Publishers Weekly articles from April 2000

Publishers Weekly archives from April 2000

NetLibrary Restructures, Names Kaufman President.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Looks to business, education, consumer markets and expands role as distributor of all e-book formats NETLIBRARY, A BOULDER, COLO.-based firm that originally focused on providing online reference texts to libraries, announced a flurry of...

Duffy to Head University of Chicago Press.(Paula Barker Duffy)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Paula Barker Duffy, currently publisher of the Free Press, has been named director of the University of Chicago Press, effective August 1. Duffy will remain at the Free Press through May, and Carolyn Reidy, head of the Simon & Schuster trade...

Tattered Cover Fights Warrant for Records.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Tattered Cover owner Joyce Meskis is beginning to pick up support from a number of quarters as she fights a search warrant from Denver's Metro Gang Task Force that seeks to seize book sales records. The force believes these records will...

Regan Joins Prometheus Books.(Linda Greenspan Regan)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Looking to expand its trade book publishing program, Prometheus Books, an Amherst, N.Y.-based publishing house specializing in quality nonfiction, has named a new executive editor: Linda Greenspan Regan, formerly executive editor at Carol...

Deadline Nears for LMP Nominations.(publishing industry award)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... April 30 is the deadline for nominations to be received for this year's LMP Awards. Nominations can be made through the www.lmpawards.com Web site. Awards will be given in the editorial, sales and marketing, publicity, and graphic design...

Musicland to Expand Bricks and Clicks.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... MUSICLAND'S four main objectives for 2000 are to strengthen its e-commerce presence through increased investment, begin to develop Web-enabled store systems, remodel mall stores and expand superstores, and improve the profitability of its...

Robinson: Grolier Will Boost Scholastic Profits.(publishing industry)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Scholastic chairman Richard Robinson expects the pending acquisition of Grolier to increase Scholastic's operating income by approximately 30% in the next few years. Robinson told PW Scholastic will reach that goal by achieving annual cost...

Pal Joins AAP.(Association of American Publishers)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... The Association of American Publishers has appointed Susan Pai deputy director of international trade relations. She is charged with educating the public and working with AAP members, students, international counterparts, universities and...

Cool Springs Inks Deal with Web Company.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Cool Springs Press, the Franklin, Tenn., publisher of state-specific garden guides (News, Feb. 22, 1999), has signed an agreement with Planetgarden.com to provide content to the new online provider of lawn and garden information, services and...

WH Smith Buys U.S. Airport Bookstores.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... IN SUPPORT OF its mission to raise its visibility in the U.S., the British bookstore chain WH Smith has bought the Benjamin Company for [pounds]12 million ($19 million). Owned by Robert Creuz, the stores sell books, newspapers and gifts at 17...

A New Faludi for Holt.(Susan Faludi, authoress)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Susan Faludi, bestselling author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women and Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, has signed with Henry Holt's Metropolitan Books imprint for a new book. Holt president John Sterling and...

Banish Fear, Dutton's Here.(publishing industry contract)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... That publisher's Brian Tart beat out several other aspirants with a six-figure bid that included world rights-and a first-ever paper back partnership with Perigee-to land Fearless Living, a guide to help people identify, and break through,...

Hindenburg Disaster Novel to Talese.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... A German novel by the son of a survivor of the spectacular explosion and fire that destroyed the Zeppelin Hindenburg at its New Jersey mooring in 1936 has been bought, after a brief auction, by Nan A. Talese for her imprint at Doubleday. The...

New Look at Our Revolution.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... The way the American Revolution has been handed down to us in the history books, as if all the patriots were of one mind in the creation of a new nation, requires some adjustment, according to UCLA history professor (and author) Gary Nash....

Buddhist Baby Heard From.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Ivan Richmond is a 27-year-old Silicon Valley guy, and therefore living a typical 21st-century American life. He is also, however, a Buddhist, the son of a celebrated Buddhist author, Lewis Richmond, and all his life has had to reconcile two...

Short Takes.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Pam Thomas, a veteran editor at several houses, is doing a book, Fatherless Daughters, about the difficulty of growing up without one, which agent Jane Dystel has sold, for North American rights, to Sydny Miner at S&S.... The Free Press's...

Printers, Packagers Top U.S. Media Creditors.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... In its bankruptcy petition filed with the Southern District of New York U.S. Bankruptcy Court, U.S. Media Holdings listed liabilities of $25.04 million and assets of $24.73 million. U.S. Media, parent company of Stewart, Tabori & Chang,...

