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Vince Flynn, the author of the critically-acclaimed “Mitch Rapp” series of books, has passed away. Flynn battled prostate cancer for the last couple of years, and lost the battle on Wednesday, June 19th, 2013.
We get a lot of questions and searches from people wanting to know when the latest Andy McNab novel featuring “Nick Stone” is going to be out. The last Nick Stone novel was released in 2012. Since then McNab has wrote outside the Nick Stone series, with the new novel Red Notice featuring Tom Buckingham.
Doubleday has announced that Dan Brown‘s next novel will be coming out in May. The novel, titled Inferno, will again feature his character Robert Langdon (The Da Vinci Code).
A new four-part drama based on the life of James Bond creator Ian Fleming will be digging up some of the author’s darkest secrets. The series will be focusing on his covert ops involvement during World War II, but perhaps more interesting to most, his expulsion from army college and womanizing.
Fans of David Baldacci will be pleased to hear that TNT has ordered ten episodes of the TV adaptation of Sean King & Michelle Maxwell series.
Scholastic has announced a multi-platform fantasy series written for tweens called Spirit Animals. The series will launch in September with the first novel, Wild Born being written by Brandon Mull. The second book has a January 2014 release date and will be written by Maggie Stiefvater.
Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme has left the film adaptation of 11/22/63 by Stephen King. According to Demme, he and King did not see eye-to-eye about the project.
The Los Angeles City Council have dedicated a square outside the Central Library to Ray Bradbury. The sci-fi author spent much of his life in Southern California. His family moved to Los Angeles when he was 14. At Los Angeles High School, he joined the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, where his work was critiqued […]
The house where characters including Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby were written, the London home of Charles Dickens, will be re-opened next week. The house, which will be open to the public as a museum will contain many of the author’s possessions, such as his desk. The house, located on Doughty Street in Bloomsbury, has […]
Mourners gathered by the hundreds in Australia to say goodbye to author Bryce Courtnenay, who passed away in November only two weeks after the release of his final novel, Jack of Diamonds. During his career, Courtenay sold over 20 million books. His funeral was held at St. Mark’s Church in Sydney, where 300 guests showed […]