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Bella Heathcote has been cast in the Fifty Shades Darker film adaptation. In the past, this actress has taken on literary-themed projects such as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and The Curse of Downers Grove.

International Business Times reports that Heathcote will play Leila Williams; this character is the “former and mentally unstable submissive” of Christian Grey. E.L. James, the author of the Fifty Shades book trilogy, confirmed on the news on Twitter.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, “this casting follows the announcement that Kim Basinger will play Grey’s Mrs. Robinson-esque first lover.” Both Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan have agreed to return to step into the roles of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey. (via E! Online)

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Kim Basinger has landed the role of Elena Lincoln in the Fifty Shades Darker film adaptation. In the past, the Academy Award-winner has acted in several literary-themed movies including Batman, L.A. Confidential, and Charlie St. Cloud.

According to Vanity Fair, Basinger will play “the older woman in Christian Grey’s life who first introduced the fictional billionaire to the world of BDSM…In Fifty Shades Darker, Elena earns the nickname ‘Mrs. Robinson’ when Anastasia Steele—Christian’s more age-appropriate love interest, played by Dakota Johnson—learns that Elena seduced Christian when he was a teenager.”

Variety reports that James Foley has signed on to serve as the director. Niall Leonard, the husband of the Fifty Shades trilogy author E.L. James, has been tasked with adapting his wife’s erotic novel for the script.

The theatrical release date has been set for Feb. 10, 2017. (via Elle)

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What were the most popular books at the Google Play store this year? The data team crunched the numbers and announced that E.L. James claimed the number one spot.

In total, James captured five slots on this year’s list. Some of the other titles on the list include Paper Towns by John Green, Allegiant by Veronica Roth, and The Giver by Lois Lowry.

James, Green, and Roth were all featured on the 2014 list. Below, we’ve collected free samples of all the books from the 2015 top ten for your reading pleasure.

1. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

2. Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian by E.L. James

3. Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James

4. Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James

5. American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, and Jim DeFelice

6. The Girl on the Train: A Novel by by Paula Hawkins

7. Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn

8. The Martian: A Novel by Andy Weir

9. Fifty Shades Trilogy Bundle by E.L. James

10. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

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We’ve collected the books debuting on Indiebound’s Indie Bestseller List for the week ending June 21, 2015–a sneak peek at the books everybody will be talking about next month.

(Debuted at #1 in Paperback Fiction) Grey by E.L. James: “Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty—until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist. Unlike any woman he has known before, shy, unworldly Ana seems to see right through him—past the business prodigy and the penthouse lifestyle to Christian’s cold, wounded heart.” (June 2015)

(Debuted at #4 in Hardcover Nonfiction) Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg: “At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it’s wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history. With technology, our abilities to connect with and sort through these options are staggering. So why are so many people frustrated?” (June 2015)

(Debuted at #12 in Hardcover Fiction) The President’s Shadow by Brad Meltzer: “To most, it looks like Beecher White has an ordinary job.   A young staffer with the National Archives in Washington, D.C.,, he’s responsible for safekeeping the government’s most important documents…and, sometimes, its most closely-held secrets. But there are a powerful few who know his other role. Beecher is a member of the Culper Ring, a 200-year old secret society founded by George Washington and charged with protecting the Presidency.” (June 2015)

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Grey, E.L. James‘ latest book in the Fifty Shades series, which is told from the point of view of Christian Grey, hit book stores last week and it has already sold 1.1 million copies across all formats.

Publisher’s Weekly has the scoop:

Now, after having initially said it would be going back to press twice on the title, Vintage has confirmed it is planning third, fourth and fifth printings of Grey. The publisher said it is “working with multiple plants” on the reprint job which, once completed, will bring the in-print total for the book to 2.1 million copies.

James revealed the news about the book via an Instagram post earlier this month. Since then presale orders have been going strong. Amazon revealed that the book was the top selling presale Kindle title of the year so far.

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On June 18th, Vintage, a Penguin Random House imprint, released Grey in trade paperback, eBook, and audiobook formats. Four days following its release, E.L. James’ fans have purchased more than 1 million copies of Grey.

TIME.com reports that the publisher will move forward with a third, fourth, and fifth printing of this erotic fiction book. Altogether, there will be more than 2.1 million copies of this novel in print.

This project features a retelling of the first Fifty Shades of Grey book from Christian Grey’s point-of-view. At this point in time, no announcement has been made as to whether or not James will write two more books with Christian Grey’s perspective for Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. (via Deadline.com)

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Author E.L. James will celebrate the launch of Grey in New York City on June 18th.

The author behind the immensely popular Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy will sign copies of her new book at the Fifth Avenue branch of Barnes & Noble.

According to the company website, “Ms. James will personalize one book per customer, first name only.”

