Man, the full court press is on for the Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan penned novel, The Strain. I’ve had the pleasure to read an advance copy of the book, and since I don’t seem to be getting to that full on review I’ve been wanting to write, I’ll sum it up here – [...]
Wow. Stephen King went off a little bit on a couple big name authors in a recent interview for USA WEEKEND. Among the choice quotes:
“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s [...]
Hopefully the actual writing will be more interesting than this horrible cover. Oh yeah – and hopefully it’ll become a runaway success and launch a new age of genuine masked vigilantes jumping across rooftops and caving in car roofs across the country.
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Per the below about The End Of Publishing, there’s also the theory that people are still reading books — they’re just all reading the same book. Most notably these days: the unstoppable James Patterson.
What he has done so successfully is not just to launch one or two bestselling crime series, but three – along [...]
New York Magazine has an interesting, if long, article online right now predicting the Death of Print Media again. While the piece makes some interesting and valid points, I think it’s probably erring a little on the side of paranoia. Print media will definitely be undergoing some radical shifts in policies and sweeping changes in [...]
Attention all adult fans of the Harry Potter books. If you really feel that you must go to the Harry Potter Read-A-Thon next month, by all means, please try to act like adults and not overgrown kids. And please, please, please try not to frighten the children there by insisting on dressing up as horrible, [...]
Ballantine, the publisher that’s been churning out those Garfield books since I was a kid ordering them from the school book program, is now going to be putting out a collection of “Garfield Minus Garfield” strips. Not only is this being done with Jim Davis’ blessing, but he’s actually promoting the project!
“Garfield Minus Garfield” is [...]
Man, Marvel’s really been making bank with their Stephen King stuff, and “The Stand” adaptation shouldn’t be any different. This trailer is actually pretty decent, and likely to get yet another wave of non-comic book reading Stephen King fans lining up on Wednesdays for their fix, just like all those Dark Tower minis have done.

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