Transworld acquires novels from Heroes creator Tim Kring

I consider this to be cool news. 🙂

I’ve not yet watched the last season of Heroes (still planning to, ye naysayers!), but I’ll definitely be reading Shift when it’s released! 🙂 Here’s the news, from the press-release:

“Transworld Publishers are pleased to announce the acquisition of a trilogy of novels by Tim Kring and Dale Peck. Kring is best-known as the creator of the hit TV series, Heroes, which is regularly watched by 3-4 million viewers per episode.
Simon Thorogood and Simon Taylor jointly acquired the series of novels from Kring’s US publisher, Crown. The first novel introduces Chandler Forrestal, a man whose life is changed forever when he is unwittingly dragged into a CIA mind-control experiment. After being given a massive does of LSD, Chandler develops a frightening array of mental powers.

Simon Thorogood described the series as ‘having all the elements that make Heroes such a success – intelligent plotting, great characterisation and must-know-what-happens suspense.’ Simon Taylor added that ‘the finished novel more than delivers on the tantalizing promise of this project which we first heard about a couple of years ago.’

The first in the series, Shift, will be published by Bantam Press in January 2011.”

What do you all think? Good idea? Cool premise?

Be EPIC!

P.S. Thanks to The Mad Hatter for the Amazon link and the cover. 🙂

 

Update: Malazan Fan-Made Audio Book

Hey Guys and Girls, I’ve got some good (though not kickass) news for those who have been following this topic:

I’ve received confirmation and permission from Random House that I can go ahead with the audio recording, but the snag is that it cannot, legally, be longer than 10 minutes. This info came through Random House SA (now known as Random Struik) from Transworld in the UK – fans of Erikson’s work will know that Transworld is his publisher. 🙂

I’ve contacted my buddy, Remy, in France, and he’s still keen to do it, so we may end up doing a back-to-back recording of 5 minutes each. When we’re done, we’ll be posting the recording on each of our blogs / sites, and also at malazanempire.com ‘s forums, but I’ll let you all know when it goes up there. 🙂 All you’ll find now is a discussion that’s been closed off, so don’t waste your time looking. 🙂

I hope that this will at least generate interest in getting proper audio books of the Malazan Book of the Fallen made, that would be awesome! So, even if the recordings don’t turn out as great as you hope, please remember that myself or Remy don’t have recording studios or amazing equipment, we’ll do the best we can with what we have. 🙂

Be Fantastic!