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The Martian by Andy Weir has debuted on the iBooks bestsellers list this week at No. 3.

Apple has released its top selling books list for paid books from iBooks in the U.S. for the week ending on June 15, 2015. Grey by E. L. James is No. 1 on the list and The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins is No. 2.

We’ve included Apple’s entire list after the jump.

iBooks U.S. Bestseller List – Paid Books 6/15/15

1. Grey by E L James – 9781101946350 – (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 2. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins – 9780698185395 – (Penguin Publishing Group) 3. The Martian by Andy Weir – 9780804139038 – (Crown/Archetype) 4. Paper Towns by John Green – 9781101010938 – (Penguin Young Readers Group) 5. Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll – 9781476789651 – (Simon & Schuster) 6. Just Say When by Kaylee Ryan – 9780986180026 – (Kaylee Ryan) 7. The Substitute by Denise Grover Swank – 9781939996237 – (DGS) 8. The Fixer by Joseph Finder – 9780698190849 – (Penguin Publishing Group) 9. Radiant Angel by Nelson DeMille – 9781455582310 – (Grand Central Publishing) 10. Finders Keepers by Stephen King – 9781501100130 – (Scribner) 11. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr – 9781476746609 – (Scribner) 12. Memory Man by David Baldacci – 9781455586387 – (Grand Central Publishing) 13. Fifty Shades Darker by E L James – 9781612130590 – (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 14. In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume – 9781101875056 – (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 15. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah – 9781466850606 – (St. Martin’s Press) 16. Fifty Shades Freed by E L James – 9781612130613 – (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 17. 14th Deadly Sin by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro – 9780316408769 – (Little, Brown and Company) 18. Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James – 9781612130293 – (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 19. Forever by Chanda Hahn – 9780996104821 – (Chanda Hahn) 20. Alpha by Jasinda Wilder – 9781941098110 – (Seth Clarke)

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Disgusting or delighting, exciting or boring, sensual or expected, no matter what you think about it, 50 Shades of Grey is certainly not a movie that passes by without leaving a mark on your skin. Based on E.L. James’ novel (honestly, somehow even more breathtaking than the movie), it tells the story of the complicated relationship between the dominant multi-millionaire Christian Grey, and the newly graduated, inexperienced, and shy, Ana Steele.

The post 50 shades of touch appeared first on OUPblog.

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Grey, E.L. James‘ upcoming book in the 50 Shades of Grey series, will only cover Christian’s point of view for the first book, the author revealed on Twitter.

After a fan asked James if the new book would cover Christian’s point of view in all three books, E.L. James said that Grey would only show the first novel, Fifty Shades of Grey, through Christian’s viewpoint.

James did not say if she would be writing Grey’s point of view from other books in the series.

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Bestselling author E.L. James revealed the latest book in her 50 Shades of Grey series this week, and the title Grey, has already shot up to No. 1 on Amazon.

The book, which comes out on June 18th, leads in all book sales on Amazon and also is the bestselling book on the Kindle bestsellers list. The title is also No. 1 in Romantic, Contemporary Women and Women’s Fiction.

The new book will tells the sordid tale from Christian Grey’s point of view. The author revealed the news on Instagram ear lie this week. \"Hello all. For those of you who have asked, Christian’s POV of #FSOG is published on 18th June for his birthday. It’s called GREY… I hope you enjoy it.#FiftyShades #Grey,\" she wrote.

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June 2 2015 – London – On social media late last night bestselling author E L James announced that she will shortly release a new version of her worldwide bestselling novel Fifty Shades of Grey — this time written from Christian Grey’s point of view. The new book, titled Grey, will be published on June 18th –a […]

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Bestselling author E.L. James revealed the latest book in the 50 Shades of Grey series this morning in an Instagram post. The book just went on presale on Amazon. The book is available on June 18th.

The new book called Grey, will tell the story from Christian Grey’s point of view. Here is more about the book from the Amazon description:

Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty—until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist. Unlike any woman he has known before, shy, unworldly Ana seems to see right through him—past the business prodigy and the penthouse lifestyle to Christian’s cold, wounded heart.

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Bestselling author E.L. James is working on a new book in the 50 Shades of Grey series.

The new book called Grey, will tell the story from Christian Grey’s point of view. The author revealed the news on Instagram. “Hello all. For those of you who have asked, Christian’s POV of #FSOG is published on 18th June for his birthday. It’s called GREY… I hope you enjoy it.#FiftyShades #Grey,” she wrote.

The title comes out on June 18th but hasn’t been listed yet on Amazon or on Vintage Books’ website.

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Niall Leonard, a writer and the husband of E.L. James, will serve as the screenwriter for the Fifty Shades Darker movie. Leonard actually helped with the Fifty Shades of Grey script, but did not receive credit for his contribution.

