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 | 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...
