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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.

It appears that the new Jack Ryan film adaptation, titled Jack Ryan, has a release date of December 25th, 2013 from Paramount. The film will star Star Trek’s Chris Pine, as well as Keira Knightley and Kenneth Branagh (who will also direct). Pine and Knightley are signed on for two more films in hopes of […]

Fresh off the latest eBook, A Bloody Storm, Richard Castle will be releasing a graphic novel featuring the Derrick Storm character. The book will be out on October 15th and will be titled Storm Season. In it, Derrick will be tracking down a missing woman…

Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series, is irked by parents who are naming their children after her characters. “I am someone who strongly believes in reality, and that you don’t monkey around with people’s names. Whether they become a stripper or a lawyer has a large part to do with the name you give […]

John Banville, who recently finished his novel Ancient Light will be writing a Philip Marlowe novel under his pen name of Benjamin Black. It would be the first novel featuring the character created by Raymond Chandler since 1991, when Robert B. Parker wrote the novel Perchance to Dream. “This all happened very speedily, in a […]

Now that he’s been cast as Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee in the film version of Catching Fire, Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman is now rushing to read the Suzanne Collins books after enjoying the film script. “It’s a great group of actors. It’s a great environment. And the character was something I was attracted […]