Re: The Land of Stories Main Thread

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Amazing that it's still going so strong. So much great Chris news to enjoy today.

And this week he's even 2 positions higher up than last week: from #6 to #4.

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Amazing that it's still going so strong. So much great Chris news to enjoy today.

And this week he's even 2 positions higher up than last week: from #6 to #4.

This is amazing.

I am so happy for him.

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Chris Colfer's NYT best seller lists stats:

2012-Land of Stories: The Wishing Well (Stand alone novel) 5 Weeks
2013-Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns (Stand alone novel) 4 Weeks
2014-Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning (Series) 4 Weeks
2015-Land of Stories: Beyond the Kingdoms (Series) 8 weeks
2016-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 12 weeks
2017-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 8 weeks (and counting)

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Facts and Figures 2016: Children’s Bestsellers Reflect Booming Backlists and Reinvigorated Franchises
Our 2016 Facts and Figures compilation of children’s bestsellers encompasses a wide range of titles, dominated by series (both new and old), movie tie-ins, and read-aloud favorites. Our lists are based on print unit sales at outlets that report to NPD Bookscan, which tracks roughly 85% of the print market. Here we compile the books that sold more than 100,000 copies in four categories: Hardcover Frontlist, Paperback Frontlist, Hardcover Backlist, and Paperback Backlist.

Hardcover Frontlist
30. An Author’s Odyssey (The Land of Stories #5) Chris Colfer. Little, Brown (103,354)

Paperback Backlist
33. The Wishing Spell (The Land of Stories #1) Chris Colfer. Little, Brown (137,736)

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chriscolfer The Bailey Twins are coming to the big screen!!! #TLOSmovie (I’ve waited a long time to use that hashtag.)

Chris Colfer, Shawn Levy Tackling 'The Land of Stories' Movie for Fox (Exclusive)

Twentieth Century Fox and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps are teaming up with Chris Colfer to adapt actor-turned-author’s best-selling fantasy series The Land of Stories for the big-screen.

Fox has picked up the rights to the book series with 21 Laps’s Levy and Dan Levine on board to produce.
In a striking move, the 27-year-old Colfer will not only write the script adapting The Wishing Spell, the first book of the multi-million copy-selling series, but will also make his directorial debut by sitting behind the camera.

Launched with Wishing Spell in 2012, when Colfer was in the middle of his six season award-winning turn on Glee, the Land of Stories universe has grown to include novels, illustrated picture books, audiobooks, in-world chapter books, and an upcoming graphic novel. The sixth and final novel in the series, Worlds Collide, will be published July 11, with Colfer embarking on a twenty-city author tour celebrating the series’ finale.

Wishing Spell follows twins Alex and Conner Bailey who, after the loss of their father, are transported into a magic book in which the classic fairy tales have come to life. Thrust into a world where they come face-to-face with the characters they’ve only read about in stories, the kids must fight dark forces in order to return home.

Colfer and Rob Weisbach will executive produce. Fox’s Kira Goldberg will oversee development for the studio.

21 Laps, which is flying high thanks to the eight Oscar nominations and hit status of its sci-fi drama Arrival, is currently in production on season 2 of their its pop culture-making Netflix series Stranger Things. It is also in post on Fox’s adaptation of the Alexandra Bracken novel The Darkest Minds, and has Jonathan Tropper-penned drama Kodachrome, starring Ed Harris and Jason Sudeikis, in the can.

Colfer first made a name for himself playing Kurt Hummel on the ground-breaking Glee, a role that garnered him a Golden Globe award and multiple People’s Choice Awards and Emmy nominations. It was as the show was ending that his career as an author began taking off, with the Land of Stories books becoming New York Times best-sellers (Wishing Spell was number one for two weeks) and translated into twenty languages.

Colfer has worked as a screenwriter before, penning the 2014 Glee episode Old Dog, New Tricks, and the 2012 original movie Struck by Lightning, in which he also starred. He is repped by ICM Partners, Rob Weisbach Creative Management and Myman Greenspan.

 

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this guy is going for the biggie. we knew that!

