Beetle Boy creator M G Leonard on the key to screen adaptations

Beetle Boy creator M G Leonard says the key to screen adaptations lies in balancing creative licence with loyalty to the source. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stanley Johnson's Brexit thriller to be adapted for Channel 4

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's father Stanley Johnson’s satirical thriller about political "skullduggery", Kompromat (Oneworld), is to be adapted for a Channel 4 TV series. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookExpo 2017: Lemony Snicket Creator Gets Steamy: Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler, the novelist who wrote 13 A Series of Unfortunate Events books under the pen name of Lemony Snicket, found inspiration for his new novel by eavesdropping on teenagers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins unveils Baddiel's Birthday Boy

HarperCollins Children's Books is to publish the fourth children's novel by writer and comedian David Baddiel, entitled Birthday Boy, in September. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Big Green Bookshop's Simon Key lands parenting book deal

Independent bookseller Simon Key has been snapped up to write a book with Head of Zeus, based on his parenting tweets. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Foyles bookseller Coles lands two book deal with Hot Key

Hot Key Books has acquired a new teen series from debut author and Foyles bookseller Chloe Coles. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ReDigi, Key Digital 'First Sale' Case, Heating Up on Appeal

In an amicus brief, AAP lawyers argue that a reversal legalizing the resale of digital media would be "catastrophic" for the publishing industry. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Justice served: comic creators announce Judge Dredd TV show

After two Hollywood failures, 2000AD’s British publisher Rebellion is planning ‘one of the most expensive TV shows the UK has ever seen’ with Mega-City OneAfter two attempts to bring classic British comic character Judge Dredd to the big screen, the publishers of 2000AD have decided that the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Screen fatigue' sees UK ebook sales plunge 17% as readers return to print

Consumer sales down to £204m last year and are at lowest level since 2011 – when Amazon Kindle sales first took off in UK Britons are abandoning the ebook at an alarming rate with sales of consumer titles down almost a fifth last year, as “screen fatigue” helped fuel a five-year high in printed... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Windows 10 Mobile Creators Update review: The future is increasingly uncertain

Microsoft’s Windows 10 Mobile Creators Update rides the coattails of the desktop OS, heavily leaning on improvements in Cortana and Edge to nudge Microsoft’s nearly comatose mobile platform further ahead.As the free upgrade rolls out Tuesday, our review of the Creators Update can't help but... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2017-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A publisher of one's own: Virginia and Leonard Woolf and the Hogarth Press

A century after the Bloomsbury luminaries took delivery of their own printing equipment, the legacy of their pioneering – and often dramatic – DIY operation lives on“We unpacked it with enormous excitement, finally with Nelly’s help carried it into the drawing room, set it on its stand, and... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Morrissey to star in BBC2 adaptation of Miéville's The City & The City

Fantasy writer China Miéville's 2009-published noir thriller The City & The City (Macmillan) is being adapted for a four-part BBC Two drama starring David Morrissey as Inspector Tyador Borlú. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zadie Smith adaptation gets BAFTA nods

The adaptation of Zadie Smith's NW (Hamish Hamilton) has been nominated for two BAFTAs.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Romola Garai to star in BBC adaptation of 'The Miniaturist'

Romola Garai is starring in the BBC adaptation of Jessie Burton’s “genre-bending” debut The Miniaturist. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“Carrie Pilby” Took 14 Years To Go From Novel To Screen–And That’s A Good Thing

When Caren Lissner’s young adult novel Carrie Pilby was released in January 2003, the person who would eventually play her on-screen, Bel Powley, was just about to turn 11 years old. And while the title character of Lissner’s book was a prodigy of sorts—a young British woman who graduated... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2017-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How to buy and read ebooks in Edge as part of the Windows 10 Creators Update

As part of the blitz of new features in the Windows 10 Creators Update (see our full review here), Microsoft has added e-reading capabilities to its Edge browser. It’s a bit quirky, given its infancy, but with a bit of practice you can be lounging by the pool with an electronic novel in no... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2017-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BuzzFeed’s David Mack Tells Us How ‘The President and the Big Boy Truck’ Went From Post to Children’s Book

According to Slate, writing books for kids is harder than it looks, a lesson learned when the publication held a children's book writing contest among a number of its staffers, all attempting to write about a hedgehog. Perhaps it was a matter of not having the type of subject matter so perfectly... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2017-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jay Z to bring Trayvon Martin story to the big screen

Rapper and producer Jay Z has partnered with the Weinstein Company to produce a feature film and documentary series about Trayvon Martin, the unarmed African American teenager killed by George Zimmerman in 2012. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards led by 'Cloud 9,' 'The Boy From Oz'

The feminist classic “Cloud 9,” the musical comedy “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder,” singer-songwriter Peter Allen’s musical “The Boy From Oz” and a Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the perils of cultural assimilation, “Disgraced,” won top honors Monday night from the Los Angeles... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In L.A., Women Creators Discuss Gender Diversity in the Comics Industry

At a panel called "Women in Comics" held at the L.A. Public Library, five women comics creators discuss how gender and minority diversity in the pop culture industries has improved, and how much more work needs to be done. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Danielle Steel Loves the Weather and Elmore Leonard Hates Exclamation Points: Literature by the Numbers

Ben Blatt, author of 'Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve,' takes us inside the data of our favorite books, including how many words are in a perfect first sentence, and how often authors like to talk about the weather. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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