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Henry Winkler, best known as the actor who portrayed The Fonz in Happy Days, has announced a deal to adapt his Hank Zipzer book series into a television series. The series is semi-biographical, based on Winkler’s experiences growing up with learning disabilities.

The Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan collection Jungle Tales of Tarzan will be adapted to the graphic novel format by Sequential Pulp Comics. The graphic novel will be written by Martin Powell and will feature art by Pablo Marcos, Terry Beatty, Will Meugniot, Nik Poliwko, Antonio Romero Olmedo, Mark Wheatley, Diana Leto, Steven E. Gordon, Lowell […]

The women’s magazine Cosmopolitan is teaming up with Harlequin to publish an eBook line called Cosmo Red Hot Reads. That in and of itself is not news, but the fact that the first two eBooks will be written by erotic romance author Sylvia Day.

With the hit television show Game of Thrones, author George R.R. Martin has signed a new two-year deal with HBO to develop new shows. However, his fans are not too happy about the announcement. What’s the problem? They want more books.

BlackBerry has announced that it will be collaborating with author Neil Gaiman on a year-long project. The project is called A Calendar of Tales and installments will be released on a monthly basis. One interesting little twist is that readers will be encouraged to contribute. “I’ve always been fascinated by the relationship between fans and […]

With the fifth novel of the Flavia de Luce series coming out, the 11 year-old detective is also going to be making her way to television. “It’s incredible, it’s almost unbelievable,” says author Alan Bradley regarding the fact that Sam Mendes (Skyfall, American Beauty) will be at the helm of the proposed series.

Stephen King recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly about his upcoming novel, Doctor Sleep. It is, of course, the sequel to his classic novel The Shining. “When the [sequel] idea would pop up in my mind I would think, ‘Now Danny’s 20, or now he’s 25. … I wonder if he’s drinking like his father?’” he […]

For those looking forward to the next James Dashner novel, The Eye of Minds, Entertainment Weekly has released the cover of the upcoming novel. The novel is the beginning of a brand new series called The Mortality Doctrine.

The final book in Robert Jordan‘s The Wheel of Time series has been released, but not without controversy. The 14th book was completed by Brandon Sanderson, following Jordan’s death in 2007, and is titled A Memory of Light. The controversy is that the 909-page novel won’t be out in eBook format until April 9th, so […]

In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, the BBC has announced that they will be publishing a series of 11 new Doctor Who short stories written by “well-known children’s authors” starting this month. The stories will appear each month and will feature each regeneration of the Doctor, beginning with William Hartnell.