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About Sue Millinocket

Sue is the Editorial Manager at Silver Beacon Marketing. She reads books, watches TV, tries to over-mother her grown children and aspires to someday be the neighborhood Crazy Cat Lady.

Book Vs. Movie

Which is better?  Let's discuss. We've all done it.  Read a book, loved it, and then seen the movie and hated it.  Or vice versa.  I used to think the book was always better, but as movie technology improves and studios get both more prolific and more creative with the books they adapt for the screen, I'm finding that sometimes the movie is just as good - or better - than the source material. But how can that be, you ask?  Books let you use your imagination, allow for time to develop characters, give us rich descriptions of settings and [...]

2016-12-31T17:59:11-07:00July 31st, 2012|Tags: |

Book Trailer Review – Graceling

Let's take a look at the short trailer for the Graceling books.  As of this writing there are three - Graceling, Fire and Bitterblue.  Not familiar with Book Trailers?  Take a look at our handy Book Trailer Guide.     I love the look and feel of this trailer.  The very middle-ages themes and graphics, along with the battle music, bring an urgency to even such a short clip and makes the books seem exciting and filled with action.  We get the idea that the kingdoms are in peril and that there is one person who must unite them.  All [...]

2016-12-31T17:59:13-07:00June 21st, 2012|Tags: , |

RIP Ray Bradbury

Acclaimed Author Dies at Age 91 I've never been a big fan of science fiction novels.  Ray Bradbury would have considered me a perfect reader of his work - he never liked to consider himself a science fiction writer.  The rest of the world certainly did, but however you chose to classify him, Bradbury was a prolific and influential figure in the literary world for over 6 decades. Bradbury began his career in 1938 with his first publication of a short story, Hollerbochen's Dilemma.  He went on to publish more than 20 other short stories before his first [...]

2016-12-31T17:59:15-07:00June 6th, 2012|Tags: , |
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