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 [...]
In this 4th book of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The second trailer for the film adaption of Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart is now online. Inkheart is currently set to be released on January 9, 2009 (USA), though it was originally intended to have been released earlier this year. The film was pushed back because they feared that their TV ads wouldn’t be seen with the [...]
Scott Westerfeld said that, as of July 6, he has written 56,717 words of his upcoming book Leviathan. He says that there are about 20,000 to go.
The book, to be part one of a trilogy, is set in an alternate world, around 1914-1915. It’s a sort of fantasy/sci-fi type book featuring “living airships,” of a [...]
Runemarks by Joanne Harris is fantasy with a strong base in Norse mythology. The book is set five hundred years after Ragnarók, the Norse battle bringing the end of the worlds. The general idea is that the Norse gods, known as the Æsir, lost the battle, and another took over, calling himself The Nameless, as [...]
Season 8 of Smallville will begin on September 18, 2008. The first episode, Odyssey, will continue not long after the dramatic ending in season 7’s final epsidode, Arctic. Following the destruction of the Fortress, Clark and Lex are missing in the Arctic, Clark without powers again for some reason, and the Justice League goes to [...]
Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox is the sixth, and supposedly final, book in Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series.
At the end of the previous book, The Lost Colony, Artemis returns to Ireland three years after he left, though no time passed for him. (I wasn’t a huge fan of The Lost Colony; it just wasn’t as [...]
The first book in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series is on it’s way to becoming a movie. Film rights were recently bought by Universal, and the film will be made in partnership with Red Eagle Entertainment.
Universal Pictures has acquired film rights to the late Robert Jordan’s bestselling “The Wheel of Time” novel series in [...]
