Harmony ,'First Date'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
There's actually a lot of food porn in the Narnia Chronicles
Enid Blyton would get me cross-eyed about food I couldn't have, especially the tuck boxes in the boarding school books. And LotR is about a lot of things, but those hobbits sure did like feeding.
New novel with mystery and supernatural elements written by a former writer for Doctor Who.
Washington Post piece on the man who is The Tolkien Professor online and in itunes. (There is a podcast and it starts up when you open his website.)
"I don't think he's heard of Second Breakfast."
Washington Post piece on the man who is The Tolkien Professor online and in itunes.
He was my colleague at Washington College! Sadly, he wasn't part of our Wednesday night drinking group. Students love him.
Man, I was just coming to post that.
And I have to say - I find the idea confusing. At first, I thought she was writing an episode for the tv show but no- that's not it at all. She must have given up ownership or authorship of her series, huh?
She never had it. It was work for hire all the way.
Work for hire is a specific type of contract. The publisher essentially wanted a vampire series, so they contacted agents looking for writers who wanted to try out. When they found one with a decent idea, they hired her to write the books, on a book by book basis. The publisher retains rights to the series in that case -- the author is an employee.
I did a deal like that with Penguin, and it was a circle jerk and a horrible experience, but it was essentially book by committee, which I hadn't anticipated.
yeah...she's been emailing fans for days now about it. esentially the publisher wasn't happy with the direction she was taking the series(i.e. a Damon/Elena ending) and so they fired her and hired ghostwriters to finish up the series. apparently, they have no clue about the fanbase because most of us are wanting an endgame of D/E. even in the books, S/E is BO-ring!