The Dresden Files

Valerie Cruz scored a recurring role on HBO's vampire series True Blood. She will play Isabel, an elegant Hispanic vampire. Cruz first caught our eye with her turn on Nip/Tuck . Later, she'd go on to appear in The Dresden Files , Dexter and No Man's Land: Rise of the Reeker . Also next for her is The Devil's Tomb , a new horror film coming March 26th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The second season of True Blood begins this summer.

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First the New York Times makes a graphic novel bestseller list... now the Hugos are getting int the act.
The nominees have been announced for the 2009 Hugo Awards, recognizing the best in science fiction and fantasy writing-- and, for the first time, an award will be given out in the newly created Best Graphic Story (or graphic novel) category. ComicMix's Andrew Pepoy, creator of The Adventures of Simone and Ajax, was nominated for his work in Fables: War and Pieces along with Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha and Andrew Pepoy, Lee Loughridge, and Todd Klein. No strangers to comics themselves, Neil Gaiman was nominated for Best Novel for The Graveyard Book, and Cory Doctorow was nominated for Little Brother; while comics properties The Dark Knight, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and Iron Man were nominated for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form.
The Hugo Awards celebrate the best in
Glenn Hauman

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Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Storm Front Vol. 1: The Gathering Storm
Adaptation by Mark Powers; Illustrated by Ardian Syaf
Del Rey, June 2009, $22.95
It’s never a good sign when anything gets named “The Gathering Storm” – that’s possibly the most generic title in a world filled with blandness and non-specificity. I suppose it’s more understandable when you’re adapting a novel named Storm Front, and you have to call the separate volumes something, and then that phrase rises up out of the collective unconsciousness, and you can’t think of anything better…but, still, it’s a flabby, overused title that needs to be retired for two or three generations to have any hope of not being a laughingstock.
But The Gathering Storm is only the very end of an exceptionally long title, so exhaustion is a plausible excuse. This particular Gathering Storm is the first
Andrew Wheeler

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