Gasull, Virginia
Virginia Gasull comienza su actividad profesional en el sector de la arquitectura y después lo dirige hacia el desarrollo de proyectos relacionados con Internet. En paralelo realiza estudios de sexología y en 2009 inicia su labor profesional como formadora impartiendo charlas sexológicas para grupos y asociaciones de mujeres. Su afición por la cultura del vino la lleva también a realizar diferentes cursos de enología y cata, así como visitas a bodegas en las principales regiones vinícolas de Europa. Durante una de estas visitas a la región de Burdeos, comienza el estudio La Historia de los viticultores franceses durante la ocupación alemana en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Tras años de escribir relatos cortos, en 2013 se sumerge en la investigación y elaboración de su primera novela: In Vino Veritas donde aúna la cultura del vino, el periodo histórico de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el mundo del Arte. In Vino Veritas fue publicado en Amazon y obtuvo un gran éxito de descargas u críticas, manteniéndose durante varias semanas en el número uno de la lista de más vendidos, recibiendo al poco tiempo la propuesta de Suma de Letras para ser publicada bajo su sello editorial, recibiendo muy buenas críticas por parte de la prensa especializada. En el Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastian de 2015 firmó una opción con la productora Orreaga Filmak para la adaptación cinematográfica de In Vino Veritas, que está en proceso de preproducción. Es miembro junto con otros escritores de la Asociación Cultural Oskarbi. En 2016 participa en el libro recopilación de relatos Oskarbi 21 con su relato 1943, una historia sobre la red Comète en la evacuación clandestina de fugitivos de la Europa ocupada durante la II Guerra Mundial. En Marzo de 2017 recibe un accésit en el prestigioso XVI Certamen ‘Encarna León’ por su relato Las mujeres del río. Su última novela es Nicole (Suma de Letras, 2021).
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Valió la pena reaches the spot in the top of the sales
09/10/2015The publication of Valió la pena (It was worth it), the book of memoirs by the diplomat and ex-director of the CNI Jorge Dezcallar, has not left anyone indifferent. Three days after its launch, the second edition came out just as it reached the spot in the top 100 general sales on Amazon.es, ranking in what in the last few days climbed to number 7. But Valió la pena has not been distinguished only for the great number of sales. The book has secured a space in a great number of Spanish media and also has provoked reactions of important figures from the political sphere, mainly as a consequence of the declarations that the author made in his memoirs about the government’s management of the March 11, 2004 terrorist attack in Madrid Some of the highlighted press links about Jorge Dezcallar’s work: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/24-horas/24-horas-jorge-dezcallar-lealtad-tiene-limites-01-10-15/3307761/ http://www.lasexta.com/programas/el-intermedio/revista-medios/jorge-dezcallar-comunicado-cni-11m-creo-que-gobierno-manipulo_2015100800361.html http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2015/09/30/actualidad/1443641174_514625.html http://www.cope.es/player/escucha-la-entrevista-a-jorge-dezcallar-en-herrera-en-cope&id=2015100514170001&activo=10
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Laura Freixas recovers 4 of her most revered works in digital format
15/01/2015Four of the novels by the author, professor and lecturer Laura Freixas, have been recovered in digital format and can been found for sale on Amazon. The novels include Entre Amigas (Between Friends), originally published 1998, Amor o lo que sea (Love, a Reader) (2005), Adolescencia en Barcelona hacia 1970, (Adolescence in Barcelona around 1970) published in 2007 and Cuentos a los 40, (Stories at Forty) (2001). One of the titles; Amor o lo que sea, can also now and for the first time be found in English, with the title Love, a Reader. It was translated by Pamela J. DeWeese, translator, writer and professor. With the inauguration of these works by Laura Freixas, Amazon is offering the opportunity to download free of charge but only on the 16th and 17th of January, the title Amor o lo que sea in both Spanish and English language versions. Here are the links: - Love, a Reader - Amor o lo que sea
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Gómez-Jurado, Juan
Periodista y escritor, Juan Gómez-Jurado debutó en 2006 con su primera novela, Espía de Dios que obtuvo un notable éxito que se prolongó con sus siguientes obras, Contrato con Dios (2007) y El emblema del traidor (2008). Después llegarían La Leyenda del ladrón (2012), El paciente (2014) o Cicatriz (2015) y su reciente trilogía, Reina Roja, que le ha convertido en el escritor de thriller más vendido en español. Además, inspirado en su paternidad, ha escrito varias sagas de libros juveniles protagonizados por el aventurero espacial Alex Colt, así como Amanda Black, en colaboración con Bárbara Montes, que ocupa desde su lanzamiento el número uno en la lista de libros más vendidos para niños y jóvenes. El conjunto de su obra se ha traducido a más de 40 lenguas. Gómez-Jurado es también cocreador de los podcast Todopoderosos y Aquí hay dragones, los cuales superan el medio millón de fieles oyentes. El reconocido autor tiene además un acuerdo exclusivo para el desarrollo de conceptos creativos para series y películas en español en exclusiva para Amazon Prime Video, convirtiéndose en el segundo creador en firmar un acuerdo de esta categoría con Amazon Studios en Europa.
