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Hispanic Site Offers Help and Giveaways: www.miatlanta.com, a Hispanic site offering help and advice to the Latino community regarding housing, medical services and much more, has interviewed Eugenia Reskoff and will give away 2 copies of her novel Different Flags.

Sam's Dot Publishing has just released the "Beast":
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- "Sensual, folkloric, erotic and intense" are all terms an editor recently used to describe Morgantown, West Virginia, poet Erin Donahoe's newly released illustrated poetry chapbook, Beast.

Sam's Dot Publishing of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, proudly announced the book's recent release and SDP's managing editor Tyree Campbell had some evocative things to say about Donahoe's latest work of Fantasy saying, "Beast is an illustrated collection of poetry that derives some of its themes and sensuality from the Japanese tales of the fox-woman. Its eroticism is both haunting and intense, its language both folkloric and intimate. And its imagery and vision is beyond the scope of anything you have ever read before. You owe it to yourself to buy this chapbook...and to read it in candlelight, with a glass of wine and with a...close friend," said Campbell.

Donahoe began publishing poetry in 2001 and has taken off since that time, having been widely published over the past two years. She has earned two Rhysling Award nominations for her work and her poem, "Brother and Sister," received an Honorable Mention in this year's edition of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. "Beast" is Donahoe's third poetry chapbook to date. For purchasing info go to http://www.poetryfox.com/loners/sdp/donahoebeast.html

James B. Brandt has completed the rewrites on his new novel The Toy Maker: The novel, based on the 1981 William Robert Gately science fiction screenplay, has been updated and modernized to match a more current political and social environment and to include events up to 1997, when the story takes place.

The Toy Maker follows freelance writer Paul Johnson's quest to locate and interview the designer of a series of a series of exclusive and technologically advanced toys. His trip leads him to Northern Arizona, where he discovers he is not the only one looking for the inventor. He quickly discovers that his search has placed him in the middle of mystery and gruesome murder. Johnson quickly discovers that his search to find the toy maker has lead him into a struggle to save the inventor from extra-terrestrial invaders bent on destroying the inventor and the precious knowledge held hidden for over two decades... and they don't care how many humans they have to kill in the process. The ultimate question for Johnson is not what he should write for his editors, but what he should do to save the world.

Originally written for Roger Corman's New World Pictures in 1981, the script was rejected by a staff reader because "nobody's going to believe in a good guy alien." (Which may explain why it was Steven Spielberg that landed E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in 1982 and not New World!) An option was sold on the script in late 1981, but funding for the film faltered when the producer's distribution company closed. The project, however, has remained a favorite of several industry professionals, which prompted the author to convert the script into a novel.

The manuscript will be available for viewing by the 10th of October, 2003.