Here’s more from The Hollywood Reporter: “Niall Leonard, who is married and has two sons with the British author, is an author himself, in addition to being a screenwriter. He’s written for the British TV shows Air Force One Is Down and Wire in the Blood, among others. He’s also the author of the Crusher book series.”

According to People.com, actors Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan will return to reprise their roles for the two Fifty Shades sequels. At this point in time, the movie studio still needs to find a new director to take the helm of movie two. (via CNN.com)

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Actors Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson may be set to return for adaptations of Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, but guess who won’t be coming back? Filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson has made a formal announcement about her future with this film series.

Despite the great box office success of the first movie, the director will not return to helm the next two film adaptations. For some, this may not be surprising considering the tense working relationship shared between Taylor-Johnson and writer E.L. James. According to The Huffington Post, “the Fifty Shades of Grey author clashed with Taylor-Johnson during production, a battle that was detailed throughout the film’s press tour earlier this year.”

In a statement shared with Deadline.com, Taylor-Johnson explained: “Directing Fifty Shades Of Grey has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that. I forged close and lasting relationships with the cast, producers and crew and most especially, with Dakota and Jamie. While I will not be returning to direct the sequels, I wish nothing but success to whosoever takes on the exciting challenges of films two and three.” (via TheWrap.com)

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E.L. James (pictured) has revealed in past interviews that Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga served as the inspiration for the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. How do the two hit book series compare to one another?

The team at ClearFireTV.com has created an infographic listing the similarities of the star characters: Edward Cullen, Bella Swan, Anastasia Steele, and Christian Grey. We’ve embedded the full infographic below for you to explore further—what do you think?

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Director Sam Taylor-Johnson revealed that the Fifty Shades of Grey film adaptation will be getting two sequels.

The final two novels in E.L. James’ erotica trilogy, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, will be sourced for these movie projects. The filmmaker and the two stars, Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, made this announcement at a recent fan screening event.

Vanity Fair reports that the “news of the sequels comes before the hotly-anticipated film has even debuted in theaters. However, it makes complete sense as the Fifty Shades of Grey movie is already Fandango’s fastest-selling advance-ticket R-rated movie in the company’s history.” (via MTV.com)

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A new extended trailer has been released for the Fifty Shades of Grey movie. Time reports that it features “scenes of Christian (Jamie Dornan) getting dressed, Anastasia (Dakota Johnson) talking to her roommate, and bits of dialogue like Anastasia asking Christian why people say he doesn’t have a heart, and him replying: ‘Because they know me well.'”

The video embedded above offers glimpses of new footage from this E.L. James film adaptation–what do you think? It was first shown during the 72nd annual Golden Globes awards ceremony.

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Every so often I want to highlight what books are being talked about Around the Web. So, without further ado, the launch of a new series.

On Oprah’s blog, Life Lift, we have our weekly book recommendation.

Coral Glynn
by Peter Cameron

In the standard domestic drama, a poor lonely girl comes to work for a rich lonely man, and the two fall in love, a la Jane Eyre. The thought-provoking Coral Glynn begins in just this way. It’s right after World War, and Coral comes to nurse the dying mother of Major Clement Hart—an Englishman whose leg and confidence have been badly damaged on the battlefield. The Major quickly falls in love with Coral, and the two decide to get married, until a gruesome murder in the neighboring woods sends Coral fleeing back to London. For a few pages, it seems as if this book may turn into a Gothic thriller: how will the two reunite and who exactly is the killer? But Peter Cameron is so much more of skilled and subtle writer than this. Underneath his page-turning plot is a careful, complex examination of loss—and the human ability to fully experience love after too much loss. Coral has suffered all kinds of quiet, devastating violence in her own life—the unspoken kind that’s either ignored or simply expected when it comes to working-class woman, post-war or not. It’s her emotional life that becomes the real mystery of the novel. Coral can’t engage with others, even as they become entranced, if not bewitched, by her. She tries to connect, of course, and at strange, unexpected times, longs for more, such as when she enters a florist shop and is overwhelmed by the beauty of the flowers, feeling “in some way that ll the life and warmth of the cold, drab town, of her life, had collected in this room—that she was in the hot golden center of the world.”  Here is the pleasure of the novel—albeit a painful one. In bringing Coral to life, Cameron knows what not to say, how to leave the kind of tiny, white space that lets us readers imagine the huge, colorful, overwhelming world of even the most broken human heart.

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USATODAY brings further attention to the underground, cult-like book, FIFTY SHADES OF GREY that is becoming one of the most talked about books of the season. Turns out, FIFTY SHADES started off as a Twilight Fan Fiction creation.

FIFTY SHADES OF GREY by EL James:

When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind – until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time.

The unworldly, innocent Ana is shocked to realize

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