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YA GalleyChat, Tuesday, May 21

Nora Rawlinson — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:00:17 +0000

Join us for YA GalleyChat to discuss forthcoming YA titles. Tuesday, May 21 at 4 p.m., Eastern (3:30 for virtual cocktails) Hashtag #ewyagc. More details here.

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 [...]

Kids New Title Radar, Week of 5/13

Lisa Von Drasek — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:34:06 +0000

Next week continues the picture book palooza we’ve experienced this apring, so we’re devoting most of this column to a few of the notables, and just one of the dozens of YA titles that will also arrive. Our downloadable spreadsheet lists the titles mentioned here as well as dozens more, Kids New Title Radar, Week [...]

WONDER To the Movies

Nora Rawlinson — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:14:35 +0000

Last year’s word-of-mouth debut phenomenon Wonder, R.J. Palacio, (RH/ Knopf Young Readers; Brilliance Audio), which is still a #1 NYT best seller after 23 weeks, is being adapted by Lionsgate, reports Deadline. Hired as the screenwriter is Jack Thorne, whose credits include How I Live Now, based on the novel by Meg Rosoff, currently in pre-production [...]

DIVERGENT News

Nora Rawlinson — Thu, 09 May 2013 19:32:51 +0000

The cover for the third and final book in the YA Divergent trilogy, Allegiant (HarperCollins/Tegen; Dreamscape audio; both, 10/22/13), by Veronica Roth is revealed today on Entertainment Weekly‘s YA-obsessed blog, “Shelf Life.” In Divergent movie news, the film adaptation only began shooting recently, with a plan to open on March 21 of next year, but the producers are clearly [...]

WORLD’S STRONGEST LIBRARIAN Interviewed in USA TODAY

Nora Rawlinson — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:16:22 +0000

Salt Lake City librarian Josh Hanagarne is interviewed in today’s issue of USA Today for his book, The World’s Strongest Librarian, (Penguin/Gotham. 5/2/13). Both weight lifting and books have helped him deal with his Tourette’s. About being a librarian, he says, “As a breed, we’re the ultimate generalists. I’ll never know everything about anything, but [...]

MORTAL INSTRUMENTS, The Sequel

Nora Rawlinson — Wed, 08 May 2013 22:25:20 +0000

Somebody must like it. The movie adaptation of The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones doesn’t arrive in theaters until August 23, but the team behind it is planning on a rematch of stars Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower in the sequel, The Mortal Instruments: City Of Ashes, with production set to begin this fall. There’s plenty more material. Cassandra Clare’s series consists [...]

Tom Hanks Is CAPTAIN PHILLIPS

Nora Rawlinson — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:42:22 +0000

Tom Hanks’ next movie role is based on Captain Richard Phillips’ memoir, A Captain’s Duty, about the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the unarmed merchant marine ship he commanded. Phillips became a national hero by courageously leading his crew to safety. Titled Captain Phillips, it is directed by Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Ultimatum, The [...]

AGATHA Award Winners

Nora Rawlinson — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:43:53 +0000

The Agatha Awards were announced on Saturday, just two days after the Edgars. Among the many well-known authors and publishers picking up awards, including Louise Penny who won Best Novel for The Beautiful Mystery (Macmillan/Minotaur), was small independent Dallas publisher Henery Press, winning Best First Novel with Lowcountry Boil by Susan M. Boyer. The Childrens/Young Adult award went [...]