For everyone who missed the Fangs, Fur, and Fey Halloween special All Souls Show, including yours truly, you can hear it here. The authors present were: Melissa Marr, Holly Black, Vicki Pettersson, Mark Del Franco, Jocelynn Drake, and Jeaniene Frost.
Oh no….cover your ears….FANGIRL SQUEE!!! Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series has been optioned for film! Not only optioned, but there are plans in the works. Check out this article from Variety.
Essential Pictures has launched development of Outlander as a potential franchise based on the Diana Gabaldon series of fantasy novels.
The newly minted shingle’s out to directors with an adaptation from Randall Wallace (Braveheart); the goal is to start production next spring. Gabaldon’s series of six novels center on an 18th century Scottish Highlander and his time-traveling wife.
I am so excited. I love this series. I mean, re-read every novel in the series right before the new one comes out and then I go out and buy the hardcover. I can’t wait to see the film adaption. I wonder who they’ll get to play Jamie and Clare. Any suggestions?
Interviews:
- Madelyn Alt, author of the Bewitching series, by Amberkatze
- Laurell K. Hamilton, author of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, by Time Magazine
- Sam Trammell, who plays Sam Merlotte, in HBO’s True Blood, by Media Blvd.
Urban Fantasy Land has their Free Reads Friday going on and there are stories by authors everyone should now. UFL also has some Halloween-inspired and creepy links.
Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist has a contest for Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, which is edited by Mike Allen.
Marie-Claude Bourque is guest blogging over at Ann Aguirre’s blog today. She’s talking about her manuscript, Ancient Whispers, that finaled in the American Title V contest.
USA Today is celebrating 15 years of their Bestsellers List and they’ve compiled USA TODAY’s best-selling books of last 15 years. Here’s where a few of our favorite authors land on their list:
- the Harry Potter books are listed as #1, 3-9;
- Stephenie Meyer occupies #26, 37, 41 and 45;
- Gregory Maguire is #43 for Wicked;
- Christopher Paolini is #46 for Eragon and #99 for Eldest;
- JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit is on the list at #79 and The Fellowship of the Ring at #125; and
- CS Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia is at #140
Cynthia Eden will be launching a huge contest at her blog on November 1st. In anticipation of her release Midnight Sins, the sequel to Hotter Than Midnight, she’s going to be giving away a lot of prizes, including: $100 gift certificate to Victoria’s Secret, $50 gift certificate to Bath and Body Works, $25 Amazon.com gift certificate–and, of course, books. So make sure you keep an eye on her “Sin a Little” contest starting tomorrow.
And I leave you with a link to a lot of Twilight pictures. Since there’s over 90 of them, you should find a few that you haven’t seen before.
WHOA! Sign me up for that outlander movie! Oh, Oh, let it be good. Though, what about the parts…you know…”I canna be gentle with ye, lassie…” Will they cut those? I wouldn’t much like that. And the wedding night? The belt? Will it be like trying to run the sopranos on network tv? Who will be Jamie???
I think they should die Richard Armitage’s hair red and have him play Jamie. Though he’s not beefy enough. In fact, scratch that whole idea. Please let it not be Tom Cruise.