August 7, 2012

Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, Book 2), Author E. L. James


E. L. James was born 1963. She is the British author of the bestselling erotic novel “Fifty Shades of Grey”. James initially wrote fanfiction under the pen name "Snowqueens Icedragon", with her most notable work being a “Twilight” fanfiction that eventually developed into “Fifty Shades of Grey”. James has described the Fifty Shades trilogy as "This is my midlife crisis, writ large. All my fantasies in there, and that's it."
E. L. James formerly worked as a television executive. She lives in west London with her husband of over 20 years, screenwriter Niall Leonard, and their two teenage sons. Her parents are Chilean and Scottish. James read history at the University of Kent, before becoming a studio manager’s assistant at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield.
In 2012, Time Magazine included her in its annual list of "The 100 Most Influential People in the World".

Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, Book 2) is intended for mature audiences.

Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house.
But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven and demanding Fifty Shades.
While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her, and make the most important decision of her life.

                E. L. James is currently working on her next novel...

            Popular books by E. L. James:
Fifty Shades Freed: Book Three of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, Book 2)
Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
A Million Shades of Green: The Real Story Behind Fifty Shades of Grey

June 30, 2012

Stephen King. Interesting and fun facts.


Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. Here are some interesting and fun facts about him.
He’s a hardcore Red Sox fan.
S. King is a fan of AC/DC and The Ramones.
Before becoming a writer, he worked as a dry cleaner and high school teacher.
Stephen King's first best-selling novel was “Carrie”.
His books are classed as horror, fantasy and science-fiction.
S. King is an avid “Lost” fan and sometimes writes about it in his Entertainment Weekly column “The Pop of King.”
King's sons, Joe Hill and Owen King, are also published authors.
            Even the famous become involved with alcohol or drugs. He had a cocaine addiction and with the help of his wife Tabitha and other friends and family, he did sober up.
            King and his wife, Tabitha, own “The Zone Corporation,” a company that serves to head their three radio stations in Maine.
He reportedly bought the van that hit him and planned to hammer it to pieces when the anniversary of the accident came around.
When he was a child, he witnessed his friend die in a train accident. He had no memory of the event.
On June 19, 1999, King was struck by a minivan on the shoulder of Route 5 in Lovell, Maine. The driver had got distracted by his dog, and King landed in a depression 14 feet from the pavement. He suffered from a collapsed lung, multiple fractures in his right leg, scalp laceration, and a broken hip.
Stephen King plays rhythm guitar for a band made up of writers.
He wrote a musical with John Mellencamp.
King has written several works under the name Richard Bachman, a pseudonym created to enable him to publish and sell more than one book a year, which was once widely thought to be the maximum production for an author.
His primary occupation is a novelist, but he has also produced shows for television, and other such media.
His The Dark Tower series has been described as a successful fantasy that bridges with the spaghetti western.
Popular books by Stephen King:

S. King’s books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books.

June 28, 2012

George R.R. Martin. Interesting and fun facts.


Here's a few George R.R. Martin fun and interesting facts.

  •  Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin told producers David Benioff and Dan Weiss the major plot lines (including the main ending) of the story in case he dies before completing the remaining novels. 
  •  His favorite character is Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage).
  • "RW" (that's all we're saying to avoid spoilers) was the hardest thing he's ever had to write and he'll be tackling the Battle of the Blackwater for the show in Season 2.
  •  Readers beware! He is also a fan of the bittersweet ending of Lord of the Rings.

