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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- International award winning science fiction and fantasy author and senior editor for Jim Baen's Universe, Mike Resnick has been named as a judge in the highly acclaimed L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, it was announced by Author Services, Inc., the literary agency and administrator of the Contest. Now in its 25th year, the Writers of the Future Contest awards annual cash prizes totaling $30,000 for writers and illustrators of...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Some of the most respected publications of the American West and publishing have added a highly-recognized name to the short list of truly authentic western writers -- best-selling author L. Ron Hubbard. In reviewing Six Gun Caballero, one of Hubbard's classic western stories recently released in book, audiobook, and ebook form by Galaxy Press, American Cowboy Magazine and Booklist Magazine favorably compared Hubbard alongside the names of western...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Many people who think they may have the "write" stuff -- be a writer, that is -- will soon face the cold reality of what it takes to get published. Only three out of every 10,000 manuscripts submitted in the United States each year will be published -- 1,800 are science fiction and fantasy novels -- and most of them are written by established authors. "The chance of a new writer seeing their work published is very disheartening," said Joni Labaqui,...
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Writer Kim Gillett of Rochester, New York - a winner of the international L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest in 2008 - is set to publish a speculative fiction short story, "Picoat," as part of an upcoming anthology, "2034: Writing Rochester's Futures" speculating on the area's future sponsored by the local literary society and Big Pencil Press, which also includes a poem by her son and two local well-known authors and Kim's...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Weekly live theatrical readings of pulp fiction stories written by L. Ron Hubbard and performed by top actors at the Golden Age Theater in Hollywood have been included as part of the entertainment offerings by Starline Tours of Hollywood. It was announced today by Author Services, Inc., Hubbard's literary agency and site of the theater. "We wanted to couple the entertainment value of L. Ron Hubbard's stories performed Saturday nights with the top...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- In what's been dubbed as a finalist-friendly version of "American Idol" for fledgling writers and illustrators of speculative fiction, winners for the first three quarters of the 25th year of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests were announced today by Joni Labaqui, the contest Director. This year's winners (see list below) come from around the globe including the United Kingdom, Canada, and throughout the United...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards ceremony celebrating the 25th anniversary of the internationally-acclaimed Writers of the Future Contest and its companion Illustrators of the Future Contest will be broadcast on Saturday, August 29th, to a worldwide audience via Internet streaming, it was announced today."This annual ceremony for new writers and illustrators of science fiction and fantasy is such a moving experience that we wanted all...
SAN DIEGO, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- All past winners of the internationally-acclaimed Writers and Illustrators of the Future are invited as VIP guests and speculative fiction fans as general guests to the upcoming L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards and Silver Anniversary dinner on August 29th in Hollywood, it was announced here today at Comic Con."We're making this announcement here since so many working writers and illustrators in speculative fiction got their start from these Contests,"...
CHICAGO, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- An anthology of speculative fiction by new writers now in its 25th year of publication heralds a solution to one of the biggest challenges for librarians today -- finding short fiction to attract young male readers -- according to book executives attending the 2009 American Library Association Convention in Chicago. Galaxy Press Senior Vice President of Sales, Kim Catalano, and Vice President of Sales, Juliet Wills, jointly announced to attendees that L. Ron...
LOS ANGELES, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- A prison security guard, a housewife, a computer technician, and a college student. They came from all walks of life but realized a common dream as winners of a worldwide writing contest now in its 25th year. The Writers of the Future Contest, specifically designed to help fledgling writers 25 years ago, has helped discover New York Times' bestselling authors Kevin J. Anderson (X Files, Dune, etc.), Sean Williams (The Resurrected Man), Jo Beverly (Dark...
