An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.

Author of a written or legally copied work[link]

Legal significance[link]

In copyright law, there is a necessity for little flexibility as to what constitutes authorship. The United States Copyright Office defines copyright as "a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to authors of "original works of authorship".^[1] Holding the title of "author" over any "literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, [or] certain other intellectual works" give rights to this person, the owner of the copyright, exclusive right to do or authorize any production or distribution of their work. Any person or entity wishing to use intellectual property held under copyright must receive permission from the copyright holder to use this work, and often will be asked to pay for the use of copyrighted material. After a fixed amount of time, the copyright expires on intellectual work and it enters the public domain, where it can be used without limit. Copyright law has been amended time and time again since the inception of the law to extend the length of this fixed period where the work is exclusively controlled by the copyright holder. However, copyright is merely the legal reassurance that one owns his/her work. Technically, someone owns their work from the time it's created. An interesting aspect of authorship emerges with copyright in that it can be passed down to another upon one's death. The person who inherits the copyright is not the author, but enjoys the same legal benefits.

Questions arise as to the application of copyright law. How does it, for example, apply to the complex issue of fan fiction? If the media agency responsible for the authorized production allows material from fans, what is the limit before legal constraints from actors, music, and other considerations, come into play? As well, how does copyright apply to fan-generated stories for books? What powers do the original authors, as well as the publishers, have in regulating or even stopping the fan fiction?

Literary significance[link]

In literary theory, critics find complications in the term "author" beyond what constitutes authorship in a legal setting. In the wake of postmodern literature, critics such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault have examined the role and relevance of authorship to the meaning or interpretation of a text.

Barthes challenges the idea that a text can be attributed to any single author. He quotes, in his essay "Death of the Author" (1968), that "it is language which speaks, not the author".^[2] The words and language of a text itself determine and expose meaning for Barthes, and not someone possessing legal responsibility for the process of its production. Every line of written text is a mere reflection of references from any of a multitude of traditions, or, as Barthes puts it, "the text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture"; it is never original.^[2] With this, the perspective of the author is removed from the text, and the limits formerly imposed by the idea of one authorial voice, one ultimate and universal meaning, are destroyed. The explanation and meaning of a work does not have to be sought in the one who produced it, "as if it were always in the end, through the more or less transparent allegory of the fictioni, the voice of a single person, the author 'confiding' in us".^[2] The psyche, culture, fanaticism of an author can be disregarded when interpreting a text, because the words are rich enough themselves with all of the traditions of language. To expose meanings in a written work without appealing to the celebrity of an author, their tastes, passions, vices, is, to Barthes, to allow language to speak, rather than author.

Michel Foucault argues in his essay "What is an author?" (1969), that all authors are writers, but not all writers are authors. He states that "a private letter may have a signatory—it does not have an author".^[3] For a reader to assign the title of author upon any written work is to attribute certain standards upon the text which, for Foucault, are working in conjunction with the idea of "the author function".^[3] Foucault's author function is the idea that an author exists only as a function of a written work, a part of its structure, but not necessarily part of the interpretive process. The author's name "indicates the status of the discourse within a society and culture", and at one time was used as an anchor for interpreting a text, a practice which Barthes would argue is not a particularly relevant or valid endeavor.^[3]

Expanding upon Foucault's position, Alexander Nehamas writes that Foucault suggests "an author [...] is whoever can be understood to have produced a particular text as we interpret it", not necessarily who penned the text.^[4] It is this distinction between producing a written work and producing the interpretation or meaning in a written work that both Barthes and Foucault are interested in. Foucault warns of the risks of keeping the author's name in mind during interpretation, because it could affect the value and meaning with which one handles an interpretation.

Literary critics Barthes and Foucault suggest that readers should not rely on or look for the notion of one overarching voice when interpreting a written work, because of the complications inherent with a writer's title of "author." They warn of the dangers interpretations could suffer from when associating the subject of inherently meaningful words and language with the personality of one authorial voice. Instead, readers should allow a text to be interpreted in terms of the language as "author."

