Ashlea Ramey

A Christmas Carol: Five adaptations

After the gifts have been opened and the turkey coma has set in, there's really only one thing to do on Christmas: watch holiday movies. To furnish a movie marathon, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is...

No e-reader for Borders

Barnes & Noble, they're not. Borders Chief Executive Ron Marshall told Reuters that the massive book chain will not develop its own e-book reader, a la Kindle or Nook. "I don't anticipate...

Put Chris March on your coffee table

Project Runway guru Tim Gunn already has several popular books to his name, and now, one of his designer protegees is taking a turn. Season Four's Chris March, known for his larger-than-life persona and wild...

Holiday books: Recommendations for kids

Kids (especially if they aren’t yours) can be hard to shop for. Thankfully, there’s no better stigma than being “That Guy (or girl) Who Gives Books as Presents” (they’ll thank you someday...

Natalie Portman is the newest Elizabeth Bennett

Blending two of cinema's biggest sellers- Jane Austen and the undead- Lionsgate has announced plans to morph the hit mash-up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies into a motion picture, starring Natalie Portman. The svelte brunette...

Play along with Nora Roberts

Famously prolific romance novelist Nora Roberts can add a new medium to her repertoire: gaming. Game company I-Play has announced plans to morph Roberts’ 2009 novel, Vision in White, into a casual-play game. Previously, the company had...

The death of Stephenie Meyer's plagiarism suit

Stephenie Meyer may be having the best month ever. First, her Oprah appearance draws millions of viewers, the film version of New Moon shatters box-office expectations and now, after months of court documents and filings, the plagiarism suit...

The next Twilight?

Tomorrow, Dec. 2, Little, Brown publishers will release their latest supernatural-meets-mortal novel. The new work, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, is Beautiful Creatures, and it promises to shake up the established Twilight formula. In its...

Rick Moody kicks off his Twitter short story

Twitter stories keep growing. After Neil Gaiman's Twitter experiment last month, another noted author, Rick Moody, will write a new short story in 140-word bursts. Moody is best known for his novels The Ice Storm...

Before the holidays, read up on regifting

The holiday shopping rush has officially begun, but before purchasing pricey gifts, investing in Jodi Newbern's useful guide Regifting Revival! A Guide to Reusing Gifts Graciously may be a wise idea. In Regifting, Newbern attempts to introduce...

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