For every film that has an associated novelization, there are probably fifty to a hundred that don’t. Since the heyday of the film-to-book adaptations has long since passed, it makes us wonder sometimes how the genre manages to continue, especially when it seems...
Not only is Paxton Holley an avid fan of movie novelizations, but he’s also a life-long fan of the Star Wars Saga. So we’ve been very happy that he has been dedicating a lot of his coverage of novelizations to the Star Wars franchise and some of the famous...
The hobby of reading and collecting movie novelizations is a niche one to be sure, so one would figure that with little competition from other collectors and readers that it would be fairly easy to find these books. The thing is, there’s a huge problem that most...
We recently stumbled upon a very interesting article in the New York Times that ran back in the summer of 1981 which talks about the then current state of the movie novelization market. It’s rare to find articles centered on the subject in general, but even...
On a recent episode of the I Read Movies podcast, host Paxton Holley digs into the weird and wonderful novelization for E.T. the Extra Terrestrial titled E.T. in his Adventures on Earth written by William Kotzwinkle and published in 1982. This is a very zany book told...
