Tag Archives: Japan

JABberwocky foreign rights sales for Hemry, Hines, Howison & Gelb, McCollum, and Sanderson

Joshua Bilmes reports foreign rights sales for John G. Hemry ("Jack Campbell"), Jim C. Hines, Del Howison & Jeff Gelb, Michael McCollum, and Brandon Sanderson... Read more [...]

SFPA’s sf poetry contest winners

The winners of the Science Fiction Poetry Association's third annual contest have been announced... Read more [...]

VIZ Media launches VIZ Productions; hires Jason Hoffs

VIZ Media has launched VIZ Productions, a Hollywood company to produce and license manga and animation for live action films. Producer Jason Hoffs has been hired to run the new company... Read more [...]

Excellent ISS viewing opportunities

The International Space Station's orbit will have it in almost continuous sunlight for the next few days, making viewing from North America especially easy and rewarding... Read more [...]

Tokyopop to launch new graphic novel line

Tokyopop's new Graphic Novel line will feature full-color, manga-influenced art and stories by artists form all over the world... Read more [...]

Marjorie M. Liu’s Tiger Eye sells to Japan

Japanese language rights to Marjorie M. Liu's first Dirk & Steele novel, Tiger Eye, sold to Villagebooks via the Japan Uni Agency on behalf of the Spectrum Literary Agency. Read more [...]

Books Received: April 2008

Books received for review during the month of April 2008. This page is updated throughout the month. Read more [...]

Travis Heermann sells fantasy novel

Travis Heermann sold Heart of the Ronin to John Helfers of Five Star Press via agent Richard Curtis of Richard Curtis Associates. The story... Read more [...]

Tor Books and Seven Seas team up to publish manga

Tor Books and Seven Seas Entertainment are joining forces to launch a new imprint and bring wider distribution... Read more [...]

Casshern’s US debut during NYAF

Casshern, a "live-action anime" film that debuted in Japan in 2004 makes it US debut during the New York Anime Festival this December... Read more [...]

Anime-focused theatre to open in San Francisco

VIZ Pictures, the US distributor of much Japanese anime and live-action films, is opening its own art-house movie theatre... Read more [...]

LCRW #21 available in multiple formats

Issue #21 of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet is now available as a magazine, book, eBook... Read more [...]

Christopher Barzak sells odd novel to Bantam Dell

Christopher Barzak sold The Love We Share Without Knowing to Bantam Dell. The book tells the story of... Read more [...]

The Name of the Wind sells in Spain and Japan

Patrick Rothfuss sold Spanish and Japanese rights to The Name of the Wind for significant advances... Read more [...]

Japanese probe in lunar orbit

The Japanese space agency's SELENE launched on 14 September, and early on 4 October performed its lunar orbit injection maneuver, placing it in orbit aroubt the Moon. This is Japan's first lunar orbiting... Read more [...]

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