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A secret telegram has been found that revealed that James Bond creator Ian Fleming had a preference for a director for the first Bond film (which at the time was going to be Thunderball).

Charlaine Harris has announced the end date for her popular Sookie Stackhouse series. She posted on Facebook said that the final book in the series, Dead Ever After will be released on May 2, 2013.

Romance novelist Jackie Collins recently made waves when she announced she would self-publish an upcoming book, but not due to any problems with her publishers. “I have fantastic relationships with my two publishers, Simon & Schuster UK and St. Martin’s Press US. No juicy story about a tiff or spat between us—we’re good.”

A connection between director Peter Jackson and J.R.R. Tolkien has been discovered. It turns out that Jackson’s grandfather, William John Jackson, fought on the same battleground as a young John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

Descendants of J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Dickens are set to team up for two children’s fantasy books.

Amazon announced that it has purchased the North American rights to the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming. It’s reportedly a ten-year deal where Amazon will get the rights to both the print books and the eBooks. James Bond print books have sold over 100 million copies worlwide.

Stephen King has written some of the best novels ever in the horror genre and now it may not be the writer, but rather the killer. “You Can’t Kill Stephen King” is a horror parody film – campy, of course – about a gang of friends who are vacationing near where Stephen King lives. They […]

Directory Gary Ross has announced that he won’t be staying on for the second installment of The Hunger Games movie series, “Catching Fire.” “As a writer and a director, I simply don’t have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight […]

John Grisham is all for eBooks, believing they’re good for publishers, authors and readers. Not that he doesn’t love books in print too… but he is concerned about bookstores. “We’re always going to have books,” he said. “Getting hurt in all of this is bookstores. We’re losing bookstores like crazy. Book sales are down overall […]

James Bond is going back to the ’60s in a new official 007 novel that will be penned by William Boyd. The British novelist told Reuters that he will be put his Cold War espionage knowledge to use when he writes the Ian Fleming-created character.