Relationship between author and publisher[link]

The publisher of a work might receive a percentage calculated on a wholesale or a specific price and or a fixed amount on each book that is sold. Publishers, at times, reduced the risk of this type of arrangement, by agreeing only to pay this after a certain amount of copies had sold. In Canada this practice occurred during the 1890s, but was not commonplace until the 1920s.

• Commissioned: Publishers made publication arrangements, and authors covered all expenses (today the practice of authors paying for their publications is often called vanity publishing, and is looked down upon by many publishers, even though it may have been a common and accepted practice in the past). Publishers would receive a percentage on the sale of every copy of a book, and the author would receive the rest of the money made.

Relationship between author and editor[link]

The relationship between the author and the editor, often the author's only liaison to the publishing company, is often characterized as the site of tension. For the author to reach his or her audience, the work usually must attract the attention of the editor. The idea of the author as the sole meaning-maker of necessity changes to include the influences of the editor and the publisher in order to engage the audience in writing as a social act.

Pierre Bourdieu's essay "The Field of Cultural Production" depicts the publishing industry as a "space of literary or artistic position-takings," also called the "field of struggles," which is defined by the tension and movement inherent among the various positions in the field.^[5] Bourdieu claims that the "field of position-takings [...] is not the product of coherence-seeking intention or objective consensus," meaning that an industry characterized by position-takings is not one of harmony and neutrality.^[6] In particular for the writer, their authorship in their work makes their work part of their identity, and there is much at stake personally over the negotiation of authority over that identity. However, it is the editor who has "the power to impose the dominant definition of the writer and therefore to delimit the population of those entitled to take part in the struggle to define the writer".^[7] As "cultural investors," publishers rely on the editor position to identify a good investment in "cultural capital" which may grow to yield economic capital across all positions.^[8]

According to the studies of James Curran, the system of shared values among editors in Britain has generated a pressure among authors to write to fit the editors' expectations, removing the focus from the reader-audience and putting a strain on the relationship between authors and editors and on writing as a social act. Even the book review by the editors has more significance than the readership's reception.^[9]

Compensation[link]

A standard contract for an author will usually include provision for payment in the form of an advance and royalties. An advance is a lump sum paid in advance of publication. An advance must be earned out before royalties are payable. An advance may be paid in two lump sums: the first payment on contract signing, and the second on delivery of the completed manuscript or on publication.

An author's contract may specify, for example, that they will earn 10% of the retail price of each book sold. Some contracts specify a scale of royalties payable (for example, where royalties start at 10% for the first 10,000 sales, but then increase to a higher percentage rate at higher sale thresholds).

An author's book must earn out their advance before any further royalties are paid. For example, if an author is paid a modest advance of $2000.00, and their royalty rate is 10% of a book priced at $20.00 - that is, $2.00 per book - the book will need to sell 1000 copies before any further payment will be made. Publishers typically withhold payment of a percentage of royalties earned against returns.

In some countries, authors also earn income from a government scheme such as the ELR (Educational Lending Right) and PLR (Public Lending Right) schemes in Australia. Under these schemes, authors are paid a fee for the number of copies of their books in educational and/or public libraries.

These days, many authors supplement their income from book sales with public speaking engagements, school visits, residencies, grants, and teaching positions.

Ghostwriters, technical writers, and textbooks writers are typically paid in a different way: usually a set fee or a per word rate rather than on a percentage of sales.