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The English edition of “The Last Passenger” is a hit in its first week on sale!
09/01/2015We bid farewell to 2014 mentioning the smashing pre-sale success of “The Last Passenger” by Manel Loureiro and with this we also begin 2015 with the incredible news about the latest novel by this Galician author. “The Last Passenger” published in both the USA and the UK by Amazon Crossing, has been warmly acclaimed by the public on its first week of publication. “The Last Passenger” was included in Amazon Prime’s catalogue, a service that permits its subscribers to download outstanding titles (that include titles by the likes of Lee Child or Stephen King, among others) from the moment of publication. The novel by Manel Loureiro obtained over 70.000 loans by users of Amazon Prime and is listed as one of the top sellers in the following categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy and Literature & Fiction.
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Waiting for The Last Passenger, by Manel Loureiro.
18/12/2014Great expectations in the english world for the translation of The Last Passenger, the last novel by Manel Loureiro. AmazonCrossing bought the English World rights of The Last Passenger, which was published in Spain in 2013 (Planeta).The book will be released on January 1, 2015 and it's now avaiable on presale. It has been for the last week at the Top 3 of the Amazon Best Sellers. Moreover, the Kindle editions of all three volumes of the Apocalypse Z series have been included in the December Monthly Deal on Amazon.com. The trilogy has been a world phenomena on the internet, as you can see on the author's profile in Amazon.
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"The Wrath of the Just", last part of the "Apocalypse Z" trilogy, published in the United States
14/05/2014A week ago, the American publishing house Amazon Crossing published The Wrath of the Just, the last volume of the Apocalypse Z trilogy by Manel Loureiro; the first one, The Beginning of the End, was published in 2012, and it was followed by Dark Days last year. Just three days after its release, The Wrath of the Just reached number one in three different best seller lists: dystopian fiction, post apocalytic fiction and Spanish literature in its Kindle version; in this last one, the first and second volumes of the trilogy got the silver and bronze medals. And this is just the beginning...
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"Apocalipsis Z" in Poland and Galicia
30/12/2013This Christmas, two books of Manel Loureiro's zombie trilogy have been published in Poland and Galicia: Apocalipsis Z. Los días oscuros saw the light of day as Apokalipsa Z. Mroczne Dni, published by Muza, and Apocalipsis Z. El comienzo del fin turned itself into Apocalipse Z. O comezo da fin, published by Urco Editora. The trilogy, which Loureiro posted at first in a blog and then, after having been read by more than 1,5 million people, was published by Plaza y Janés, has been translated into English (Amazon Crossing), French (Panini France), Italian (Casa Editrice Nord Sud), German (Heyne Verlag), Portuguese (Ediçoes ASA in Portugal and Editorial Planeta do Brasil in Brasil), Slovak (Premedia Group), Hungarian (Konyvmolykepzo Kiado), Turkish (Monokl), Japanese (T. O. Entertainment) and Korean (Minumin), and has seen the light of day in other Spanish-speaking countries such as México, Chile or Argentina, becoming an unanimous success that has turned it into one of the Spanish best selling works in digital format all around the world. A film and a TV series are currently in the works.
