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During the next two months, Brendon Gibbons '99, Adam Stine '99 and Kaya Stone '00 will tour more than 40 colleges on the East Coast, handing out free Let's Go travel guides, backpacks and other accessories...
...Stine, who will be heading to graduate school in film this September, says he might make a movie out of the journey...
This sort of thing has obviously worked wonders for Stine in the past. Will the Nightmare series propel him back to his former sway over kiddie lit? Valerie Lewis, co-owner of Hicklebee's Children's Books in San Jose, Calif., thinks not. "His popularity peaked at Goosebumps," she says. Of the new books, she adds, "We'll have them in the store. But we probably won't be having big displays of them." Yet Camilla Corcoran, a children's books buyer for Barnes & Noble, is bullish on a Stine revival with Nightmare: "We are definitely expecting...
...Rowling and Harry Potter have, of course, shaken up the landscape of children's literature and publishing. Rowling's books are more ambitious and challenging than Stine's. That simply means the two authors do their jobs in different ways, but Rowling's method is currently the gold standard. Stine professes himself "thrilled" by Rowling's success and not at all envious, but expresses impatience at those who have praised the Potter books for finally enticing boys to read: "It surprises me that people have such a short memory. It was only a couple of years ago when boys were...
...collapse of Goosebumps entails a very adult horror story. Those novels were packaged by Parachute Press, a firm started in 1983 by Stine's wife Jane and a partner, and published by Scholastic. As sales and royalties zoomed past everyone's expectations, squabbles erupted over the division of the spoils. Things got ugly and remain in litigation. "Basically, it's a contract dispute," Stine says. "Basically, it's about Scholastic trying not to pay us our share. They made hundreds of millions of dollars on Goosebumps, and they're trying to keep it all." Asked to comment, Scholastic faxed...