This is unconfirmed, but CBS News has reported Suzanne Collins will also present the ‘Hunger Games’ trailer on Sunday!

“Jennifer Lawrence, who plays heroine Katniss Everdeen in the film, will introduce the clip, along with Suzanne Collins, who wrote the bestselling trilogy.”

I’ll try to get a confirmation / denial from MTV or Liongsate tomorrow. That would be really exciting! Just don’t get your hopes up yet! Thanks to Hollywood2819 for the tip! We always appreciate you clicking ‘email’ and sending us news tips.

UPDATE: Lionsgate has confirmed that Suzanne will NOT be presenting the clip at the VMAs with Jennifer.

Comic publisher Bluewater Productions has announced a bio-comic about Suzanne Collins’ rise to fame with her popular Hunger Games trilogy. Written by Hunger Games Examiner’s Sara Gundell and Niño Harn Cajayon, the comic will be 40 pages and is part of a series of comics started in 2010.

“Fame: Suzanne Collins” explains her interest in writing and how she began writing “Hunger Games” and is written by Sara Gundell with art by Niño Harn Cajayon and Joe Phillips providing the cover art.

“Suzanne Collins has already wowed legions of fans with her ‘Hunger Games’ books, yet most know very little about the woman herself,” said Gundell. “With the movie version of ‘The Hunger Games’ coming out next year, it seemed only fitting to share her story with fans.” Darren Davis, president of Bluewater Comics, said he is excited to promote the story of a person who makes reading fun for kids.

FAME: Suzanne Collins can be pre-ordered on Amazon for 7.99 and will be released around November 2011.

Source: Hunger Games Examiner and Bluewater Productions

Lots of happy birthday wishes to Suzanne Collins, the brain behind the amazing books we all love. She also is one of the masterminds behind the creation of the upcoming film, she wrote the screenplay along with the director, Gary Ross. I hope you had a wonderful day!

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Slate has named Suzanne Collins in their Top Right 2011, a list of “the most innovative and practical thinkers of our time”.

“Action-movie directors could learn a thing or 10 from her about how to construct elaborate yet perfectly suspenseful plots. But more impressive is Collins’ fierceness. No one is safe from the story she wants to tell, and if that means offing some beloved, underage characters in alarming fashion or ending the series on a note she must have known was going to be divisive among her fans, so be it.”

Read the full article: Slate

Suzanne Collins has always been wearing a ‘Mockingjay’ pin necklace to her events, even before the movie was a go! Here she is featured in ‘Movie Magic Magazine’ wearing her custom necklace.

Collins, who’s gotten some flak for the kid-on-kid violence in the three books (Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay), has responded by pointing to the powerful anti-war message in her story. And she also notes that not everyone sees the books as war novels. “People view the books differently — as romance, as dystopian, as action adventure, as political,” she tells EW. “So there seems to be more than one way into the story.”
If somehow you still have not heard of Katniss and her District 12 cohorts, you will soon. Now that the book series is finished (with Mockingjay‘s publication in August), all eyes are on the upcoming Hunger Games movies. The first film, which will be helmed by Seabiscuit director Gary Ross, isn’t due out until 2012, but fans are already arguing feverishly over who should play Katniss on the big screen — Kaya Scodelario? Alexandra Daddario? Emma Watson? Fortunately, Collins, a seasoned scriptwriter with several kids’ shows under her belt, wrote the first draft of the screenplay herself and says Lionsgate, who acquired the books, has “established a dialogue with me, making me feel my input was valuable and welcome.” “Obviously, you have to let things go,” she says of the process, “but it’s more than a question of condensation. You want to preserve the essence while making the film stand on its own. It’s an art in itself.”

There’s a new girl in town, and her name is Katniss Everdeen, the savvy, gutsy, bow and- arrow-wielding heroine of the bestselling Hunger Games trilogy (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay). Katniss is the brainchild of Suzanne Collins, 48, the children’s-book author who dreamed up Games a few years ago while channel surfing, when images of reality TV and the Iraq war melded in her head. From that flash of inspiration, Collins fashioned the dystopian world of the Hunger Games, where an authoritarian Capitol forces its districts to hand over two “tributes” each year—teens who must fight to the death in an outdoor arena while the country watches on TV. If that sounds graphic, it is, and Collins has been criticized by some for the kid-on-kid violence. But the privacy-loving author, who granted EW a rare interview, believes the books pack a powerful antiwar message. “My dad was career Air Force, a Vietnam vet, and a doctor of political science,” she explains. “He felt very strongly about educating his children about war. And in turn, I feel drawn to creating stories for kids that might help them understand it.”

All three books have burned up the charts. The Hunger Games alone has more than 2.9 million copies in print and spent over 100 consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now that the series is finished (Collins says, definitively, that Katniss’ story “was concluded in Mockingjay”), all eyes are on the upcoming movies. Lionsgate optioned The Hunger Games, and Collins, a seasoned scriptwriter with several kids’ shows under her belt, wrote the first draft of the screenplay. “Adapting a book into a two-hour viewing experience is a challenge,” she says. “You want to preserve the essence while making the film stand on its own.” With the script completed, fans are arguing feverishly over who should play Katniss—but the film, tentatively scheduled for 2012, hasn’t been cast. And though Collins has yet to meet Games’ director, Gary Ross, “we’ve spoken twice on the phone, and I think he’s going to be terrific. He’s full of genuine excitement; when he talks about a scene, you can’t help visualizing it. I can’t wait to see his vision come to life on the screen.”

“We received a wide variety of creative and visually stunning entries to the Mockingjay display contest,” said Rachel Coun, Executive Director of Hardcover Marketing, Scholastic Trade. “But Powell’s entry, which included the centerpiece of a 17-foot cornucopia, really stood out!”

And the staff at Powell’s Books couldn’t be more thrilled.

“A visit from The Hunger Games series author, Suzanne Collins, is better than birthdays and snow days!” said Suzy Wilson from Powell’s Books children’s team. “We are ecstatic for the legions of ‘Mockingjay’ fans in our area—many of whom waited for hours for the midnight release—to have won the Scholastic contest. It is an amazing opportunity for all those passionate readers to meet their favorite author. The celebration continues, and costumes are not required…but welcomed.”

“Quite honestly, I knew from the very first paragraph I had a very gifted writer,” says Stimola, who still represents Collins. “It happens like that sometimes. Not often, but when it does it’s a thing of beauty. From the very first paragraph she established a character I cared about. She established a story and a mood that touched my heart.”
Collins sees her books as variations of war stories. The “Underland” series, she explains, tells five different aspects of conflict — the rescue of a prisoner of war, an assassination, biological weapons, genocide and the use of military intelligence. “The Hunger Games” series is an exploration of “unnecessary” war and “necessary” war, when armed rebellion is the only choice.
“If we introduce kids to these ideas earlier, we could get a dialogue about war going earlier and possibly it would lead to more solutions,” she says. “I just feel it isn’t discussed, not the way it should be. I think that’s because it’s uncomfortable for people. It’s not pleasant to talk about. I know from my experience that we are quite capable of understanding things and processing them at an early age.”

Read the full article HERE!

Thanks to DanceWeSteal for the tip!