Winner of Hit TV Series "The One" signs with Fontaine Press

Charmaine Wilson, highly popular winner of the hit Channel Seven series "The One" has signed with Fontaine Press to publish her forthcoming books. More details to follow in coming e-newsletters, including launch date and preview excerpts. Register your interest here.

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Best-selling NZ author to visit Australia

He beat cancer six times; has been prodded and poked by the best of them; has had hundreds of invasive treatments and yet the medical profession can't lay claim to a cure. Phil Kerslake beat the monster at the door by combining conventional medicine with what he calls psychosocial support methods. He has chronicled his survival in 'Life, Happiness...& Cancer", a book to give other cancer sufferers a chance at beating the odds. He's now having his second child.

Phil arrives in Australia on a speaking & book promotion tour this week in Sydney & Melboure.
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Fiddle Dee Dee! - Did You Know?

It's Gone With The Wind's 75th movie anniversary next year. Here's some interesting facts:

• The movie's final cost, completed in 1939 was a staggering $3,957,000
• $14,000,000 was grossed at the box office in the first year Gone With The Wind was released
• 10,000 copies of the novel initially printed
• 1,000,000 copies of the novel sold within 6 months
• Latest count, 30,000,000 copies sold
• 250,000 books STILL sell on average per year

Fontaine Press has recently released in Australia the unauthorised sequel, The Winds of Tara by Katherine Pinotti, which has previously been the subject of a legal tsunami and eventual banning in the U.S.
Although, not before selling 2,000 copies in just 2 weeks with no promotion... Read More >

Book Review by Kate D. Evans of Independent Weekly
"Why fiddle-dee-dee! Land sakes and God's handkerchief, Scarlett is back! Older and perhaps a little wiser, she's as wily as ever. Rhett has lodged divorce papers with their lawyer and busied himself abroad and on his new plantation. Ashley, pining for his lovely lost Melly, continues to manage the lumber mill, entranced, as ever, with Scarlett's vitality." Read More >

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