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With total advances (not including film rights) approaching the two million-dollar mark, Andrew Davidson has rocked the publishing world with his debut novel The Gargoyle.

Growing up in Pinawa, home of Atomic Energy of Canada's former Whiteshell Laboratories, he traveled the world before moving back to Winnipeg in 2008 to finish what Sara Gruen (author of Water for Elephants) describes as "a hypnotic, horrifying, astonishing novel."

Andrew kindly took the time to answer some questions for our website readers. The full interview follows.

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Wizards, a division of Hasbro Inc., has decided to discontinue its Discoveries line of novels after December 2008 to concentrate on its core books based on the worlds of Dungeons and Dragons and Magic the Gathering. Discoveries published works of original fiction that usually had some horror or fantasy element. A number of other forthcoming novels in Wizards' Eberron setting were also cancelled.

The rights to the comic character The Phantom have been acquired by Dynamite Entertainment. Dynamite, a company that has made a name for itself with other media tie-in properties such as Army of Darkness, The Lone Ranger and Battlestar Galactica, seeks to revitalize the character by bringing comic giant Alex Ross onboard to update the Phantom's costume. Ross, a fan favourite artist who has worked on such books as Marvels and Kingdom Come, also recently designed the new costume for Marvel Comics' Captain America.

According to Publisher's Weekly, fantasy juggernaut Terry Goodkind will be leaving longtime publisher Tor Books, for whom he recently completed his bestselling Sword of Truth series.

Goodkind seeks to move into mainstream fiction territory, but it remains to be seen if his fantasy fans will make the jump with him. His first book for Putnam, due fall 2009 and as yet untitled, will be a contemporary thriller set in an American city. The three novels will stand alone and not form part of a series.

When a small bear from Darkest Peru first arrived at Paddington Station in 1958, no one would have predicted that he would become one of the most well-loved of celebrity bears. Now, with his 50th Anniversary fast approaching, his publishers are planning a special celebration.

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ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words, the horror magazine edited by Bram Stoker Award-winning Brett Alexander Savory, is starting up its own book imprint. ChiZine Publications will be dedicated to bringing its readers the same (as Brett puts it) "weird, subtle, surreal, disturbing dark fiction and fantasy" the magazine has been publishing for the past ten years.

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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time

Macbeth -- William Shakespeare

Shakespeare had something completely different in mind when he wrote the above, but it nicely fits the feeling of readers when their favourite author's new book is delayed. I found myself wondering, last night, just who it is that suffers the most when a book doesn't arrive as expected.

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Winnipeg writer Martha Brooks has won the Vicky Metcalf Award. The $15,000 national literary award honours Martha's entire body of work. The award was presented on Tuesday night in Toronto.

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Patricia Briggs' coyote shapeshifter and mechanic Mercy Thompson will be getting the graphic treatment courtesy of Dabel Brothers.

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