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Lunar Park Book Tour Troubles?

There are rumors flying that the Lunar Park paperback book tour has been cancelled. I haven't seen anything official yet, and haven't had a chance to follow-up with people who would know, so this is still a rumor at this point to me. And given that I've seen 3 variations of this rumor - exhaustion, broken foot, rehab - I'm not too inclined to believe it.

Hopefully, I'll have better information by this evening.

UPDATE: Page 6 is reporting the book tour cancellation and using the broken foot story as the reason why.

UPDATE #2: Here are a couple of images of Bret from one of his readings in California that wasn't cancelled. Clearly on crutches with a cast on the foot.

pic 1 | pic 2 | pic 3.

The pics come from here and here. You may have to copy/paste the URL of the pictures into your browser rather than clicking on them.

The Informers Film A Go

Looks like the past rumors of an upcoming film based on The Informers were true.

Here's the previous info about the film.

More: Here's the Variety article about the film. The company that snapped it up is Senator Entertainment. Shooting will begin in early 2007 and will take place entirely in Los Angeles.

Lunar Park Nominated For World Fantasy Award

Couple of interesting tidbits via the SciFi channel. According to this story, Ellis has re-located back to Los Angeles to work on his previously mentioned 'sequel' to Less Than Zero.

We also find out that Lunar Park has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award. The winner will be announced at their convention in November 2006. Here are all the nominees:

Hal Duncan, Vellum (Macmillan; Del Rey)
Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park (Knopf; Macmilln)
Graham Joyce, The Limits of Enchantment (Gollancz; Atria)
Patricia A. McKillip, Od Magic (Ace)
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (Harvill; Knopf)
Paul Park, A Princess of Roumania (Tor)

It seems very odd to see Ellis listed among that group of authors.