Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Breaking Dawn news:
Casting rumours suggest that the producers have found the girl to play Renesmee although this is all rumoured right now but the movie will start shooting this Fall and will be split into two parts.

Producers have also said that the birth scene in Breaking Dawn will be visceral and intense but wont focus on the blood but on Bella’s point of view.

Sony has just announced its new ereaders, which will be available soon. All of the new models feature new Pearl screens and will have touch screens, however they wont be as cheap as the new Kindle which I think is pretty disappointing. And even though they have more of a push and market outside the US. I personally think that the Kindle which has finally got full support and now cheaper books will …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Random House has annouced it has a reached an agreement with the Wylie Agency after they had stated they was going to offer their client’s books directly to Amazon. Random House will instead be distributing the books under their own name – whether this agreement has a higher royalty rate remains to be seen but it looks like it is very likely and this might lead to similar deals with other authors and publishers.

Laurell K Hamilton has recently blogged about writing and what it means to her but has commented that…

“Some very successful writers don’t seem to feel that emotional connection to their work, or at least not to the degree I do. I used to envy them until I realized the price of that cool distance. They write like they feel with less depth, …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

After making many of his publications, including The Times, Ruper Murdoch is starting up a new newspaper but only for ipads and android phones. This will also behind a paywall but the news offerings will be compatible for mobile devices, whether this will be a successful venture or not is up in the air, especially since Murdoch’s online publications have lost a large percentage of their readers since they went behind a paywall.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the leading children’s publisher has joined forces with Paramount Pictures, Participant Media and Walden Media to donate 100 thousand dollars worth of books to struggling libraries. This is to coincide with the release of Paramount’s Waiting for Superman movie which tells of a the current crisis that libraries are facing in the USA about lack of funds for getting books and …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

This week it has been pretty quiet, but there has been quite a few long awaited book covers being released with blurbs and excerpts for the next year or so. So we will start with that this week. =)

First up – Shannon Delany has announced and posted the title of her followup to 13 to Life. Secrets and Shadows will be out February 15th 2011.  You can also check out the excerpt here which will help to cope with that cliffhanger from the first book!Karen Mahoney who has written short stories in The Eternal Kiss and Kiss Me Deadly anthologies has posted the cover for her upcoming full novel The Iron Witch here, which looks absolutely gorgeous.

While the final book in the Weather …

13 to Life by Shannon Delany

Format Read: Bought bookNumber of Pages: 308 pagesRelease Date: June 22nd 2010Publisher: St Martins GriffinFormats Available: Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Book Depository UK, Book Depository US

Book Blurb:
Something strange is stalking the small town of Junction…

When junior Jess Gillmansen gets called out of class by Guidance, she can only presume it’s for one of two reasons. Either they’ve finally figured out who wrote the scathing anti-jock editorial in the school newspaper or they’re hosting yet another intervention for her about her mom. Although far from expecting it, she’s relieved to discover Guidance just wants her to show a new student around—but he comes with issues of his own including a police escort.
The newest member of Junction High, Pietr Rusakova has secrets to hide–secrets that will bring big trouble to the small town of Junction—secrets …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

A New Jersey library removes all copies of Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology. Despite the fact there was no good reason why this happened the the library director used child porn as an excuse. The ACLU have found out that a rightwing conservative group contacted the Library director to remove all copies even though there was no formal challenge was filed to the library. The matter is now being investigated by the ACLU.

Colleen Gleason has announced a new vampire series which is not related to her Gardella Vampire Chronicals. The new series will start in 2011 and will feature the Draculia.
“In 2011 readers will meet a whole new world of vampires who mingle with the haute ton in 19th century London. Called the Draculia, these vampires are strong and sexy, and a …

Review: Ruthless by Anne Stuart

Format Read: eARCNumber of Pages: 400Release Date: August 1st, 2010Publisher: MiraFormats Available: Mass Market Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK

I received this book as a review copy from the publisher through netgalley.Book Blurb:

Few outsiders will ever witness the dark misdeeds of the Heavenly Host. And among this secret society, where exiled Georgian aristocrats gather to indulge their carnal
desires, fewer still can match the insatiable appetite of their chief provocateur, the mysterious Viscount Rohan.
Pursuit of physical pleasure is both his preferred pastime and his most pressing urge, until he encounters the fascination of a woman who won’t be swayed. And while
his dark seduction appalls the pure and impoverished Elinor Harriman, she finds herself intrigued…and secretly drawn to the man behind the desire.

My Thoughts:
I am a huge fan …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

A followup to my last post the other week about rumours that Janet Evanovich was leaving St Martin. It was just announced that she has signed up to a 2 year deal with Random House – for two Stephanie Plum books and for two of her new spinoff series which features Diesel from the inbetween books.

Leeanna Renee Hieber announced the title for her third novel in her Strangely Beautiful Series: The Perilous Phrophecy of Guard and Goddess will be released in Spring 2011. 
Leanna will also be in London (hooray!) next week and she will have a signing at the Forbidden Planet at Shaftesbury Avenue. Signing starts at 6pm and should end 7pm – if any Uker’s cannot make it you can preorder a signed copy directly at their site.Full details of the signing and preorder info.

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Dark Shadows, the classic vampire tv show is being made into a movie and the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies will be scripting it. Johnny Depp and Tim Burton are attached to the project. I wonder if any Regency zombies will appear?

And more movie news:David Fincher is slated to direct the Hollywood version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. He has a shortlist of potential actresses to play the lead role and will be filmed later this year.

Amazon has announced that Kindle books are outselling Hardbacks this week and it is another sign that ebooks are taking on with consumers.

Amazon has also announced an exclusive deal to publish 20 ebooks from the Wylie agency and its the first of its kind deal.

John Sargent from Macmillan has responded to this …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Have you ever wondered what Curran was thinking in important key scenes in the Kate Daniels Series? Well Ilona Andrews is giving away the free Curran point of views that been posted at their blog and has been compiled in a wonderful short omnibus. It is available for download at Smashwords – link here. Good news is that there will be more key scenes in the future!

Janet Evanovich has left St Martin Press due to the collapse of discussions about the renewing of her contract for which she received around 10 million dollars for each book. But due to several reports her son who is also her agent is negotiating for 50 million dollars for the next four books. Whether another publisher will pick her up with these new terms is up in the air especially when most publishers …