Latest L. Ron Hubbard Stories
DETROIT, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Resident Brittany Jackson, honored as the grand prize illustrator winner at the 2008 annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards, is using part of her $5,000 winnings to continue her undergraduate studies at Detroit's College for Creative Studies and is also working on her own art show. Jackson won top honors out of a field of some several thousand other aspiring artists from across the globe who entered the international L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the...
BOONTON, N.J., June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- New Jersey resident Patrick Lundrigan, who won the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Award, an international contest for new writers of science fiction and fantasy, last year, has won the 2009 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Contest jointly sponsored by the National Space Society and Jim Baen's Universe Magazine. Lundrigan was one of 12 new and aspiring writers who won in the 24th annual L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest last year, named...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- In what is believed to be one of the most violent celebrity book interviews ever recorded, investigative reporter Lawrence Carpetburner (actor and comedian Jim Meskimen) comes face to fist with sailor Kurt Reid (actor Paul Ganus), an explosive character from author L. Ron Hubbard's murder mystery pulp "Spy Killer." What began as the latest hard-nosed, smoke-filled chapter in Carpetburner's "Elbows on the Table" interviews of fictional Hubbard...
L. Ron Hubbard Writers & Illustrators of the Future Contests Continue to Help Emerging Talents Break Into Publishing HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The annual L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest and anthology series, now in its 25th year, may be producing more successful, best-selling authors in speculative fiction than any similar publishing vehicle for new and aspiring writers, it was announced today in Hollywood. At least six of the 300 winning writers have made...
NEW YORK, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Galaxy Press will release the latest installment of pulp fiction novels from its blockbuster, 80-book series by L. Ron Hubbard called Stories from the Golden Age (www.goldenagestories.com), it was announced today at the 2009 Book Expo America. The announcement commemorates Hubbard's 75 years in professional publishing. The books and audiobooks are Wind-Gone-Mad (adventure thriller), Hostage to Death (adventure thriller), The Sky Crasher (air adventure...
Performance Marks Nationwide Effort by Public Schools and Libraries To Rekindle Excitement in Readers Theater Format and Fiction UNION, Mo., May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- A live theatrical reading by members of the Union High School Drama Club - complete with audio effects and musical interludes - took seniors at the Franklin County Seat Senior Center back to the radio days of their youth last week. The performance of the 1930s pulp fiction story, The Last Drop, by best-selling author L. Ron...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The 25th anniversary of the L. Ron Hubbard Awards for winners of the internationally-acclaimed Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests will be held in Hollywood on Saturday, August 29th, it was announced today by contest organizers. Celebrities and luminaries from around the world of science fiction and fantasy are expected to attend the special gala. The theme of the evening will be "Celebrating 25 Years of Helping New Writers and...
LOS ANGELES, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The prestigious National Indie Excellence Awards (NIEA) has bestowed top honors for 2009 in eight publishing categories to titles by New York Times bestselling author L. Ron Hubbard, it was announced today by Author Services, Hubbard's literary agency. It is believed to be the most NIEA nominations by a single author to win or be selected as a finalist in a single year. The NIEA is dedicated to celebrating and promoting the outstanding work of...
Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contest Winners are Tomorrow's Big Name Authors HOLLYWOOD, Calif., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 500 rookie writers and illustrators have been given their chance to have successful professional careers as winners of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests. With combined cash prizes totaling over $600,000, over one-thousand bookstore signings and scrapbooks full of media generated, these rookies-turned-pro writers have gone...
LOS ANGELES, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of a long term program to bring back the lost art form of readers theater, Galaxy Press created a do-it-yourself Readers Theater Kit of the comedy fantasy The Last Drop by L. Ron Hubbard in conjunction with the Young Adult Library Services Assn (YALSA). The objective was to involve students from college level down to middle school level in an activity that would provide an appreciation of storytelling. One of the first schools to participate...
