Novels to Films
Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
May 14, 2011 | 
Author Sookie Stackhouse is back in the eleventh book of Charlaine Harris’ “Southern Vampire” series, Dead Reckoning and once again trouble had come knocking on Sookie’s door. Two old enemies are out to get her, something fishy is going on with the fairy kin living beneath her roof and as if that weren’t enough to deal with already she has a baby shower to pull off between fire-bombings and kidnapping attempts. And you thought your life was complicated?
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FEATURED ARTICLE: A Thrill Ride Like No Other – Lee Baker and the Speed of Light
Futuristic technology collides with edge of your seat suspense in the novel Speed of Light by Lee Baker. Coming in May 2011, this action-packed, intelligent novel is intricately layered with mind expanding concepts that will take your imagination to new levels.
Lee comes from a unique storytelling background. He is the President of Sandman Studios, a visual effects and animation company, has a degree in English and has taught both writing and digital video editing classes at the university level. Lee penned two illustrated books. The first, Humbug A Christmas Carol came out September 1, 2010 and sold out before Christmas:
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2010 Highlight: Barry Eisler On Taking Books to Film
Having my first book, Rain Fall, made into a movie last year by Sony Pictures Japan was a great experience. Fascinating and fun. I visited the set, which was very cool; I met Gary Oldman and Akira Emoto, two actors I like a lot; and I attended the premiere, which was a blast. If you want to know more, here’s my writeup of the premiere in Tokyo; photos of set and the premiere; and a short video of the premiere (if you can stand my mangled Japanese).
FEATURED ARTICLE: Butcher’s Magic Touch
What do you get when you mix a hard-boiled Chicago P.I. with magic, a bit of dark humor, and a kick-ass attitude? Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is what, the rough-edged hero of author Jim Butcher’s New York Times bestselling series. Urban Fantasy readers are in for the best reading edgy-treat of their lives. The Dresden Files are set in an alternative reality of Chicago where magic and deadly paranormals make Wizard Harry’s life hell.
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“Naked Heat” by Richard Castle
There is nothing new about the concept of adapting popular books into film or television series’ nor the practice of producing complimentary written works for film or television favorites. Naked Heat and its best selling predecessor Heat Wave break through the fourth wall, as novels written by a fictional character—Richard Castle—from the hit ABC television series “Castle”.
“Sh*t My Dad Says” by Justin Halpern
If you have known, or ever wished for a dad who was less Ward Cleaver or Mike Brady and more Archie Bunker or Al Bundy, then “Sh*t My Dad Says” by Justin Halpern is the perfectly hilarious book choice for you.
What began as a journal archiving of some of his father’s most memorable gems of witticism, evolved into a one million plus following on the social media site Twitter and then the May 2010 release of the book, which quickly landed on the New York Times Bestseller list.
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REVIEW: “Another Man’s War” by Sam Childers
“A gun-toting preacher, a rebel army led by a madman, and entire villages slaughtered just because they were in the way.”
It’s not a Hollywood blockbuster…yet. It’s the life of Sam Childers.
“Childers is a former drug dealer and violent outlaw who discovered a faith that turned his life around. Determined to live as a changed man, he journeyed to Sudan in 1998 on a medical mission trip to help the victims who had been terrorized by the Lord’s Resistance Army. Moved by the horrors he witnessed there, Childers decided to do something about it. Despite having no financial backing, he arranged to purchase 40 acres of land right in the war zone and set out to establish an orphanage that today protects some 300 children form the LRA.”
“The Vampire Diaries”
Nearly fifteen years before Edward sparkled and Bella got moody, there were the vampire brothers Salvatore and their lady love Elena Gilbert. The creations of writer L.J Smith lived within the pages of the young adult novel series, The Vampire Diaries. On September 10th, 2009 those characters emerged in Technicolor clarity within the CW network series of the same name, to the rabid delight of millions of fans.
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NovelsAlive.TV Novel to Film Spotlight: “HIGH CRIMES” by Joseph Finder
Quietly funny and articulate, Joseph would like you to think of him as an ordinary family man living in Boston, but this critically acclaimed, award winning New York Times Bestselling Author is anything but ordinary. He is an extraordinary man who raises the bar on the edge-of-your-seat thriller to extraordinary heights. From Kabul to New York as a child, and from Harvard to the CIA as an adult, this driven achiever published his first book at the age of twenty-four and has since penned over ten novels that will grip you by the heart and by the guts and take you on a ride you’ll never forget.
In HIGH CRIMES, a 2002 Fox Film with mega stars Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, Joseph’s mastery of suspense and storytelling hit target with a riveting tale of an ordinary women who rises to an extraordinary pinnacle.
"Claire Heller Chapman has the perfect life. She’s a Harvard law professor and a high-profile criminal defense attorney known for taking on—and winning—tough cases. But one day this perfect life is shattered when her husband Tom Chapman is suddenly arrested by a team of government agents and accused of a brutal crime he insists he didn’t commit. As Claire finds herself drawn closer into a web of duplicity and shadowy figures, she discovers that her husband is not who he says he is…that he once had a different name…even a different face.
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