Latest L. Ron Hubbard Stories
LONDON, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- With 185 audio books, L. Ron Hubbard has just garnered his 3rd world record as confirmed by Guinness World Records, it was announced today at the London Book Fair. The official statement reads, "Most audio books for one author is L. Ron Hubbard with 185 published audio books as of 21st April 2009." "Past Guinness world records issued include 'Most translated author,' and the world's 'Most published author,'" stated Gunhild Jacobs Executive Director for...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- XM-Sirius radio has launched their new Book Radio program (XM Ch 163) entitled "Tales from the Golden Age" with the audiobook production of L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction tale The Great Secret and followed by the murder-mystery Spy Killer (now airing). The new XM "Tales from the Golden Age" programming began airing at the beginning of April with a 5-part series consisting of an interview with senior director for the Stories from the Golden Age...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Live weekly theatrical readings from the Stories from the Golden Age Series of adventures, mysteries, science fiction, fantasy and western stories written in the 1930s and '40s by L. Ron Hubbard have received CBS Radio's highest four-star rating. In his review, Contributing Arts and Entertainment Critic, Todd David Schwartz, gave the performances "FOUR STARS (Highest Rating) [for] Southern California's most refreshingly unique entertainment...
K.D. Wentworth Takes Over Editing Reigns From Science Fiction Legend and Mentor Algis Budrys HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- K.D. Wentworth - a successful science fiction novelist who was first recognized as an early winner of the worldwide Writers of the Future Contest -- has been appointed editor for the acclaimed L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Anthology series now in its 25th year, it was announced by Author Services, Inc. Wentworth takes over the editor slot...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The annual awards gala honoring the winners of the 25th year of the international L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests for new and aspiring talent will take place in Hollywood on Saturday, August 29, it was announced by Joni Labaqui, the Contests' director. "Our silver anniversary will be marked by some special guests and presentations showing the global reach and impact which these contests have had on science fiction...
Hubbard's Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests Continue to Change the Lives of Aspiring Artists HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Writers and illustrators from around the world as far away as Ukraine, Canada and here in the US continue to send in their birthday greetings for L. Ron Hubbard's birthday (March 13), the creator of the internationally heralded Writers and Illustrators of the Future contests. "E-mails and phone calls have come in from the hundreds of...
'Unknown' Magazine's March, 1939 Launch Established Icons of Genre - de Camp, Boucher, Heinlein, Hubbard, and others Pulp Fiction Fantasy Plots Still Going Strong on Today's Silver Screen HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- It's been 70 years and the fantasy plots from the Golden Age of Fantasy fiction are still going strong. Then, as now, there were headlines of record unemployment, foreclosures, and the threat of war. Then, as now, America turned to stories like those found in...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- He's every self-absorbed, pretentious and inept interviewer that's ever graced a camera. But now fictitious journalist Lawrence Carpetburner (aka actor and comedian Jim Meskimen in real-life) comes face to face with one of author L. Ron Hubbard's most clever pulp fiction characters, a New York bartender with a drink that's out of this world. What ensues is one of the funniest "book-trailers" in recorded history that must be seen to be believed....
Writers and Illustrators of the Future Winners in 24th Annual Anthology Likely to Become Tomorrow's Big Names in Science Fiction and Fantasy HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- How do rookie writers and illustrators in science fiction and fantasy become published vets? For more than 500 such writers and illustrators the answer has been as a successful winner or finalist in the annual L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests now in their 25th year....
Hubbard Selections Chosen from Record Field of 1,000 Audio Entries Representing $200+ Million Industry HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- In what amounts to another publishing milestone for Hollywood-based Galaxy Press, two of its Stories from the Golden Age audiobooks (www.goldenagestories.com) have received nominations for the highly-coveted 2009 Audies Award by the Audio Publishers Association (APA), it was announced (http://www.audiopub.org/press-releases.asp). Audio versions...
