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Red Alert: Hot E-Galley

Nora Rawlinson — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:28:29 +0000

During this week’s YA GalleyChat, our EarlyWord Kids Correspondent, Lisa Von Drasek raved about Elizabeth Wein’s forthcoming Rose Under Fire, (Disney/Hyperion, 9/10/13) a companion novel to last year’s Code Name Verity. We’ve just learned that it is now available on NetGalley — perfect timing for Memorial Day reading. Click here to link directly. Both books are [...]

Based on The Book: BEHIND THE CANDELABRA

Nora Rawlinson — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:37:13 +0000

Images of Michael Douglas as Liberace in the HBO film, Behind the Candelabra, seem to be everywhere; at the Cannes Film Festival where it premiered yesterday, on magazine covers and in reviews (even in BusinessWeek). American audiences will get their first look at the movie on HBO on May 26. Yesterday, Terry Gross interviewed the director, [...]

Real Nurse Jackies

Nora Rawlinson — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:32:00 +0000

Currently at #19 on Amazon sales rankings and rising is an anthology of essays by nurses, I Wasn’t Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse, published by the small press, In Fact Books, which also publishes the quarterly magazine, Creative Nonfiction. It is reviewed in the NYT today by Jane [...]

YA GalleyChat Today; #ewyagc

Nora Rawlinson — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:30:49 +0000

Chat has ended — please join us for the next one, on June 18, 4 to 5 p.m., Eastern.

AS COOL AS I AM, Trailer

Nora Rawlinson — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:16:19 +0000

Claire Danes, who began her career with the realistic portrayal of a teenager in the TV series, My So-Called Life, will soon appear on the big screen as the mother of a teenage girl, in As Cool As I Am, based on a coming-of-age novel by Pete Fromm. Published in 2004, Kirkus said it explores “the sexual evolution of [...]

Alex Morgan’s Debut Is A Best Seller

Nora Rawlinson — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:50:52 +0000

Olympic gold medal soccer player Alex Morgan, currently playing for the Portland Thorns, scores with the first book in a planned middle grade series, The Kicks. Book one, Saving the Team (S&S Young Readers), debuts on the NYT Middle Grade Best Seller list at #7 during its in its first week on sale. The second book in [...]

Backlist Title Debuts As A NYT Best Seller

Nora Rawlinson — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:27:18 +0000

Best Seller lists used to be the domain of newly-released titles, but e-books are beginning to change that. The Oracle Glass, by Judith Merkle Riley, a title originally published in 1994, was released by Sourcebooks last fall in both trade paperback and as a $1.99 e-book. On May 6, it was offered as both a Kindle [...]

“New Adult” Hits the NYT YA List

Nora Rawlinson — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:09:05 +0000

The “New Adult” genre has been labeled as the hot new category by the media (see USA Today and the NYT). Many of the titles had their success as self-published e-books, showing up on combined best seller lists, such as USA Today‘s and the NYT‘s combined adult lists. One of the first “New Adult” titles to [...]

Kids New Title Radar, Week of May 20

Lisa Von Drasek — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:04:56 +0000

Landing next week are several titles from big names who need no introductions. John Grisham continues his series featuring 13-year-old legal prodigy, Theodore Boone (you may have to squint to see the title on the cover; it’s The Activist) … Friends Elephant & Piggie return in their 19th adventure in Mo Willems’ A Big Guy [...]

New Title Radar, Week of May 20

Nora Rawlinson — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:56:08 +0000

Hotly anticipated ever since its release was announced in January, the big book of next week is Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed. Can it live up to expectations set by the author’s previous titles? Entertainment Weekly thinks so … A debut that begins in another strife-torn area of the world, We Need New Names gets a rare advance rave from the NYT‘s Michiko Kakutani [...]

This Year’s Commencement Hit

Nora Rawlinson — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:52:53 +0000

Neil Gaiman’s Make Good Art speech to Philadelphia’s University of the Arts’ 2012 graduating class became a viral hit. Released in book form (HarperCollins/Morrow) this week, it is rising on Amazon. John Green’s speech to the graduating class of Butler University may not be far behind. Predating both of them is David Foster Wallace’s speech to Kenyon College in 2005, [...]

The Real SANTINI

Nora Rawlinson — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:03:12 +0000

Pat Conroy’s beloved novel The Great Santini is based on the author’s troubled relationship with his abusive father. In October, Conroy will publish a memoir, The Death of Santini, (RH/Nan A. Talese; RH Audio; RH Large Print) which, according to the publisher, describes how the two became closer and that love can “conquer even the meanest of [...]

Alice in Wonderland

Nora Rawlinson — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:39:57 +0000

At their Upfront Presentations yesterday, ABC debuted a trailer for Once Upon A Time In Wonderland, a spinoff of the Once Upon a Time series. It is scheduled to begin this fall on Thursdays at 8 p.m. (Once Upon a Time begins its third season on Sundays). This is a bit confusing since rival network NBC greenlighted a [...]

