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BOOK: Hard Days Hard Nights by Pat DiCesare

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BOOKS GREAT MIDWEST SELECTS "HARD DAYS HARD NIGHTS" AS GRAND PRIZE WINNER CHICAGO_ An illuminating backstage pass to some of the greatest concerts ever held is the grand prize winner of the 2014 Great Midwest Book Festival. Southern California Book Festival Runner-Up Best Non-Fiction Hard Days Hard Nights is the fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of the birth and development of modern rock concerts, as told by one of its most illustrious proponents, Pat DiCesare. For 36 years, starting with his first show in Youngstown, Ohio with the Four Freshman to his big breakthrough promoting the Beatles concert in Pittsburgh, PA in 1964, through his last major show in 1999, Pat DiCesare ruled the Pittsburgh concert scene. Virtually every major rock and pop act of the area from the Rolling Stones to Led Zeppelin to Bruce Springsteen passed through Pittsburgh during these years to perform in concerts produced and promoted by Pat DiCesare. These are the backstage tales of th

TWEET LOVE from @Jenthulhu for Ambasadora

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TWEET LOVE @amydieg @NathanWaddell1 In addition, I really enjoyed @MsAnnAguirre ’s Grimspace books and @heidirubymiller ’s Ambasadora books! — Jen Foehner Wells (@Jenthulhu) February 20, 2015

LIST: Ambasadora Book 1: Marked by Light on SF Signal List

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LISTS John DeNardo , Managing Editor at SF Signal and columnist for Kirkus Reviews , researched this great list of 385 Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror eBooks Priced Less than $5 Each . Marked by Light , the first book in the Ambasadora space opera series was there, as well as three of my husband's books ( The Devil and Preston Black , Hellbender , The Revelations of Preston Black by Jason Jack Miller ). Other authors include fellow Seton Hill Writer Tim Waggoner as well as Brandon Sanderson, Paul S. Kemp, Michael Swanwick, Tim Powers, Peter Straub, Lilith Saintcrow, Gail Carriger, Philip Pullman, Marissa Meyer, Justin Gustainis, Chuck Wendig, and obviously hundreds more.

WORKSHOP: Science Fiction in Thrillers by Heidi Ruby Miller at Pennwriters 2015

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I'm happy to be presenting part of my Science Fiction in Thrillers class from Seton Hill's MFA in Writing Popular Fiction program for the 2015 Pennwriters Conference, Building Bridges . Here is the description: Where would you shelve a book about scientists cloning dinosaurs for a theme park or a man turning into a chimera or how about the unleashing of a zombie plague? I asked authors and editors for insights into how the industry categorizes thrillers with expansive science fictional elements. If you write these types of stories, where do you think you fit in? The Pennwriters Conference is in Pittsburgh this year on the weekend of May 15 - 17 at the Pittsburgh Airport Marriott. Keynote speaker is Ridley Pearson . For a full list of workshops, including other Seton Hill Writers like Jason Jack Miller , Timons Esaias , Lawrence C. Connolly , and Rebecca Drake , peruse the website .