Authors | Awards | Publishing Carl Hiaasen on Bringing Skink to Teens By Deborah Jensen on Oct. 7, 2014 - 5:20 PM #1 New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen talked recently to Newsday about bringing Skink — the beloved vigilante ex-gov of Florida whose unique brand of swamp-justice has made him a star of six Hiaasen adult novels — ...
View Post Adaptation | Publishing Gillian Flynn on Gone Girl: “It’s a Story About Storytelling.” By Deborah Jensen on Oct. 2, 2014 - 6:00 PM Crafting the screenplay that would take her bestseller Gone Girl from page to reel, in a film by David Fincher and starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, Gillian Flynn was comfortable with her three (yes, three) lead characters ...
View Post Authors Lena Dunham’s Wild Ride – Reinventing the Book Tour By Deborah Jensen on Sep. 30, 2014 - 2:35 PM She’s got ‘Portlandia’ star Carrie Brownstein and novelist Zadie Smith, ‘Prep” and ‘American Wife’ author Curtis Sittenfeld, poetry, live music, and food trucks, plus a set of artists whose videos she screened in bed ...
View Post Bookselling James Patterson: Best Friend to Indie Bookshops By Deborah Jensen on Sep. 26, 2014 - 5:30 PM In the UK and Ireland, 73 indie booksellers are feeling the luck o’ the Irish and the great good will of mega-bestselling author James Patterson. Taking a page from his 2013 announcement to give a cool $1 mil to independent boo ...
View Post Authors Authors Speak Out on Climate Change By Deborah Jensen on Sep. 24, 2014 - 4:25 PM Climate change is in the air, literally and figuratively, in people’s marches across the country, at the United Nations, and in cars with diplomatic plates all over New York City. So what is the literary crowd thinking? The New ...
View Post Bookselling Is Bezos’ Super-Secret Campfire Cooling? By Deborah Jensen on Sep. 22, 2014 - 6:30 PM Did they stay or did they go? You might never know if your fave authors were feted at Jeff Bezos’ annual super-secret Campfire this past weekend. Word is the elite attendees are cautioned that what plays at Campfire, stays at Ca ...
View Post Publishing The Tale Behind the ‘Greatest Love Story’ Ever Told is Coming to Print By Deborah Jensen on Sep. 22, 2014 - 5:00 PM Time announced it in 2013 as “the best news you’ll read all day.” It still is. The tale behind the “greatest love story” ever told, of a rhyming giant kind and fencing Spaniard bold, of Westley, handsome farm boy, and Bu ...