by vjbooks | Mar 2, 2010 | We're Talking Books!
VJ Books has received: Robert B. Parker – Split Image (unsigned), Dan Simmons – Black Hills, Hugh Ambrose – The Pacific, Connie Willis – Blackout, Noah Boyd – The Bricklayer, Dean Koontz – Breathless (UK), James Twining...
by vjbooks | Dec 17, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Dan Simmons, the award-winning author of Olympos, Ilium, and The Hyperion Cantos, has received the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and British Science Fiction & Fantasy Awards, among many others. Signed limited edition copies of The...
by vjbooks | Mar 13, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(The Seattle Times, Feb. 15, Mary Ann Gwinn) Say “Charles Dickens,” and most 21st-century citizens think of a benevolent bearded fellow with a holly wreath around his neck. The famous English author helped invent today’s Christmas by publishing...
by vjbooks | Feb 24, 2009 | Books to Movies, We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Feb. 23) Simmons kicked off an eight-city tour in Denver, his hometown, on Feb. 16; he’ll end up on Feb. 25. Film rights to Drood have been sold to Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth). According to Publisher’s Weekly...
by vjbooks | Jan 31, 2009 | Books to Movies, We're Talking Books!
(Variety, Jan. 29, Michael Fleming) Trevor Sands adapting Dan Simmons’ novels The Day the Earth Stood Still” helmer Scott Derrickson is set to direct “Hyperion Cantos” for Warner Bros. and GK Films. Derrickson boards a project that will take...
by vjbooks | Dec 20, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Nov. 24) Bestseller Simmons (The Terror) brilliantly imagines a terrifying sequence of events as the inspiration for Dickens’s last, uncompleted novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, in this unsettling and complex thriller. In the course...