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Wow! Fabulous news!

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Chris Colfer's NYT best seller lists stats:

2012-Land of Stories: The Wishing Well (Stand alone novel) 5 Weeks
2013-Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns (Stand alone novel) 4 Weeks
2014-Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning (Series) 4 Weeks
2015-Land of Stories: Beyond the Kingdoms (Series) 8 weeks
2016-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 12 weeks
2017-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 9 weeks (and counting)

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Chris Colfer's NYT best seller lists stats:

2012-Land of Stories: The Wishing Well (Stand alone novel) 5 Weeks
2013-Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns (Stand alone novel) 4 Weeks
2014-Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning (Series) 4 Weeks
2015-Land of Stories: Beyond the Kingdoms (Series) 8 weeks
2016-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 12 weeks
2017-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 10 weeks (and counting)

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The Wall Street Journal's Best-Selling Books Week Ended July 16
FICTION
1. “House of Spies” by Daniel Silva (Harper)
2. “The Land of Stories: Worlds Collide” by Chris Colfer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
3. “Camino Island” by John Grisham (Doubleday)
4. “Wonder” by R.J. Palacio (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
5. “Murder Games” by Patterson/Roughan (Little, Brown)
6. “The Rainbow Fish” by Marcus Pfister (Northsouth)
7. “Into the Water” by Paula Hawkins (Riverhead)
8. “Use of Force” by Brad Thor (Atria)
9. “The Duchess” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)
10. “What If Everybody Did That?” by Ellen Javernick (Cavendish Square)

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Chris Colfer's 'Stories' lands at No. 2
Here’s a look at what’s new on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list…
Gleeful finale: There’s nothing Grimm about this fairy-tale ending. Chris Colfer lands at No. 2 this week with The Land of Stories: Worlds Collide, the sixth and final book in his best-selling series for kids. (The full list will be published on Thursday.)
It’s the highest ranking ever for the young author and former Glee star.
His previous best showing was No. 4 last year with The Land of Stories: An Author’s Odyssey, book five. The series, which began in 2012 with The Wishing Spell (which peaked at No. 42), revolves around girl-and-boy twins Alex and Conner Bailey and their adventures in the world of fairy tales.
In Worlds Collide, Alex goes missing, the fairy-tale characters escape the confines of their storybook worlds, and the Big Apple braces for mayhem.
The next big step for the series is the movies. The Wishing Spell has been optioned by Twentieth Century Fox, with Colfer set to direct and write the script.
On the Today show, Colfer said he got the idea for the series way back when he was “7 or 8 years old,” and his grandmother was his first editor. He’s on the road meeting fans on a book tour that wraps up July 31 in Los Angeles.

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Chris Colfer's NYT best seller lists stats:

2012-Land of Stories: The Wishing Well (Stand alone novel) 5 Weeks
2013-Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns (Stand alone novel) 4 Weeks
2014-Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning (Series) 4 Weeks
2015-Land of Stories: Beyond the Kingdoms (Series) 8 weeks
2016-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 12 weeks
2017-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 11 weeks (and counting)

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Chris Colfer's NYT best seller lists stats:

2012-Land of Stories: The Wishing Well (Stand alone novel) 5 Weeks
2013-Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns (Stand alone novel) 4 Weeks
2014-Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning (Series) 4 Weeks
2015-Land of Stories: Beyond the Kingdoms (Series) 8 weeks
2016-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 12 weeks
2017-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 11 weeks (and counting)

I am so proud of him! I can't wait for the TLOS movie.  

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Chris Colfer's NYT best seller lists stats:

2012-Land of Stories: The Wishing Well (Stand alone novel) 5 Weeks
2013-Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns (Stand alone novel) 4 Weeks
2014-Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning (Series) 4 Weeks
2015-Land of Stories: Beyond the Kingdoms (Series) 8 weeks
2016-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 12 weeks
2017-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 12 weeks (and counting)

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Chris Colfer's NYT best seller lists stats:

2012-Land of Stories: The Wishing Well (Stand alone novel) 5 Weeks
2013-Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns (Stand alone novel) 4 Weeks
2014-Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning (Series) 4 Weeks
2015-Land of Stories: Beyond the Kingdoms (Series) 8 weeks
2016-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 12 weeks
2017-Land of Stories: Worlds Collide (Series) 13 weeks (and counting)

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14 weeks and counting!