June 19, 2012

George R. R. Martin biography


George Raymond Richard Martin is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire. His bestselling series of epic fantasy novels HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of Thrones. Time magazine as one of the "2011 Time 100", a list of the "most influential people in the world".
George R. R. Martin was born on September 20, 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of a longshoreman. The family lived in a federal housing project near to the Bayonne docks. Being poor the young Martin lived in his imagination and began writing and selling monster stories for pennies to other neighborhood children, dramatic readings included. He also wrote stories about a mythical kingdom populated by his pet turtles; the turtles died frequently, and he decided that they were killing off each other in "sinister plots." George R.R. Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and then later Marist High School While there he became a comic book fan, developing a strong interest in the innovative superheroes being published by Marvel Comics. Fantastic Four #20 (Nov 1963) printed a letter Martin wrote to the editor, the first of many. Other fans wrote him letters, and through such contacts Martin joined the comics fandom of the era, writing fiction for various fanzines. In 1965 Martin won comic fandom's Alley Award for his prose superhero story "Powerman vs. The Blue Barrier", the first of many awards he would go on to win.
Martin began to write science-fiction short stories in the early 1970s. His first story nominated for the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award was With Morning Comes Mistfall, published in 1973 by Analog magazine.
Although much of his work is fantasy or horror, a number of his earlier works are science fiction occurring in a loosely defined future history, known informally as 'The Thousand Worlds' or 'The manrealm'. He has also written at least one piece of political-military fiction, "Night of the Vampyres", collected in Harry Turtledove’s anthology The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century.
Martin was also a college instructor in journalism and a chess tournament director. In his spare time, he collects medieval-themed miniatures, reading and collecting science fiction, fantasy, and horror books, and treasuring his still-growing comics collection, which includes the first issues of Marvel's "silver age" “Spider-Man” and “Fantastic Four”.
On February 15, 2011, Martin married his longtime paramour Parris McBride during a small ceremony at their Santa Fe, New Mexico, home; the couple exchanged custom made, Celtic-inspired wedding rings made for them by local artisans. Area friends were in attendance and helped them celebrate the occasion. On August 19, 2011, they held a larger wedding ceremony and reception at Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, in Reno, Nevada for their larger circle of friends within the fantasy and science fiction fields.
Popular books by George R.R. Martin:
A Song of Ice and Fire, Books 1-4 (A Game of Thrones / A Feast for Crows / A Storm of Swords / Clash of Kings)
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5)
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3)
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)
A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel: Volume One
Dance with Dragons: Dreams and Dust (Song of Ice & Fire 5 Part 1)
The Lands of Ice and Fire (A Game of Thrones)

June 14, 2012

A Song of Ice and Fire, Books 1-4 (A Game of Thrones / A Feast for Crows / A Storm of Swords / Clash of Kings)


"A Song of Ice and Fire" is a saga in which the action takes place in the author's imagination created the world. As in many other works of fantasy, this world has lots of parallels and similarities with the world in which we live. Most of the players are the people, but adjacent to Others. This is a sinister creature from the distant north, and the dragons of the East, although both participate in the others were considered extinct.
Saga’s act is distinguished into three main plot lines: the Wester continent covering a few noble families of the war for the throne, the growing of other observed for the vast northern boundaries protect the ice wall, and the threat of attack Daenerys Targaryen, fifteen years ago, the deposed king's exiled daughter, and their efforts to return recovery management. Gradually, all these lines are connected and dependent on each other.
The beginning of the main action takes place on the continent Wester, also called the seven kingdoms, where the powerful noble families are fighting for influence and the Iron Throne in every possible and impossible means. Each of them have arguments why they should be managed by the Seven Kingdoms, and they are all right. Each chapter of the book invited the reader to look at the world through the eyes of another character, reflections of his experience, the world's imagination and things, to understand his motivation. After reading the first chapters of the book is easy to sympathize start good ones and hate the bad ones, but then things can turn over upside down, looking at the heart of the action on their part.
Original, unconventional narrative approach reveals the great characters of the book, makes the identification with the characters and stay seven kingdoms. Book’s heart and pulse rate is the social life of heroes. It speeches and agreements, not wars and battles, often are determined who would live and who shall die, who will be managed and who will be exiled to the edge of the world.
In "A Song of Ice and Fire" books many characters of heroes are gray and dirty. This saga is like a dirty and cruel reflection of our world. The writer draws his characters flawed, both human and cruel.  Books are full of scams, hypocrisy , cruelty, violence, coarse language. Literary language is broad and rich. Just to name the horse in different places of the book writer use about a dozen different words.
"Ice and Fire song" saga different from other fantasy books - at least the existence of magic. Most book characters have the same magic incomprehensible and untouchable myth just like us. Comes only a legend that dragons once existed, and the north stands a huge wall, behind which the inexplicable things happening in the mind. Direct collision with a little magic to occur.
While reading A Song of Ice and Fire, Books 1-4 (A Game of Thrones / A Feast for Crows / A Storm of Swords / Clash of Kings) we enter into the great and incomprehensible world, with a population of defective and simple, but also powerful and charming people.