Read Alert Roundup 7/4
Joe Hill wrote a book called Heart-Shaped Box, and sent it to an agent. The agent bought it. A publisher bought it. A Hollywood producer bought it. It won some kind of fancy crime award. Only then did Joe Hill admit that he is Steven King’s son.
Naomi & Ely’s No Kiss List, David Levithan and Rachel Cohn’s second book together, is also going to be a movie. MAYBE starring Hayden Panettiere from Heroes.
In other movie-casting news, Thomas Sangster has been cast as Tintin. Some of you will know Thomas as “That Kid with the Big Eyes who Played the Drums in Love Actually“. The more discerning among you will know him as “the Kid with the Watch in that Awesome Doctor Who Two-Parter”.
Margaret Atwood reminisces about Anne of Green Gables.
