"the 2011 British Academy Film Awards in honour of the ""Harry Potter"" film franchise. In September 2013, Warner Bros. announced an ""expanded creative partnership"" with Rowling, based on a planned series of films about her character Newt Scamander, author of ""Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"". The first film was released in November 2016 and is set roughly 70 years before the events of the main series. In 2016, it was announced that the series would consist of five films. The second, """", was released in November 2018. Rowling scripted and co-produced both films. In 2004, ""Forbes"" named Rowling"
"Newt Scamander as a main character and is set in New York City, 70 years before Harry's story started. The film was released on 18 November 2016. On 14 March 2017 a new edition of the book, with cover illustrations by Johnny Duddle and interior illustrations by Tomislav Tomic, was published with six new creatures and a foreword by Newt Scamander. It is assumed to be a new copy as it does not feature any handwritten notes. Proceeds from this edition are donated to Lumos as well as Comic Relief. On 7 November 2017 a new edition was published with"
"Newt Scamander; it does not contain a storyline narrative. (In literature, the creation of such a long work not part of a novel's narrative storyline is known as a false document.) First announced in September 2013, the project marks Rowling's debut as a screenwriter. The film sees the return of producer David Heyman, as well as writer Steve Kloves, both veterans of the ""Potter"" film franchise. After Alfonso Cuarón declined involvement, Warner Bros. announced that David Yates would direct at least the first instalment of a planned trilogy. James Newton Howard was contracted to compose the score. Principal photography commenced"
"duplicate, and the cat chooses his original owner over the simulacrum. Nick and the Glimmung Nick and the Glimmung is a children's science fiction novel originally written by American author Philip K. Dick in 1966. It was first published by Gollancz in 1988. It is set on ""Plowman's Planet"" (Sirius Five), in the same continuity as his adult science fiction novel ""Galactic Pot-Healer"". Nick, his family, and cat Horace leave Earth in 1992, because pet ownership has been criminalised on that world. Arriving at their new home, Plowman's Planet, the family encounter a series of mishaps at the hands of"
"2 July 1998 and in the US on 2 June 1999. It immediately took first place in UK best-seller lists, displacing popular authors such as John Grisham, Tom Clancy, and Terry Pratchett, and making Rowling the first author to win the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year for two years in succession. In June 1999, it went straight to the top of three US best-seller lists, including ""The New York Times""'. First edition printings had several errors, which were fixed in subsequent reprints. Initially Dumbledore said that Voldemort was the last remaining ancestor of Salazar Slytherin, instead of"
"2000. In the next seven years, four more novels by Almond made the Carnegie Medal shortlist of five to eight books. Since ""Skellig"" his novels, stories, and plays have also brought international success and widespread critical acclaim. They are ""Kit's Wilderness"" (1999), ""Heaven Eyes"" (2000), ""Secret Heart"" (2001), ""The Fire Eaters"" (2003), ""Clay"" (2005), ""Jackdaw Summer"" (2008), and ""My Name is Mina"" (2010), a prequel to ""Skellig"". He collaborates with leading artists and illustrators, including Polly Dunbar (""My Dad's a Birdman"" and ""The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon""); Stephen Lambert (""Kate, the Cat and the Moon"";) and Dave McKean"
"in 1979. When retired, he lived in Dorset with his wife Porpentina and their pet Kneazles: Hoppy, Milly and Mauler. He had a grandson named Rolf, who married Luna Lovegood (a character who appeared in the last three ""Harry Potter"" novels) some time after the events of ""Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"". In the film version of ""Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"", Newt Scamander's name appeared on the Marauder's Map. In the film adaptation of ""Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"", it is mentioned that Scamander was expelled from Hogwarts following an unspecified incident involving one"
"he also anonymously leaves Jacob a case of silver Occamy eggshells to fund his bakery. His breads and pastries are subconsciously inspired by Newt's creatures, and Queenie visits him in his shop. ""Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"" is mentioned several times as a school textbook in the ""Harry Potter"" book series, although Scamander himself does not appear in any of the books. In 2001, Rowling published an edition of the ""textbook"" to be sold to raise money for the British charity Comic Relief. The book is a directory of magical creatures written with an introduction by its author"
"2001 which also won The Stockton Children’s Book of the Year Award and ‘The Vampire Blog’ 2010 which won The Brilliant Book Award's His anti-bullying novels ‘Traitor’ 2002 and ‘Avenger’ 2004 have also earned special praise and several prizes. In more recent years though, he has achieved his greatest success with comedies such as, ‘Trust me I’m a Troublemaker,’ 2005 winner of ‘The Calerdale Children’s Book Award and shortlisted for the Lincolnshire Young People’s Award. ‘Help I’m a Classroom Gambler’ 2006, winner of both The Sheffield and Leicester Children’s Book Awards. And ‘The Bad Spy’s Guide’ 2007 shortlisted for The"
