07/30
At least trends involving zombies look to be on the rise. Is anyone else as excited as I am about Zombieland? Looks brillant. Looks like zombie books are going to be a hot comodity here soon. http://www.observer.com/2009/media/pocket-books-goes-all-zombie-craze-signs-zombie-beatles-book Has anyone read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? I keep seeing it and thinking about it. [...]
Tags: bled dry, breaking dawn, charlaine harris, erin mccarty, paul is undead, pride and prejudice and zombies, sookie stackhouse, stephanie meyer, the beatles, undead, vegas vampires, zombie, zombieland, zombies
07/29
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2009-07-29-book-buzz_N.htm?csp=34 Another Hitchhiker’s Guild to the Galaxy sequal? Didn’t the guy who wrote those books pass away? The answer to both of those questions is yes. The six instalement of the space venture was written by Eoin Colfer. If that names sounds familar it is because Colfer has made best sellers list with his [...]
Tags: Artemis Fowl, Douglas Adams, Eoin Colfer, hitchhikers guild to the galaxy, Meg and Dia
07/28
Looks like Billy Martin isn’t the only Good Charlotte member making news in the book world this month. Vocalist Joel Madden admitted recently that he is working on a memior. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/35/20090728/tmusic-joel-madden-to-write-good-book-716af92.html It doesn’t seem like Madden is any rush to finish the book. Most article I found quoted him as saying “If I [...]
Tags: band, good charlotte, harlow, joel madden, memoir, music, nicole richie, real life
07/27
Okay so this isn’t really a news article that I found but Marina Orlova, aka Hot For Words, is on the O’Reilly Factor tonight so it seems sort of like news. If you haven’t already heard, Orlova has a book coming out next month; 8/18/09. You can pre-order the book here… http://www.harpercollins.com/book/pre-order.aspx?isbn13=9780061776311 [...]
Tags: etomology, hot for words, linguist, marina orlova, philology, words, you tube
07/23
http://comics.ign.com/articles/100/1006775p1.html Since Comic Con started today I wanted to find news from it. Mostly there was lots of stuff talking about exactly who was going to be there star wise. Then finally I found a story about Billy Martin from Good Charlotte. Martin is going to cowrite as well as create the artwork [...]
Tags: billy martin, brett allen, comic, comic con, good charlotte, vitriol the hunter
07/22
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-07-22-ereader-network_N.htm?csp=34 So I happen to work at T-Mobile currently. In the past I have worked for Verizon, AT&T/Cingular, and Sprint. I tend to know what’s what in the cellular world so this news caught my attention today. Today AT&T announced that they will carry an electonical reading device next year. Hmm, sounds like Kindle, which [...]
Tags: AT&T, Barnes and Noble, e-books, kindle, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon
07/21
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/books/22target.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 This is so crazy that this is the first story I came across today. Only an hour before typing this I was standing in the bookstore at Target and wonder to myself, were this books bestsellers before they landed on the Target shelves or are the best sellers because Target picked them up. [...]
Tags: bestsellers, book selection, kyra davis, target
07/20
It seems like about everywhere online (and I’m sure all the entertainment television news shows as well) are reporting on Ex-Miss California Carrie Prejean’s new book deal. Reports say the book will look into what truly happen to make her lose her crown. This is looking at it from her perspective which is that [...]
Tags: beauty queen, book deal, carrie prejean, ex, miss california, pagent