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Florida Atlantic University is awarding Palm Beach Resident and bestselling author James Patterson with an honourary doctorate this May. So far, it has been approved by the Board of Trustees and will be voted on by the entire board in January.

While the Hush, Hush series has now ended, LD Entertainment has optioned the rights to the YA series. The series will be adapted by Patrick Sean Smith (creator of the TV series Greek) and production is expected to be underway in Fall 2013. The series is about a 16 year-old girl named Nora who meets […]

Great-grandson of the great J.R.R. Tolkien, Royd, has commended Peter Jackson and screenwriters Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens on their adaptation of The Hobbit, and mentioned that it was an ambitious decision to adapt the novel into three movies. “Pete, Fran and Philippa are just great and they’re really fans of Tolkien as well, which […]

The final novel written by the late Irish author Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter, has proven to be a major Christmas blockbuster; the biggest of her career. The novel’s sales, published last month by Orion, are up nearly 50% over her previous publication, Minding Frankie.

Ken Follett and Margaret Maron have been named 2013 Grand Masters by the Mystery Writers of America (MWA).

The BBC is adapting J.K. Rowling‘s adult novel The Casual Vacancy for television. The novel is Rowling’s first full-length novel besides her Harry Potter books. Rowling said that BBC is the “perfect home” for the adaptation.

An original piece of hand-coloured Calvin & Hobbes artwork by Bill Watterson has broken the world record for the sale of a comic strip. The original strip was auctioned at Heritage Auctions for $203,150 on November 16th. “A world record price like this is a testament to just how beloved Calvin & Hobbes was and […]

The estate of J.R.R. Tolkien and HarperCollins have filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. for $80 million over using licensed characters from the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit series in online games of various types. The lawsuit alleges that Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema infringed on the contract by licensing the characters out […]

Bryce Courtenay, the most popular Australian author, died on Thursday at home in Canberra. He was 79. He announced that his novel Jack of Diamonds would be his last, due to his battle with stomach cancer. The novel was published earlier this month. His only novel to breakthrough in the United States was The Power […]

With authors like E.L. James and Sylvia Day being all the rage as of late, one may wonder if some of the fiction giants will ever try their hand at erotica. John Grisham recalls his first attempt at writing a sex scene, and the review it garnered from his wife of 31 years, Renee.