Popular Fiction News

It was Nancy Alsop's love of books that first led her into the library business.

Author Marti Healy's second book, her first novel, "The Rhythm of Selby," has been awarded the Bronze Medal for Popular Fiction in the 13th annual national competition Recognizing Excellence in Independent Publishing.

THE Popular-Star Readers Choice Awards organised by Popular Book Co Sdn Bhd and Star Publications is into its second year and will, once again, honour local authors and publishers.

John Grisham's legal pad was blank and his knees like putty as he approached the judge's bench.

In partnership with New York University's Asian/Pacific/American Studies, AACC Announces New Featured Guest: Science Fiction Author and Pulp Historian William F. Wu In partnership with New York University's Asian/Pacific/American Studies, AACC Announces New Featured Guest: Science Fiction Author and Pulp Historian William F. Wu The organizers of ...

Seventeen years ago a high school cheerleader in Southern California learned that she was the one girl of her generation chosen to stop the spread of evil -- namely, by slaying vampires.

"Seken Munesanyo" by Ihara Saikaku is an ukiyozoshi , a genre of popular fiction that developed in the Edo Period .

Rome author Raymond L. Atkins has been named a 2009 Georgia Author of the Year for his first novel, The Front Porch Prophet.

IT'S time to exercise your right to vote - for good reads, that is. The Popular-Star Readers Choice Awards is back this year, after getting off to a great start in 2008.

The Victorian Writers' Centre has a particularly excellent genre and popular fiction program on offer this month - ranging from panel discussions to intensive all-day workshops.

Mother Mary has a new job that benefits us all. Before I reveal it, let me explain that, when I was growing up, Mom and Pop Scottoline weren't big readers.

Dr Terry Sturm, CBE, professor of English. Died aged 67. Almost every student of English since 1980 at Auckland University would have felt Terry Sturm's influence during their studies.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born 150 years ago today, but it doesn't feel like that, does it? There are some authors you don't feel separated from by the mere passage of time; that's true of Conan Doyle, but still more of his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes.

A geeky parallel universe, where the plots of everyone's favourite books are traced back to a meteor strike in East Yorkshire, has outlived its author Are they related? Sherlock Holmes and Tarzan .

I'm not a fan of Dan Brown's writing. I think he's something of a hack, who lucked out by stumbling onto a deep yearning to embrace the divine feminine .

I had the pleasure last year of hearing one of my favourite authors of all time speak at UBC.

The following search on our campus -- for a published mystery author qualified to teach creative writing -- has been extended, and will continue until filled.

Tom Hanks, centre, stars as Robert Langdon, a Harvard "symbologist," in the new movie Angels & Demons.

The essays are certainly fascinating and wide-ranging, but there are only twenty-eight of them.

Recently, as I was languishing in a three-hour layover, my half-hearted quest for reading material led me to an airport bookstore.