IDG Reports Results, Hires CFO.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Revenues at IDG Books rose 44%, to $64.5 million for the second quarter ended March 31, 2000. The sales increase was led by the consumer group, which, boosted by the acquisition of the Macmillan general reference group, had a 231% sales gain....

ITI Marks 25 Years.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... FOUNDED IN 1975 by Ehud C. Sperling, Inner national continues to be on the cutting edge of New Age, or the occult category, as it was known years ago. Based in Rochester, Vt., ITI is expanding along with the New Age category and will mark its...

Microsoft Unveils Pocket PC, MS Reader.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... AT A PRESS CONFERENCE in New York City last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled Pocket PC Windows, the company's operating system for a new generation of palm-sized computing devices that will support e-books, digital music, games, Web...

Growth at Bonnier.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... COUNT AT LEAST one European major publisher that is both family owned and survives, thrives even, largely thanks to print on paper sold in those bricks-and-mortar places. Sweden's Bonnier, founded more than 200 years ago as a bookseller and...

Results Up at MHC, Mixed at Tribune.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... With all major segments reporting gains, the McGraw-Hill Cos. Reported that revenues in its education and professional publishing group rose 14.2%, to $238.7 million, in the first quarter ended March 31, 2000, while its operating loss...

Feltrinelli Broadens Reach in Italy.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... UNTIL RECENTLY, THERE was no better example of a family group making good money from traditional literary publishing and bookselling than Milan's Feltrinelli, but suddenly everything is changing. Already one of the country's fastest-growing...

Russell Aide Wins Suit Against Orion, Sues RH.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Human rights activist Ralph Schoenman, a former secretary to Bertrand Russell, won substantial damages and a full apology for defamatory statements in a book by Bryan Magee published by Orion Publishers in London. Schoenman, a resident of San...

Houghton Mifflin, Epylon.com Ink Pact.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... HOUGHTON MIFFLIN and Epylon.com, an online marketplace for institutional buyers, have reached an agreement to establish a business-to-business online storefront on the Epylon.com site, offering instructional materials to government and school...

The Quick and the Sick?(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Two Bantam hardcovers that share an April 4 pub date are each marking their second appearance on our fiction list--Amanda Quick's Wicked Widow and Michael Palmer's The Patient. Quick, as many of her fans know, is a pseudonym for Jayne Ann...

Cybill Action.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Also marking its second week on our lists--nonfiction, in this case--is a memoir with which the title mavens clearly had a great time: Cybill Disobedience: Howl Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood,...

Psycho-Pseller.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Nearly a decade after Vintage's 1991 publication of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis's controversial satire of 80s greed and inconspicuous consumption has once again captured the spotlight with the April 14 release of the movie adaptation....

We Forgot the Plume!(Editorial)
April 24, 2000... In the trade paperback section of our April 10 feature on 1999 bestsellers, we inadvertently omitted The carbohydrate Addict's Lifespan Program by Dr. Richard F. Heller and Dr. Rachael F. Heller Since Plume shipped an impressive 1,574,956...

Getting on the Book Shelves.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... First-time author/publisher woos bookstore attention through "interactive bookselling events" Like a lot of savvy small press publishers, Nelvia M. Brady understands the importance of a strong grass-roots campaign. And since, like a lot...

Vallejo Welcomes New Bookstore?(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... With the San Francisco Bay Area's current growth spurt, the once obscure town of Vallejo in the North Bay has become a desirable residence for thousands of new commuters. Changing demographics was one reason why the city fathers of Vallejo...

Summer Activity Kits for Kids.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Do-it-yourself kits can keep kids entertained and learning during their summer vacation As the long, occasionally too empty days of summer vacation roll inevitably toward us, parents and kids alike can celebrate the often educational and...

A Smooth Bologna.
April 24, 2000... Book buys take a backseat to corporate acquisitions, but the annual children's fair continues to prove its worth A mid spring rain showers, intermittent sunshine and the incessant chirping of Italian cell phones, the stately medieval city...

A Look Around the World.
April 24, 2000... For a happy few, Bologna actually began in London on Monday, at an international gathering of publishers of the Harry Potter books that included an unprecedented press conference during which J.K. Rowling submitted to a grilling from...

