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For years, Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net has been about two things only – awesome art and the artists that create it. With that in mind, we thought why not take the first week of the month to showcase these awesome artists even more? Welcome to “Awesome Artist We’ve Found Around The Net.” In this column, we are focusing on one artist and the awesome art that they create, whether they be amateur, up and coming, or well established. The goal is to uncover these artists so even more people become familiar with them. We ask these artists a few questions to see their origins, influences, and more. If you are an awesome artist or know someone that should be featured, feel free to contact me at any time at [email protected].This month we are very pleased to bring you the awesome art of…

Steve Berry

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Police are asking for help in finding the parents of a newborn baby girl who was abandoned in an infant carrier on the front lawn of a home in Mesa, Arizona, with her umbilical cord still attached, People confirms. Upon being found Wednesday around 11 a.m., the baby was quickly transported to hospital and is doing well. She appeared to be just hours old. A Mesa police spokesman said at a press conference that "things were still moist and damp from the birthing process." For now, police are calling her "Baby Jane." She is a healthy, full-term baby, Hispanic or Native American,...

Police are asking for help in finding the parents of a newborn baby girl who was abandoned in an infant carrier on the front lawn of a home in Mesa, Arizona, with her umbilical cord still attached, People confirms. Upon being found Wednesday around 11 a.m., the baby was quickly transported to hospital and is doing fine. She appeared to be just hours old. A Mesa police spokesman said at a press conference that "things were still moist and damp from the birthing process." For now, police are calling her "Baby Jane." She is a healthy, full-term baby, Hispanic or Native American,...

As the country’s collective anticipation reaches fever pitch celebrations of the Beeb’s favourite millennial man are in full swing. To get into the spirit of it all we have a peek into a couple of personal memories of the Timelord.

Steve Berry’s collection of celebrity recollections of Doctor Who is being republished by Gollancz for the 50th anniversary and there are new contributions from Who alum Bernard Cribbens, Sophia Myles and Ben Aaronovitch. Jonathan Ross, Stephen Fry and many others feature in the book and there’s a nice range of Whoviana here, from those familiar with the show in its infancy up to the children of the Rtd incarnation of Who. One thing which unites them is this: they love the show

100% of the author’s royalties will be going to Alzheimer’s Research UK and you can order the book from the publishers here.

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It’s not true so much in the U.S., where Doctor Who had been primarily of cult interest to geeky teens and grownups until the past few years, but almost everyone in the U.K. has childhood — and grownup — memories of the show going back to 1963. A few years ago, fan Steve Berry self-published, for charity, a collection of reminiscences from British celebs. Now, a new edition of Behind the Sofa has arrived just in time for the show’s 50th anniversary, with all royalties going to Alzheimer’s Research UK.

Berry says:

When I conceived the book, I wanted it to fulfill two purposes; firstly, to raise a Tardis-load of cash for scientific research into the dementia that affected my mum; and secondly, to show just how vibrantly Doctor Who can live on in the memories of those who experience it.

Contributors include Neil Gaiman on how he...

Andrew Reynolds is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Don’t forget that in just 10 days’ time Forbidden Planet play host to some of the celebrity contributors from the Doctor Who celebrity memoir compendium Behind the Sofa!. Signing at the London Megastore on Thursday 7th November from 6pm, will be: Ben Aaronovitch, Sophie Aldred, Steve Berry, Richard Herring, Robin Ince, Katy Manning and Al

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A host of stars will sign the charity book, Behind the Sofa, at London’s Forbidden Planet megastore next month. The book, a collection of over 100 celebrity memories of Doctor Who, is the culmination of four years’ work by Steve Berry, a lifelong fan of the show, who wanted to raise money for Alzheimer’s Research

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New York City is once again the setting for Gotham noir as the International Thriller Writers (Itw) brings ThrillerFest VIII to town from July 10-13, 2013, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel to celebrate the "art of the thrill."

What exactly is ThrillerFest? It's a four-day celebration of thriller books, the authors who write them, and the fans who read them. Below are all the details you need if you plan to attend:

From the Press Release:

Spines are already tingling for the legendary Anne Rice (pictured above), Queen of the Gothic Thriller, who will make a rare appearance to serve as the 2013 ThrillerMaster. Rice is the author of 31 novels, including The Vampire Chronicles, Songs of the Seraphim, and the new Wolf Gift Chronicles.

New this year at ThrillerFest is FanFest, an opportunity for thriller writers to give back to their most loyal fans. These lucky readers will join such big-league talent as Joseph Finder,...

We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes a teaser poster for Draugar, news on an appearance by Anne Rice at this year’s ThrillerFest VIII, first details on Dead Ringer and A Haunting in Thornby, and much more:

VOD Release for Zombie Apocalypse: Redemption: “Eagle One Media is proud to announce to horror and zombie fans director Ryan Thompson’s apocalyptic horror feature Zombie Apocalypse: Redemption is now available on North American video-on-demand cable systems and around the world on iTunes.

Zombie Apocalypse: Redemption is a throwback to the 1980’s action-horror genre and features legendary action star Fred “The Hammer” Williamson.

At the end of civilization, zombies outnumber human survivors 10000 to 1, and every day is a fight to see tomorrow. Just when he is about to give up that fight, rugged and mysterious wanderer John Knox...

The extremely talented author James Rollin is with me today to talk about his latest Sigma Force novel, the 7th in the series, The Devil Colony. Was America originally supposed to have 14 instead of 13 colonies? Who is a largely forgotten Founding Father whom you probably have never heard about in school? Did the Lost Tribes of Israel make it to America and settle here? From the dark secret origins of the United States to cutting edge nanotechnology, the action-packed and suspenseful novel The Devil Colony might be the best Sigma Force book yet!

I, Professor Crazy, intend to get to the bottom of this and find out the answers to these and even more Burning Questions by water boarding–er, I mean interviewing James Rollins. Will there be any broken bones? I can’t promise that, for legal reasons. You’ll just have to read the following interview to find out for yourselves!

The Devil Colony has all you could want in a Sigma Force novel by James Rollins: action, adventure, speculation, and a story ripped right out of the pages of history combined with a breakneck plot that incorporates the latest advances in cutting-edge (nano)technology. It’s the seventh book in the series so far, and it might very well be the best yet. Sigma Force mainstays Painter Crowe, its Director, and Commander Grayson Pierce are back, and in The Devil Colony, they discover that the Guild even played a part in the founding of America. They face perhaps their most dangerous villain yet, and they uncover secrets about the United States’ origins that may change forever the way you look at America.

The novel’s prelude takes us back to the Kentucky Territory in August of 1779. An archeological exploration is going on, unearthing Native artifacts from a long, serpent-shaped mound.