See also[link]

• Novelist
• Writer
• Lists of writers
• Lists of poets
• List of novelists
• Professional writing
• Academic authorship
• Ghostwriter
• Lead author
• Autuer

References[link]

External links[link]

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• A system for fast authorship by Daniel Hall

Jim Marrs
"If it is not an act of God, it is a Conspiracy"
Born	(1943-12-05) December 5, 1943 (age 68) Fort Worth, Texas US
Occupation	Journalist Author

Jim Marrs (born 5 December 1943) is an American former newspaper journalist and New York Times best-selling author of books and articles on a wide range of alleged cover ups and conspiracies.^[1] Marrs is a prominent figure in the JFK conspiracy press and his book Crossfire was a source for Oliver Stone's film JFK. He has written books asserting the existence of government conspiracies regarding aliens, 9/11, telepathy, and secret societies. He was once a news reporter in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex and has taught a class on the Kennedy Assassination at University of Texas at Arlington for 30 years. Marrs is a member of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth.^[2]

Biography[link]

A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Marrs earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University of North Texas in 1966 and attended graduate school at Texas Tech in Lubbock for two years more. He has worked for several Texas newspapers, including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where, beginning in 1968, he served as police reporter and general assignments reporter covering stories locally, in Europe, and in the Middle East. After a leave of absence to serve with a Fourth Army intelligence unit during the Vietnam War, he became military and aerospace writer for the newspaper and an investigative reporter.

Since 1980, Marrs has been a free-lance writer, author, and public relations consultant. He has also published a rural weekly newspaper along with a monthly tourism tabloid, a cable television show, and several videos.

Since 1976, Marrs has taught a course on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy at the University of Texas at Arlington.^[3] In 1989, his book, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, was published and reached the New York Times Paperback Non-Fiction Best Seller list in mid-February 1992.^[3] It became a basis for the Oliver Stone film JFK. Marrs served as a chief consultant for both the film's screenplay and production,Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy.

Beginning in 1992, Marrs spent three years researching and completing a non-fiction book on a top-secret government program called the Stargate Project involving the psychic phenomenon known as remote viewing, only to have the program canceled as it was going to press in the summer of 1995. Within two months, the story of military-developed remote viewing broke nationally in the Washington Post after the CIA revealed the program.

In May 1997, Marrs' investigation of UFOs, Alien Agenda, was published by HarperCollins Publishers. Publishers Weekly described Alien Agenda as "the most entertaining and complete overview of flying saucers and their crew in years." The paperback edition was released in mid-1998. It has been translated into several foreign languages and become the top-selling UFO book in the world.

In early 2000, HarperCollins published Rule by Secrecy, which claimed to trace a hidden history connecting modern secret societies to ancient and medieval times. This book also reached the New York Times Best Seller list. In 2003, his book The War on Freedom probed the alleged conspiracies of the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath. It was released in 2006 under the title The Terror Conspiracy.^[4]

Marrs has been a featured speaker at a number of national conferences including the annual International UFO Congress^[5] and the annual Gulf Breeze UFO Conference,^[6] but he also speaks at local conferences, such as Conspiracy Con^[7] and The Bay Area UFO Expo.^[8] Beginning in 2000, he began teaching a course on UFOs at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Marrs has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, The Discovery Channel, TLC, The History Channel, This Morning America, Geraldo, The Montel Williams Show, Today, TechTV, Larry King (with George Noory), and Art Bell radio programs, as well as numerous national and regional radio and TV shows.

In October 2011, Jim Marrs started his own radio program, "A View from Marrs" on the Jeff Rense Radio network airing three times a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 p.m. Central time. Marrs has on his show a wide variety of guests and dedicated the entire month of November to the latest information regarding the JFK assassination. He also has subject matter on UFO research, survival tips, and much more.

