IDW Publishing launches new division, IDW Entertainment, to fund, develop and produce tv properties

Comic book publisher IDW Publishing is launching IDW Entertainment to fund and develop new television properties based on the company's catalog. David Ozer has been named president of the new division... Read more [...]

Heroic Publishing’s Liberty Girl Flies into Prose From Pro Se Productions

The Bronze Goddess of Freedom flies again, and flies into modern times, in a collaboration between Pro Se Productions and Heroic Publishing... Read more [...]

Project: Rooftop announces The Middleman: Man About Town redesign contest

Project: Rooftop's latest redesign contest gives entrants free reign in far more dimensions than usual, as the target is The Middleman... Read more [...]

Italian rights deal for Mark Charan Newton

Fanucci bought Italian rights to Mark Charan Newton's Drakenfeld, the start of a new fantasy crime/thriller series... Read more [...]

Books Received: first half of October 2013

Books received for review during the first half of October 2013… Read more [...]

Horror Writers Association establishes two annual scholarships

The Horror Writers Association has created two $2500 annual scholarships to assist their members in furthering their writing education... Read more [...]

Edward J. McFadden III’s Our Dying Land

Padwolf's newest novel release is Edward J. McFadden's dark fantasy Our Dying Land, in which the dead zone in Arizona is just the start of an intercontinental voyage of exploration and defense... Read more [...]

Gollancz acquire world rights in three books by debut sf novelist Alexander Lamb

New US-resident British author Alexander Lamb's first book will be the hard-sf novel Roboteer, which delves into the question of how humanity survives the impact of our own intelligence... Read more [...]

Vote in FM’s Monsters Brawl, and win nifty prizes

Famous Monsters of Filmland is inviting readers to vote in the Monsters Brawl 2013. Voters also have chances to win some cool prize packs... Read more [...]

Multiple sales for Kelly Link

Kelly Link sold rights to her new collection in the US and the UK, as well as a new novel in the US, and reprint rights to an earlier collection... Read more [...]

Winner of WSFA Small Press 2013 Announced

Ken Liu is the winner of this year's Washington Science Fiction Association's Small Press Award... Read more [...]

A Strange Lonely Planet Found without a Star

The University of Hawaii finds a free-floating gas giant 80 light years from Earth... Read more [...]

Lerner’s FoxAcre Titles Promo-Priced at $2.99

Publisher FoxAcre Press is making now the time to catch up on Edward M. Lerner's hard-sf-with-a-financial-bent InterstellarNet series... Read more [...]

Convention weekend

New York ComicCon and Capclave this weekend... Read more [...]

Cinefex Unchained

Cinefex, the magazine that talks about special effects in movie-making is launching a blog to make the discussion more two-way... Read more [...]

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