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Angie Thomas’ new book “Concrete Rose” just released the cover!
“The Reformatory” by Tananarive Due is going to be adapted for TV.
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“The Final Girl Support Group” by Grady Hendrix will also be adapted for TV.
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JRR Tolkien estate will be releasing an unpublished collection of writings! “The Nature of Middle-Earth” will be released in 2021 by HarperCollins.
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Authors Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon are collaborating together to writer the YA novel “Blackout.”
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Dhonielle Clayton’s novel “Tiny Pretty Things” adapted to Netflix has a trailer.
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Here is the cover reveal for “She Who Became the Sun” by Shelley Parker-Chan.
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Patton Oswalt is writing a “Black Hammer” comic.
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Kima Jones is writing a memoir.
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“Waiting to Exhale” is being adapting into a TV series.
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“Purple Hearts” by Tess Wakefield is being adapted into a movie.
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Penguin Random House will be purchasing Simon & Schuster. ViacomCBS, Inc owns Simon & Schuster. They plan to sell the publishing company to Penguin Random House soon. $2.175 Billion in cash was the amount paid. If you can believe it about 1/3 of all books sold in America, will come from one corporation, Bertelsmann. Penguin is the largest publishing entity and Simon & Schuster is the 3rd largest- with them combined, we are looking at quite a large publisher.
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Warner Bros Television has a deal with author Kimberly Latrice Jones. One of her more famous books is “I’m not Dying With You Tonight.” She is a YA author. She has two more books coming out next year. One good thing, is that she worked in the TV industry before she was an author!
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Joy Harjo will serve a 3rd term as U.S. Poet Laureate. She has been reappointed to that role and is only the 2nd to ever serve 3 terms.
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Cherry by Nico Walker has a trailer that hit. It will be in theaters 2/26/21 and on Apple Tv on 3/12/21.
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Lorde is publishing a book about her trip to Antarctica. It will be a picture book. She took a trip with her friend, Harriet Were. It is called “Going South” and will be released in Feb. All $ for this book will be donated to Antarctica New Zealand to help study climate change science.
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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library documentary is going to air in December. It is called “The Library that Dolly Built.” It will stream free on Facebook on Wed 12/9/20 at 7pm ET.
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Clifford the Big Red Dog is being adapted into a movie. A teaser Trailer was released recently. It will release sometime in 2021.
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There is a book that is called “Spot the Shop Cat” by Marcel Heijnen and Stephen Case. It is a “Where’s Waldo” for cat lovers. Each page has a photo and you need to try to find the cat in the photo.
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Pope Francis has written a book and it is called “Let Us Dream.” It includes issues in the news today: racial justice, COVID-19, etc. It is set to release today.
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Netflix is working on an adaption of “Forty Acres” by Dwayne Alexander Smith.
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“Surviving the White Gaze” by Rebecca Carroll (memoir) is being adapted for TV.
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Alan Rickman’s 27 volumns of diaries will be published in one book in 2022. His diaries span over 25 years of his life.
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Ernest Cline is already talking about a prequel to “Ready Player One.” The Sequel “Ready player Two” is out now.
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266 Love letters from Kurt Vonnegut were found in an attic. They will b e in a new book. It is called “Love Kurt.”
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Quentin Tarantino is writing a novel based on the movie “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.”
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Ava DuVernay and Roberto Patino will produce a series with Rosario Dawson. It is a DC/Vertigo comic adaption for HBO Max and is called “DMZ”. It is in the future and America’s civil War. It will also star Benjamin Bratt.
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Adam Silvera has a sequel to “What If It’s Us.”
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Patrick Ness’ “Chaos Walking” starring Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley is getting an adaption. It is set to release in 2021. It is a dystopian Sci-fi series.
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Happy Reading, Book Nerds!