Media[link]

Books[link]

• ISBN 978-0-06-197068-9 The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy: How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America (Hardcover, June 2010)
• ISBN 978-1-934708-29-3 The Sisterhood of the Rose (Hardcover, November 2009)
• ISBN 978-1-934708-09-5 Above Top Secret (paperback, October 2008)
• ISBN 978-0-06-124558-9 The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America (hardcover, June 2008)
• ISBN 978-1-932857-43-6 The Terror Conspiracy: Deception, 9/11 and the Loss of Liberty (paperback, 2006) (An expanded and updated version of "The War On Freedom")
• ISBN 978-1-57983-013-7 Inside Job: Unmasking the 9/11 Conspiracies (paperback, 2004) (the first section of "The War On Freedom" plus some appendices not included in other books)
• ISBN 978-0-9727131-1-5 The War On Freedom (paperback, 2003)
• ISBN 978-0-9727131-0-8 Psi Spies (paperback, 2002)
• ISBN 978-0-06-093184-1 Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids (paperback, 2001)
• ISBN 978-0-06-095536-6 Alien Agenda: Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us (paperback, 2000)
• ISBN 978-0-88184-648-5 Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy (paperback, 1993) (#5 New York Times non-fiction paperback bestseller, February 1992)

Videos[link]

• Safespace - Fastwalkers - Winter 2006

Audio[link]

CDs

• 16 Questions^[9] {Original CD is corrupted, no longer available.}

Radio Interviews
Though participating in a number of radio shows, it has become tradition for Jim Marrs to be the guest of the season premier of Binnall of America Audio

• Binnall of America Season 1 Premier - Part 1 and Part 2 - September 10, 2005
• Binnall of America Season 2 Premier - Part 1 and Part 2 - September 30, 2006
• Binnall of America Season 3 Premier - Part 1 and Part 2 - October 20, 2007
• Binnall of America Season 4 Premier - Part 1 and Part 2 - October 26, 2008
• Binnall of America Season 5 Premier - Part 1 and Part 2 - November 24, 2009
• Binnall of America Season 6 Premier - Part 1 and Part 2 - November 29, 2010
• Binnall of America Season 7 Premier - [1] May 1, 2012

See also[link]

• Conspiracy theories
• Mark Dice
• James Fetzer
• David Ray Griffin
• Steven E. Jones
• Jeff Rense
• Aaron Russo
• Webster Tarpley
• Loose Change
• David Icke
• Alex Jones

References[link]

External links[link]

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Lena Dunham
Dunham at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Supporting Characters
Born	(1986-05-13) May 13, 1986 (age 26) New York City, New York, United States
Occupation	Actress, writer, director
Parents	Laurie Simmons Carroll Dunham

Lena Dunham ( /ˈlinə ˈdənəm/ LEE-nə DUN-um; born May 13, 1986) is an American filmmaker and actress.^[1] She directed the independent film Tiny Furniture (2010), and is the creator and star of the HBO series Girls.

Background and education[link]

Dunham was born in New York City^[2] and is the daughter of Laurie Simmons, a photographer and designer, and Carroll Dunham, a painter.^[3] Dunham attended Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, NY, where she met Tiny Furniture actress and co-star in the HBO series Girls, Jemima Kirke.

She graduated from Oberlin College in 2008, where she studied creative arts.^[4] Her father is Protestant^[5] (Dunham has said that her father is a Mayflower descendant)^[6] and her mother is Jewish; Dunham has stated that she feels "very culturally Jewish".^[7][8]

Career[link]

Dunham's 2010 feature film, Tiny Furniture, won Best Narrative Feature at South by Southwest Music and Media Conference.^[9] Dunham herself plays the lead role of Aura.^[3]

Dunham's television series, Girls, was greenlit by HBO in early 2012.^[10] The show is executive produced by Judd Apatow.^[11] Three episodes were screened to positive response at the 2011 South by Southwest Festival.^[12] The series premiered April 15, 2012.

