Fiction Writing News: Page 45
Paulina Porizkova Thinks She's Prettier Than You (April 7, 2007): Former supermodel Paulina Porizkova was the first contestant to be booted off this season's Dancing With the Stars, but she's not sad about it.
ABA Booksense Awards Announced (April 2, 2007): The American Booksellers Association has announced the winners of the Book Sense Book of the Year Awards.
Philip Roth Wins First Saul Bellow Award (April 2, 2007): Philip Roth has won the first PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.
John Grisham Wins Galaxy Award (March 29, 2007): John Grisham won the lifetime achievement award at the Galaxy British Book Awards.
Cormac McCarthy Enters the World of Oprah (March 28, 2007): Before today, Cormac McCarthy was best known as being the author of All the Pretty Horses, which became a popular film starring Billy Bob Thornton, Penelope Cruz and Matt Damon.
Harlequin's Looking For a Few Good-Looking Men (March 27, 2007): Book publisher Harlequin is looking for a few good-looking men to grace the covers of its romance novels.
Warner Books Gets a New Name (March 26, 2007): Warner Books will soon be no more.
Regan-HarperCollins Settlement Negotiations Break Down (March 20, 2007): Settlement talks between ousted publishing maven Judith Regan and HarperCollins have ended, according to Radar Online.
Stephen King's The Talisman is Coming to TV (March 14, 2007): Sci Fi reports that Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Television will be producing a tv miniseries from the Stephen King/Peter Straub novel, The Talisman, which will be aired on TNT in 2008.
France Issues Harry Potter Stamp (March 14, 2007): Jo Rowling has had so many exciting things happen to her since she invented Harry Potter and Hogwarts.
Microsoft Attacks Google Over Disregard for Copyrights (March 5, 2007): Microsoft is now attacking Google for its cavalier disregard for copyright laws.
The Orange Prize Gets a Facelift (March 1, 2007): The Orange Prize is being renamed and made more high-tech.
Tracy Chevalier Has a New Muse (February 27, 2007): Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring, discusses her next book, Burning Bright, with The Independent.
The Rise of the Fictomercial in Advertising (February 22, 2007): So what's a fictiomercial? It's part of the growing trend of non-traditional ways to advertise products which has grown to a $2 billion business.
Disney Loses Legal Battle Over Rights to Winnie the Pooh (February 20, 2007): The Walt Disney Co.
Clive Cussler Trial About to Get Nasty (February 11, 2007): The Clive Cussler/Philip Anschutz trial over the movie Sahara -- which starred Matthew McCouneghey and Penelope Cruz in the adaptation of the novel of the same name by Cussler -- is about to get very ugly indeed.
What Other Writers Read (February 5, 2007): What authors do authors like to read? Post-Gazette book editor Bob Hoover reports on a recent book which collects all the favorite books by 125 top authors, such as Michael Chabon, Stephen King, Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx and Jonathan Franzen.
Professor Says Harry Potter Won't Die (February 3, 2007): Now that the seventh book in the Harry Potter series has an official release date of July 21, 2007, the theorizing about who will die has reached a fever pitch.
Sidney Sheldon Dead at 89 (January 31, 2007): Bestselling author Sidney Sheldon is dead at the age of 89.
Teachers Can See Freedom Writers For Free (January 25, 2007): AMC Theaters and Paramount Pictures are giving schoolteachers the chance to see the film Freedom Writers starring Hilary Swank for free.
