Michael Crichton passed away yesterday at age 66 after a “courageous and private battle against cancer,” according to his public relations firm’s news release. When I heard the news, I was completely surprised, as I hadn’t even known that he was sick. This comes as depressing news, for I greatly enjoyed many of Crichton’s novels […]
Filed under: Literary News on November 5th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Essential Pictures has acquired the rights to develop Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series into a major motion picture. Randall Wallace (Braveheart, We Were Soldiers) will write the screenplay. No word on a director or cast yet, but Essential hopes to put the project into production by next spring.
I haven’t read the novels myself, but I know […]
Filed under: Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Literary News on October 30th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange by Mark Barrowcliffe is a self-analyzing book about the influence a fantasy role-playing game has on the life of an adolescent and the effects it has on adulthood.
Read the AP article “Dungeons & Dragons Memoir Oozes Nerd Nostalgia” by Dan Scheraga.
Product Description on Amazon:
Summer, 1976. […]
Filed under: Fantasy, Literary News on October 29th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Title: Foundation
Author: Mercedes Lackey
Title: The Pirate King
Author: R.A. Salvatore
Title: City of Jade
Author: Dennis L. McKiernan
Title: The Red Country
Author: Sylvia Kelso
Title: Living with the Dead
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Title: The Company
Author: K.J. Parker
Filed under: Fantasy, Literary News on October 15th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“Peter Vansittart, the English writer who breathed new life into the historical novel by mingling myth with modernity, and by injecting 20th-century preoccupations into historical settings as various as Roman Britain, medieval France and 16th-century Germany, died on Oct. 4, in Ipswich, Suffolk. He was 88 and lived in Kersey.” - […]
Filed under: Literary News on October 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
AP - “A federal judge has dismissed a libel lawsuit filed against best-selling author John Grisham and two other writers over books they wrote about the wrongful conviction of two men in a 1982 murder.”
Read the full story …
Filed under: Literary News on September 18th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The Last Quest: Song of Montsegur by Derek Armstrong
Blending the history of the Albigensians-Cathars and the traditions of the tarot, this second volume in the trilogy continues the wry and engaging epic begun in The Last Troubadour. Ramon, the last troubadour, Dame Esclarmonde de Foix, and their companions have escaped Carcassonne and must fight their […]
Filed under: Middle Ages History, Medieval History, Historical Fiction, Literary News on September 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m about a month late on this news, but this was the first time I read about it. I was on vacation about the time this story came out.
Apparently, Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to make a film adaptation of Robert Jordan’s fantasy Wheel of Time series. The first film in the series will […]
Filed under: Fiction, Fantasy, Books and Movies, Literary News on September 5th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
On Sept. 9, the U.S. publisher of “Harry Potter” will premiere a highly ambitious series with a mystery ending for readers and a couple of puzzlers for the industry. “The 39 Clues” is a planned 10-volume set about young Amy and Dan Cahill and their worldwide search for the secret to their family’s power.
Read the […]
Filed under: Fantasy, Literary News on September 4th, 2008 | No Comments »
Stephenie Meyer’s novels take up a third of the list.
1. Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
2. Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
3. Devil Bones: A Novel (Temperance Brennan Novels) by Kathy Reichs (Scribner)
4. The Gypsy Morph (The Genesis of Shannara, Book 3) by Terry […]
Filed under: Fiction, Literary News on September 4th, 2008 | No Comments »
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