Dunham had a cameo in the movie Supporting Characters, along with her fellow Tiny Furniture actor Alex Karpovsky.^[13]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Lena Dunham at the Internet Movie Database
• Lena Dunham on Fresh Air in 2012
• Lena Dunham on Fresh Air in 2010
• New York Magazine on Girls
• Criterion Collection Essay "Tiny Furniture Out There" By Phillip Lopate

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Jane Yolen
Yolen at the 2011 New York Comic Con.
Born	Jane Hyatt Yolen 11 February 1939 New York City
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Period	1960s-present
Genres	Science fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction
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Jane Hyatt Yolen (born 11 February 1939 in New York City^[1]) is an American author and editor of almost 300 books. These include folklore, fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. She wrote the Nebula Award-winning Sister Emily's Lightship (short story) and Lost Girls (novelette), as well as Owl Moon and The Emperor and the Kite, Caldecott Medal winners, the Commander Toad series and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight. In 2010 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Fantasy Awards.^[2]

Personal life[link]

Yolen was born in New York City and raised in California, Virginia, and New York. Her father was a journalist and publicist. She received her bachelor's degree from Smith College in 1960 and her master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1976. She was married to computer scientist David Stemple from 1962 until his death from cancer on March 22, 2006. She has three children: Heidi Stemple, Adam Stemple, and Jason Stemple, and several grandchildren. Yolen maintains homes in Hatfield, Massachusetts and in St Andrews, Scotland.^{[citation needed]}

Career[link]

Newsweek called Jane Yolen "the Hans Christian Andersen of America" and The New York Times labeled her "a modern equivalent of Aesop". She has written around 300 books, 4590 poems, and 3452 short stories, 67 of which won awards.

Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens, Favorite Folktales From Around the World, Xanadu and Xanadu 2 are among the works that she has edited.

Her writing also includes poetry. Yolen said that writing poems and short stories comes to her more naturally, but that she has tried to master the longer form when a particular story called for it.^[3] Many of her poems, like her books, have won awards. Some of her awards to date: the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Awards, both first and second place in the 2007 Dwarf Stars Award, the Golden Kite Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Association of Jewish Libraries Award, and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.

In the children's writing community, she is known for her pithy observations and her generosity toward beginning writers and illustrators. Yolen has also criticized the Harry Potter series:

Yolen has also criticized publishers for not promoting their authors sufficiently, and for focusing what little promotion they do provide on celebrity authors such as Jay Leno, Maria Shriver, Billy Crystal and Madonna, none of whom, Yolen says, "can really write kids books well", in order to recoup the large advances given to those more visible authors, forcing Yolen to hire her own publicist.^[5]

Yolen has named among her favorite authors Mordicai Gerstein, Shannon Hale, Gail Carson Levine, Linda Sue Park, Bruce Coville, Robert Sabuda, Kate DiCamillo, Richard Peck, Julius Lester, Nikki Grimes, Lee Bennet Hopkins, Jackie Woodson, as well as members of her own writing group, Patricia MacLachlan, Ann Turner, Leslea Newman, Corinne Demas, Barbara Diamond Goldin, Anna Kirwan.^[5]

Bibliography[link]

The Pit Dragon Trilogy[link]

1. Dragon's Blood (1982)
2. Heart's Blood (1984)
3. A Sending of Dragons (1987)
4. Dragon's Heart (2009)

Selected novels and books[link]

(She has written over 300)

• The Bird of Time (illustrated by Mercer Mayer) (1971)
• The Simple Prince (illustrated by Jack Kent) (1978)
• The Gift of Sarah Barker (1981)
• Children of the Wolf (1984)
• The Stone Silenus (1984)
• Cards of Grief (1985, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature)
• Sister Light, Sister Dark (1989, Nebula Award finalist)
• The Dragon's Boy (1990)
• White Jenna (1990, Nebula Award finalist)
• Greyling (1991, picture book)
• Wings (1991, picture book)
• Wizard's Hall (1991)
• Briar Rose (1992, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, Nebula Award finalist)
• The One Armed Queen (1998)
• Armageddon Summer (1998, with Bruce Coville, ALA Best Book for Young Adults, ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers)
• The Wizard's Map (1999)
• Queen's Own Fool (2000, with Robert J. Harris)
• Wild Wings: Poems for Young People (2002, with Jason Stemple. National Outdoor Book Award (Children's Category))
• Girl in a Cage (2002, with Robert J. Harris)
• Sword of the Rightful King (2003, ALA Best Books 2004, ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2004, ALA Top 10 Fantasy Books for Youth 2004)
• Prince Across the Water (2004, with Robert J. Harris)
• The Young Merlin Trilogy: Passager, Hobby, and Merlin (2004)
• Pay the Piper: A Rock and Roll Fairy Tale (2005, with Adam Stemple)
• The Rogues (2007, with Robert J. Harris)
• Creepy Monsters, Sleepy Monsters (2011, illustrated by Kelly Murphy)

