Bridge to Bat City

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Fleming, Mike (June 18, 2010). "Deadline Hollywood – Warner Bros and De Line Pictures Win Book Auction For Ready Player One". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved February 24, 2014. Spry, Jeff (December 19, 2020). "Ready Player Two movie is in "early stages," Ernest Cline reveals". Inverse . Retrieved February 7, 2023. Wheaton, Wil (August 15, 2011). "You want to accept Anorak's Invitation. Trust me". Wilwheaton.net . Retrieved February 24, 2014. His third novel, Ready Player Two was announced in August 2015 and released on November 24, 2020 as a sequel to Ready Player One. [14] [15] As of 2020, a film adaptation of the novel was in early development. [16] The publishing deal for The Bridge to Bat City was brokered by Cline's longtime representatives, manager/producing partner, Dan Farah, and literary agent Yfat Reiss Gendell.

From 1997 to 2001, Cline performed his original work at Austin Poetry Slam venues. He was the Austin Poetry Slam Champ in 1998 and 2001. Cline also competed on the Austin Poetry Slam Teams at the 1998 Austin National Poetry Slam and the 2001 Seattle National Poetry Slam. [4] [5] His most popular spoken-word pieces include "Dance, Monkeys, Dance," "Nerd Porn Auteur," and "When I Was a Kid." [6] [7] Cline subsequently reworked "Dance Monkeys Dance" into a faux educational filmstrip, which became a popular viral video that has now been translated into 29 different languages. [8] The book will follow Opal B. Flats, a 13-year-old girl who moves to her uncle’s farm after the death of her mother and befriends a group of music-loving bats. When the bats’ home is threatened by a mining company with designs on the farm, Opal and the bats flee to Austin, Texas—a city known for its obsession with the flying mammals.

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Hoffman, Jordan (March 26, 2018). "The Oral History of 'Fanboys,' a Love Letter to 'Star Wars' Obliterated By the Dark Side of Hollywood". Thrillist . Retrieved April 10, 2022. In 2001, Cline self-published a chapbook collection of his spoken-word writing, The Importance of Being Ernest, and released an album, The Geek Wants Out. In the fall of 2013, Write Bloody Publishing published a new edition of The Importance of Being Ernest with new cover art by Gary Musgrave and new interior illustrations by Len Peralta. [ citation needed] Books [ edit ] His fourth novel, Bridge to Bat City was announced in June 2023 with a planned release by Little, Brown and Company in April 2024. [17] It will be Cline's first children’s novel and is described as a “'mostly true tall tale' about a recently orphaned young girl named Opal B Flats, who forms an unexpected friendship with a music-loving colony of bats and helps them find a new home against all odds." Cline was born and raised in Ashland, Ohio, the son of Ernest Christy Cline and Faye Imogene ( née Williams) Cline. [2] As a youth in the 1970s and 1980s, Cline was "addicted to video games and movies," especially Star Wars, the movies of John Hughes, and the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. [2] He worked in information technology in his twenties and worked on screenwriting during his spare time. [2] Fanboys [ edit ] John R. Alden. "Ernest Cline's smart 'Ready Player One' makes cybernerds fun", Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 22, 2011.

Cline, Ernest (2013). The Importance of Being Ernest. Austin: Write Bloody. p.Introduction. ISBN 9781938912306 . Retrieved February 7, 2023. After having listened to nearly 400 audiobooks, this is the first time I have felt it so necessary as to write a review. A most excellent ride . . . Cline stuffs his novel with a cornucopia of pop culture, as if to wink to the reader.” — Boston Globe Ready Player One' Book Sequel Sets November Publishing Date". The Hollywood Reporter. July 8, 2020.

Busch, Anita (August 10, 2015). " 'Ready Player One' Author Ernest Cline Seals Monster Deal For Next Book; All Eyes On Film Rights" . Retrieved September 9, 2017.