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Alex Cox promoted to Deputy Director of CBLDF
People > Publishing Personnel
Alex Cox, who has been the Development Manager at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund since 2010, has been promoted to Deputy Director...

John Grant's The Encyclopedia of Film Noir to Limelight Editions
People > Book & Novel Sales
Limelight Editions will publish John Grant's The Encyclopedia of Film Noir, with some 3,000 entries on movies plus more on writers, actors, and directors...

Michael Rowley appointed Editorial Director of SF and Fantasy at Ebury Press
People > Publishing Personnel
Michael Rowley is moving from retailing (a buyer for Waterstone's) to publishing as the new Editorial Director for Ebury's sf line...

Vineart War prequel "From Whence You Came" is fully funded
People > Activities
Author Laura Anne Gilman's Kickstarter project to pre-fund a prequel to her fantasy trilogy is fully funded, and will actually come into being...

Simon & Schuster publishes Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 as an e-book
People > Republication
Simon & Schuster is publishing the first electronic version of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, to be followed by The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man...

Friends organize online auction benefit for Terri Windling
People > Activities
A series of auctions of goods and services is currently being offered to help editor/artist/writer Terri Windling pay mounting medical bills...

Director Ken Russell Dies
People > Obituaries
British director Ken Russell (1927-2011) directed many biographies, but was known for Altered States, Tommy, and Academy Award-nominee Women in Love...

John Berlyne, now representing Ian Tregillis in the UK, sells Milkweed Trilogy to Orbit
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US author Ian Tregillis is now represented by John Berlyne of Zeno Literary Agency for the UK and Commonwealth, and he's already sold rights to the Milkweed Trilogy to Orbit...

Anne McCaffrey Dies
People > Obituaries
Author Anne McCaffrey (1926-2011) created the Dragonriders of Pern series, and was named a SFWA Grand Master in 2005...

Hyoe Narita named new president of VIZ Media Europe
People > Publishing Personnel
VIZ Media Europe's President John Easum has left his post, and is replaced by Hyoe Narita, formerly Executive Vice President of VIZ Media in California...
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