True crime bestseller Diane Fanning tweeted that her latest, Mommy’s Little Girl, about the Kaylee Anthony disappearance and murder, will be released November 3rd by St. Martin’s Press.

Publisher Eve Blaack told writersprison.com that the new issue of Hacker’s Source is right around the corner, and the new look for the ‘Source web site is almost complete, while Hacker’s Digest editor in chief Franklin E. Wales is hard at work putting together the sister magazine’s inaugural issue. Hacker’s Digest, which will focus on horror fiction, with columns and guest editorials written by such luminaries as Jack Ketchum (The Lost, Off Season), is still accepting submissions. Check out: http://www.eveblaackpub.com/hackersdigest.html

The Hollywood Reporter announced that writer Jason Hall will write the screenplay for a futuristic imagining of Robin Hood, to take place in a dystopian London where the titular character and his band of thieves restore hope to the city-in-decline’s battered citizens.

Writers for the hit FOX television series FRINGE announced at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour that they are ahead of schedule on the new season’s episodes. The show will return Sept. 17 in the 9 p.m. slot.

Author Kathryn Casey announced Friday via her Twitter feed that the third novel in her successful Sarah Armstrong series has been turned in to her publisher and will be available in Fall, 2010.

Cop-turned-writer Will Beall has a good account of his first morgue trip, his most memorable rookie moment, and a closeup look into the real mechanics of cop-life on his site. The article is good not only for Beall’s account and procedure, but for insight into the mindset of a writer-turned-cop-turned-writer again. Well worth checking out at:

http://www.larexbook.com/essay.html

NOLA STARs is in need of judges (published and unpublished) to judge our annual Suzannah Contest. Each entry will be no more than 7,200 words (approximately 25 pages). At least one page will be dedicated to a synopsis. All entries will be electronically judged.

The entries will be sent out the first of October and will not be needed back until November 15th. That gives you about six weeks to judge. If you
are interested in judging for us, please mark each category you would be willing to judge below and email the information to: contest@nolastars.com

Word’s out that Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, Appian Way, and Warner Brothers have tapped Rand Ravich to pen the script for a new cinematic version of Rod Serling’s iconic television show, The Twilight Zone. Ravich, who created the NBC TV series Life and wrote The Astronaut’s Wife, has some big shoes to fill, but here’s hoping this well-backed version is enough to breathe life anew into the property.

The Killer Nashville writer’s conference hits the music city this August 14-16, at the Franklin Marriott Cool Springs & Convention Center, Nashville, TN, featuring a number of special events, panels, critique sessions and guest of honor J.A. Jance, author of the bestselling J.P. Beaumont series, as well as the Joanna Brady mystery novels. Among the agents and publishers who will be in attendance are: Lucienne Diver (The Knight Agency), Jill Marr (Sandra Dijkstra Agency), and Maryglenn McCombs, of Oceanview Publishing. The registration fee for a full-registration is a reasonable $145.00, with group discounts and other discounts available. See: http://www.killernashville.com/Content2009/register2009.htm for registration forms, fees, and more info on attending the conference.

Author Charles Stross, considered by many to be one of the decade’s best science fiction talents, has a nifty new hardback out in stores. Wireless
(Ace Books, $24.95) collects nine of Stross’ stories, covering a wide range of material, all distinctly Stross, including the novella Missile Gap, and a new novella, Palimpsest. Check for it at your local bookstore.