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It gets more and more impressive...!!

Chris Colfer's NYT best seller lists stats:

2012-Land of Stories: The Wishing Well (Stand alone novel) 5 Weeks
2013-Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns (Stand alone novel) 4 Weeks
2014-Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning (Series) 4 Weeks
2015-Land of Stories: Beyond the Kingdoms (Series) 8 weeks
2016-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 12 weeks
2017-Land of Stories: Worlds Collide (Series) 15 weeks (and counting)

This is the first time the series has placed in the top 4 NYT best seller series  list 6 consecutive weeks..

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Chris Colfer's NYT best seller lists stats:

2012-Land of Stories: The Wishing Well (Stand alone novel) 5 Weeks
2013-Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns (Stand alone novel) 4 Weeks
2014-Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning (Series) 4 Weeks
2015-Land of Stories: Beyond the Kingdoms (Series) 8 weeks
2016-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 12 weeks
2017-Land of Stories: Worlds Collide (Series) 16 weeks (and counting)

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Chris Colfer's NYT best seller lists stats:

2012-Land of Stories: The Wishing Well (Stand alone novel) 5 Weeks
2013-Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns (Stand alone novel) 4 Weeks
2014-Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning (Series) 4 Weeks
2015-Land of Stories: Beyond the Kingdoms (Series) 8 weeks
2016-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 12 weeks
2017-Land of Stories: Worlds Collide (Series) 17 weeks (and counting)

The series has been on the NYT list for 8 consecutive weeks

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Chris Colfer's NYT best seller lists stats:

2012-Land of Stories: The Wishing Well (Stand alone novel) 5 Weeks
2013-Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns (Stand alone novel) 4 Weeks
2014-Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning (Series) 4 Weeks
2015-Land of Stories: Beyond the Kingdoms (Series) 8 weeks
2016-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 12 weeks
2017-Land of Stories: Worlds Collide (Series) 18 weeks (and counting)

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Chris Colfer lands new book deal, announces new companion series.

   Chris Colfer has signed a multi-faceted new book deal with Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, EW has confirmed exclusively.

   The Golden Globe-winning actor and writer, whose The Land of Stories children’s series has spent 48 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, has entered into an agreement in which he’ll write an ultimate insider’s guide to his beloved Land of Stories, as well as develop and scribe two novels in a brand new series. The latter project will be a companion to The Land of Stories, featuring fan-favorite characters while also introducing new ones.

   The Land of Stories is described by Colfer as a “modern-day fairytale” which mixes fantastical and adventurous elements. There are six books in the series, and several companion books have already been published.

   The new book deal comes on the heels of Colfer partnering with Twentieth Century Fox and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps to bring The Land of Stories to the big screen, beginning with the first book The Wishing Spell. He’ll make his directorial debut on the movie while also adapting the book for the screen. Colfer previously wrote the screenplay for the big-screen adaptation of his book Struck by Lightning, the Brian Dannelly film in which he starred, as well as an episode of Glee, season 5‘s penultimate hour “Old Dog, New Tricks.”

   The insider’s guide to The Land of Stories will be released next fall, and watch for his new book series to launch sometime in 2019.

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Chris Colfer's NYT best seller lists stats:

2012-Land of Stories: The Wishing Well (Stand alone novel) 5 Weeks
2013-Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns (Stand alone novel) 4 Weeks
2014-Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning (Series) 4 Weeks
2015-Land of Stories: Beyond the Kingdoms (Series) 8 weeks
2016-Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey(Series) 12 weeks
2017-Land of Stories: Worlds Collide (Series) 19 weeks (and counting)

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Chris Colfer’s The Land of Stories series lands at #5 on the Indie Bound Children’s Bestsellers of 2017 Top Ten, based on sales at independent bookstores from Janurary 1, 2017 to November 26, 2017

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