Seven lead titles for spring that are already buzzing.

Dan Brown is writing a children’s book. The Nebula Award finalists are announced. Emma, zombies, and clones come to screens today and through the week ahead. Little Fires Everywhere and My Brilliant Friend get new trailers.

Prolific, best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark died on Friday, January 31. In this 1990 cover story from LJ's archives, she discussed her career, book tours, libraries, and the growing popularity of audiobooks.

The Walking Dead comic is ending today. The Locus Awards are announced. As is the winner of John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best SF novel. Lock Every Door by Riley Sager is headed to TV. An adaptaiton of Chris Van Allsburg’s The Mysteries Of Harris Burdick is in the works. The Flash might be headed to the movies, in a film created by the director of It.  

The complexity of contemporary life; for Daykin’s many fans; an important story of the Holocaust; if we often think TGIF, then we are in the wrong career; for those interested in police work and criminal justice; this memoir will resonate with fans of Pastiloff; readers seeking a contemporary narrative of bygone agrarian life; for those with nascent interest in political arrangements