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For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week, including disappearing books, a Wal-Mart library and Tom Cruise playing Lee Child‘s thriller hero, Jack Reacher (video embedded above).
Click here to sign up for GalleyCat’s daily email newsletter, getting all our publishing stories, book deal news, videos, podcasts, interviews, and writing advice in one place.
1. Tom Cruise Plays Jack Reacher in New Trailer
2. Wal-Mart Converted into a Library
3. Free Sites to Promote Your eBook
4. CJ Lyons Sweeps Self-Published Bestseller List with 99-Cent Sale
5. Twitter Cheat Sheet for Writers
6. Book That Disappears As You Read
7. The Lost History of Fifty Shades of Grey
8. 5 Ways to Promote Your Book Right Now
9. J. K. Rowling eBook Will Cost $19.99
10. Jennifer Weiner on Social Media, Blogging & Writing About Controversial Issues
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
Deadline New York broke the news that Tom Cruise is currently considering the role of thriller hero Jack Reacher in an adaptation of a novel from Lee Child‘s bestselling Reacher series.
Do you think Cruise could handle this hardboiled role? Christopher McQuarrie will direct the film, One Shot. Follow this link to read an excerpt from the novel.
Here’s more from the article: “I’m told that the author himself is excited about Cruise playing the role, that Cruise personifies the qualities Reacher displays in the books. As for Reacher’s hulking physical size, Child wasn’t locked into an oversized actor (one reason the film took so long to get off the ground), and it was more about establishing an intimidating presence.”
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BEA Panels
There is so much to do, see, and find at BEA that I wasn't able to attend all the talks and panels that I would have liked. One of the highlights of my BEA 2010 was the Thrillers panel with Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher novels, Karen Slaughter, author of Broken
, and Justin Cronin, author of The Passage
, on Thursday.
I attended the Thrillers panel to hear
Lee Child speak. I'd attended his talk about writing series characters during
Thrillerfest 2009. He was funny, insightful, and made curious about his character Jack Reacher. I quickly read my first Jack Reacher novel, and then proceeded to read the other 12 in the order that I could get them! The book signing of Lee Child's 14th novel,
61 Hours: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher Novels)
was another highpoint for me!
I'll write more about
61 Hours, but I thought this is the perfect time to introduce Jack Reacher. A self-described "military brat," Reacher's father was a U.S. Marine and his mother was French. Reacher was born in Berlin and grew up on military bases all over the world (including in a base outside of Manila in the Philippines). Although people called his brother "Joe", everyone always called him "Reacher." Even his mother calls him by his last name.
Lee Child was careful not to give too much details, so each person paints his own picture of Jack Reacher. We do know him from the reactions that other people have, as well as from some basic details. The first impression people have of Jack Reacher is his size: hands as big as chickens....
Reacher's vitals:
1 Comments on The Thriller Panel at BEA 2010: Lee Child, Karin Slaughter & Justin Cronin, last added: 6/5/2010
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Cool picture of the Brooklyn Bridge!