Cartoon of the Day: Another Book Group

2011 Scribe Nominees

The 2011 Scribe Award Nominees. The Scribes “acknowledge and celebrate excellence in licensed tie-in writing--novels based on TV shows, movies, and games.” www.iamtw.org

GENERAL ORIGINAL
CSI: SHOCK TREATMENT by Greg Cox
BURN NOTICE: The Giveaway by Tod Goldberg
MIKE HAMMER: THE BIG BANG by Max Allan Collins and Mickey Spillane
MURDER SHE WROTE: The Queen's Jewels by Donald Bain
PSYCH: The Call of the Mild by William Rabkin
SAVING GRACE: TOUGH LOVE by Nancy Holder

SPECULATIVE ORIGINAL
GUILD WARS: GHOSTS OF ASCALON by Matt Forbeck and Jeff Grubb
STAR TREK: MIRROR UNIVERSE: THE SORROWS OF THE EMPIRE by David Mack
STAR WARS: FORCE UNLEASHED II by Sean Williams
SUPERNATURAL: HEART OF THE DRAGON by Keith R. A. DeCandido
WARHAMMER: BLOODBORN: ULRIKA THE VAMPIRE by Nathan Long

BEST ADAPTATION
FINAL CRISIS by Greg Cox
GOD OF WAR by Matthew Stover & Robert E. Vardeman
THE WOLFMAN by Jonathan Maberry

BEST YOUNG ADULT
ALPHA & OMEGA: THE JUNIOR NOVEL by Aaron Rosenberg
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: ALDWYNS ACADEMY by Nathan Meyer
THUNDERBIRDS: SITUATION CRITICAL by Joan Marie Yerba

The Fifth Annual Scribe Awards will be given at a ceremony and panel discussion held during Comic Con International in San Diego in July 2011.
For more information contact: Max Allan Collins (macphilms@hotmail.com), Lee Goldberg (lee@leegoldberg.com)

Hat Tip: The Rap Sheet, Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine

Spring Mystery Readers Book Group List

Here's the Spring Reading List for the Mystery Readers Book Group in Berkeley, CA. We meet every Tuesday at 7 p.m. Leave a comment if you'd like to attend the group, or if you're passing through and would like to attend one meeting or more.

April 5 Louise Penny's Bury Your Dead

April 12 Laura Lippman's I’d Know You Anywhere

April 19 Tom Franklin's Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

April 26 No meeting

May 3 Christopher Fowler's Bryant and May on the Loose


May 10 Bruce DeSilva's Rogue Island

May 17 Colin Cotterill's Love Songs from a Shallow Grave

May 24 J.C. Tyler’s Ten Little Herrings

May 31 Timothy Hallinan's The Queen of Patpong

June 7 Tana French's Faithful Place

June14 Kate Atkinson's Started Early, Took My Dog

Silva's Gabriel Allon Series Booked for Films

Universal has acquired the screen rights to Daniel Silva's bestselling series of novels featuring "semi-retired" Mossad agent Gabriel Allon.

Deadline.com reported that former NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker "became involved as the film's producer because he and Silva are close friends and the author wanted it that way. Silva will be executive producer and the studio will go out to writers immediately." The studio "will get a writer before figuring out which book to focus on." Silva's next book in the series, Portrait of a Spy, will be published in July.

Cartoon of the Day: Rhymes with Orange

Another great cartoon strip from Hilary Price, Rhymes with Orange:

Famous Authors and their Typewriters

Following up on the typewriter theme: Flavorwire, another of my favorite sites, had a wonderful retrospective on Authors and their Typewriters. Enjoy! See the rest of the fabulous photos HERE.

Agatha Christie, 1946

Alfred Hitchcock, 1939

William Faulkner, 1943