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Amazon Studios has greenlit a 10-episode TV series based on Naomi Alderman's award-winning 2016 novel The Power Reed Moreno will direct the series, which will be shot in several countries across the world The last show to do that was the Wachowskis' postmodernist Science Fiction LGBTQ telenovela Sens8 on Netflix.   The novel is about a drastic[...]

When Lifetime's new drama You returns for its second season some time in 2019, it will be with one major change: it will be on Netflix.

If you had told me that nearly 20 years later I'd be feeling the same chills and excitement from another novel of his in Adjustment Day, I'd kiss you and thank you for the spoiler. I've been hooked ever since the film and have enjoyed my time being grossed out and horrified throughout his novels, as[...]

A new year means a new season of Starz's critically acclaimed adaptation of Neil Gaiman's popular novel, which means the cabler's PR push for the new season begins in earnest in about the next month or so; and I'm assuming we're looking as a late Spring/early Summer 2018 premiere (similar to the first season). I'm a[...]

Based on Barbara Rose Booker's popular 2009 novel, Kahnweiler will write the series adaptation; and serve as executive producer with Erwin More and Brian Medavoy (American High, Just Shoot Me). Alan Nevins and Suzy Unger will also serve as producers. The CW's adaptation of The Viagra Diaries centers on Kit, a gorgeous intern new in town who gets[...]

TNT released the newest trailer for their adaptation of Caleb Carr's historical fiction thriller The Alienist entitled 'Madness."

Based on Dan Simmons's novel and executive produced by Scott, David Kajganich, and Soo Hugh, the two-hour season premiere of the historical drama is set to debut on Monday, March 26th, 2018. You can check out the teaser trailer for the 10-episode series below, along with an official synopsis from AMC: Inspired by a true story and adapted from[...]

Based on author Attica Locke's newest novel Bluebird, Bluebird Locke will write the adaptation of her novel, and will executive produce with 3 Arts' Richard Abate, Jermaine Johnson and Will Rowbotham. Here's what publisher Little Brown Company has to say about the novel, the first of a proposed trilogy: When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays[...]

Based on the 2015 novel by Sarai Walker, the 10-episode revenge-fantasy drama has Margulies as magazine editor Kitty Montgomery opposite Joy Nash's (Twin Peaks) Plum Kettle in a story that focuses on society's obsession with weight loss and beauty. Here's how publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt summarizes the novel, giving us some insight into the story: "The diet revolution is[...]

Yesterday, Audible announced the upcoming release of Artemis, Andy Weir's follow-up novel to The Martian… and it's being narrated by Rosario Dawson. Artemis will be arriving on November 14th and according to THR.com: "[Artemis] follows a small-time criminal who, while plotting the perfect crime, gets caught up in a conspiracy to control the moon's first and only[...]

The novel centers on events at a theater in Toronto and the travels of a post-apocalyptic travelling symphony in northern Michigan Locals to both northern Michigan and Toronto will recognize places in the book, as well as details such as the prevalent tourist sweaters (if you've been up here, you know they are everywhere). Station Eleven struck[...]

Author Nnedi Okorafor took to her Twitter account today to announce that HBO "is now in early development" on a series adaptation of her sci-fi fantasy novel Who Fears Death, with George R.R Martin (Game of Thrones) tapped as executive producer. Here's an overview of Who Fears Death from Penguin Random House, who published the novel[...]

'Bite' is a wild and crazy adventure with a strange, post-apocalyptic family that has a good immersive quality. A fun read.

Because "The King of the Vampires" fears sunlight, garlic, crosses and a month going-by without another reboot of his backstory, Bram Stoker's Dracula is getting Sherlock-ized , as writers/producers Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat reunite for a different spin on the classic vampire novel  Variety reports that Gatiss and Moffat will serve as writers on[...]

If you are a fan of the novel or have some idea of what's ahead, then spoilers probably aren't that big of an issue for you but there may be some visual surprises or subtle changes that you might want to avoid until you see them for yourself. So here's what STARZ had to tell us[...]

