The book will be published by Michael O’Mara Books in the UK (2 October) and HarperCollins in the US (4 November). For more information check out this article on CommanderBond.net.
Links to the books at Amazon.co.uk:
Tanner at Double O Section has put up a pretty good interview with Samantha Weinberg who wrote the three Moneypenny Diaries books. All three have been published in the UK, while only the first has thus far been released in the United States.
Ian Fleming’s Secret War will be published by Pen & Sword books on August 18th.
I guess I should have checked out a couple other sites. YoungBond.com has been re-done as well and it looks a lot better than the previous design in my opinion.
If you’re looking for Young Bond news then the best place for that is The Young Bond Dossier. Ian Fleming Publications agrees which is why YBD is featured prominently on their site.
I don’t know how long this has been going on for, but I noticed it yesterday. Ian Fleming Publications website http://www.ianflemingcentre.com has been upgraded with a whole new look. It now has current news (lets see if they keep it updated) and a store (not really, it just links to Penguin007.com)
Still a new look.
Little advice. Ditch “centre”. It makes no sense to have when you could be at www.ianfleming.com. It’s also shameful that www.ianfleming.com is being cybersquatted by some ridiculous celebrity website advertisement too. Just saying.
Launched last year on the 99th birthday of Ian Fleming, K1Bond007.com has turned 1. Will I make it to 2? Who knows.
In the United States, the climb to #1 has taken a bit longer. On Amazon it got as high as #6 on the list, while at Barnes & Noble it got to #5.
After serving in Naval Intelligence during the Second World War, Fleming bought an estate in Jamaica called Goldeneye where in May 1952 he sat down to write the opening to what he told everyone would be the spy story to end all spy stories. He wrote, “The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino combine together and hit the taste-buds with an acid shock at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling – a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension – becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt at the smell of it all”. It later became
“The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling – a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension – becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.”
The rest is, as they say, history. James Bond was created and published in the first explosive novel, Casino Royale, on April 13, 1953. The book was followed by eleven novels as well as two anthologies housing nine short stories. Fleming also wrote the children’s story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and two published non-fiction books (The Diamond Smugglers -1957 and Thrilling Cities – 1963) before his death on August 12, 1964 at the age of fifty-six.
