Science Fiction and Fantasy

Johnny Byrne: Writer of feelgood TV dramas (Independent)

12 May 2008

Johnny Byrne was a hugely prolific and successful writer for British television, but the Dublin tenement where he grew up, during the Depression and Second World War, was a thousand miles from the rural backdrops to the popular, feelgood television dramas that made his name. He was the lead writer and, eventually, script consultant on All Creatures Great and Small (1978-90), the long-running ...

Meyer writes one for the over-21 set (The Fayetteville Observer)

11 May 2008

NEW YORK — Stephenie Meyer, a sensation with teens because of her million-selling “Twilight Saga� vampire novels, wonders how readers will feel about her first adult book, “The Host.�

The genesis of a new world: Norwell native publishes fantasy novel (Norwell Mariner)

9 May 2008

“Pretty much, I want people to read my story and enjoy it, to feel the passion I had when I wrote it,� O’Brien said. “[Writing is] the one thing in my life that when I’m doing it, it feels like I was meant to do.