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Scottish author Denise Mina adapting Millennium Trilogy to graphic novels
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Author Denise Mina has been given 'free rein' to adapt Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy to graphic novel form, with Leonardo Manco doing the illustrations. DC Comics will publish...

HBO and Dark Horse announce Game of Thrones partnership
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Dark Horse Deluxe will be producing a product line based on the HBO series Game of Thrones, itself based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire/i>...

Kim Harrison's The Hollows may be coming to television
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A television series based on Kim Harrison's eleven-volume urban fantasy series The Hollows is in development for The CW...

Amanda Hocking's Hollowland to be graphically adapted by Dynamite
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Self-publishing phenom Amanda Hocking's Hollowland will see new publication as a graphic novel or comic book from Dynamite Entertainment...

Prime Books welcomes Paula Guran and Jennifer Jackson
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Paula Guran is moving from her Juno Books imprint at Pocket to Prime Books. At the same time, Prime has signed with the Donald Maass Literary Agency to represent their subsidiary rights...

William C. Dietz's Legion of the Damned to be an electronic game
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Ace Books and Offworld Games are collaborating to turn William C. Dietz's nine-volume Legion of the Damned series into an electronic game available through the iTune App Store...

Becca Fitzpatrick's Hush, Hush to be graphic novel from Sea Lion
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Sea Lion Books has bought comic book and graphic novel rights to Becca Fitzpatrick's debut bestseller, Hush, Hush. The YA psychological thriller will appear late this year...

New Sookie Stackhouse book coming, and more foreign rights sales for the series
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Charlaine Harris delivered the manuscript for Dead Reckoning, the eleventh Sookie Stackhouse novel, and sold foreign rights in Greece and Korea...

Charlaine Harris subsidiary rights: Sookie and Harper
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Sookie Stackhouse coming in limited leatherbound edition, book club edition, and audio books, while Harper Connelly will be graphically adapted...

Del Rey to serialize Stephen King & Peter Straub's The Talisman as a comic book
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Del Rey's comics imprint debuts with a 24-issue serialization of Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman...

Tor.com buys web-only serialization rights to two graphic novels
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Tor.com will serialize Red Light Properties by Dan Goldman and The Imitation Game by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis over the first six months of 2010...

Del Rey to graphically adapt Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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Del Rey is going to publish a graphic novel adaptation of the unexpectedly best-selling Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, to be written by Tony Lee and illustrated by Cliff Richards...

Patricia Briggs's Alpha and Omega to be comic book series
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Dabel Brothers will adapt Patricia Briggs's werewolf fantasy Alpha and Omega as a comic book mini-series, which Ace Books will then republish as a graphic novel...

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 to be graphic novel
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Ray Bradbury's classic critique of dysfunctional American society, Fahrenheit 451, will be published this autumn as a graphic novel adapted by Tim Hamilton...

HarperCollins UK selling electronic Tolkien, offering chance to win limited print editions
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HarperCollins UK now holds the worldwide electronic rights to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, and has set up an online store to offer his titles. At the same time, they're giving away limited print editions of his two newest books along with an eReader...

Stone Arch's "Find a Hero!" contest heralds launch of DC Chapter Books
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Stone Arch is publishing a line of chapter books based on DC Comics superheros, and with the launch of the series, they're running a contest open to third through sixth graders...

Fantasy novels becoming 3D miniatures
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Brandon Sanderson's "Mistborn" series is now being realized as 3D RPG miniatures by Garden Ninja and Crafty Games. GN will also do characters based on Jim C. Hines's "Goblin" novels...

Patricia Briggs' "Mercy Thompson" series optioned for film
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Patricia Briggs' "Mercy Thompson" books, about a shape-shifting vampire hunter, have been optioned by Mike Newell's production company...

Dave Freer sells serial to Jim Baen's Universe
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Dave Freer sold serialization rights to his unpublished novel Save the Dragons to Jim Baen's Universe via agent Michael Kabongo of The OnyxHawke Agency...

Dabel Brothers and Del Rey to graphically adapt Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time
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Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time saga will be adapted into comic book form by Dabel Brothers, starting this December. Those comics, in turn, will be collected by Del Rey...

Marvel to adapt Stephen King's The Stand to graphic novel
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Marvel Comics will adapt Stephen King's The Stand as a comic mini-series, and then collect them...

No End to Ender
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Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow will be turned into comic books, launching late this year...

Sales of Del Rey books by Gunn, Keyes, Novik, and Turtledove
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Bookspan bought book club rights to works by David Gunn, Greg Keyes, and Naomi Novik, while Easton Press took Gunn and Harry Turtledove...

Simon Green's Man with the Golden Torc to be French graphic novel
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French graphic novel publisher Soleil will be doing a three-part adaptation of Simon Green's fantasy novel The Man with the Golden Torc. Joshua Bilmes at JABberwocky is Green's agent.

James Patterson's Maximum Ride to be manga series
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James Patterson's young adult science fictional thriller series (which debuted in 2005), will see new life as a manga serial in Yen Plus...
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