Timewaster's Guide Archive

When I came to the forums tonight, I got a message/popup saying that the site wanted to run the add-on "QuickTimeCheck Scriptable Object" from "Apple Computer Inc. (unverified publisher)."

Since I've never gotten anything like this from TWG before, and I can't imagine why the forum would need it, I felt it necessary to ask.

I have just been invited to be the Editor Guest of Honor at LTUE next year. I suppose I'll have to come up with a keynote address... They're flying me out and everything.

You going to Comicon? As of today, I will be working the Wizards booth, and in my off time be able to see whether it's a place we (Mirrorstone) want to be.

I'm trying to get a better sense of just how many books are coming out that are either completely new fantasy or SF movies, or that are based on some other property related to fantasy, like books or comics.

So far, this is my list:

the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, spring 2007

His Dark Materials--which has had perpetual director problems--by Philip Pullman

XFiles 2 is in talks

KITT2000 (Knight Rider! Yay!)

Wonder Woman/Joss Whedon

Shazam!

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Spiderwick Chronicles and Artemis Fowl (by 1. Holly Black and Tony DiTerlezzi, 2. Eoin Colfer)

Meet the Robinsons, based on A Day With Wilbur Robinson, written and illustrated by William Joyce, set to be released by Disney in 2007

Dinosaur Bob, by William Joyce

A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. LeGuin, in production by Studio Ghibli (yay!) and due out sometime next year, as far as I can tell

Coraline, by Neil Gaiman, reported to be out next year sometime

the Alex Rider books, by Anthony Horowitz--first one due out in the U.S. near Labor Day, but to be released in the U.K. in July

The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper, allegedly coming out in December (but can't find anything to back that rumor up)

apparently there's also a new picture book named Punk Farm that's supposed to be made into a movie

What else is coming? I feel like I'm missing some. (Only upcoming movies, next month and beyond into the ether, not already-released movies.)

I was reading all the YA author interviews and almost overlooked the post-it note my boss put in the copy of Locus that's been circulating around the department.

Under "Books Sold" in People and Publishing:

STEVE BERMAN will edit YA anthology Magic in the Mirrorstone for Stacy Whitman of Mirrorstone Books.

Cool.

Boy, I wouldn't want to have been this driver. At least no one was hurt.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12036517/?GT1=7850

Sorry, the headline had to be a little truncated--should read "for Distribution and Co-publishing." I just saw this on Publisher's Lunch. An interesting partnership, eh Ookla? I'd think it'd be fun for you guys to explore new areas.

A little over a month after being highlighted in the NY Times for renewing their distribution agreement with CDS, Tokyopop has switched gears. Now the company says they will move their North American distribution to HarperCollins--which had been looking for a client of scale ever since Perseus left their distribution services and acquired CDS.

The new arrangement also features a co-publishing agreement to "create a progressive new line of co-branded manga titles" developed in conjunction with Harper authors and properties. Aiming for as many as 24 titles a year together, Tokyopop will "manage the creation of manga text and artwork in close consultation with the originating authors and HarperCollins editors." Initial titles will include projects with bestselling author Meg Cabot. Harper takes over sales and distribution in mid-June, and co-published titles are expected to launch in 2007.

Tokypop publisher Mike Kiley, reached by phone in Bologna, said of the surprise switch, "The simplest way to characterize it is deals can fall apart." He adds that, "In spite of everyone's best intentions...there were some deal terms we simply weren't able to come to agreement on," and characterizes the impasse with CDS/Perseus as "not anything more dramatic and complicated than not being able to cross every t and dot every i." The co-publishing concept with Harper was "very much a mutual" inspiration, Kiley says. The new line and new distribution will both align with Tokypop's mission of moving "more into mainstream areas that are much larger than the niche that manga has historically occupied."

Harper CEO Jane Friedman notes in the release, "We have been eager to enter the manga marketplace, and can think of no more powerful way than to join forces with TOKYOPOP, a company we have long admired as the leading manga publisher in North America."

I'm having trouble figuring out how to set up my 401k account within my Money program. I set up the account because of how I had to set up my withholdings on my paycheck, but now that I've figured out how to download the transactions from my 401k account, it seems to be doubling the entries. Help!