Laird Barron’s Swift to Chase is a cobwebby, weaving collection of nightmares from the fantastical to the mundane. Spanning many characters, times and

Alan Moore's second novel, Jerusalem is due to be released later this year But if reading more that 600,000 words fills you with a little trepidation, why not look to someone who has done it for you? Like the award-winning Simon Vance, who has read for the audio version of the book And who took a trip[...]

It was announced last year that Powers: The Secret History of Deena Pilgrim was a new novel set in the world of the Powers comic book, written by Brian Bendis and Neil Kleid and published by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St Martin's Press and Macmillan Publishers.   However, while that edition is getting a hardcover[...]

We have more details for Eoin Colfer's Iron Man novel for next year, Tony Stark is known throughout the world as many things: Billionaire Inventor Avenger But mainly for being the Invincible Iron Man. Lately, Tony has had some time to reflect on how he got to where he is He thinks about his father, Howard Stark, who[...]

Who are the UK publishers of Alan Moore's upcoming second novel, Jerusalem (Liveright are the US publishers.) Which is how they came by Alan Moore's blurb for the novel in question…              In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the[...]

As we see their lives play off in opposite parallels, caviar for fish sticks and Brooklyn for Hong Kong. Their every action playing off of one another, joined at the thematic… To all intents and purposes, this is a mini-Black Widow in very different circumstances but with very similar outcomes. And the one time they met, having such a strong[...]

Last year, Switch Press published Lois Lane: Fallout by Young Adult novelist Gwenda Bond – and they're coming back with a second, Lois Lane: Double Down, out next May telling a new story of the adventures of a teenage Lois Lane, as she begins to discover her passion for journalism and become the character loved by[...]

But apparently Frank Beddor will get his new Looking Glass Wars novel announced on The View tomorrow on Friday. It helps that Whoopi Goldberg is a far, and even backed his graphic novel on Kickstarter, picking the package that would see her turned into a character in the book. And tomorrow on Friday at 11am on ABC,[...]

Joshua Stone reports for Bleeding Cool from Star Wars Celebration…. At the Del Rey Star Wars panel it has been revealed that science fiction novelist Alan Dean Foster is writing the novelization of Star Wars The Force Awakens. Foster was the ghostwriter of the original novelization of Star Wars, though it was credited to George Lucas[...]

Alan Moore first announced he was writing a novel called Jerusalem in an interview I conducted with him back in 2005 but he'd been working on it for ten years before that. 600,000 words later, we have a publisher Or publishers. Knockabout, the UK publishers of League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, will be publishing Jerusalem in the UK in the[...]

Last summer saw the release of the first Guardians Of The Galaxy prose novel, Rocket Raccoon And Groot Steal The Galaxy by Dan Abnett, the writer who helped popularise the comic series in readiness for its movie adaptation. But for those waiting for the paperback, bad news Yesterday, retailers were informed that it had been cancelled and would[...]

A serialised sequence of graphic novels about how loud and strange the world is getting, about the wild future and the haunted past all crashing into the present day at once, and five eccentric geniuses dealing with the paranormal and numinous as well as the growing weight of what they did to the planet with[...]

 Adi Tantimedh writes,   Viz Media, one of the biggest publishers of manga and anime in the US, have had a prose imprint called Haikasoru running at full steam for a few years now, yet there have been very few write-ups about it aside from the odd review of the books here and there. I'd been meaning to[...]

Moonstone Books has a new, all-original linked prose anthology starring Jimmie Flint, Agent X-11 of the Intelligence Service Command. In the new book,

Novelist Gwenda Bond writes on her blog, This week the fabulous team at Switch Press/Capstone will be posting some visual teasers for what I have been obnoxiously referring to as Secret Project for months, leading up to the cover reveal I can tell you this is an iconic character–definitely someone you know[...]