Heir to the Fifty Shades trilogy, the Crossfire series by Sylvia Day has recently outpaced its predecessor, with the author currently ranked as the most popular on Amazon’s Author Rank (E.L. James comes in at #17).

No surprise then, that after Day mentioned in yesterday’s interview with USA Today’s “Happily Ever After” romance blog that the next Crossfire novel, Entwined with You (Penguin/Berkley) is coming in May, it instantly shot up Amazon’s sales rankings (for more on Sylvia Day, see our earlier story).

A sequel to the surprise hit, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is now scheduled for publication on June 11, 2013. It is currently being called simply, the Untitled Miss Peregrine Sequel by Ransom Riggs,(9781594746123, 1594746125; $17.99; Quirk Books).

There’s been no news about the film version, however. In December, it was reported that Tim Burton was circling the project, but there’s been no information on whether he committed to it.

Close on the heels of the announcement that Stephen King’s Dr. Sleep will be published on September 24, next year, comes the reveal of the cover art for another new King title, Joyland on the Entertainment Weekly Web site.

The publisher, Hard Case Crime is known for bringing crime novels from the ’40’s and ’50’s back to print in appropriately retro covers. They also publish a line of original titles (including an earlier title by King, Colorado Kid, 2005).

Dr. Sleep, (S&S/Scribner) the sequel to The Shining, was originally set for release on Jan. 15. A new date of Sept. 24 was announced yesterday on King’s web site. We have contacted the publisher and are awaiting information on the new ISBN.

On the eve of the launch of the fifth season of the HBO series, True Blood, Charlaine Harris announces that her next Sookie Stackhouse book, Dead Ever After, coming next May, will be the last in the series. Appropriately, it’s the 13th installment. The twelfth book in the series, Deadlocked (Penguin/Ace) came out last week.

Harris first mentioned that the series is ending in an interview in the Houston Press and then confirmed it on her Facebook page (May 14).

Earlier this year, Alan Ball, creator of the tv series, announced that he will not return for a sixth season of True Blood. A replacement has not yet been named.

The tie-in to the new season, Dead as a Doornail  (Penguin/Ace) releases next week. The trailer is below.