One of our most popular romance writers, Nora Roberts, was a winner at the Quill Awards in America last week. The Quill Awards sounds like the publishing industry's answer to the Oscars (think red carpet and glamour). "Romance rocks," Roberts told the crowd after accepting her Book of the Year award, which was voted online by the public, for a romance/thriller novel "Angels Fall" . Other Quill Award winners included Al Gore for the history/current affairs/politics category with "The Assault on Reason", Cormac McCarthy, who took the general fiction award with his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Road" and Walter Isaacson, who won the biography/memoir award for "Einstein: His Life and Universe." Amy Sedaris won the humor award for "I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence," Diane Setterfield will be awarded the debut author Quill for "The Thirteenth Tale" and Laura Lippman won the mystery/suspense/thriller award for "What the Dead Know."(sourced from Reuters).
While filming gets underway for "The Lovely Bones", the best seller from Alice Sebold, her latest offering "The Almost Moon" is in hot demand in Rodney Libraries. It has had mixed reviews and I haven't had a chance to check it out yet. Go to the Rodney Libaries catalogue and put a request in for it.
And while J K Rowling has outed Professor Dumbledore (personally I wonder at the need for this announcement), I am much more interested in finding out exactly what happened to Rhett Butler after Scarlett uttered her infamous "Tomorrow is another day". Apparently we are all going to get the chance to find out both his history and the aftermath in the second Gone with the Wind sequel called "Rhett Butler's people" written by Civil War novelist Donald McCaig. This book has been authorised by Margaret Mitchell's estate. I am not sure when it will hit New Zealand but if you are a Scarlett and Rhett fan, keep your eyes peeled.
Until tomorrow, ka kite ano
While filming gets underway for "The Lovely Bones", the best seller from Alice Sebold, her latest offering "The Almost Moon" is in hot demand in Rodney Libraries. It has had mixed reviews and I haven't had a chance to check it out yet. Go to the Rodney Libaries catalogue and put a request in for it.
And while J K Rowling has outed Professor Dumbledore (personally I wonder at the need for this announcement), I am much more interested in finding out exactly what happened to Rhett Butler after Scarlett uttered her infamous "Tomorrow is another day". Apparently we are all going to get the chance to find out both his history and the aftermath in the second Gone with the Wind sequel called "Rhett Butler's people" written by Civil War novelist Donald McCaig. This book has been authorised by Margaret Mitchell's estate. I am not sure when it will hit New Zealand but if you are a Scarlett and Rhett fan, keep your eyes peeled.
Until tomorrow, ka kite ano
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