"August 2001, and made it onto the ""Sunday Times"" ""Top Ten Bestseller"" list, becoming ""the biggest selling debut novel of that Summer"". In December 2009 it was listed as one of the 100 novels that shaped the decade and was chosen as one of the titles for World Book Night in 2011. In 1997, Billingham became a crime victim, as he and his writing partner Peter Cocks were kidnapped and held hostage in a Manchester hotel room. Turning the event into inspiration for his second Thorne novel, ""Scaredy Cat"", he wrote: The general theme of ""Scaredy Cat"" is really the"
"own mind, tries to help. Both of them are convinced that their old friend Duddits may be the key to saving the world. Dreamcatcher (novel) Dreamcatcher (2001) is a novel by American writer Stephen King, featuring elements of body horror, suspense and alien invasion. The book, written in cursive, helped the author recuperate from a 1999 car accident, and was completed in half a year. According to the author in his afterword, the working title was ""Cancer"". His wife, Tabitha King, persuaded him to change the title. A film adaptation was released in 2003. In 2014, King told ""Rolling Stone"""
"in March 2001 and hired a company to take care of accounting, marketing, promotion, and selling. Colbert has never met Rowling and the book has not been approved by her or Warner Brothers (the owner of the film rights to the ""Harry Potter"" novels). He was given permission to publish it as long as he noted on the cover that it had not been approved by Rowling. The book has been met with positive reactions from critics. Margie Thomson of ""The New Zealand Herald"" commented that ""it's interesting, although light, and should keep smart-alecky kids and the truly curious happy"
"modern obsessions), ""No Go the Bogeyman: On Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock"", was published in 2000 and won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize that year. Warner's other novels include ""The Leto Bundle"" (2001) and ""Indigo"" (1992). Her book ""Phantasmagoria"" (2006) traces the ways in which ""the spirit"" has been represented across different mediums, from waxworks to cinema. In December 2012, she presented a programme on BBC Radio Four about the Brothers Grimm. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984. In 1994 she became only the second woman to deliver the BBC's Reith"
"The Lucky Lottery (November 28, 2000) The Missing Mummy (February 27, 2001) The Ninth Nugget (June 26, 2001) The Orange Outlaw (October 23, 2001) The Panda Puzzle (February 26, 2002) The Quicksand Question (May 28, 2002) The Runaway Racehorse (October 22, 2002) The School Skeleton (January 28, 2003) The Talking T-Rex (June 24, 2003) The Unwilling Umpire (February 24, 2004) The Vampire's Vacation (July 27, 2004) The White Wolf (November 23, 2004) The X'ed-Out X-Ray (February 22, 2005) The Yellow Yacht (March 22, 2005) The Zombie Zone (April 26, 2005) E-book editions were available by 2010 or earlier; unabridged audiobook"
"include: novels featuring characters John Knox & Grace Chu--""The Red Room"" (2014);""Choke Point"" (2013);""The Risk Agent"" (2012); novels featuring the character Walt Fleming--""In Harm's Way"" (2010), ""Killer Summer"" (2009), ""Killer View"" (2008), and ""Killer Weekend"" (2007); novels featuring the character Lou Boldt and Daphne Matthews--""The Body of David Hayes"" (2004), ""The Art of Deception"" (2002), ""Middle of Nowhere"" (2000), ""The First Victim"" (1999), ""The Pied Piper"" (1998), ""Beyond Recognition"" (1997), ""No Witnesses"" (1994), ""The Angel Maker"" (1993), and ""Undercurrents"" (1988). Standalone novels include: ""Cut and Run"" (2005), ""The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer"" (2001)--(under the pseudonym of Joyce Readon, Ph.D), ""Parallel"
"adaptation of the novel simply entitled ""I Was a Rat"" was aired on the BBC in 2001. The series was produced by Andy Rowley and directed by Laurie Lynd and was adapted by Richard Carpenter, who won a BAFTA award for the work. I Was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers I was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers is a children's novel written by British author Philip Pullman. It was published in 1999. One evening, at the home of the cobbler old Bob and his washerwoman wife Joan, there is a knock at the door. Bob opens the door"
"July 2000 and broke sales records in both countries. 372,775 copies of the book were sold in its first day in the UK, almost equalling the number ""Prisoner of Azkaban"" sold during its first year. In the US, the book sold three million copies in its first 48 hours, smashing all records. Rowling said that she had had a crisis while writing the novel and had to rewrite one chapter many times to fix a problem with the plot. Rowling was named Author of the Year in the 2000 British Book Awards. A wait of three years occurred between the"
"fourth novel, ""Mailman"", was released to critical success in 2003 and concerns a mail-carrying protagonist named Albert Lippincott who is clearly losing his mind. The book won praise for its humorous portrayal of the sadness of everyday life. His other books include ""The Funnies"" (1999), a comedy about a would-be cartoonist; ""On the Night Plain"" (2001), a noir western set in the 1940s; and ""Pieces for the Left Hand: 100 Anecdotes"" (2005), a collection of 100 very short stories. His novel ""Happyland"" is roughly based around the American Girl doll company creator Pleasant Rowland. It was dropped by publisher W."