Revisiting THE SCENE OF THE CRIME.
April 24, 2000... Publishing pundits look back on the last decade of this lively genre and make predictions about its future RECENTLY, PW ASKED A NUMBER of publishers, editors and booksellers to pause for a moment on the threshold of the new millennium and...

Alistair MacLeod Of Scotsmen In Canada.
April 24, 2000... Even before Alistair MacLeod's first novel, No Great Mischief, was released in Canada last year, the story of its origins had made its way into the annals of publishing folklore. According to legend, McClelland & Stewart's publisher,...

SAVING ELIJAH.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... FRAN DORF. Putnam, $25.95 (400p) ISBN 0-399-14630-X * Taking a chance with a heart-wrenching subject--a dying child, and a mother's guilt and desperation--Dorf (Flight) has produced a stunning third novel that crackles with suspense, dark...

THE BETTER MAN.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... ANITA NAIR. Picador, $23 (288p) ISBN 0-312-25311-7 All's well that ends well in Kaikurussi, the storybook Indian village that serves as the setting for Nair's charming debut novel. Bhasi, the village house painter, tells part of the tale....

THE GREAT DIVIDE.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... T. DAVIS BUNN. Doubleday/Waterbrook Press, $19.95 (384p) ISBN 0-385-49615-X Redolent of the grits and fatback of the Carolina tobacco belt and heralded as the Christian Book Association's bestselling author's crossover to mainstream...

WELCOME TO MY PLANET [*] : (*.)Where English Is Sometimes Spoken.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... SHANNON OLSON. Viking, $2295 (243p) ISBN 0-670-89208-4 The protagonist of this excellent debut novel has much in common with its author: they share the same name, they're both in their early 30s, live in Minnesota and have a mother named...

EMOTIONALLY WEIRD.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... KATE ATKINSON. Picador, $25 (346p) ISBN 0-312-20324-1 * When Atkinson's first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, beat out Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh for the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year Award, a controversy in the...

NO MERCY.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... PAT CALIFIA. Alyson, $14.95 paper (260p) ISBN 1-55583-542-2 The veteran sex-radical author (Macho Sluts; Doc and Fluff) reveals much more than a saucy and scandalous imagination in her 18th book, which depicts expected variations of s&m...

THE FLOWER BOY.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... KAREN ROBERTS. Random, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-375-50316-1 Set during the 13 uneasy, final years of British rule in Ceylon, Roberts's debut novel relates in simple yet eloquent prose the story of two children and their families whose lives,...

CROSS DRESSING.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... BILL FITZHUGH. Avon, $23 (352p) ISBN 0-380-97756-7 What begins as an interesting equation of the advertising business and organized religion quickly degenerates into predictable slapstick humor in this somewhat crowded comic novel. Dan...

RESCUE ME: A Love Story.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... GIGI LEVANGIE GRAZER. Simon & Schuster, $23 (272p) ISBN 0-684-87073-8 Screenwriter Grazer's (Stepmom) first novel is an unconvincing love story set in Los Angeles during the mid-1980s. Amanda McHenry has just graduated from UCLA and...

ROBERT LUDLUM'S THE HADES FACTOR.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... ROBERT LUDLUM AND GAYLE LYNDS. St. Martin's Griffin, $15.95 paper (448p) ISBN 0-312-26437-2 In his first book since 1997's The Matarese Countdown, onetime thriller superstar Ludlum teams up with Lynds (Masquerade; Mosaic) for a...

THE RUN.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... STUART WOODS. HarperCollins, $25 (368p) ISBN 0-06-019187-2 The prolific Woods returns to his roots with an unexceptional new episode in his Lee family saga, a series dormant since 1989. Will and Kate Lee, now a Washington power couple,...

THE NIGHT BUS.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... JANICE LAW. Forge, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-312 84882-X A pretty and talented Connecticut church singer slowly recovers from amnesia only to realize that memories of her tempestuous marriage may signal her doom in this smoothly written yet...

PRIORITY.(Review)
April 24, 2000... ISELIN C. HERMANN. Grove, $22 (96p) ISBN 0-8021-1667-1 A collection of erotic letters between a French painter and a young Danish woman makes for passionate poetry, but Danish children's author Hermann's first adult effort, barely...

LIGHT HOUSE.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... WILLIAM MONAHAN. Riverhead, $21.95 (208p) ISBN 1-57322-158-9 Former Spy magazine scribe Monahan's satirical first novel is broad, freewheeling and scattershot. It's also very postmodern in a sometimes annoyingly hip, glib, Gen-X fashion;...

