Edward Stratemeyer: Creator of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew (Who Wrote That?)
Murder by 4 (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
© Don Bruns 2009 all rights reserved Grown Up Hardy Boys. That's the rap my characters are getting in the Stuff series. STUFF TO SPY FOR comes out this week, and it's getting great reviews, but the majority of coverage brings up the Hardy Boys...all grown up. And that's pretty tough to live up to. My two protagonists, Skip and James, have been lifelong friends and have recently graduated from...
Good Wine Under $20 (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
"I will pay you for whatever you do for me." "Then I'm your huckleberry. Who are you and what do you want to know?" Edward Stratemeyer, True to Himself (1900) I always wondered where the phrase "I'm your huckleberry" came from. I started wondering again when I drank my first glass of the oh-so-huckleberry 2008 The Crusher Petite Sirah, made by Don Sebastiani & Sons...
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional teenage brothers and amateur detectives who appear in various mystery series for children and teens. The characters were created by Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book-packaging firm, and the books have been written by many different ghostwriters over the years. The books are published under the collective pseudonym...
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
That’s “Swift” as in “Tom Swift,” the fictional inventor/adventurer concocted by Edward Stratemeyer in the early 1900s for a series of young adult books. The pitch comes from “Men in Black” director Barry Sonnenfeld and Ben David Grabinski, according to a report today in Variety. The article also reveals that Albie Hecht, who had a [...]
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Variety reports that Columbia Pictures has bought Swift , a pitch by Barry Sonnenfeld and Ben David Grabinski that is described as a reimagining of the Tom Swift adventure novels. The project is being developed as a Sonnenfeld directing vehicle. The Tom Swift character first appeared in a series of books that launched in 1910. The original books were outlined by Edward Stratemeyer, written by ghostwriters...
Comic Book Resources (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
A teenage girl prepares to fight off a full-scale invasion of Earth in the upcoming “Casey Blue: Beyond Tomorrow” miniseries from Wildstorm and "Hawaiian Dick" writer B. Clay Moore, who spoke with CBR about the project.
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 06/15/2007
Little blue roadster? Check. Reliable guy-friend Ned Nickerson? Check. Mystery and suspense? Negative. America's sleuthing sweetheart has little to search for in "Nancy Drew," the...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 06/14/2007
Nancy Drew may prefer a sock hop to hip-hop, but the famous literary sleuth holds more appeal for today's teens than her old-fashioned image would imply. The 77-year-old teenage detective introduces...
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