Ireland To get Its Own Children's Laureate Nominations must be received by 5pm March 19th 2010. No nomination can be accepted after this deadline. The recipient of the first Children's Laureate will be announced on May 13th 2010.  There will be a special information forum on Ireland's First Children's Laureate at 10.30am on Monday March 8th in Council Chambers, City Hall, Dame Street, Dublin ...

Publishing stories fell from the sky all day today. Here are a few headlines you may have missed. First of all, HBO will adapt the bestselling financial meltdown book, Too Big To Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin. Here's more from Deadline Hollywood: "HBO has acquired rights to Too Big to Fail, the bestselling book by New York Times reporter Andrew Sorkin. Peter Gould has been hired to write the dra...

Does that book trailer seem like a movie? It might be a movie soon... That's the highly produced book trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter--Seth Grahame-Smith's follow up to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. According to Deadline Hollywood, the book already is headed to the big screen. Here's the simple post: "Alice and Wonderland director Tim Burton has teamed with Wanted dir...

The deadline for the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Spring 2010 Orlando Prize is Feb. 28. Four $1,000 Orlando Prizes for Creative Nonfiction, Short Fiction, Poetry, and Sudden Fiction will be awarded. The competition is open to women of all nationalities. All applications must be written in English and submitted online. Winners will be announced April 15. Read the guideli...

Deadline Hollywood reports that the last book of the bestselling Twilight saga will be adapted into two films with "'high end' Helmer/s." Here's more from the post: "Filming on the back-to-back movies would begin in mid-October, and Summit Entertainment is looking at "high end" directors. Breaking Dawn is the longest in Stephenie Meyer's 4-book series lengthwise and it's t...

- The San Francisco book fair is this weekend: Ian's offering dispatches from the floor, and you can also follow along with him on Twitter. - 2009 was a good year for odd book titles, apparently. The Bookseller's "Oddest Book Title of the Year" has drawn a record number of nominations, the Independent reports. The shortlist will be announced on 19 February. - The deadline for feedback on...

This just in from Jason Sanford, storySouth’s founding editor: The storySouth Million Writers Award is now open. For more information, including how to nominate online short stories for the award, please go to www.storysouth.com/millionwriters.html. The deadline for nominations is February 28, 2010. As we did last year, we’re asking for donations to increase the amount of prize money ....

Deadline Hollywood Daily reports that this spring -- probably at the Cannes film festival -- a new documentary about J.D. Salinger will be released. The project has been kept under wraps -- it took five years to make and has extensive new information about the recently deceased author of The Catcher in the Rye. Mike Fleming, who has actually seen the film, had this to say about some of the film�...

100 Stories for Haiti 100 Stories for Haiti update: Last night was the deadline for submissions and, at last count, there were over 350 short stories submitted! This fantastic charity project, spearheaded by Greg McQueen, will benefit the Red Cross efforts in Haiti. We are still looking for an audiobook company willing to donate an audio version. ...

As opt-out deadline approaches, writer launches petition asking for US to be exempt from controversial agreement The family of John Steinbeck has reversed its decision to oppose Google's controversial plans to digitise millions of books, but a growing chorus of authors led by acclaimed science fiction writer Ursula K Le Guin have registered their resistance to the scheme. As the deadline of 2...