Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Fred Lerner’s The Story of Libraries has a new edition

Continuum Publishing has just issued the second edition of Fred Lerner's The Story of Libraries... Read more [...]

Charlaine Harris subsidiary rights: Sookie and Harper

Sookie Stackhouse coming in limited leatherbound edition, book club edition, and audio books, while Harper Connelly will be graphically adapted... Read more [...]

SRM Publisher office temporarily closed due to illness; hope to be back by Monday

Steve Miller, the one man behind the one-man office of SRM Publisher, is down with a severe cold, closing the office. He hopes/expects to be back on the job on Monday... Read more [...]

Book View Cafe now distributed by Smashwords

Book View Cafe has signed up with Smashwords to distribute its e-books... Read more [...]

ATCastro, SGreen, and KRichardson all turn in manuscripts

Adam-Troy Castro turned in the manuscript for War of the Marionettes, the newest Andrea Cort novel; Simon R. Green turned in A Hard Day's Knight, the 11th Nightside novel; and Kat Richardson turned in Labyrinth, the 5th Greywalker novel... Read more [...]

Jon Sprunk’s “Shadow Saga” sells in Czech

Fantom Print bought Czech rights to Jon Sprunk's "Shadow Saga" trilogy, which will debut in English in June... Read more [...]

Gary McMahon sells two horror novels to Angry Robot

Gary McMahon is expanding Angry Robot's horizons with horror: Pretty Little Dead Things and its sequel, Dead Bad Things, will tell the story of... Read more [...]

Diana Rowland sells six books to DAW

Diana Rowland sold a sequel trilogy to her Mark of the Demon series, and a new zombie trilogy, to DAW Books... Read more [...]

Promotions at HarperCollins UK, including Voyager

HarperCollins UK has promoted several editors, including Voyager's Emma Coode... Read more [...]

Young Kim’s graphic adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight coming

Yen Press's graphic novel adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, by Young Kim, will publish with a 350,000-copy first printing this March... Read more [...]

HWA announces 2010 Lifetime Achievement and Specialty Press Award winners

The Horror Writers Association has announced the honorees who will receive this year's Lifetime Achievement Awards: Brian Lumley and William F. Nolan. In addition, Tartarus Press will receive the Specialty Press Award... Read more [...]

Foreign Sales for Charlaine Harris

Many more Sookie Stackhouse sales, as well as other Charlaine Harris series. Purchasing countries include UK, South Korea, France, Indonesia, Canada, Italy, Sweden, Russia, Spain, China, Hungary, and Germany... Read more [...]

PARSEC’s writing contest on the theme “The Color of Silence”

PARSEC's annual writing contest this year is offering prizes of $200, $100, and $50, for short stories on the theme "The Color of Silence"... Read more [...]

Japanese author/translator/fan Takumi Shibano dies

Takumi Shibano (1926-2010) was one of the founders of Japanese fandom, an author, and a translator, who was twice a Guest of Honor at the World Science Fiction Convention... Read more [...]

Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer engaged

Author Neil Gaiman and musician Amanda Palmer have announced, quite succinctly, that they are engaged to be married. Read more [...]

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