SAM THE CAT: And Other Stories.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... MATTHEW KLAM. Random, $22.95 (272p) ISBN 0-679-45745-3 * Prosperous, morally addled young Americans wallow and flail in a glossy, unsettling consumer wonderland in Klam's unnervingly dead-on debut collection of seven long stories....

ANGUS: A Memoir.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... CHARLES SIEBERT. Crown, $21 (192p) ISBN 0-609-60494-5 Fearless, feisty and smart, Jack Russell terriers currently enjoy a popularity rivaled by few other breeds, thanks in part to TV shows like Frasier. In this slim, impressionistic...

DIVINE AND HUMAN: And Other Stories.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... LEO TOLSTOY, TRANS. BY PETER SEKIRIN, FOREWORD BY ALEXANDER NIKOLIUKIN. Zondervan, $19.99 (208p) ISBN 0-310-22367-9 These 16 selections from Tolstoy's final eclectic collection of tales titled The Sunday Reading Stories represent the...

THE SPECIAL PRISONER.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... JIM LEBRER. Random, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 0-375-50371-4 As in his previous novel, White Window, the plot of newscaster-writer Lehrer's newest book turns on a chance encounter. In this case the pivotal meeting is between retired Methodist...

RAINY DAYS AND SUNDAYS.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... BREWSTER MILTON ROBERTSON. Harbor House (3010 Stratford Dr., Augusta, Ga. 30909), $24.95 (400p) ISBN 1-891799-12-6 A premise as volatile as tomorrow's headlines sparks the opening of this timely suspense novel, set in the year 2002, when...

ANTIETAM.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... JAMES REASONER. Cumberland House, $22.95 (383p) ISBN 1-58182-084-4 In this third installment (Manassas; Shiloh) of his Civil War series, Reasoner (Walker, Texas Ranger), moves the focus of his novel back to Virginia and his Culpepper...

JUDICIAL WHISPERS.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... CARO FRASER. $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-312-26816-1 Everyone in London's elite legal circle agrees that star barrister Leo Davies is one of the best advocates in the Temple, an electrifying personality both in and out of the courtroom. So it's...

THE WAY OF THE JAGUAR.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... FRANCISCO X. STORK. Bilingual Press, $14 paper ISBN 0-927534-93-2 If ever a literary character arrived on death row for the crime of love, it is Ismael Diaz in this potent novel. Diaz was a successful real estate lawyer in Boston until he...

VERTIGO.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... W.G. SEBALD, TRANS. BY MICHAEL HULSE. New Directions, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 0-8112-1430-3 Sebald's third novel to be translated into English is in fact the German author's first novel, written before the acclaimed travel meditation, The...

THE FUHRER'S RESERVE.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... PAUL LINDSAY. Simon & Schuster, $24 (384p) ISBN 0-684-85403-1 In Lindsay's new thriller, irrepressible agent Taz Fallon swashbuckles through neo-Nazi assassins and psychotic Third Reich holdouts while finding romance and playing his...

STANDOFF.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... SANDRA BROWN. Warner, $19.95 (217p) ISBN 0-446-52701-7 Workaholic Dallas TV reporter Tiel McCoy thought she would take a well-earned vacation, hut while driving to a secluded condo in New Mexico, she hears a radio report that changes her...

THE AMETHYST HEART.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... PENELOPE J. STOKES. Word, $21.99 (400p) ISBN 0-8499-3721-3; paper $12.99 4235-7 Stokes (The Blue Bottle Club) offers an earnest but predictable Christian novel chronicling six generations of the Noble family of Cambridge, Miss. At age...

PAUL.(Review)
April 24, 2000... WALTER WANGERIN JR. Zondervan, $22.99 (512p) ISBN 0-310-21892-6 In his second Bible-based novel, Wangerin delivers an uneven but informative narrative portraying the Apostle Paul as a flawed, confrontational man who inspires either...

UNHOLY TRINITY.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... PAUL ADAM. Arcade, $25.95 (376p) ISBN 1-55970-520-5 Artfully crafted and intricately layered, this thriller by a veteran British journalist/crime novelist moves back and forth between 1944 and 1945 and the present to imagine a complex web...

