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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Writers of the Future has announced the creation of a new video channel at www.YouTube.com/WritersOfTheFuture loaded with 75 videos and showing the entire Writers of the Future Silver Anniversary Awards Ceremony, plus all the interviews of the winners and judges and special guests along with the special book trailer created for L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 25. The Writers of the Future channel has been broken down into five...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- In what is known as the largest contest of its kind in the world, finalists for the 4th Quarter of the 26th year of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest were announced. The semi-finalists and finalists for the 4th quarter of the 2009 contest are: SEMI-FINALISTS M. Alan Ford of California Laurie Gailunas of Michigan Sarah Grey of Arizona Erica Hildebrand of Pennsylvania Edward A. Liebing of Utah David Moore...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future contests received an entry this week from Azerbaijan, marking the 150th country from which submissions have been received. Azerbaijan is on the western shore of the Caspian Sea. The winners of the contest are published yearly in the largest selling anthology in the world, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, which is published in English. "The Internet changed everything," Labaqui...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The annual L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest and anthology series that celebrated 25( )years may be producing more successful, best-selling authors in speculative fiction than any similar publishing vehicle for new and aspiring writers, despite a downturn in the economy. "We've seen an increase of submissions to the contest since the economic downturn," contest director Joni Labaqui announced at the recent Los Angeles Science Fiction...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- With seven out of the top ten grossing movies of all time being science fiction and fantasy, it's no wonder that Hollywood's future is seen to reside with the writers of science fiction and fantasy, or more specifically the winners of the L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Contest according to Dave Wolverton, screenwriter, NYT bestselling author and Writers of the Future Contest judge. "The mentality is simple in Hollywood: if it makes...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- With the UK phenom Susan Boyle, from the Britain's Got Talent show, first album topping the charts this holiday season for three weeks running, articles and interviews still abound on what makes us root for the newcomer. And while perhaps there is no one correct answer, it is a fact that people love to see talented "unknowns" become successful "knowns" as has also been observed in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Pulp fiction is back as entertainment, according to box office and publishing reports. America's fascination was evidenced with Hollywood's top-grossing films for the first decade of the 21st century, of which 8 of the top 10 were either stories written during fiction's golden age in the 1930s, 40s and 50s like Lord of the Rings or based on heroes from that time as in Batman: The Dark Knight, Spider Man 1 and 2 and Star Wars Episode 3, garnering...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The Church of Scientology completed a $40 million restoration of one of its oldest landmark buildings in 2009 and inaugurated five major new Scientology buildings in Malmo, Dallas, Nashville, Rome and Washington, DC. Today, the Church of Scientology has expanded to more than 8,000 Churches, Missions and affiliated groups in 165 nations, doubling the number in the last five years. Current demand for L. Ron Hubbard's books and lectures on Dianetics and...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- While headlines continue announcing the emotional stress and hardships being experienced by our troops in the middle east, at least one soldier has found comfort in reading. Ben Shaw USMC, now on his fourth tour of duty in Iraq, stated, "In the past, at least with combat arms, there wasn't time. Guys would waste away to zombies from lack of sleep, guard duties, missions, attacks, all sorts of unexpected things, etc." But now, he claims things have...
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- What does it take to be professionally published in the United States where only 3 of every 10,000 manuscripts submitted see the light of print? Forget the "great American novel" says multi-New York Times' bestselling author Larry Niven. "Write short stories instead, send them out to several editors and enter the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest four times a year. You can complete your stories quickly, submit them, move on to your next...
