View Post Adaptation | Book Biz ‘Masters of Sex’ Pop-Up Exhibit Opens in New York City By Maryann Yin on Sep. 26, 2013 - 4:23 AM The Masters of Sex pop-up exhibition has opened at the Old Bowery Station in New York City. The exhibit was inspired by the Showtime TV series that adapted Thomas Maier’s biography, Masters of Sex: The Life and Times o ...
View Post Bookselling Stephen King Is the Most Popular Author on Amazon By Jason Boog on Sep. 26, 2013 - 3:23 AM With the release of Doctor Sleep, Stephen King has rocketed to the top of Amazon’s charts this week, currently ranked the most popular author at the online bookseller. The novel is a sequel to King’s The Shinin ...
View Post Adaptation Jennifer Lawrence To Star in ‘East of Eden’ Adaptation By Jason Boog on Sep. 26, 2013 - 2:23 AM Jennifer Lawrence will star in a new adaptation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. The Hunger Games director Gary Ross will develop the project and Anna Culp will executive produce. Literary agency McIntosh & Otis negotiated ...
People 47% of Adults Engaged in Literary Reading Last Year By Jason Boog on Sep. 26, 2013 - 12:23 AM The National Endowment for the Arts released its annual Public Participation in the Arts report, revealing that 54 percent of adults read books that were not required for work or school last year. Are you surprised? Beyond that ...
View Post Social Media Manuscript Wish Lists Hashtag Returns By Jason Boog on Sep. 25, 2013 - 7:07 PM Hundreds of agents, editors and publishers have shared their manuscript wish lists on Twitter yesterday, once again using the popular MSWL hashtag. Below, we’ve created a Storify post linking to many of the posts from the h ...
View Post Bookselling | Digital New Kindle Fire Tablets from Amazon By Jason Boog on Sep. 25, 2013 - 5:08 PM Amazon revealed three new Kindle Fire tablets last night, rolling out a 3.0 edition of the Kindle Fire operating system, a release dubbed “Mojito.” AppNewser has all the details about the new devices. The new models in ...
View Post Book Biz | Publishing ‘Auntie Claus’ Stop-Motion Film On Kickstarter By Maryann Yin on Sep. 25, 2013 - 12:23 PM Athena Studios hopes to raise $38,000 on Kickstarter for a film project. The team will use the funds to develop a pitch package and a stop-motion movie trailer based on a the Auntie Claus picture book. Elise Primavera published ...
View Post Awards Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award Winners for 2013 By Jason Boog on Sep. 25, 2013 - 5:23 AM The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award winners have been revealed, giving $30,000 to six emerging women writers. We’ve included a photo of the winners above. Guest speaker Joan Wickersham stands in the middle and the wi ...
View Post Book Biz Roy Choi Lands Book Deal By Jason Boog on Sep. 25, 2013 - 4:07 AM Kogi truck founder and chef Roy Choi has inked a book deal for a memoir called L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food. Published on November 5th, the memoir will feature 85 recipes, including “Korean fried chicken, carne a ...
View Post Awards Donald Antrim & Karen Russell Receive MacArthur Genius Grants By Jason Boog on Sep. 25, 2013 - 3:23 AM Authors Donald Antrim and Karen Russell were among the 24 creators and thinkers picked as MacArthur Fellows for 2013. These “genius grant” recipients will be the first class of fellows to receive a $625,000 no-str ...