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Ian Rankin has announced that the next Inspector Rebus novel, Standing in Another Man’s Grave will be released on November 8th.

Fans of Dean Koontz and his Odd Thomas series are hitting the bookstores, whether in person or online, to pick up the fifth book in the series – Odd Apocalypse. Odd Thomas is a thriller/horror series, focusing on a fry cook in California who can communicate with the dead. In addition to the now five […]

BBC News has reported that popular Irish novelist Maeve Binchy has passed away at the age of 72 following a brief illness. Maeve penned a number of bestsellers, including Circle of Friends, Evening Class, Heart and Soul, Tara Road and Minding Frankie.

Stephen King is currently working on the sequel to The Shining, Doctor Sleep, but meanwhile Warner Bros. is looking at a film prequel to the film directed by the late Stanley Kubrick. The studio has contacted writer/producer Laeta Kalogridis and partners Bradley Fischer and James Vanderbilt about working on a story for the potential sequel.

Before accepting the role of Sherlock Holmes in CBS’ new show “Elementary,” Jonny Lee Miller first got the blessing of friend Benedict Cumberbatch. Cumberbatch has been playing the role on the BBC show “Sherlock” since 2010. Miller says he is a fan of Cumberbatch’s work on the British show, but says his portrayal will be […]

Add bestselling authors Jeffrey Archer and David Baldacci to the list of authors Amazon.co.uk is now offering for the low price of 20p in eBook format. Amazon is offering Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer and Zero Day by David Baldacci for 20p. Other titles to be offered for the super-low price include The […]

It is now official – Peter Jackson has made The Hobbit series into trilogy. The Lord of the Rings director says that after he cut the first film and part of the second, that there was enough material to produce a third. Jackson says that much of J.R.R. Tolkien‘s story would remain untold in film […]

Scholastic has announced that over 50 million copies of the popular The Hunger Games series have been sold in print and digital formats. Since the series first came out in Fall 2008, the series has seen steady growth in sales. The 50 million figure includes 23 million copies of The Hunger Games, 14 million of […]

Eric Van Lustbader, best known nowadays as the current author of the Jason Bourne series (taking over from series creator Robert Ludlum), has decided to follow in the footsteps of Jackie Collins and J.K. Rowling and go the self-publishing route. Authors are getting the rights back for their backlisted eBooks and making them available on […]

Janet Evanovich has signed a deal with Random House to add four more novels to her Stephanie Plum series. In addition to that, she is going to be writing a four book series with Lee Goldberg.