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Book Review – Seconds by Jez Conolly and Emma Westwood

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews Seconds by Jez Conolly and Emma Westwood… Seconds isn’t the first film to create suspense around the appearance of a person whose face is covered in bandages. The Invisible Man did it. So did Eyes Without a Face and Dark Passage. Never are these films content to let the bandages stay on, […]

Book Review – Mean… Moody… Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews Mean… Moody… Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend… Ever have that experience where you watch a movie starring an actor you really never paid much attention to before and suddenly all you want to do is find out more about them? For me, that’s what happened after watching […]

Because He’s Jeff Goldblum with Travis M. Andrews | The Writer Experience #151

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Listen to the latest episode of The Writer Experience…  Travis M. Andrews is an author and staff writer for the Washington Post’s style section, where he covers internet, pop culture, and the ways we live now. Previously, he was an associate travel and culture editor for Southern Living and a contributing pop culture reporter for […]

Book Review – Black Canary: Breaking Silence

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Erika Hardison reviews Black Canary: Breaking Silence… The DC Comics Icon series are young adult novels that give readers a more thorough origin story of DC Comics characters. To date, the Icon Series has five books: Superman: Dawnbreaker, Batman: Nightcrawler, Catwoman: Soulstealer, Wonder Woman: Warbringer and now Black Canary: Breaking Silence. I have to admit, […]

Writing I Have Always Been Me with Precious Brady-Davis | The Writer Experience #146

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Listen to the latest episode of The Writer Experience… Precious Brady Davis is truly a renaissance woman. You may recognize her name from being the first Trans bride on TLC’s Say Yes to The Dress, but she was trailblazing for years before that: promoting diversity advocacy, LGBTQ rights, environmental justice and more. An award-winning diversity […]

Writing Across Different Mediums with Playwright, Director and Author Theresa Rebeck | The Writer Experience #145

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Listen to the latest episode of The Writer Experience… Theresa Rebeck is a prolific and widely produced playwright, whose work can be seen and read throughout the United States and abroad. Her fourth Broadway play premiered in 2018, making Rebeck the most Broadway-produced female playwright of our time. Her Broadway works include Dead Accounts, Seminar […]

Alan Dean Foster, Author, Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye | The Writer Experience #141

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Listen to the latest episode of The Writer Experience… In this episode, Court and Harry are joined by Alan Dean Foster, a writer of fantasy and science fiction, who has written several book series and more than 130 standalone novels. Alan’s works include Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, the first Star Wars Expanded Universe novel, […]

Hasbro delves back into the EU for latest Star Wars: The Black Series figures

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In celebration of the first 50 years of Lucasfilm, Hasbro has unveiled a new line of Star Wars: The Black Series collectible figures inspired by the novels and comic books of the saga and featuring Luke Skywalker & Ysalamiri from Star Wars: Heir to the Empire, Kir Kanos from Star Wars: Crimson Empire (packaging is […]

Exclusive excerpt from Star Wars Insider: Fiction Collection – ‘Blade Squadron: Zero Hour’

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Next month sees the release of Star Wars Insider: Fiction Collection Vol. 1, which gathers together exclusive short stories from the official magazine of the Star Wars saga, and thanks to Titan Comics we have an exclusive extract from the story ‘Blade Squadron: Zero Hour’ by David J. Williams and Mark S. Williams. Check it […]

Writing a Trilogy 101 with Alex London, author of Gold Wings Rising | The Writer Experience #137

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Listen to the latest episode of The Writer Experience… Alex London writes books for adults including One Day The Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War, children including Dog Tags series and An Accidental Adventure series, and teens including Proxy. At one time a journalist who travelled the world reporting from conflict zones and refugee […]