Showing posts with label Wizard Hat Productions; Grim Hill; Linda DeMeulemeester. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wizard Hat Productions; Grim Hill; Linda DeMeulemeester. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Dave Duncan's When the Saints  is included in  Kirkus Review's Best Fiction of 2011 list  as one of the year's  ten best fantasy and science fiction title. Dave's new standalone fantasy, Against the Light, will be released by 47North on Tuesday, January 24.
In other recent news,  Dave's November 2010 novel Pock's World is now available in various  e-book formats as a joint venture of  Edge Publishing and E-Reads.


Meanwhile, Matthew  Hughes' Luff  Imbry novel The Other  has made the December Locus's list of  "New and Notable", and is one of seven nominees for the 2011 Philip K. Dick Award.

The critic and Jack Vance aficionado, Russell Letson, has given Matt's  The Other a long and positive review in Locus Magazine, and put it on his recommended reading list. He says the novel ". . . is as convincingly and pleasingly Vancean as Hughes's earlier Archonate stories -- together they constitute an homage that manages to maintain its own particular flavor and sensibility."
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"The Yellow Cabochon," the second of  Matt Hughes' three Luff Imbry novellas (the first was "Quartet and Triptych") is now available for preorder from PS Publishing.  You can read the first 5,000 words on Matt's web page at http://www.archonate.com

Casey Wolf reads her  story "Claude and the Henry Moores" at Beam Me Up! And you can read Casey's  story "Invicta", wherein a love of books carries a woman through all the difficult days of her life,  in the November-December issue of  The Link. Casey says, "Invicta" was inspired by my mother's tales of her thirst for books at a young age and her first visit to a library when she was in her early twenties. She vowed to read every book on the shelves and made a very good go of. it."

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Linda DeMeulemeester's Grim Hill novels to become an animated TV series.

Toronto-based Wizard Hat Productions is going to turn the Grim Hill book series into a animated series.
The books by Linda DeMeulemeester will be turned into 26 half-hour CG-animated episodes targeted at tweens. From the press release: “Wizard Hat is thrilled to work with Lobster Press and Linda DeMeulemeester to bring these unique and exciting stories to television,” said Pam Slavin, Partner and Executive Producer, Wizard Hat Productions, Inc. “’Grim Hill’ has attracted legions of fans who have been asking for a TV show based on the popular books, and we’re looking forward to bringing the adventures of Cat, Sookie, Jasper and Clive to life on air.” The popular five-book series, first released by Lobster Press in 2007, has received numerous accolades including the Silver Birch Award, voted favorite book of 2008 by kids grades 3-8. The Grim Hill books pit typical teens against powerful, magical creatures in the town of Grim Hill. Each thrilling tale combines celtic myth and dark faerie lore with face-paced action and adventure, and scary moments are diffused with humor.
The Lonely Cry is an informal west coast association of Canadian science fiction and fantasy writers. Our members are Mary E. Choo, Dave Duncan, Matthew Hughes, Eileen Kernaghan, Linda DeMeulemeester, Clélie Rich, Casey Wolf and Rhea Rose. Visit our website at www.lonelycry.ca