Latest People News
| The Knight Agency reports foreign rights sales for Caine and Hunter | |
| People > Foreign Rights | January 28, 2010 |
| The Knight Agency's latest batch of foreign rights sales includes books by Rachel Caine and Faith Hunter in France and Germany... | |
| Faith Hunter sells five books to Audible.com | |
| People > Audio Book Sales | January 28, 2010 |
| Faith Hunter sold audio rights to the first three Rogue Mage books and the first two Jane Yellowrock novels to Audible.com... | |
| Actress Zelda Rubinstein Dies | |
| People > Obituaries | January 28, 2010 |
| Actress Zelda Rubinstein (1933-2010) came to acting later in life, but will be remembered as the clairvoyant in the Poltergeist films and the organist in Sixteen Candles... | |
| Nick Tosches sells urban vampire novel to Little, Brown | |
| People > Book & Novel Sales | January 27, 2010 |
| Nick Tosches sold a new novel about vampires who move in the bars and streets and subterranean places of New York City's night, to Michael Pietsch at Little, Brown. Expected publication is Autumn 2012. | |
| JABberwocky reports foriegn rights sales for Brett, Buckell, Green, Huff, and Sanderson | |
| People > Foreign Rights | January 27, 2010 |
| JABberwocky Literary Agency's latest batch of foreign rights sales includes books by Peter V. Brett, Simon R. Green, Tanya Huff, and Brandon Sanderson, in Brazil, Czech, Germany, Italy, Russia, and the UK... | |
| Stefan Petrucha sells 18th century vampire Indiana Jones novel to Grand Central | |
| People > Book & Novel Sales | January 27, 2010 |
| Stefan Petrucha sold Blood Prophecy to Alex Logan at Grand Central Publishing, via agent Joe Veltre of The Veltre Company. The books is "set during Napoleon's late-18th-century invasion of Egypt, featuring a 'vampire Indiana Jones' who searches for ancient clues in an effort to become human again." | |
| Elizabeth Moon's Paksenarrion coming to Brilliance Audio | |
| People > Audio Book Sales | January 26, 2010 |
| Agent Joshua Bilmes reports selling audio rights to Elizabeth Moon's Oath of Fealty, and two additional new Paksenarrion novels, to Brilliance. Del Rey will publish Oath of Fealty in hardcover in March. | |
| Actress Jean Simmons Dies | |
| People > Obituaries | January 25, 2010 |
| British-born actress Jean Simmons (1929-2010) received an OBE, one Emmy, and two Golden Globes. She was nominated for many other major awards, and appeared in many high-profile classics... | |
| Actor Pernell Roberts Dies | |
| People > Obituaries | January 25, 2010 |
| Actor Pernell Roberts (1928-2010) was Ben Cartwright's eldest son on Bonanza, and then the title character on Trapper John MD... | |
| Promotions at Weird Tales | |
| People > Publishing Personnel | January 25, 2010 |
| Ann VanderMeer is now Weird Tales' Editor in Chief, Mary Robinette Kowal is the new Art Director, and Paula Guran is the new Nonfiction Editor. Stephen H. Segal is stepping away from the magazine's day-to-day operations... | |
Jay Lake has his hair removed; wonderful photos accompany
Artist Cheyenne Wright hospitalized with unknown ailment
Samit Basu now represented by Zeno Literary Agency
Cat Rambo now represented by Ginger Clark
James Cameron wants to write Avatar prequel novel
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Artist Cheyenne Wright hospitalized with unknown ailment
Samit Basu now represented by Zeno Literary Agency
Cat Rambo now represented by Ginger Clark
James Cameron wants to write Avatar prequel novel
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Lewis Carroll's complete Alice available as audiobook, and free download, from Tantor
Simon R. Green's Blood and Honor to be audiobook through Graphic Audio
Faith Hunter sells five books to Audible.com
Elizabeth Moon's Paksenarrion coming to Brilliance Audio
Charlaine Harris subsidiary rights: Sookie and Harper
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Simon R. Green's Blood and Honor to be audiobook through Graphic Audio
Faith Hunter sells five books to Audible.com
Elizabeth Moon's Paksenarrion coming to Brilliance Audio
Charlaine Harris subsidiary rights: Sookie and Harper
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Tim Akers and Tanya Huff turn in new novels
Huff and Malan turn in newest installments in their series
ATCastro, SGreen, and KRichardson all turn in manuscripts
Jon Sprunk's forthcoming fantasy trilogy sells in Germany
DLEdelman, JCHines, and BSanderson all turn in manuscripts
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Huff and Malan turn in newest installments in their series
ATCastro, SGreen, and KRichardson all turn in manuscripts
Jon Sprunk's forthcoming fantasy trilogy sells in Germany
DLEdelman, JCHines, and BSanderson all turn in manuscripts
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Harry Turtledove sells epic disaster trilogy to Roc
Karen Miller sells new series to Orbit, and continues a pseudonymous series
Josephine Angelini sells "Percy Jackson for girls" YA series to Harper
Kevin D. Anderson sells zombie/trekkie mash-up to Quirk
Terry Brooks sells three more Shannara novels to Del Rey
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Karen Miller sells new series to Orbit, and continues a pseudonymous series
Josephine Angelini sells "Percy Jackson for girls" YA series to Harper
Kevin D. Anderson sells zombie/trekkie mash-up to Quirk
Terry Brooks sells three more Shannara novels to Del Rey
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Charlaine Harris subsidiary rights: Sookie and Harper
Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker to be SFBC Main Selection
John Moore's Slay and Rescue back in print
SFBC to republish John Moore's Slay and Rescue
