How to Sell a Novel in Just 25 Years!
When my agent called a few weeks ago to say that an editor at Penguin wanted to buy my new novel, The Wishing Hill, I literally had to lie down. I've been waiting for this call for 25 years.
When my agent called a few weeks ago to say that an editor at Penguin wanted to buy my new novel, The Wishing Hill, I literally had to lie down. I've been waiting for this call for 25 years.
Posted 02.11.2012
Pat Robertson does not have "Twilight" Fever. On Thursday's episode of "The 700 Club," Robertson's syndicated religious TV show, the conservative B...
Farihah Zaman | Posted 01.22.2012
Stephanie Meyers claims that the Twilight series is not a pretext for some Mormon parable, but Breaking Dawn continues her terrifying march against female sexuality.
Posted 11.18.2011
Twihards may cringe at the thought, but could Edward and Bella be headed for divorce if "Twilight" author Stephanie Meyer continues with the series? ...
Steve Terreri | Posted 11.24.2011
Considering how wide the differences between reading on one's own and reading in a class are, I'm interested in how educators might take some aspects from the former to let high school students read just to read.
Elaine A. Heath | Posted 11.14.2011
Despite the stereotyped and violent gender themes, there are still many good reasons to read these novels. Reconciliation is the premier gospel theme that binds the story together.
Andrew Losowsky | Posted 10.10.2011
Twimore is the new site for fans of the Twilight books. It's similar in many ways to the forthcoming website announced by J.K. Rowling for the Har...
Hollywood Reporter | Posted 09.05.2011
Keri Russell, JJ Feild and Bret McKenzie will star in Austenland, an indie romantic comedy that is serving as the directorial debut of Jerusha Hess, w...
Alex Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011
The big story on The New York Times today is that parents are again urging children to ditch children's books. Sure, Where the Wild Things Are and Gre...
montrealgazette.com | Leah Collins, Dose | Posted 05.25.2011
"The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide," a companion book to the popular series, will be released April 12, 2011, Entertainment Weekly rep...
LiveScience | Posted 05.25.2011
"If you look very, very clearly at what kind of values the 'Twilight' books propagate, these are very conservative values that do not in any way endor...
Forbes | Posted 05.25.2011
Publishers are feeling the heat, with hardcover sales weak and the rise of e-books promising to upend their business models. But the world's 10 top-ea...
thebookseller.com | Katie Allen | Posted 05.25.2011
Stephenie Meyer's blockbuster Twilight series is to be republished this Christmas with a new white jacket design....
Chris Gray Faust | Posted 05.25.2011
Before Meyer's first book came out in 2005, visitor levels ranged from 5,000 to 10,000 people per year, according to the Forks Chamber of Commerce. Compare that to 2009, when nearly 70,000 "Twi-hards" swept through town.
Devra Maza | Posted 05.25.2011
Men wanting to inspire the kind of rapacious passion Edward does might try reading the Twilight novels. Think of it as research: anything that sends the opposite sex into that much of a tizzy should be viewed as a textbook.
Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011
As the ardor cools for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, it's easy to forget all the humans except that most desired one -- Kristen Stewart's Bella. And then there's actress Christian Serratos's bespectacled Angela Webber.
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
If you drop the whole supernatural thing for a moment, however, Eclipse is just another teen-age soap opera about the love triangle between Bella, Edward and Jacob.
Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011
The first rule of successful moviemaking is knowing your audience, and the makers of "Eclipse," certainly know theirs. They have taken everything in Meyer's book that is romantic and flung it full force on the screen.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011
The 'Twilight' phenomenon has grown so large not even al Qaeda can escape it! The Onion News Network humorously reports that a large terrorist attack...
Posted 05.25.2011
Die-hard "Twilight" fans can get one step closer to the magic with the Twilight engagement ring, Luxist reports. Based on the engagement ring that Edw...
Ming Holden | Posted 05.25.2011
I, for one, wasn't as annoyed at the worldwide popularity of a story like Twilight as much as worried. Bella's is not the worldview I want young girls across the planet to have.
Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011
From gay rights, to domestic violence, to the morality of our food choices, vampires may after all have a lot to teach us about our humanity, as we see how we react to what we see them do.
Posted 05.25.2011
Keep an eye out for what Inside Higher Ed calls "the new Twihards" -- one of them might be your professor. The obsession-inducing vampire love serie...
Publishers Weekly | Rachel Deahl | Posted 05.25.2011
In a major pre-Bologna acquisition, Laura Arnold at Harper Teen pre-empted North American rights to a debut YA trilogy by Josephine Angelini. Mollie G...
The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011
Bestsellers are harder to track than you'd think and it's not easy for everyone to agree which are the biggest. Each bestseller list--The New York Tim...
Holly Robinson | Posted 04.23.2012