News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff
Book News
- After Eight Year Slump, 2015 Bookstore Sales Rise (Publishers Weekly)
- 92% of college students prefer print books to e-books, study finds (Los Angeles Times)
- Simon & Schuster Launches a Young Adult Fiction Website Called Riveted (GalleyCat). Contributing authors include Scott Westerfeld; the website will celebrate its opening with a re-read of Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series.
- Fans campaign for Terry Pratchett statue in Salisbury, England. You can read and sign the petition at Change.org.
Worth Reading
- The Harry Potter series is actually one long story about PTSD (Sarah Gailey, Mashable)
- Sci-Fi is Realistic Fiction (Justina Ireland, BookRiot)
- Trying to Find a Literary Agent Is the Worst Thing Ever (Ken Pisani, Publishers Weekly)
- I Kondo’d The Heck Out Of My Bookshelves (Christy Childers, BookRiot)
- It Was a Dark and Stormy First Line (Michelle Anne Schingler, BookRiot)
Book & Movie Announcements
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child stageplay will be published on July 31 — the shared birthday of J. K. Rowling and Harry Potter, and a day after the play’s official opening in London. (Mugglenet) (And you can already pre-order it on Amazon, here.)
- Aaron Sorkin’s adaption To Kill a Mockingbird to open on Broadway in the 2017-18 season. (Playbill)
- A Discovery of Witches TV adaption will be produced by Bad Wolf, a production company headed by two women who were instrumental in rebooting Doctor Who. Author Deborah Harkness will write some of the episodes. (io9)
- Johnny Depp to star in Invisible Man remake (Variety)
- Agatha Christie will be the subject of a biographical graphic “novel.” (GalleyCat)
- SF classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea will be remade as film, directed and scripted by Bryan Singer (Variety)
Awesome Lists
- 7 Best Declarations of Love on My Bookshelf (BookRiot) Gilbert’s proposal to Anne always gets me. And don’t miss the comments – there are some wonderful additions there.
- Move Over, Mr. Darcy: 9 More Literary Characters to Fall For (Brightly)
- Amazon’s Top 20 Most Romantic Cities for 2015 (GalleyCat)
- 8 Things Invented by Famous Writers (mental floss)
Bookish Quote
That’s it for this week!
Rita @ View From My Home
I was excited to hear about the TV series based on The Discovery of Witches. That should be wonderful, if they do justice to it, which should happen with Ms. Harkness involved in its development.
Thanks for sharing all these interesting links, Lark!
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I’ve been over the moon about the Discovery of Witches adaptation since I first heard about it. This is the first I’d heard that the BBC project fell through, though. Thankfully, Bad Wolf has stepped in!
Literary Feline
I am glad book sales are up again. I never did count paper books out. I am excited about A Discovery Witches being brought to television. I hope it turns out well. Thank you for the links! Have a great week!
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I’ve got my fingers crossed that the ADOW adaptation gets it right!