Sales of Del Rey books by Gunn, Keyes, Novik, and Turtledove
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Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker to be SFBC Main Selection
John Moore's Slay and Rescue back in print
SFBC to republish John Moore's Slay and Rescue
Sales of Del Rey books by Gunn, Keyes, Novik, and Turtledove
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JABberwocky reports foreign rights sales for Bilmes, Brett, Campbell, Castro, Hines, and Huff
Jeff Carlson's Plague Year invades France
Clark Ashton Smith's weird poetry coming back into print
The Knight Agency reports foreign rights sales for Caine, Francis, and Jemisin
JABberwocky reports foreign rights sales for Akers, Campbell, Green, Harris, Richardson, and Sanderson
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Jeff Carlson's Plague Year invades France
Clark Ashton Smith's weird poetry coming back into print
The Knight Agency reports foreign rights sales for Caine, Francis, and Jemisin
JABberwocky reports foreign rights sales for Akers, Campbell, Green, Harris, Richardson, and Sanderson
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Interview with James Enge, conducted by Sara M. Harvey
Interview with SFWA President Russell Davis about the changes to the Nebula Award rules
Interview with James Patrick Kelly, featuring his new collection The Wreck of the Godspeed
Barnes & Noble Review interviews Neal Stephenson and remembers Tom Disch
Interview with Mike Allen, editor of Clockwork Phoenix
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Interview with SFWA President Russell Davis about the changes to the Nebula Award rules
Interview with James Patrick Kelly, featuring his new collection The Wreck of the Godspeed
Barnes & Noble Review interviews Neal Stephenson and remembers Tom Disch
Interview with Mike Allen, editor of Clockwork Phoenix
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New production firm options Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy
Studio 407 sells film option on Night and Fog
Sam Worthington options The Last Days of American Crime
Mandalay Pictures options Unthinkable
Roboticist Daniel H. Wilson sells Robopocalypse to Doubleday and DreamWorks
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Studio 407 sells film option on Night and Fog
Sam Worthington options The Last Days of American Crime
Mandalay Pictures options Unthinkable
Roboticist Daniel H. Wilson sells Robopocalypse to Doubleday and DreamWorks
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Actor Peter Graves Dies
Actor Corey Haim Dies
Actress Nan Martin Dies
British author David Storr Unwin, aka David Severn, dies
Artist Robert McCall Dies
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Actor Corey Haim Dies
Actress Nan Martin Dies
British author David Storr Unwin, aka David Severn, dies
Artist Robert McCall Dies
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Jim Lee and Dan DiDio now copublishers of DC Comics
Pyr now open to some unagented submissions; hires new editorial assistant
BenBella hires Debbie Harmsen as editor-in-chief
Pouya Shahbazian fills FinePrint vacancy left by Brendan Deneen's departure
St. Martin's Press hires agent Brendan Deneen
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Pyr now open to some unagented submissions; hires new editorial assistant
BenBella hires Debbie Harmsen as editor-in-chief
Pouya Shahbazian fills FinePrint vacancy left by Brendan Deneen's departure
St. Martin's Press hires agent Brendan Deneen
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Pequod offers second edition of John F. Carr's Kalvan Kingmaker
Clark Ashton Smith's weird poetry coming back into print
Fred Lerner's The Story of Libraries has a new edition
Del Rey reissuing first three Temeraires as a hardcover with a new story
Bluewater Productions will turn S.E. Hinton's novels into graphic novels
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Clark Ashton Smith's weird poetry coming back into print
Fred Lerner's The Story of Libraries has a new edition
Del Rey reissuing first three Temeraires as a hardcover with a new story
Bluewater Productions will turn S.E. Hinton's novels into graphic novels
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Dozois and Martin's Songs of Love and Death now populated
Bruce Holland Rogers sells more than 1,000 words to Realms of Fantasy
Michelle M. Welch sells story to Realms of Fantasy
Realms of Fantasy's latest purchases; inventory announcement
Albedo One's International Aeon Award 2009 updates: quarterly shortlists and more
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Bruce Holland Rogers sells more than 1,000 words to Realms of Fantasy
Michelle M. Welch sells story to Realms of Fantasy
Realms of Fantasy's latest purchases; inventory announcement
Albedo One's International Aeon Award 2009 updates: quarterly shortlists and more
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Charlaine Harris subsidiary rights: Sookie and Harper
Del Rey to serialize Stephen King & Peter Straub's The Talisman as a comic book
Tor.com buys web-only serialization rights to two graphic novels
Del Rey to graphically adapt Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Patricia Briggs's Alpha and Omega to be comic book series
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Del Rey to serialize Stephen King & Peter Straub's The Talisman as a comic book
Tor.com buys web-only serialization rights to two graphic novels
Del Rey to graphically adapt Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Patricia Briggs's Alpha and Omega to be comic book series
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