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Where the Wild Things Are$9.99 add to cart

It's not often a movie trailer makes me this giddy. Where the Wild Things Are, based on the beloved children's book by Maurice Sendak and directed by Spike Jonze, comes out this fall.

Tor has issued this press release stating that A Memory of Light, to be the twelfth and final volume in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series will be split into three shorter novels. Author Brandon Sanderson -- who was hired by Tor to finish the book after Jordan's death in 2007 -- has some thoughtful commentary on the decision to split the book on his blog. The first installment of A Memory of Light, entitled The Gathering Storm is due to hit shelves November 3rd 2009.

 

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Good to a Fault$25.95 add to cart

Hot on the heals of its Giller shortlist appearance, Marina Endicott's novel Good to a Fault has been shortlisted for a 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Award for Best Book - Canada and The Caribbean. Winnipeg's own Joan Thomas has also garnered a spot on the shortlist of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Award for Best First Book - Canada and The Caribbean for her novel Reading By Lightning.

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Later this year, fantasy author Terry Pratchett will be named a Knight Bachelor for his contributions to literature. Pratchett was diagnosed in 2007 with Alzheimer's, and has since become a vocal campaigner for Dementia research. Congratulations, Sir Terence!

And in other news....

J.R.R. Tolkien, prior to publishing The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was the professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. It was there that he retold the legend of Sigurd as narrative verse. That work has remained unpublished until now. In May, Harper Collins will release The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, edited by Tolkien's son Christopher who will also pen the book's introduction. Sigurd's tale has long been one of my favourite legends, and I couldn't be more excited to see what the master of fantasy has done with it.