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Long before E.L. James had ever written a page of the Fifty Shades trilogy, Anne Rice had published a trilogy of erotic tales called the Sleeping Beauty trilogy. Now, with the popularity of James’ novels, the trilogy Rice published under the pen name A.N. Roquelaure will be re-released. The Sleeping Beauty series is a look […]

E.L. James has become the first author to sell 100,000 copies of three books in a week. James is destroying all records that stand in her way, selling 205,130 copies of Fifty Shades of Grey (the first book in the Fifty Shades trilogy) in only seven days. The next record in Fifty Shades’ path is […]

Three months before it’s set to hit shelves, J.K. Rowling‘s first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy is already set to break the benchmarks set by her Harry Potter series. The story involves a town being ripped apart by a parish council election, but the book is on track to rip apart sales records. Back […]

The Stephen King movie adaptations just keep coming! Stephen King’s novel It is going to be receiving a new adaptation, this time on the big screen and in two parts. The films will be directed by Cary Fukunaga, who directed Jane Eyre. The screenplay will be written by Fukunaga and Chase Palmer.

We recently posted about the possible redevelopment of Arthur Conan Doyle’s former home, Undershaw. Well, it turns out that the high court has determined that the house will not be up for redevelopment. The plan was to convert the house into eight separate houses.

Titan Books and Hard Case Crime have announced that it will publish the upcoming Stephen King novel titled Joyland. King is the world’s best-selling active novelist and has over 300 million books currently in print. The book is set in a North Carolina amusement park back in 1973, where a college student is going to […]

Starting May 30th and ending May 31st, Lost in Infinity by Travis Besecker will be available for free for all Kindle users and Kindle app users. The novel is a psychological thriller about a chronic insomniac who fears infinity. The narrator tries to unlock repressed memories through a schizophrenic relationship with his own subconscious.

The Brevard County Library system in Florida had pulled the Fifty Shades trilogy from its shelves because, after reading reviews (not the books themselves!), they were deemed “semi-pornographic.” However, due to public demand, the libraries have changed their tune and are now going to allowing the Fifty Shades books onto their shelves after all.

Terry Pratchett has won a unique award for his 50th novel, Snuff. The award is the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. His work was referred to as “consistently funny with an acute, satirical view of the world.”

Paramount has re-titled the upcoming Jack Reacher moving starring Tom Cruise. Originally, it was to be titled “One Shot,” which is the title of the novel by Lee Child. Instead, it will be called “Jack Reacher.”