Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Studio 407 Comics to be available for iPhone via Comics by comiXology

Indy comics publisher Studio 407 Comics has signed a distribution deal with comiXology to make three of their titles available through the Comics by comiXology app for the iPhone... Read more [...]

Scott Tracey sells first novel, Witch Eyes, to Flux

Debut author Scott Tracey's first novel will be "Smallville meets a gay Romeo and Juliet" when Flux publishes Witch Eyes, a YA urban fantasy... Read more [...]

McVeigh Agency hires Anne Miller as SubRights Director

Anne Miller, who worked in HarperChildren's subsidiary rights department, is now the Director of Subsidiary Rights for the McVeigh Agency... Read more [...]

Tantor Audio hires Amy Santo to be Marketing Manager

Tantor Audio's new marketing manager, Amy Santo, will first be guiding the relaunch of the company's web site... Read more [...]

WSFA Press trying to clear its closets of older signed books

WSFA Press is offering a limited number of signed and numbered copies of its publications by Lewis Shiner, Pat Cadigan, Harry Turtledove, Mike Resnick... Read more [...]

Iain M. Banks “The Culture” may be coming to the big screen

British producer Film and Music Entertainment and director Dominic Murphy are at work on an adaptation of Iain M. Banks's "A Gift for the Culture"... Read more [...]

Gaiman & Vess’s “Instructions” sells to Harper Children’s

Charles Vess is illustrating Neil Gaiman's 2000 "Instructions", which Harper Children's will then publish as a book... Read more [...]

Mercury Retrograde withdraws Raven Wakes the World

Publisher Barbara Friend Ish of Mercury Retrograde Press writes: "An unfortunate legal and ethical situation has left Mercury Retrograde with no appropriate option but to withdraw the book Raven Wakes the World: Tales for the Winter Holiday by John Adcox from publication." Read more [...]

Random House hires Denise Cronin as VP of Sub Rights

Denise Cronin, moving from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, will be the new Vice President of Subsidiary Rights for the entire Random House Publishing Group... Read more [...]

Anders & Strahan’s New Sword and Sorcery anthology’s contents

Editors Lou Anders and Jonathan Strahan have announced the table of contents of their Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery. It will feature C.J. Cherryh, Michael Moorcock, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe... Read more [...]

Astronaut Scholarship Foundation features Star Trek actors at fundraiser

The charitable Astronaut Scholarship Foundation will welcome three cast members from The Next Generation at its upcoming Astronaut Experience and Memorabilia Auction... Read more [...]

F.J. Lennon sells Atria a trilogy based on his iPhone app game Soul Trapper

F.J. Lennon, author of the iPhone app game Soul Trapper, has sold S&S's Atria Books a trilogy based on the game... Read more [...]

Allen Steele sells third Galactic Club novel to Ace

Allen Steele's Hex will be the third in his Coyote universe spin-off series the Galactic Club... Read more [...]

Costume contest and scream queen headline Buffalo fund-raiser

Variety, the Children's Charity of Buffalo and Western New York, is hosting a costume party and contest on Saturday in Buffalo's Central Terminal starring scream queen Debbie Rochon and... Read more [...]

Eoin Colfer in Philadelphia tonight

Eoin Colfder reading at the Free Library of Philadelpahia at 7:30PM on Monday 19 October... Read more [...]

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