Omni Daily News

From Eat, Pray, Love  to Committed:  Mega-bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert has a new book on the way: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage (available January 5, 2010).  In an interview with The New York Times, Gilbert said of her new work that “It isn’t a sequel....It’s the same two characters, but it’s a very different setting and emotional backdrop. The second book has more of an academic contemplation and more of my family in it.”   [The New York Times]

DiCamillo's Latest Headed to the Screen:  Kate DiCamillo's new children's book, The Magician's Elephant (releases September 8) has been optioned by Fox.  Two of the bestselling author's earlier books, Because of Winn-Dixie (Newbery Honor book) and The Tale of Despereaux  (Newbery Medal winner) have already made their way to the big screen.  Here's hoping that producer Martin Hynes will capture something of the smoky atmospheric quality of Yoko Tanaka's terrific illustrations for DiCamillo's tale.  [Variety]

Rock Solid YA Reads:  Author, indy-rocker, filmaker, and self-described enfant terrible  Cecil Castellucci strikes the write note with this rawkin' list of YA reads.  Yo, don't miss her and co-editor Holly Black's latest--Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd, a treasure trove of a collection of short stories from chart-topping YA authors. [LA Times]

Win Free Signed Copies of The Lost Symbol:  Fans of the DaVinci Code won't want to miss the opportunity to win a free signed copy of Dan Brown's soon-to-be-released The Lost Symbol.  Here's how.

Moving and shaking:  Sleuths including China Mieville, Edmund Crispin, Josephine Tey, and Eliot Pattison have infiltrated Amazon's Movers & Shakers list hot on the heels of celebrity librarian Nancy Pearl's mystery roll-call for NPR.

--Lauren