View Post Book Biz | Digital Neil Gaiman Writing American Gods Pilot for HBO By Jason Boog on Nov. 29, 2012 - 1:23 PM Writing HBO AMERICAN GODS pilot with @tordotcom AMERICAN GODS playlist playing to keep me company. j.mp/SeMHHC — Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) November 28, 2012 On Twitter, Neil Gaiman shared the fact that he is currently writing a ...
View Post Digital Media App Summit Starts on Monday By admin on Nov. 29, 2012 - 1:23 PM Media App Summit is this Monday in New York City and the insight and contacts you’ll get from attending are unparalleled. While other events focus entirely on one aspect of social media or the media app ecosystem, our ...
View Post Publishing | Resources How To Submit Your Work To Random House’s New Digital Imprints By Jason Boog on Nov. 29, 2012 - 12:23 PM Random House has released writer guidelines for four digital imprints, seeking submissions from romance, new adult, mystery, thriller, science fiction, fantasy and horror writers. Follow these individual imprint links to submit y ...
View Post Adaptation Air New Zeland Reveals Hobbit Airplane By Jason Boog on Nov. 29, 2012 - 12:23 PM As Peter Jackson‘s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien‘s The Hobbit heads to theaters (and courtrooms), Air New Zealand has unveiled an airplane with an enormous Hobbit-inspired mural. You can see the plane in action in the v ...
View Post Adaptation Stephen King’s Under The Dome Coming to CBS By Jason Boog on Nov. 29, 2012 - 11:23 AM CBS has ordered 13 episodes of a serialized television adaptation of Stephen King‘s Under the Dome. Coming next summer, the series will be produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and CBS Television studios. The ...
View Post Resources New York City TransLit Commuter Book Club Launches By Maryann Yin on Nov. 29, 2012 - 11:23 AM The New York City TransLit Commuter Book Club has opened for readers in the five boroughs. In December, public transit commuter club members will read This Machine Kills Secrets by Andy Greenberg. Visit the club’s offici ...
View Post Bookselling | Publishing Suzanne Collins To Publish Picture Book in September 2013 By Maryann Yin on Nov. 29, 2012 - 11:14 AM Scholastic will publish an autobiographical picture book by Suzanne Collins called Year of the Jungle. The book will hit stores in September. The book is about how her family coped with her father’s year serving in Vietna ...
View Post Bookselling 20-30% of Fifty Shades of Grey Buyers Are Male By Jason Boog on Nov. 29, 2012 - 9:37 AM Bowker has released a new survey focused on the demographics of readers who purchased a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James. According to the research, 20 percent of these book buyers were male in the United States and 30 ...
View Post Adaptation | Authors Stephen King Leads List of Hollywood’s Most Powerful Authors By Jason Boog on Nov. 28, 2012 - 5:34 PM The Hollywood Reporter has picked the top 25 Most Powerful Authors in Hollywood. The top five writers on the list are all literary band names. Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, Nicholas Sparks, EL James and Suzanne Collins hold t ...
View Post Social Media Twitter Fiction Prompts for the Twitter Fiction Festival By Jason Boog on Nov. 28, 2012 - 4:42 PM Twitter opened its Twitter Fiction Festival today, showcasing writers from more than 20 countries that will “push the bounds of what’s possible with Twitter content.” Even if your proposal wasn’t chosen for t ...