Chronicles of the Dead - News in YA & Kids' Horror

News from the world of kids' and YA horror in the week ending 24/6/11:

• Some authors are so talented they don't just confine themselves to the written page, they dabble in other fields too - for example, Alexander Gordon Smith is making his own zombie movie called Sola Gratia, and from the pics so far it looks terrific!
• And speaking of multi-talented authors, Barry Hutchison has been hard at work on his graphic novel Gangrene. Check out a few of the supremely cool pages over at Barry's site.
• A good book needs conflict, lots of it! Sarwat Chadda has written an excellent post on the different kinds of conflict, and even better, he's related it back to X-Men First Class.
• What's the biggest crowd you've ever spoken in front of? Well Tommy Donbavand is going to read in front of a million kids through a new project from Renaissance Learning. Register now and submit a question for Tommy to answer on camera.