My books fell on my head…I have only my shelf to blame! Happy Friday, you wild and out bookworms! The weekend is near which can only mean one thing… It’s time for another gut-punch list of all-too-funny literature-related tweets! Every week we round up the best bookish tweets from the far and wide corners of the internet and this week is no different; these tweets are seriously killer! So, kick back, grab a snack, let your hair flow down, and start your weekend off right! the most important thing I’ve learned this week is that after meeting …
During an interview at the annual four-day conference of bestselling thriller-authors from all across the globe, Thrillerfest, acclaimed science fiction and action author James Rollins admitted that his career may not have begun exactly as he’s stated in the past… I reached my thirtieth birthday and thought, ‘well, if I really want to be a writer than I’d better start now,’ and that’s exactly what I did…google that story, you’ll see me tell it. I tell that story all the time…and it’s a lie! Rollins then went on to explain that one night, around two AM, he was dolling out the …
During an open-panel discussion last Saturday at the popular thriller-writers conference, Thrillerfest, George R.R. Martin (author of Game of Thrones) and R.L. Stine (author of Goosebumps!) talked all things social media and well, they don’t exactly see eye-to-eye… R.L. Stine, George R.R. Martin, Heather Graham, David Morrell and Lee Child at Thrillerfest | Image via Twitter George R.R. Martin started off the discussion, I don’t know, social media…some days I want to burn it all down…” That seems like a fair enough statement considering the fact that, as I’m sure anyone with any sort of social media account …
At Thrillerfest this weekend, Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin opened up about a particularly tragic in-store appearance he made early in his career, which boasted minus-four attendees. You read that right. When the event, held in a bookshop/coffee shop was scheduled to start, only four people were there. The moderator of the event even waited an extra twenty-or-so minutes before introducing Martin to the stage, hoping that maybe the extra chunk of time would give more fans the chance to show up. Still, never one to care much about fame, nor his own ego, Martin stepped out, …
You may already know all about David Morrell, the legendary bestselling author of First Blood (the 1972 novel that the entire Rambo franchise is based on.) What you may not know, however, is that Rambo actually had a pretty big part in dissolving the USSR. David Morrell and Sylvester Stallone | Image via IMDB Now, Morrell (AKA: Rambo’s Father) hadn’t actually set-out to achieve something so historic; he never could’ve known the power his words might hold while he was putting them on the page. And he didn’t actually learn about Rambo’s involvement in the dismantling of the Soviet Union until about fifteen-or-so-years after the initial Rambo adaptation was released. …
