In a world where stunts are a popular method to attention for and move products, it is unsurprising that one would be used to sell a book. Take yesterday: observers (including me) were trying to figure out if the Q&A disaster between Little, Brown & Co. and author, Gabriel Roth, was in fact a stunt…
The Thursday Book Beat
Hello, Book Nerds! From now on, Thursdays will be all about book news. Anything that quakes in the book industry in the last week will be featured here, so grab onto your favourite, dog-eared book and enjoy the ride. Tolkein’s Beowulf Translation Finally Published J. R. R. Tolkein’s estate has teamed up with HarperCollins to publish his…
Apple Picking At Night: Friendship, Risks & Summer Loving
Since You’ve Been Gone Morgan Matson Simon & Schuster I received an Advanced Reader’s Copy (ARC) of the book from the publisher for an honest review. Since You’ve Been Gone is about Emily and Sloane: two best friends about to embark on an epic summer of fun. Right before it even begins, Sloane disappears leaving…
News and Things: Killer Book Kept Under Wraps
HarperCollins Keeps Zodiac Killer Book Quiet You don’t often have a publisher keep a hype worthy book under wraps for as long as HarperCollins did. The Most Dangerous Animal of All, by Gary L. Stewart, is about the author’s search for his biological father who he alleges to be the Zodiac Killer. The book was…
Rainbow Rowell Interviewed At The Toronto Public Library
YA bestselling author Rainbow Rowell visited the Toronto Public Library this past Thursday to answer questions from Elaine Lui, creator of LaineyGossip, author of The Squawking Chicken and overall Rainbow Rowell fangirl. They spoke in a crowded room of fans about Rowell’s life, her books, the upcoming Eleanor and Park movie and the importance of diversity….
BookCon Notices #WeNeedDiverseBooks
The same day ReedPOP, the company behind BookCon, added more diverse authors to their line up, they announced a panel called “The World Agrees: #WeNeedDiverseBooks,” based on the popular hashtag that trended around the world. ReedPOP has suffered under the backlash of public indignation at the lack of diversity in their original lineup, yet, like…
Marvel’s Agent Carter Gets Series Order
I’ve been a fan of Hayley Atwell since she graced the screen on Captain America: The First Avenger as Agent Peggy Carter. She won me over again when she appeared in her very own Marvel One-Shot which offered a great look at what a potential series for Carter would look like if she was ever brought to…
BookCon Gives Itself a New, Inclusive Look With Diverse Line Up
As we’ve reported in the past, BookCon experienced controversy the last few weeks due to its lack of diversity in its guest list, as well as with a kids lit panel that featured an all white male line up. Well, we have good news: BookCon has finally diversified! It only took a lot of angry tweets,…
Top Ten Comic Book Geniuses
There are plenty of characters in the world of DC and Marvel who have powers to punch through steel reinforced walls, read minds, and fly—but what about good old ingenuity? How about the geniuses that help save the world or make it their life’s mission to destroy it? What is genius and what role does it…
Stop The Presses! Shailene Woodley is NOT a Feminist…
…And, unfortunately, she doesn’t know what that quite means — given her answer in a TIME interview published yesterday. The piece doesn’t start out all that well when it mentions other female celebs who’ve either branded themselves with the label or shunned it completely, as though it was the hottest trend right now: to be or not to…
First ‘Gotham’ Trailer Promises ‘There Will Be Light’
Yesterday, Fox ordered a full season pick up of the Batman prequel, Gotham, for at least 13 episodes. Hours later, they released a teaser trailer:
Diversity Doesn’t Mean Talking About John Green… Again
BookCon was yet again in the news this past Tuesday but not in the way you would be expecting. The Daily Dot, an online site focused on community news, has written a piece on the issue of diversity over at BookCon but rather than shinning the spotlight on the authors of colour who’ve been speaking out since…