Richard Kadrey sells three to Eos via auction
Richard Kadrey sold Sandman Slim and two other books to Diana Gill at Eos. Agent Ginger Clark of Curtis Brown conducted the auction.
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Yearly Archives: 2008
P.N. Elrod sells new Vampire Files novel
P.N. Elrod sold Dark Road Rising, a new Vampire Files novel, to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace via Lucienne Diver of The Knight Agency.
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CBS is dropping Moonlight
CBS failed to pick up the series for a second season, citing failure to hold its audience, despite remarkably passionate fans...
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Jim Baen’s Universe open to submissions
Jim Baen's Universe is once again, temporarily, reading submissions...
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Helix SF has nearly filled its fiction inventory
Chief editor William Sanders announces that Helix SF has just about maxed out its inventory of fiction for the year...
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John Scalzi delivers Hate Mail and announces German Colony
The second edition of John Scalzi's Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded... will be published this September. The German edition of The Last Colony...
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Lost Roger Zelazny novel to be published in February 2009
Roger Zelazny's The Dead Man's Brother is a recently discovered noir novel which has never been published. Hard Case Crime will bring the book out...
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Dean Koontz’s “Odd Thomas” in mini-movie to presage new novel
Dean Koontz's "Odd Thomas" will return in Odd Hours later this month. As an appetizer to the novel, publisher Bantam Spectra has produced the mini-movie "Odd Passenger"...
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Eugie Foster sells collection to Norilana
Eugie Foster sold her first short fiction collection, Returning My Sister's Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice, to Norilana Book Fantasy...
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Comics artist Gene Colan suffering from liver failure
Comics artist Gene Colan's liver is failing. Clifford Meth is spearheading a fundraising drive to help the Colan family...
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Family Values—a review of Moonlight’s “What’s Left Behind”
After waking up to what they could be doing, the writers seem to be backsliding into ruining a good thing. But sometimes a good actor can power through... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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Cartoonist and Writer Ted Key Dies
Cartoonist and writer Ted Key (1912-2008) created the comic strip Hazel and the tv characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman...
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Actress Beverlee McKinsey Dies
Actress Beverlee McKinsey (1935-2008) played strong women in several soap operas, and had one genre role...
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New author Daniel Wells sells trilogy to Tor
Debut author Daniel Wells sold a trilogy of supernatural thrillers to Moshe Feder at Tor...
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Orbit Books confirms coming expansions
Orbit Books is planning to greatly expand its US program, increase the number of titles in the UK, and grow in Australia, as well as keeping all three groups working on concert...
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