC politics...
Reading the daily news, you may wonder what's really going on in DC politics, so Buzzfeed put together a list of books to take you inside the world of Washington.
USELESS FACT TO IMPRESS YOUR FRIEND(S)
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Book Promotion Tip
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Book Trailer of the Week
This week's pick is What Can a Citizen Do by Dave Eggers. Why it works? Because it's smart.
WEEKLY $10 GIVEAWAY
This Week's Writing Challenge is to write a poem about what spring means to you. No more than 200 words.
Email your piece to info@wildboundpr.com. The winner will be announced in next week's Weekly Breeze!
Write on.
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