"the UK in June 2001. The novel's hero, Alec Milius, is a flawed loner in his early 20s who is instructed by MI5 to sell doctored research data on oil exploration in the Caspian Sea to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In August 2001, Cumming moved to Madrid. His second novel, ""The Hidden Man"" (2003), tells the story of two brothers investigating the murder of their father, a former SIS officer, at the hands of the Russian mafia. ""The Hidden Man"" also examines the clandestine role played by SIS and the CIA during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. His third"
"on 22 October 2015 in the United Kingdom. In 2017, the BBC released a ""Cormoran Strike"" television series, starring Tom Burke as Cormoran Strike, it was picked up by HBO for distribution in the United States and Canada. In March 2017, Rowling revealed the fourth novel's title via Twitter in a game of ""Hangman"" with her followers. After many failed attempts, followers finally guessed correctly. Rowling confirmed that the next novel's title is ""Lethal White"". While intended for a 2017 release, Rowling revealed on Twitter the book was taking longer than expected and would be the longest book in the"
"Simon Kinberg producing. Neuromancer Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson. It is one of the best-known works in the cyberpunk genre and the first novel to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. It was Gibson's debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy. Set in the future, the novel follows Henry Case, a washed-up computer hacker, who is hired by the mysterious master criminal Armitage and the equally mysterious mercenary cyborg Molly Millions for one last job: to help a powerful artificial intelligence merge with its"
"as the 2015 horror comedy ""Killer Rack"", both of which feature his daughter Kaelin in minor roles. In 2010, Lamberson directed ""Slime City Massacre"", a semi-sequel to his feature directorial debut. He is also known for his novels. In 2002, he published ""Personal Demons"" the first of his series ""The Jake Helman Files"", which features a former NYPD detective turned private investigator who encounters supernatural phenomena. He has since written and published five books in total in the series, with the most recent entry being ""Storm Demon"" in 2013. His 2007 novel ""Johnny Gruesome"" received several awards and nominations, including"
"2000 Tiptree Award and the 2001 Locus Award, as well as earning Cambias a nomination for the 2001 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He continued to primarily write short fiction for the next ten years, and his work was subsequently published in ""The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"", ""The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives"", ""Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic"", ""All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories"", ""Hellboy: Odder Jobs"", ""Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet"", and several Year's Best anthologies. His first full-length novel, ""A Darkling Sea"" (2014) concerns the encounter between humans and two species of sentient extraterrestrials. The"
"was released in both RealD 3D and IMAX 3D, becoming the first film in the series to be released in this format. The film was released on 15 July in the United Kingdom and the United States. In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives in New York City with his magically expanded briefcase which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When some creatures escape from his briefcase, Newt must battle to correct the mistake, and the horrors of the resultant increase in violence, fear, and tension felt between magical and non-magical people (No-Maj). On 12 September 2013, Warner Bros."
