George R R Martin funds scholarship for SFF and fantasy writers

George R R Martin is funding a new annual scholarship at a science fiction and fantasy six-week course to “help the next great fantasist on the long journey ahead”. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Roy Gainsburg, Former St. Martin's Press President, Dies at 91

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A.S. Byatt, British writer and author of Booker Prize-winning 'Possession,' dies at 87

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