Yearly Archives: 2008

Camille DeAngelis sells magical second novel to Shaye Areheart

Camille DeAngelis sold Petty Magic to Shaye Areheart Books. In the book, a retired spy and elderly witch... Read more [...]

SpaceWesterns poetry contest announced

SpaceWesterns.com is running a contest for Space Western Senryu, which closes in July. First prize is $25... Read more [...]

Subterranean offers chance to appear in Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book

Subterranean Press is offering numbered and lettered editions of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, and a chance to have customers' names included in the registry therein... Read more [...]

Special effects artist Stan Winston dies

Special effects and make-up artist Stan Winston (1946-2008) won four Oscars, two Emmys, and six Saturn Awards... Read more [...]

Dog photo contest for Nancy Kress’s Dogs

To celebrate the forthcoming Dogs by Nancy Kress, publisher Tachyon is running a contest: send them a photo of your dog, and the winners will receive... Read more [...]

Joshua Bilmes reports foreign sales for Buckell, Harris, Huff, Moon, and Richardson

Agent Joshua Bilmes made foreign rights sales for clients Tobias Buckell, Charlaine Harris, Tanya Huff, Elizabeth Moon, and Kat Richardson... Read more [...]

Brandon Sanderson sells a bunch of audio and a Dreamworks option

Brandon Sanderson sold audio rights to the Mistborn trilogy and two versions of Elantris, and an animation option on Alcatraz Smedry... Read more [...]

Arthur A. Levine named publisher at Scholastic

Arthur A. Levine has been named publisher of his eponymous imprint, Arthur A. Levine Books, at Scholastic. He had been editorial director. Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week of June

There are still five genre films in the top 10, with combined box office takes approaching $800 million... Read more [...]

This week’s free book and wallpapers from Tor

The free e-book Tor is offering this week is Kage Baker's In the Garden of Iden. It's accompanied by wallpapers by Dave McKean and Pablo Defendini... Read more [...]