Bloomsbury Publishing is staving-off plagiarism charges from the estate of one Adrian Jacobs, a little-known supposed fantasy author who created The Adventures of Willy the Wizard No. 1 Livid Land, a 1987 novella of 36 pages which had a very limited distribution.
The suit claims that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire infringes upon Willy [...]
The Leaky Cauldron is reporting that a LEGO Harry Potter video game is confirmed to be in the works, and Warner Brothers has released a press release on the subject.
LEGO® Harry Potter: Years 1-4 will give gamers the chance to experience the magic and adventure of Harry Potter [...]
The manuscript for Lord Sunday, the final book in the seven-part The Keys to the Kingdom series, by Garth Nix, has been delivered to the publisher (Scholastic Press). Nix recently updated his website to reflect this.
There is no final publication date as of yet, though it “right now looks likely to be early-ish in 2010.” [...]
The BBC’s Merlin series, which follows the story of a young Merlin under the rule of king Uther Pendragon, will be airing in the United States on NBC starting June 21, 2009 (Sunday night).
Oft-described as the United Kingdom’s Smallville, the program has gained quite a following during its first season.
The show is set in Camelot, [...]
Bloodhound is the second book in Tamora Pierce’s trilogy centered around Beka Cooper, an ancestor of George Cooper’s (the Rogue from Pierce’s earlier Alanna series). Sequel to Terrier, Bloodhound continues the story of Beka’s life as one of the Provost’s Guard, Tortall’s police, also known as the Dogs.
In Bloodhound, counterfeit coins are flooding Corus, Tortall’s [...]
Inkdeath is the conclusion to the “Inkworld Trilogy,” in which Inkheart is the first book. The installments have become progressively darker, and the latest certainly is no exception. Unlike the first book, it doesn’t have many parts that seem to crawl by. The pace isn’t quick, but it’s set at a fairly moderate pace.
The book [...]
It has been confirmed that the upcoming film adaptation of Tolkien’s The Hobbit will be split into two films, set to be released December 2011 and 2012.
There have long been rumors that there would be a second film bridging the sixty years between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring, but the filmmakers have [...]
Book three in the Looking Glass Wars series will be released on October 15, 2009. It will be titled The Looking Glass Wars: ArchEnemy.
From the looks of things, Amazon put the page up fairly recently, and not many sites reporting the announcement yet. No cover art is listed yet, and there are no synopses or [...]
In Ken Oppel’s Starclimber, Matt Cruse goes to the next level of aeronautics: space. Invited to train for a scientific expedition on the Starclimber, he takes up the offer in a second. (The pay would easily fund his final years at the airship academy.)
Longtime…acquaintance Kate de Vries is invited as well, to go as one [...]
Fantasy Fan has some images up from the soon-to-be-released Wheel of Time graphic novel. The cover, and the first few pages from “The Wheel of Time #0: Dragonmount.” The cover depicts Lews Therin Telemon from the opening of The Eye of the World, and the pages after show the main characters in Emonds Field, listening [...]