Selected novellas and novelettes[link]

• "The Devil's Arithmetic" (1988 novella, Nebula Award finalist; 1999, made into a movie starring Kirsten Dunst, Mimi Rogers and Brittany Murphy)
• "Lost Girls" (1998 novelette, Nebula Award winner)

Selected poems[link]

• "Tintagel Morning: Song" (Asimov's Science Fiction, v.14 #4, April 1990)
• "Angels Fly Because They Take Themselves Lightly" (Asimov's Science Fiction, v.15 #14, No.179, December 1991) (1991 Asimov's Readers' Award, poetry)
• "Will" (Broadside, Midsummer Night's Press; The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 1992) (1993 Rhysling Award winner)
• "Lies" (Paradox, Issue 8, Winter 2005-2006)
• "War Memorial: Edinburgh" (Paradox, Issue 8, Winter 2005-2006)
• "Fife Map" (Paradox, Issue 9, Summer 2006)
• "Suzy and Leah"

Short story anthologies edited by Jane Yolen[link]

• Werewolves (1988, with Martin H. Greenberg)
• Xanadu (1992, with Martin H. Greenberg)
• Xanadu 2 (1993, with Martin H. Greenberg)
• Xanadu 3 (1994, with Martin H. Greenberg)
• 2041: Twelve Short Stories About the Future by Top Science Fiction Writers (1994, with Connie Willis and Anne McCaffrey)
• Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens (2005, with Patrick Nielsen Hayden)

Folklore collection edited by Jane Yolen[link]

• Favorite Folktales From Around the World (winner of the World Fantasy Award)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jane Yolen

• Official Website
• Jane Yolen at the Comic Book DB
• Jane Yolen's online writing journal
• Jane Yolen at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Bibliography on SciFan
• 2001 interview with Jane Yolen and a review of Briar Rose
• 2007 interview with Jane Yolen at Childrensbookradio
• Bio at Endicott Studio
• Works by or about Jane Yolen in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Rita Berman Frischer, Biography of Jane Yolen, Jewish Women Encyclopedia

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Lisbee Stainton is an English singer-songwriter with a folk acoustic style and known for her use of a distinctive eight-string guitar.

Biography[link]

Lisbee Stainton was raised in Hamble^[2] and Basingstoke.^[3] She started singing at age 5, and wrote her own songs from the age of 9. She launched her career by becoming the first unsigned singer-songwriter to play The O2 Arena (London) in 2007.^[4]

She was discovered by Tom Robinson when he heard her music on MySpace, and he invited her to play on his BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music radio shows in April 2009. Subsequently her singles "Red" and "Never Quite An Angel" were playlisted on Radio 2 for 5 and 6 weeks respectively, and "Just Like Me" was single of the week on the Radcliffe and Maconie Show.^[3][5]

Stainton toured with Joan Armatrading in April 2010. When BBC Radio 2 attended to record the headline act in Bristol they decided to record Stainton's set too, and aired this on the Radio 2 In Concert programme.^[3][6] She subsequently toured the United Kingdom in September and October 2010 followed by a European tour with concerts in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Norway.^[7]

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Lisbee Stainton on Myspace

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