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Romance author Emily Henry now has five of her most recent novels set to be adapted for the big and small screens. Henry went on a rom-com writing spree that began with Beach Read, which came out in the summer of 2020. She has published a book a year since then, with People We Meet on Vacation coming out…

Controversial EC Comics, which warped young minds with tales of horror and suspense and spawned spinoffs in film and TV, has returned with original stories in a new anthology series. Oni Press has licensed the EC Comics banner and last month released its first issue, Epitaphs From the Abyss. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Wayfarer Studios is adapting for the big screen, the 2020 inspirational memoir by Sanford "Sandy" D. Greenberg, Hello Darkness My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man's Blindness Into an Extraordinary Vision for Life.  The project reteams the studio with…

Universal Pictures has won the rights to Britney Spears' critically acclaimed #1 New York Times Bestseller The Woman in Me, a project which Wicked filmmaker Jon M. Chu is attached to develop to direct. Talk about a highly coveted role for any actress–established or frosh: Playing a multi-platinum…

Kara Swisher’s recently-published Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, described as part memoir, part history, chronicling tech’s most powerful players, is in the works for the small screen. Tomorrow Studios (Snowpiercer, Physical) has optioned the book for development as a television series, Swisher…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has won an auction and is in final talks to turn the upcoming Caro Claire Burke novel Yesteryear into a film. Anne Hathaway is attached to star and produce. Sources in the publishing community said the film deal landed in the area of $450,000 against $2 million. The studio…

Prime Video has handed a series order to Every Year After, based on Carley Fortune’s bestselling romantic novel Every Summer After, with Hart of Dixie and Saint X creator Leila Gerstein attached to pen the adaptation and serve as showrunner. The pickup marks the latest expansion into the contemporary…

EXCLUSIVE: Tiye and Keisha Mennefee's audiobook Rifts and Refrains from the latter’s Honey Magnolia Media is being adapted for TV by Attica Locke and Tembi Locke for Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. Rifts and Refrains centers on an aspiring Black female writer and musician…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television has picked up rights to Mira Jacob’s latest novel We Killed Anji Alexander in a preempt deal for development as a prestige series, after the book sold to Ecco Press in a seven-figure auction. The novel will be published in 2026. We Killed Anji Alexander is a…

Francine Pascal, the author whose “Sweet Valley High” series of young-adult novels became a cultural touchstone for generations of readers beginning in the 1980s, died Sunday of Lymphoma at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. She was 92. Her daughter Laurie Wenk-Pascal announced the news…

Edna O'Brien, whose books were initially banned in Ireland but gained international acclaim, died Saturday after a long illness. She was 93 and her death was confirmed by her publisher, Faber, and the literary agency PFD. "A defiant and courageous spirit, Edna constantly strove to break new artistic…

Social media has been condemned by many for its negative effects. But one positive has been its ability to turn readers on to worthy books. The annual TikTok Book Awards were held tonight in London, and the award for international book of the year went to Fourth Wing, a fantasy novel by U.S. author…