Friday, September 5, 2008

NY Times articles

There were a couple of articles in the NY Times on Tuesday that I thought you all might be interested in.

I had heard about a new series that Rick Riordan was going to sketch out, but would be written by a number of other authors. Scholastic, the publisher of the series, has had a lot of voice in how the plot plays out not only in the books but in Web-based games. It sounds like Scholastic is trying to manufacture a Harry Potter-like media event; it will be interesting to see if it gets the audience they hope for.

There was also a brief bit about Stephenie Meyer putting off indefinitely the publication of the final book in the Twilight series. Final book??? I thought Breaking Dawn was the final book!

1 comment:

holdenj said...

I just read and was going to come tell you that The Last Olympian is scheduled to come out on May 5, 2009. I was pleased to see there may be more stories coming out of Camp Half Blood. We have Maze of Bones on reserve at the libe and will be interested to see how J. likes it and if he has any interest in the other interactive parts.