Dragonmount Interviews Red Eagle Entertainment Regarding WoT Movie

Dragonmount.com recently interviewed Red Eagle Entertainment in regards to the upcoming Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World movie. The brief transcript is now available on their website, and covers quite a lot of ground.
Red Eagle Entertainment optioned the WHEEL OF TIME property through a subsidiary about five years ago. Simply put, an option [...]

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Anelli’s “Harry, A History” Makes New York Times Bestseller List

Melissa Anelli’s book “Harry, a History“ has made the New York Times Bestseller List.
The book will be included in the October 18 edition of the New York Times, a Sunday edition in case you don’t have a calendar handy.
Harry, a History is Melissa’s retelling of the whole Harry Potter phenomenon. As one of the higher-ups [...]

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Melting Stones

Tamora Pierce’s latest book Melting Stones, which just recently came out in hardcover, is a first-person account by the stone mage Evvy previously introduced in Street Magic. Evvy and Rosethorn traven to the Battle Islands, along with Dedicate Myrrhtide and the talking rock (a.k.a “Heart of a Mountain”) Luvo, to investigate occurances of dying plants [...]

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The “Old Kingdom” Trilogy to Have Two New Books

Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom series, which currently includes Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen, will be expanding from a trilogy to a 5-part series. The last book in the series was released bak in 2003, and Nix’s fans have likely been wanting more.
The next book, to be the fourth in the series, is currently titled Clariel: The [...]

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The Battle of the Labyrinth

The Battle of the Labyrinth (by Rick Riordan) is the fourth book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, an interesting series that brings the ancient Greek gods to the modern day United States. Witty and quite different to anything else out there, the books really grab your attention and draw you in. (The [...]

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International Teaser Trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

A new trailer for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie has been released, clocking in at one minute and thirty-two seconds. It shows much more than the previous U.S. teaser trailer did, featuring a longer clip of the “ring of fire” in the cave scene (when the Inferi attack), and many other [...]

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“Harry, A History” Coming November Fourth

Melissa Anelli’s new book, Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon, is set to be released on November 4, 2008.
For those who don’t know, Melissa is one of the key people behind The Leaky Cauldron and PotterCast, some of the biggest parts of [...]

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The Wheel of Time: The Shadow Rising

In this 5th book, the series is getting complicated. There are four main threads to the storyline, with the characters going off in different directions, plus more sub-threads to be continued later.
The book starts with Rand al’Thor in charge of the Stone of Tear (fortress) with the lords and ladies walking on eggshells and plotting [...]

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Garth Nix: “Several steps closer to a SABRIEL film”

Garth Nix says that his fantasy book Sabriel is likely to become a movie sometime in the next few years. While there is no news of a movie studio optioning the film rights yet, Mr. Nix is trying to solve that problem. He has put together a package deal that he is trying to sell [...]

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“Melting Stones” is Now Available

Tamora Pierce’s new book Melting Stones is now available in hardcover in the U.S. and Canada, according to the author’s website.
The book was released over a year ago as an audio book, which has since won a few awards. It is just now being released in print format.
This is a continuation of Pierce’s Circle of [...]

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