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Olivia Ferrante DiRuffano, a 17 year-old prospective author, recently won a contest to have her work published in a book by James Patterson. She says she’s wanted to be an author since she was in Grade 6. She found out she won the Nevermore Fanfiction Writing Contest in June. “I had to resist the urge […]

Stephen King has announced that after a long delay, Doctor Sleep will be released on September 24th, 2013. The book was originally set for a January 2013 release, but King required more time for editing and had many different projects on the go, including Joyland, which will be out in June 2013.

British supermarket giant Tesco has purchased Andy McNab‘s eBook website Mobcast for a reported £4.5 million (of which the Nick Stone author will apparently get over £1m). The Mobcast website allows users to download eBooks to mobile devices including phones and tablets.

HarperCollins is starting up a new imprint of paperback mysteries called Bourbon Street Books. The line will include original novels, reprints and backlisted novels priced at $14.99 in trade paperback format. The imprint will be overseen by Jonathan Burnham and Cal Morgan.

Peter Jackson’s Hobbit series, based on the books by J.R.R. Tolkien, now have new titles and release dates that have been announced. Warner Bros. has announced that the second film will now be titled “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” with a release date of December 13, 2013. The third film will now be titled […]

While Rizzoli & Isles series is a much enjoyed cable television series based on a crime fiction series, the Tess Gerritsen is not the only one of its kind to receive that treatment. Kathy Reichs has authored 15 Tempe Brennnan novels, which has been adapted to the Fox television series “Bones.”

Believe it or not, not all authors are looking to cash-in at the first opportunity at the expensive of losing their creative freedom. Some authors, like independent author Ruth Cardello – a New York Times Bestseller, prefer to work independently and can even be quite successful. Ruth recently turned down a seven-figure book deal. Fellow […]

Seeing The Hunger Games books on a bestseller list is no surprise, but this week Gregor the Overlander, the first book in Suzanne Collins‘ Underland Chronicles has broken onto USA Today’s bestseller list. The book, which was released in 2004, is at #11 on the list. It made the list one time before, all the […]

98-99% of all books are currently out of print, for various reasons. It could be that they aren’t popular to justify printing them continually, maybe the author doesn’t want the book out there. BookFinder.com has put out a list of the top 13 out-of-print books ranked by popularity (or demand). Hopefully we’ll be seeing some […]

The sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and second movie in the Millennium series, The Girl Who Played With Fire, doesn’t look to be hitting screens for quite a while. The idea was for it to be released in late 2013, but screenwriter Steven Zaillian is still writing the screenplay.