Paloppa Pictures LLC and Brandon Sanderson are pleased to announce that Paloppa has taken an option on film rights to Sanderson’s NY Times bestselling Mistborn fantasy trilogy! Here’s more, excerpted from the official announcement: The principals in Paloppa Pictures LLC are Christopher Geary, Rob Micai and Marc Bryant. Micai is a co-producer of the forthcoming

Charlaine Harris is (drumroll please!), according to Publishers Weekly, the best selling female author of 2009! Publishers Weekly just released its list of the Bestselling Books of 2009, and Charlaine has three of the ten spots on the Mass Market Paperback list! This is more than any other author of adult fiction; John Grisham and

Congratulations are in order for Del Howison and Jeff Gelb! DARK DELICACIES III: HAUNTED (reviews | buy), the third of their star-studded anthologies, might just get another jewel in its crown: it has been named a finalist for the Black Quill Award for Best Anthology! UPDATE: DARK DELICACIES III: HAUNTED has also been selected as

Congratulations are again in order for Brandon Sanderson! Brandon’s stand-alone fantasy novel WARBREAKER (reviews | buy) was just chosen by Barnes & Noble as #4 in their list of the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Novels of 2009. This comes on the heels of Library Journal picking the book for their top five sf/fantasy list last month.

We just learned that books by Charlaine Harris and Kat Richardson have been chosen by Paul Goat Allen for Barnes & Noble’s list of the best paranormal fantasy novels of the last decade! Charlaine Harris‘ DEAD UNTIL DARK and Kat Richardson‘s VANISHED were the books chosen, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to see two

Congratulations are in order for Alan Ball and the cast and crew of True Blood! The series, based off of Charlaine Harris‘s #1 NY Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series, was chosen as one of the Top Ten TV series of 2009 by the American Film Institute, and has subsequently been chosen as an official selection

Congratulations are in order for Charlaine Harris! This time, Harper Connelly fans get to have the good news. GRAVE SECRET (get your copy), debuted at #9 on the New York Times bestseller list! We at JABberwocky are thrilled to see Harper finally get her due, as this final volume in the four-book series marks the

We at JABberwocky are thrilled to learn that TRUE BLOOD, based off of the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris, is now not only a Golden Globe award-winning series, but an Emmy winner as well! The series received the Emmy for Best Casting, beating out “Mad Men” and “Friday Night Lights.” We have to say,

We’ve just learned that Jeri Westerson has been named a finalist for the Shamus Award! Jeri is up for the Shamus for her debut, VEIL OF LIES (reviews | buy). She has also been named a finalist for the Macavity Award. The Shamus is given by the Private Eye Writers of America, the winner chosen

We have big news today for fans of Brandon Sanderson! At Worldcon, we made official something that has been in the works for the last few months. Brandon has signed a major book deal with Tor for a new series, called The Stormlight Archive. The first book will be titled THE WAY OF KINGS, and