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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Joins Veronica Mars Writers’ Room
Basketball legend turned author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will be writing for our favorite smart-mouthed sleuth in the upcoming Veronica Mars Hulu limited series. My excitement continues to grow. And while we wait, there are two great continuation books for the series that start after the movie ended: The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line and Mr. Kiss and Tell.
House Of Cards Season 6 Teaser Trailer Is Here
And Claire Underwood did not come to play! The final season of the series, based on Michael Dobbs’s British novel, will premiere November 2nd on Netflix.
Stranger Things 1st Novel Will Be Eleven’s Mother’s Origin Story
YA author Gwenda Bond is writing the first official Stranger Things novel: Suspicious Minds. It’s a prequel to the show following Eleven’s mother when she was the MKUltra program’s test subject. And you can read the first chapter now and see the cover!