S.H.I.E.L.D. Trailer

Nora Rawlinson — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:44:30 +0000

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., a spinoff of the The Avengers film, will debut as a series on ABC this fall on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. Director Joss Whedon presented the trailer yesterday to media and advertisers gathered in New York for the network’s Upfront Prsentations. In October, Marvel will release S.H.I.E.L.D.: Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. illus. by Paul Neary, text [...]

LONE SURVIVOR Movie Scheduled

Nora Rawlinson — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:45:22 +0000

The long-running 2007 bestseller, Lone Survivor (Hachette/Little, Brown), Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell’s memoir about how he survived a failed 2005 mission to capture a Taliban leader in Afghanistan, has been adapted as a movie that was just scheduled for release on Jan. 10, 2014. Directed by Peter Berg (Battleship and Friday Night Lights), it stars Mark Wahlberg [...]

DOWNTON ABBEY, Season 4 Begins Jan. 5

Nora Rawlinson — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:42:59 +0000

Downton Abbey returns to PBS for an eight-week run, beginning January 5, 2014. American fans will again be frustrated as spoilers emerge from the UK where the series debuts in the fall. As we wrote earlier, both Shirley MacLaine and Maggie Smith will return to the show. However, Siobhan Finneran, who played the conniving lady’s maid O’Brien, will [...]

ABOUT A BOY On NBC’S Fall Schedule

Nora Rawlinson — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:50:51 +0000

Of the 5 pilots based on books that NBC had green lighted, only About a Boy, is definitely on the fall schedule (although it may be based more on the movie, starring Hugh Grant, than the book by Nick Hornby). It was included in the upfront presentations to media and advertisers on Monday. Starring Minnie Driver and David [...]

Icabod Crane Meets Starbucks; DELIRIUM Gets a Pass

Nora Rawlinson — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:40:39 +0000

Among the new series that FOX just announced for its fall lineup, is a loose adaptation of a classic, about a captain from the Revolutionary War named Ichabod who lands in the present day via a time warp and becomes a detective. The trailer for Sleepy Hollow, scheduled for Monday nights, has just been released. FOX announced [...]

Faulkner & Fitzgerald

Nora Rawlinson — Mon, 13 May 2013 22:18:25 +0000

While F. Scott Fitzgerald is hitting it big at the box office, the hot trailer of the week is based on a book by fellow Hollywood screenwriter, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying. The movie, which will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this month, is directed by James Franco, who also stars. It is not yet [...]

A Reason to Love Memoirs Again

Nora Rawlinson — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:51:19 +0000

In a review that will be appear in the print NYT tomorrow, Dwight Garner writes that Emma Brockes’s account of trying to piece together the mysteries of her mother’s past, She Left Me the Gun (Penguin Press), is “…one of those memoirs that remind you why you liked memoirs in the first place, back before every featherhead in [...]

Live On-Line Chat with Anton DiSclafani

adcSTUDIO — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:30:56 +0000

First Review of INFERNO

Nora Rawlinson — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:56:02 +0000

The onslaught of coverage of Dan Browns Inferno, (RH/Doubleday; RH Audio; BOT Audio; RH/Vintage espanol; RH large print), releasing tomorrow, continues today with the first review, by Janet Maslin’s in the New York Times. An unabashed Dan Brown/Robert Langdon fan, she is equally enthusiastic about this new outing. Reviewing The Da Vinci Code in 2003, she [...]

John Green Defends THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Leads

Nora Rawlinson — Sun, 12 May 2013 23:52:36 +0000

On Saturday, news emerged that Ansel Elgort had been cast to play Gus, the love interest of Shailene Woodley’s Hazel in the upcoming adaptation of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, (Penguin/Dutton). Within hours, Green posted a spirited defense of the choice on his Tumblr page. Green noted, “There seems to be some concern [...]

VAMPIRE ACADEMY’s Latest Enrollees

Nora Rawlinson — Sun, 12 May 2013 23:19:24 +0000

Set to begin shooting in London at the end of the month, Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters, the adaptation of the first in a series by Richelle Mead (Penguin/Razorbill), is busily adding new cast members. The leads were cast in February. Zoey Deutch, who had a supporting role in Beautiful Creatures, will star as Rose Hathaway, newcomer Lucy [...]

New Title Radar, Week of 5/13

Nora Rawlinson — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:49:09 +0000

The blockbuster of the summer, Dan Brown’s Inferno, (RH/Doubleday), arrives on Tuesday, with an announced 4 million copy first printing, forcing below the radar any other title that dares to show its cover next week. But a few other books will appear; some publishers use the reverse logic that the increased foot traffic in stores works [...]