"£600 million, ranking her as the joint 197th richest person in the UK. ""Time"" named her a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fans. In October 2010, Rowling was named the ""Most Influential Woman in Britain"" by leading magazine editors. She has supported charities, including Comic Relief, One Parent Families and Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain, and launched her own charity, Lumos. Although she writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, her name, before her remarriage, was Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of"
"in early 1996. He once again started seeking representation, and after several ""near misses,"" finally sold the manuscript in 1999. ""Harm None: A Rowan Gant Investigation"" was published in May 2000, and became the first in the series of ""Rowan Gant Investigation"" (""RGI"") novels to be published over the subsequent decade. It was followed in May 2001 by ""Never Burn A Witch: A Rowan Gant Investigation"", which was actually the original working title of ""Harm None"". In addition to the ""RGI"" series he has also written short works of fiction for anthologies, and in 2010 launched a second series centered"
"super consciousness and take control of a virtual reality global network known as ""The Matrix"". Before ""Neuromancer"", Gibson had written several short stories for US science fiction periodicals—mostly noir countercultural narratives concerning low-life protagonists in near-future encounters with cyberspace. The themes he developed in this early short fiction, the Sprawl setting of ""Burning Chrome"" (1982), and the character of Molly Millions from ""Johnny Mnemonic"" (1981) laid the foundations for the novel. John Carpenter's ""Escape from New York"" (1981) influenced the novel; Gibson was ""intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake 'You"
"to his literary agent, Rosemary Stimola. Upon seeing a sample of that first book, Stimola immediately agreed to represent Collins and sent the book's manuscript to Scholastic. Stimola represented Collins throughout the publication of each book in the series, including ""Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods"", and helped to bolster Collins's confidence during the ""Harry wave"" – her name for the ""skewed publisher expectations about what constitutes a success"" that resulted from the publication of J. K. Rowling's ""Harry Potter"" series. After the publication of ""Gregor the Overlander"" in 2003, Collins moved with her family to rural Connecticut. There"
"""The Casual Vacancy"" (2012) and—under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith—the crime fiction novels ""The Cuckoo's Calling"" (2013), ""The Silkworm"" (2014), ""Career of Evil"" (2015), and ""Lethal White"" (2018). Rowling has lived a ""rags to riches"" life story, in which she progressed from living on state benefits to being the world's first billionaire author. She lost her billionaire status after giving away much of her earnings to charity, but remains one of the wealthiest people in the world. She is the United Kingdom's bestselling living author, with sales in excess of £238M. The 2016 ""Sunday Times Rich List"" estimated Rowling's fortune at"
"(1997), and ""The Amber Spyglass"" (2000). It follows the coming-of-age of two children as they wander through a series of parallel universes against a backdrop of epic events. Neil Gaiman is a writer of science fiction, fantasy short stories and novels, whose notable works include ""Stardust"" (1998), ""Coraline"" (2002), ""The Graveyard Book"" (2009), and ""The Sandman"" series. Alan Moore's works include ""Watchmen"", ""V for Vendetta"" set in a dystopian future UK, ""The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"", and ""From Hell"", speculating on the identity and motives of Jack the Ripper. Douglas Adams wrote the five-volume science fiction comedy series ""The Hitchhiker's"
"a novel following the disintegration of an American family, which became a best-seller after being selected by Oprah's Book Club in 2001. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Oates wrote several books, mostly suspense novels, under the pen names Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly. For more than 25 years, Oates has been rumored to be a favorite to win the Nobel Prize in Literature by oddsmakers and critics. Her papers, held at Syracuse University, include 17 unpublished short stories and four unpublished or unfinished novellas. Oates has said that most of her early unpublished work was ""cheerfully thrown away"". One"
"""Fooled by Randomness"" (2001), ""The Black Swan"" (2007–2010), ""The Bed of Procrustes"" (2010), ""Antifragile"" (2012), and ""Skin in the Game"" (2018). It was originally published in November 2016 including only the first four books. The fifth book has not been included in a separate release of the series. His first non-technical book, ""Fooled by Randomness"", about the underestimation of the role of randomness in life, published in 2001, was selected by ""Fortune"" as one of the smartest 75 books known. His second non-technical book, """", about unpredictable events, was published in 2007, selling close to 3 million copies (as of"
"2016. The series was picked up by HBO for distribution in the United States and Canada, but ended up on HBO's sibling channel Cinemax. It premiered on 27 August 2017 on BBC. Cormoran Strike Cormoran Strike is a series of crime fiction books written by British author J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The story chronicles the cases of private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant (later partner) Robin Ellacott. Four novels in the series have so far been published. The fourth, ""Lethal White"", was released on 18 September 2018. Rowling has stated that she has plans"