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CONTENTS EDITOR Briana Galindo

LOREMIPSUM Jorge Zavala

Jessica Wilde shares how to overcome writer's block.

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REDACTION Sofía Salas Axel Rodríguez Yara López

2 Editor's Note 7 New Releases 20 8 Young Emerging Writers This year's promising young writers are about to shine 23 INDIE INSIDER: Hidden Bookshops Hole in the wall bookshops are popping all over the Metro 30 NEW BLOOD: Christina Adams Explore Christina's world of magical realism 32 REVIEW: Flesh and Blood This year's most-awaited thriller 40 SHORT STORY: The Buried Key

by Alexander Wyeth 43 POETRY: Sweet Serenity

by Samantha Adams

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52 COMICS CORNER: Incidental Ideas

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8 EMERGING WRITERS TO WATCH OUT FOR Get to know eight twenty-something writers who will capture our literary hearts

by Sofía Salas

20-year-old Marianne Teigen recently published her first young adult novel, and in only a month, it has reached the New York Times Bestsellers list.

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agazines, according to Wikipedia, are publications, usually periodical publications, that are printed or published electronically. The online versions are called online magazines. They are generally published on a regular schedule and contain a variety of content.

Magazines are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by prepaid subscriptions, or a combination of the three. The earliest example of magazines was Erbauliche Monaths Unterredungen launched in 1663 in Germany.

The oldest consumer magazine still in In the case of written publication, print is The Scots Magazine, which was it is a collection of written articles. first published in 1739, though multipleThis explains why magazine changes in ownership and gaps in publications share the word publication totaling over 90 years root with gunpowder magazines, weaken that claim. artillery magazines, firearms magazines, and, in various Magazine Distribution languages although not English, retail stores such Magazines can be distributed through as department stores. the mail, through sales by newsstands, bookstores, or other vendors, or Once written you through free distribution at selected have to stand by it. pick-up locations.

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MARIANNE TEIGEN

JESSICA WILDE

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters.

Little magazines or "small magazines", are literary magazines that publish experimental writings of relatively unknown writers. They are usually noncommercial in their outlook and are often very irregular in their publication.

In publishing, to perform or display a work publicly means to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered.

It also means to communicate a performance or display of the work to a place or to the public, by means of any device or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving the performance or display receive it in the same place.

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In the United States, publication is defined as the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a group of persons for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public display, constitutes publication. A performance in public or display of a work does not of itself constitute publication.

Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

Q&A: ANDREA STONE Andrea Stone opens up about her writing process, writing tips, and more.

ON HER WRITING PROCESS “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

HER TOP TIP FOR ASPIRING WRITERS “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

HER FAVORITE SUMMER READ Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. Her writing is phenomenal.

ON HER FAVORITE WRITERS Haruki Murakami, Jodi Picoult, and Michael Cunningham, most definitely.

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