Jeffrey Boakye’s I Heard What You Said Getting Series Adaptation
The UK’s Stigma Films snagged the TV rights for Jeffrey Boakye’s I Heard What You Said. The book, which was an Amazon Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022, reflect on a Black male English teacher’s experiences working in a white education system. Boakye says his book is “an invitation for anyone and everyone to see deeper into modern education and understand the experiences of teachers and students in a world where racial inequality continues to feature. This announcement marks an opportunity for audiences to be immersed in a story that I know we can all learn from.” He added, “It’s an absolute honor to have Stigma Films at the helm of this exciting new adaptation.”
Tor.com Reveals Cover of The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
Tor.com has revealed the cover of The Butcher of the Forest by Nebula and Aurora Award-winning author Premee Mohamed. The publisher describes the book as follows: “At the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless, foreign tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest ruled by powerful magic. Veris Thorn—the only one to ever enter the forest and survive—is forced to go back inside to retrieve the missing children of the Tyrant. Inside await traps and trickery, ancient monsters, and hauntings of a painful past. One day is all Veris is afforded. One misstep will cost everything.” The Butcher of the Forest is out from Tordotcom Publishing on February 27, 2024.
Seven Seas Launches Siren Audiobook Imprint
Seven Seas Entertainment has announced that it will launch a new audiobook imprint named Siren in June. The imprint will launch with three titles, all available in June: Classroom of the Elite (narrated by Eddie Lee), Reborn as a Space Mercenary (narrated by Fred Berman), and The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent (narrated by Veronica Taylor). Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed and is releasing the print novels for all three series.
A Ranking of Fictional Cats
What’s better than a book? A cat and a book. Let’s take stock of some of our favorite felines in fiction.