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AK Digital releases "The Remade Parent", by Brett Hetherington
20/12/2013After Matthew Tree’s SNUG’s success, and becoming the eighth title in a catalogue that includes works by authors such as Emilio Calderón or Pedro L. Yúfera, AK Digital releases its first essay: The Remade Parent, by Brett Hetherington. Staff writer for Catalonia Today magazine and commentator for Australia’s ABC radio, Hetherington, who has been living in Catalonia since 2006, explains in detail the challenges of parenthood today, analyzes the different roles and proposes a new type of parent: one that is «thoughtful, understanding and physically present». «An original and much-needed book», in Matthew Tree’s words, that will appeal to all those who are beginning the adventure of parenthood. The Remade Parent will be available soon on Amazon (print on demand).
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AKDigital presents the new novel by Matthew Tree: SNUG
05/04/2013Matthew Tree was born in London but has lived in Barcelona since 1984. For literary reasons of his own, in 1990 he stopped writing in English and switched to Catalan, in which language he has published ten books. He has published in English a collection of articles titled “Barcelona, Catalonia. A View from the Inside” and now he presents us with a novel written in English; “SNUG”, published through this agency’s AKDigital project in Amazon for KINDLE and Print on Demand format. "An utterly compelling, uncompromising, visceral and unflinching look at racism, anti-Semitism and the legacy of colonialism. The adult protagonists are drawn with a deft accuracy and the resultant emotional impact of a heat seeking missile. The book bewitches the reader...it is touching, deeply moving and very funny." KS Lewkowicz - composer and lyricist of Goodbye Barcelona and Release The Beat. Amazon.com (Kindle and PoD)
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Books by Emilio Calderón now in E-Book
05/11/2012AK Digital is a project that the Literary Agency founded with the principal goal to help the authors that it represents so that their previously edited books that currently have their rights free, can be offered exclusively in digital format, as an effort to conserve the validity of these works through the opportunities that these technologies can offer. At this time we are proud to present as first of the authors we represent, and within this new project, Emilio Calderón with whom we’ve developed three of his titles: The Creator’s Map (2006) The Secret of Porcelain (2007) The Jew from Shanghai (2008) Important links: Amabook Amazon Librería Laie Altaïr ebooks eBook·teca Llibreria Catalònia Y otras más...
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Palma again achieves the high standard set by “The Map of Time”
05/09/2012Yesterday, September 4, Atria/Simon&Schuster launched the new novel by the great author Félix J. Palma: “The Map of the Sky” The New York Times bestselling author of The Map of Time returns with a mesmerizing novel casting H.G. Wells in a leading role, as the extraterrestrial invasion featured in The War of the Worlds is turned into a bizarre reality. A love story serves as backdrop for The Map of the Sky when New York socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry millionaire Montgomery Gilmore, but only if he accepts her audacious challenge: to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in Wells’s War of the Worlds. What follows are three brilliantly interconnected plots to create a breathtaking tale of time travel and mystery, replete with cameos by a young Edgar Allan Poe, and Captain Shackleton and Charles Winslow from The Map of Time. Some reviews: “"The Map of the Sky" keeps the reader guessing, checking and thinking, all the while providing many sidelights on the literary history of sci-fi itself.” The Wall Street Journal, September 1st, 2012. “The unreal becomes real, fantasy becomes history, and the reader is thoroughly entertained by an unending parade of bafflements and surprises. This book is a complete delight.” --K.W Jeter author of Infernal Devices TULSA WORLD DARK FAERIE TALES GENRE GO ROUND REVIEWS TOR.COM CROSSROADSREVIEWS.COM MISFIT SALON Amazon
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