In my absence, I highly recommend Peter Crush's fantastic James Bond First Editions Blog. Peter is doing the kind of work I should be doing here. But he has the knowledge and the passion, and that is where the book Bond is being best represented. To make this easy, I've embedded his feed above.
There's also the terrific YouTube channel by Calvin Dyson, who is reviewing his way through all the novels. Calvin represents a new generation of Bond fans, and I am a regular watcher of his channel. He's also a huge Moonraker fan, so...
There are also some stellar Facebook groups, such as James Bond Collectible Books Worldwide, The Literary James Bond, and The Ian Fleming Foundation. My friend Matthew Bradford does a great job of covering the literary Bond and more at Double O Section.
Ian Fleming Publications is the place for news of new Ian Fleming-related books and the James Bond spin-off novels, such as Double O, The Q Mysteries, and James Bond and the Secret Agency Academy. I'm sure these will be fine books and will have many readers. I wish them all the success in the world. I'm just an old traditionalist who likes his straight-ahead James Bond adventures, and I feel like a bit of a fraud promoting these books when I'm not reading them myself.
But, hey, at least we have many ways to enjoy James Bond. We have new films on the way, video games, graphic novels, and spin-offs. So enjoy James Bond OO7 in whatever way you like. Just remember, it all started with THE BOOK BOND.
Cheers.
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