John Cusack announced in a tweet that he will be playing Edgar Allan Poe in an upcoming film caled The Raven. The film is named after Poe's narrative poem. IMDB's ...

The Telegraph reports that the Oxford English Dictionary will never be printed again. Oxford University Press says the print dictionary market is rapidly fading away. The dictionary will probably only ...

The Wall Street Journal's Digits blog reports that Laura Lippman's new thriller, I'd Know You Anywhere, sold more ebooks than hardcovers during its first five days on sale. Frank Albanese, ...

Songwriter George David Weiss has died at age 89. Weiss created pop music and collaborated on several Broadway musicals. Some of Weiss' biggest hits included "What a Wonderful World," which ...

Publishers Weekly (PW) has announced the launch of PW Select, a fee-based service for self-published authors. PW Select will charge authors a $149 fee to have their book listed in ...

Forbes has a story containing details about the top ten highest earning authors. Forbes says James Patterson signed a $100 million deal last year that has him writing 17 books ...

Orbit Books has been running a series of fascinating infographics that reveal fantasy novel cover art trends for 2009. Orbit's Trends in Fantasy Cover Art chart shows that swords, glowy ...

The listing on eBay for J.D. Salinger's toilet says, "Here's an item you won't come across everyday!" The listing also promises that the toilet will come to you "uncleaned and ...

Author Jonathan Franzen is back on the literary radar with his new novel, called Freedom. Franzen has landed the cover of Time and he has a write-up in Vogue. Jonathan ...

Search and PR strategist Adam Sherk has compiled a list of the most overused terms in press releases. He used PRWeb's press release archive to find the most frequently used ...

A. N. Devers launched an interesting website earlier this year called Writers' Houses. A. N. Devers says his decision to launch a site dedicated to documenting writers' houses came ...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that paperback publisher Dorchester Publishing has decided to all digital. Staring Monday, Dorchester will switch from mass paperback to ebooks and print-on-demand. The WSJ ...

TMZ reports that Lindsay Lohan was busy writing during the fourteen days she spent behind bars. TMZ says its sources tell them the actress filed up several notebooks. She reportedly ...

Now this is how you do a book signing, authors. Glamour model Katie Price's second novel Paradise has zoomed to the top of the British fiction bestseller charts and we're ...

Anne Rice has posted on her Facebook page that she has quit being a Christian. Anne Rice says she remains committed to Christ but not to "being 'Christian' or to ...

Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West host a Hemingway Look-Alike contest each year. This year was the 30th Hemingway Look-Alike contest. The contest is one of many events in Key ...

Janet Evanovich is leaving St. Martin's Press for Random House Publishing Group. The publisher acquired worldwide hardcover, paperback, audio, and ebook publication rights for four new Evanovich novels from Peter ...

William Faulkner was the writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia for two years in the last 1950s. Faulkner gave lectures and readings and answered questions from students. NPR reports that ...

The I Write Like site provides a statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of famous authors. The site will tell ...

Author Matt Stewart's novel, The French Revolution, is being published in paperback by Soft Skull Press. This is the second time his novel is being published. Matt Stewart first published ...