L. Ron Hubbard Stories from the Golden Age Surpass One Million Mark Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/236269#ixzz1Ffc18MvQ

Hollywood, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) March 02, 2011

“Stories from the Golden Age just surpassed its one millionth sale,” announced John Goodwin, President of Galaxy Press, the publisher for the line of books written by L. Ron Hubbard during fiction’s Golden Age. (http://www.goldenagestories.com)

Announced just days before Hubbard’s centennial celebration is about to begin on March 13 (1911-2011), the news is significant in demonstrating the resurgence in popularity for these kinds of stories. While sales do quite well in non-traditional outlets in the US, they are also doing well in several other countries around the world where a desire to learn English as a second language has found these books with their accompanying unabridged audiobooks a great resource. “We are almost to the halfway point in the release of the line,” stated Goodwin. “As awareness of this type of storytelling increases, we expect to rapidly see that two-millionth sale achieved.” For a complete listing of available titles and the schedule for release of the remaining books, go to http://www.goldenagestories.com/release-schedule.

But Hubbard isn’t the only author finding a resurgence in interest in his stories. Adventure House, Vintage Library, and Black Dog Books are three other publishers who have engaged an expanding audience through their reprints of such notable authors as H. Bedford-Jones, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Sales continue to increase as readers discover that many of their favorite characters, such as Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones, Superman and Spiderman, have their roots in such perennially popular characters as Doc Savage, The Spider and The Shadow. “Hollywood has long known the treasure trove these Golden Age stories contained,” Goodwin stated, “now we are seeing the reader becoming more and more cognizant of this fact.”

Stories from the Golden Age contain 153 stories written by Hubbard that are being published in 80 volumes, in a wide spectrum of genres, including adventure, western, mystery, detective, fantasy, science fiction and even some romance, using his own and 15 pen names.

For more information about the Stories from the Golden Age, go to http://www.goldenagestories.com.

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^{I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— Scientology Founder, L. Ron Hubbard}

CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE

The Church of Scientology has since its inception been a champion of human rights. The Creed of the Church, written in 1954 by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard, begins with the statement that Man is an immortal spiritual being and that all people of any race, color or creed are created with equal and inalienable rights.

In fulfillment of that ideal, decades of human rights advocacy and accomplishment by Scientologists have ensued, including exposing slave labor camps in apartheid-era Africa, spearheading Freedom of Information laws in the U.S. and other countries, establishing the Citizens Commission on Human Rights to clean up human rights violations in the field of mental healing, and publishing Freedom human rights journal since 1968.

“It is vital that all thinking men urge upon their governments (for the governments’ own sake if no other) sweeping reforms in the field of human rights,” stated Mr. Hubbard in 1969. To that end, today the Church sponsors the world’s largest non-governmental human rights information campaign, aimed at raising awareness and calling for governments to meaningfully support and ensure human rights.

The Church has made possible the distribution of millions of educational booklets, the creation of a series of 30 public service announcements depicting each article of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and production of The Story of Human Rights film.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard

L. RON HUBBARD

L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) is the Founder of the Scientology religion. The first Church of Scientology was established by Scientologists in Los Angeles in 1954 and today spans the globe with more than 9,000 Churches, Missions and affiliated groups in 165 countries.

Mr. Hubbard’s researches into the mind and spirit are available in materials that include 18 volumes of technical writings, 12 volumes of administrative works and 3,000 recorded lectures describing various aspects of Dianetics and Scientology. Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, his best-known work, has appeared on 600 bestseller lists since 1950 and sold 22 million copies. His body of fiction and nonfiction works comprises more than 100 million words.

L. Ron Hubbard left an extraordinary legacy: an immense body of wisdom that leads Man to spiritual freedom; the fastest-growing religion in the world today; and an organizational structure that allows the religion to expand without limit.

Mr. Hubbard also wrote extensively on the subjects of education, drug rehabilitation, morals and many other areas and developed technologies with broad application in secular programs including Narconon, Criminon, Applied Scholastics and The Way to Happiness.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard