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The hit Netflix series My Life with the Walter Boys is coming back for a second season, and now the book the show is based on is getting a sequel too, telling the next chapter of Jackie’s story. The followup book will be out April 15, 2025, author Ali Novak said to Today.com. It will be titled My Retu…

The original watercolor illustration for the cover of Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone, the first book in author J.K. Rowling’s famous series, is now the most expensive piece of Potter-related memorabilia ever sold at auction. The illustration was on the debut edition of the 1997 novel. It…

Romance author Emily Henry now has four of 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…

Gallery Books will publish actor Ione Skye's memoir Say Everything: A Memoir next March, the publisher announced today. The daughter of singer Donovan, Skye made her film debut opposite Keanu Reeves in 1986’s River's Edge, followed by her role as Diane Court in Say Anything in 1989. She has appeared…

EXCLUSIVE: Kristy Woodson Harvey, the New York Times, USA Today and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author of eleven novels including The Summer of Songbirds and Under The Southern Sky, has signed with Rain for representation. Harvey’s most recent novel, A Happier Life, which just hit the market…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-showrunner Emily Whitesell (Siren) has been tapped to adapt Bless Your Heart, Lindy Ryan's debut novel for television in conjunction with Rain Productions and Boilermaker Entertainment.  Bless Your Heart is a horror-mystery novel set in a small Southeast Texas town where the dead…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Netflix has optioned the novel Happy Place by Emily Henry for Jennifer Lopez’s Nuyorican. Plans to adapt the novel as a series are underway, and I understand producers and streaming executives are currently meeting with writers. The news follows as Lopez’s Netflix movie Atlas…

EXCLUSIVE: Bindery Books, a newly-launched publisher that has social media book tastemakers lead their own publishing imprints, has signed with Atlas Literary and Independent Artist Group for representation. Boasting a first-look deal with Bad Robot, Bindery brings a groundbreaking angle to the…

Laika, the renowned Oregon animation studio founded by Travis Knight, has acquired the internationally bestselling fantasy novel Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, enlisting Knight to direct an animated feature adaptation. The film will be the third Knight directs for the studio, on the heels of 2016’s…

Radio host Charlamagne Tha God told Bill Maher on Friday’s Real Time that his appeal is that his audience thinks he’s sincere in his beliefs. Among his beliefs: that Caitlin Clark’s immediate impact on the WNBA is because – in a league where the majority of women are Black and there’s a large number…

SPOILER ALERT: The following reveals major plot points for Season 3 of Bridgerton. Based on Julia Quinn's Romancing Mister Bridgerton Season 3 of Netflix and Shondaland's Bridgerton watches the friends-to-lovers romance between Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola…

EXCLUSIVE: The Little, Brown imprint Voracious has set a fall 2025 publication date for two books exploring the creative genius of Quentin Tarantino in the making of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Inglourious Basterds. The books are written by Jay Glennie, and each will have a foreword written by…