The book industry has been interesting these past few days. On Sunday, September 26th, Dear Author tweeted that digital romance publisher, Ellora’s Cave, had filed a lawsuit against her:
WWACTV: When Ardo’s away…
The #WWACTV chat is where the casual TV viewer and the self-professed (or in denial) addict discuss the newest shows and old favourites. Our poor Ardo was feeling under the weather for last night’s #WWACTV chat. With get well wishes for Ardo and cocktail in hand, Megan P. took the reigns. Though she’s not on…
The Thursday Book Beat: Kinsella Brings Her Hilarious Style To YA. You’re Welcome.
Sophie Kinsella Pens First YA Novel! Hooray! If you haven’t cringed in embarrassment for any of Kinsella’s protagonists, then you haven’t truly lived. Shopaholic was a popular series at my high school and I was saddened to hear that the last book at the time (Shopaholic & Baby) was already taken out of the library…
Gotham Gossip: Episode 1
Last night, plucky WWAC writer Ardo and I connected via cyberspace to take in the premiere of DC’s newest foray into the wonderful world of comic book TV: Gotham. Today, dear reader, we bring you our impressions. Dark dark dark dark dark growly police talk dark dark dark #Gotham — Laura Harcourt (@blueofthebay) September…
Author Called Out On Racist Video Lashes Out At Tweeters
On September 7th, author Christy Parks (aka C.L. Parks) shared a video on Facebook.
The Thursday Book Beat: Libraries Aren’t Happy with OverDrive
Libraries Aren’t Happy with OverDrive Oh, OverDrive. OverDrive is planning on enacting a change that will require new users to create an OverDrive account rather than use their library card. The ReadersFirst coalition of libraries has written a letter to OverDrive CEO Steve Potash protesting the change. Stressing that “libraries, not the vendors we pay,” should own the…
The Thursday Book Beat: Atwood’s Latest Book Will Be Unread For 100 Years
Forbes’ “The World’s Top Earning Authors List” Is Up James Patterson ($90 mil) Dan Brown ($28 mil) Nora Roberts ($23 mil) Danielle Steele ($22 mil) Janet Evanovich ($20 mil) +Jeff Kinney ($17 mil)/Veronica Roth ($17 mil)/John Grisham ($17 mil)/Stephen King ($17 mil) Veronica Roth is the young newbie as well as the 7th woman to show…
Gotham: No Straight or Whitewashing for Renee Montoya
Advocate.com wrote today about the diversity of Fox’s newest superhero show, Gotham. It looked at three of the show’s female characters: women of colour, one of whom is a lesbian. Zabryna Guevara plays Sarah Essen who is the captain of the GCPD Homicide Squad — which also means she’ll be James Gordon’s boss.
Support Grows for A Black Widow Solo Film
Last week, Jessica Chastain spoke to The Wrap about the lack of quality female roles in Hollywood and mentioned wanting to see Scarlett Johansson get her own solo film as Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “Where is the Scarlett Johansson superhero movie? I don’t understand it, why is it taking so long for this?” Chastain asked…
Arrow News: Another White Guy To Play Ra’s Al Ghul
Arrow has been really good when it comes to casting people of colour into playing people of colour, but I guess it was too much to ask for a middle eastern actor play Ra’s Al Ghul. We’ve yet to see one play the character on screen at all. The last person to play the lazarus pit…
The Thursday Book Beat: Censoring Children’s Books
“Slut”: Should The Word Be In Children’s Books? Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes has been removed from an Australian supermarket chain due to complaints from parents on the inappropriate language used in the 1982 book. The unacceptable word in question is “Slut”. ‘What’s all the racket?’ Cindy cried. ‘Mind your own bizz,’ the Prince replied. Poor Cindy’s heart was…
Finally! The Rock Announces Black Adam Role
When The Rock announced he would be joining the Warner Bros/DC cinematic universe, many people were ecstatic for the news. Then he alluded that he would possibly be playing the roles of either Shazam or Black Adam. Again, many were excited. Then for weeks there was this constant bombardment of “news” that essentially rehashed previous information of The…