Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist Announced
The Women’s Prize for fiction’s shortlist has been announced. The prestigious UK prize was founded in 1996 and aims to celebrate and honor book written by women. The books that made the shortlist are all novels written by women and published in the UK between 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021. The books are: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, Piranesi by Suzanna Clarke, Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller, Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps by Cherie Jones, and No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood. The authors on this list come from diverse backgrounds and are from all over the world. None of the authors in this year’s lineup have ever made the shortlist before.
Watch the First Trailer for Netflix’s Sweet Tooth
Netflix has just released its first teaser trailer for its upcoming series Sweet Tooth. The show is based on Jeff Lamire’s DC Comic Series Sweet Tooth, and is set in a post-apocalyptic world where human/animal hybrids are a normal part of the world. The story focuses on a deerboy named named Gus and his companion Jepperd as they set out in a journey across what’s left of America to find answers about Gus’s origins. Christian Convery, Stefania LaVie Owen, Adeel Akhtar, Nonso Anozie, Aliza Vellani, Dania Ramirez, Neil Sandilands, and Will Forte star in the series. James Brolin narrates. Sweet Tooth is out on Netflix on June 4.
Gal Gadot to Star in Meet Me in Another Life
Catriona Silvey’s debut novel Meet Me in Another Life was just published earlier this week, and already an adaptation is in the works. Atlas Entertainment and Gal Gadot, with Jaron Varsano’s production label Pilot Wave, have purchased the rights to the novel, and Gal Gadot is set to star in the film adaptation. The story centers around a man and a woman who keep meeting one another in different versions of reality. In a statement, Gadot and Varsano said, “Catriona’s characters are beautifully explored and deeply complex – their reincarnations sometimes bordering on taboo – that the payoff of their self-discovery feels genuine and earned.” They went on to say they are “thrilled to bring this story with many layers on the big screen.”
Authors Form a Task Force After Disney Refuses to Pay Them
Authors across genres—including Alan Dean Foster, Neil Gaiman, Tess Gerritsen, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Chuck Wendig—have come together to create a task force to fight for the royalties Disney has refused to pay for Star Wars and other tie-in novels.