05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
PW reported yesterday that self-published author Hugh Howey sold film rights to his sci-fi series Wool to 20th Century Fox. Immediately following the news, the omnibus (all the series' books in one), a perennial top 100 seller for Kindle, jumped from #85 to #23.
05/14/2012 @ 12:00AM
Self-publishing success Hugh Howey has sold film rights to his science fiction series Wool to 20th Century Fox.
04/24/2012 @ 12:00AM
Those who know the small Brooklyn-based publisher Melville House got a chuckle when a potential take on its publisher, Dennis Johnson, made its way into the April 15 premiere of writer/actress Lena Dunham's talked-about new HBO series, Girls.
03/21/2012 @ 12:00AM
Speaking to the growing number of areas authors are placing their work in Hollywood, author Brian McGreevy’s forthcoming novel, Hemlock Grove (FSG), is being adapted into an original series for Netflix.
03/08/2012 @ 03:00PM
When the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games opens on March 23, it will provoke both relief and anxiety for producer Nina Jacobson, who was hand-picked by the author in 2009 to bring the wildly successful YA novel to the big screen, and who has worked hard to create a faithful version of the book for audiences nationwide.
02/16/2012 @ 03:00PM
Let the games begin. March 23 marks the premiere of perhaps the most highly anticipated film of the year: The Hunger Games, based on the first installment of Suzanne Collins's dystopian trilogy.
02/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
David Wolman will be on NPR's Marketplace to talk about The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers--and the Coming Cashless Society (Da Capo Press, 978-0306818837).
02/10/2012 @ 07:00PM
Small Screen
The tagline “It’s not TV. It’s HBO” is something many will remember from the late 1990s, back when the cable network was in the vanguard for airing critically acclaimed series like The Sopranos and Sex and the City. Today there’s hardly a cable network in the game that isn’t trying to capture the audience HBO once had all to itself. The upside of all this, aside from better TV, is that more books are being optioned for series adaptation than ever.
02/10/2012 @ 12:00AM
It's Oscar season, and we here at PW, well, we love the movies…almost as much as books (of course). In honor of Oscar season--and all the nominees based on books--we’re holding a contest!
02/08/2012 @ 12:00AM
Tea Obreht will be on The Leonard Lopate Show to talk about her novel The Tiger's Wife (Random House, 978-0385343848), the show's February book club pick.
The Roundup for Page to Screen
Publishing news from across the Web
Deadline reports that HBO's planned, and star-studded, adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's bestselling novel is no longer happening.
Would the writer have loved the new movie?
A first look at the anticipated film.
Watch the great teaser for the adaptation of DeLillo's novel, starring Robert Pattinson.
Barbara Vey
While I'm visiting St. Louis, author Jeannie Lin caught a Tweet I posted about coffee at a local cafe. She contacted me and we met up for a wonderful visit....
Josie Leavitt
We are blessed with a rich and vibrant core of local authors in our town. When a customer comes to us with his or her book we do our best to herald the occasion. I'm discovering that my idea of herald...
Rose Fox
Help compile lists of Asian and Asian-American SF/F authors....
Adam Boretz
Our second feature in Publishers Weekly's Focus on Audio 2012 takes us inside a Random House Audio recording studio to see how an audiobook gets made as Marcus Samuelsson records his memoir, Yes, Chef...
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| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
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