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  • B. Lee Schmidt - Author

    Is it your Birthday???  Well Happy Birthday to you!

    2 years ago
  • Michael Dennis

    Hello Penguin,
    Thanks for the add.
    Please pass on my regards to Tom Weldon.
    He rode in my cab once.
    Nice bloke.
    All the best,
    Michael Dennis 'The Black Cab Poet'

    4 years ago
  • Jason Steed

    Thank you Penguin

    Jason Steed...................

    4 years ago
  • Heart of the Wolf

    Hi Penguin!

    Thanks for the add and the great books you publish!

    4 years ago
  • CJ West

    Hey.

    I haven't been by in a while and thought I'd stop in and say hi. It's Monday again. I'm back to work on a new book.

    A Demon Awaits will be out on October 14th. I'm excited for the release and waiting for news about the screenplay. If nothing else, the new book will keep my mind off the waiting.

    What's happening in your world?

    CJ

    4 years ago
  • Jessica Anya blau

    I'm happy we're friends!
    x,
    Jessica

    4 years ago
  • ending unwritten


    Thanks for the Add!

    4 years ago
  • David Rowe

    Happy First Day of Fall!

    davIdiot RAw.
    "If you can't beat em: Poem.
    "

    4 years ago
  • stephen bell

    Thanx for the add. The man who's head expanded thought he lived like a tourist.
    Anarchy Peace + Freedom........Stay free, Steve.

    4 years ago
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    Reading. I love books on just about everything; cooking, history, biography, thrillers, literary fiction, kid's stories, fairy tales, reference, and the list goes on and on....
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    In 1935, if you wanted to read a good book, you needed either a lot of money or a library card. Cheap paperbacks were available, but their poor production generally tended to mirror the quality between the covers. Penguin paperbacks were the brainchild of Allen Lane, then a director of The Bodley Head. After a weekend visiting Agatha Christie in Devon, he found himself on a platform at Exeter station searching its bookstall for something to read on his journey back to London, but discovered only popular magazines and reprints of Victorian novels. Appalled by the selection on offer, Lane decided that good quality contemporary fiction should be made available at an attractive price and sold not just in traditional bookshops, but also in railway stations, tobacconists and chain stores. He also wanted a 'dignified but flippant' symbol for his new business. His secretary suggested a Penguin and another employee was sent to London Zoo to make some sketches. Seventy years later Penguin is still one of the most recognizable brands in the world. The first Penguin paperbacks appeared in the summer of 1935 and included works by Ernest Hemingway, André Maurois and Agatha Christie. They were colour coded (orange for fiction, blue for biography, green for crime) and cost just sixpence, the same price as a packet of cigarettes. The way the public thought about books changed forever - the paperback revolution had begun.
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    Every author under the sun, from Ali Smith to Zadie Smith, from Dick King-Smith to Charles Dickens, from Oliver Goldsmith to Jamie Oliver and above all the late, great Allen Lane.

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