Water Moon book talk and signing event, L.J. Smith, and Mark Ronson in this week’s edition.
‘Water Moon’ book talk and signing event
A long time ago, in an earlier version of the Manila Bulletin website that doesn’t seem to exist anymore, I had a really nice conversation with Samantha Sotto-Yambao about her book, Before Ever After. Her latest book is the star at an event this April 5, at the Book Nook in SM Aura. Check it out if you’re free!
‘Ang Mga Alipin: Nobela’ pre-order
Described as a paragraph for paragraph confrontation of Noli Me Tangere, Ateneo University Press has now opened pre-orders for Ang Mga Alipin: Nobela by U. Z. Eliserio. He is a Filipino teacher at University of the Philippines – Diliman and won a Palanca last year.
L.J. Smith, ‘The Vampire Diaries’ author, dead at 66
Anybody who had their adolescence in the 2000s and had a particular fondness for vampires will know L. J. Smith, the author of The Vampire Diaries, which was adapted into the wildly successful CW show.
People reports that L .J. Smith passed away earlier this month after battling a rare autoimmune disease for the past decade. Her passing was also announced on her own website.
Check out the People report to find out a bit more about L.J. Smith’s trouble with the early The Vampire Diaries books, like how she never knew that it was work-for-hire and how the company locked her out of writing the succeeding novels.
Mark Ronson to release memoir
When he’s not being killed in Kelvorda or being a famed music producer, Mark Ronson is apparently writing because he’s set to release a memoir this September.
Rolling Stone reports that the memoir will be titled Night People: How to Be a DJ in ’90s New York City and will be “the definitive account of ’90s New York nightlife and the making of a musical mastermind.”
Mark Ronson called the period “transformative” and the book a “love letter to a vanished era” in a statement released to Rolling Stone.
“In Night People, I wanted to capture that transformative period of my life and celebrate three of my great loves: the art of DJ’ing, the thrilling energy of New York City after dark, and the wild and wonderful characters who populated our world and became my second family. This book is my love letter to a vanished era that shaped not just my career but my identity — a time when finding my craft put me on the path to finding myself.”
Night People: How to Be a DJ in ’90s New York City is now available for pre-order.
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