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Actor Rob Lowe is set to write his memoirs! The 46-year old actor is planning to put memories to paper in a book called “Stories I Only Tell My Friends“, which will be published by Henry Holt and Co. They say it will be released in May 2011. Lowe has been acting for four decades, […]
Well done Neil Gaiman! He has made history by being the first author to win both the UK and the US awards for children’s books. A while back Gaiman discovered he had won the Newbery Medal for his book The Graveyard Book but yesterday he won the Cilip Carnegie Award also. He told BBC Breakfast […]
I have bad news for all you Twilight fans (yes, for me too): Stephenie Meyer is “burnt out on vampires” which means she has stopped writing Midnight Sun – the novel which was to be set from Edward’s viewpoint. Gutted? I am too. She is quoted as saying: “I want to wait until I’m excited […]
Amazon.com and Penguin Group came together to provide authors with the chance to win the Breakthrough Novel award. There are two winners – one for general fiction and one for young adult fiction. And the 2010 winners have been announced: General Fiction Patricia McArdle: Farishta Synopsis: Patricia McArdle, a resident of Arlington, Va., is a […]
OK, you can admit it: are you a Glee fan? If so, you will be pleased to know that Little, Brown Books for Younger Readers have a publishing contract to release books that are Glee-related. The first book to be released will be called Glee, the Beginning, which will be a prequel to the show. […]
Are you a Twilight fan? Do you already own The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer? If so, you are one of the many who have helped this book hit the bestsellers list, after just one day of sales! On the first day of release, Bree Tanner sold 90,000 copies, sending it […]
Have you ever received a reading list? Maybe even a summer reading list? I did, and I loved them! But the UN and American high school students don’t it seems. Louise Arbour has been quoted as saying: “Children should be free to play while the sun is shining. If they want to take a book […]
Well it seems that Neil Gaimon’s novel The Graveyard Book is to made into a film after all. The director will be Neil Jordan, who will also write the screenplay material. This is not the first Gaimon book to be made into a film. His works Stardust and Coraline have also become movies. The Graveyard […]
It has come to my attention that Jeffrey Deaver – author of books such as The Bone Collector will be writing the next James Bond novel. It is believed it will be ready for May 2011 and set in the present day. Deaver is quoted here saying: “For one reason or another I have learned […]
Random House Children’s Books have announced that they will be releasing Ellie Irving’s début novel, which is titled For The Record. The story follows Luke who is a 10 year old about to start senior school a year earlier. He is extremely nervous but when his home town is threatened he steps up to prove […]