RATZ ARE NICE (PSP).(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... LAWRENCE YTZHAK BRAIHWAITE. Alyson, $11.95 (2l0p) ISBN 1-55583-554-6 This Victoria, British Columbia, author's second novel is one of the riskiest books yet from Alyson, publisher of cutting-edge gay titles. (His excellent debut,...

LEAVE BEFORE YOU GO.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... EMILY PERKINS. HarperCollirzs/Ecco, $23 (304p) ISBN 0-06-019661-0 Twentysomething angst over the opposite sex, career malaise and anxiety regarding overall life direction unite three young New Zealand natives and a mysterious English...

THE FIRST PAPER GIRL IN RED OAK, IOWA.(Review)
April 24, 2000... ELIZABETH STUCKEY-FRENCH. Doubleday, $22 (240p) ISBN 0-385-49971-X * Matter-of-fact surprise animates this debut collection of 12 singular stories by Stuckey-French, a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and a James Michener/ Paul Engle...

DARKEST FEAR.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... HARLAN COBEN. Delacorte, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 0-385-33433-8 * Book seven in Coben's wonderfully rich series (after 1999's The Final Detail), which features sports agent Myron Bolitar, former basketball player and totally believable human...

THE NAKED DETECTIVE.(Review)
April 24, 2000... LAURENCE SHAMES. Villard, $22.95 (240p) ISBN 0-375-50253-X Shames's eighth Key West novel (after Welcome to Paradise) has its moments of charm and interest, especially when narrator Pete Amsterdam, debuting here, describes the particular...

SUSPICION OF MALICE.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... BARBARA PARKER. Dutton, $22.95 (332p) ISBN 0-525-94542-3 Florida attorney Parker has produced a new installment in her series of legal thrillers that feature Miami lawyers Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana. Since the previous novel...

RED, WHITE, AND BLUE MURDER: A Hilda Johansson Mystery.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... JEANNE M. DAMS. Walker, $23.95 (204p) ISBN 0-8027-3341-7 After building a readership with her stories of a contemporary American sleuth, Dorothy Martin, plying her skills in England (The Body in the Transept, Trouble in the Town Hall,...

FORTUNE LIKE THE MOON.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... ALYS CLARE. St. Martin's Minotaur, $22.95 (256p) ISBN 0-312-26162-4 The brutal murder of a young nun threatens the peace of the kingdom in this promising first novel by an author who might just be the next Ellis Peters. Richard...

DEATH ON A SILVER TRAY: A Beau Brummell Mystery.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... ROSEMARY STEVENS. Berkley Prime Crime, $21.95 (288p) ISBN 0-425-17468-9 George Bryan "Beau" Brummell, the arbiter of fashion in Regency England, may seem an unlikely protagonist for a crime novel, but Stevens, author of four Regency...

HANGING HANNAH.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... EVAN MARSHALL. Kensington, $20 (320p) ISBN 1-57566-550-6 Three deaths, apparently unrelated, and a missing pop star slowly reveal their interconnections in Marshall's second mystery (after Missing Marlene) featuring the charming Jane...

SQUIRE THROWLEIGH'S HEIR: A Medieval West Country Mystery.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... MICHAEL JECKS. Headline (Trafalgar Square, dist.), $9.95 paper (352p) ISBN 0- 7472-5952-6 The brutality of medieval life underpins Jecks's seventh mystery in this worthy series featuring Sir Baldwin of Furnshill, keeper of the king's...

CAT IN A KIWI CON: A Midnight Louie Mystery.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... CAROLE NELSON DOUGLAS. Forge/Doherty, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 0-312-86955-X Even diehard fans may have trouble keeping the various narrative voices and story strands straight in Nelson's 11th mystety to feature Las Vegas's Temple Barr and her...

THE TRAVELING VAMPIRE SHOW.(Review)
April 24, 2000... RICHARD LAYMON. Cemetery Dance (410-569-5683; www.cemeterydance.com), $40 (540p) ISBN 1-58767-000-3 * Like the vampire he celebrates so often (Stake, etc.), this talented writer's career, once dead in the States though not overseas, has...

ETRUSCANS: Beloved of the Gods.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... MORGAN LLYWELYN AND MICHAEL SCOTT. Tor $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0-312-86627-5 In this sturdy historical fantasy novel, Llywelyn, best known as a fictional chronicler of Irish history (1916, etc.), and U.K. anthologist Scott turn their...

IN THE UPPER ROOM: And Other Likely Stories.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... TERRY BISSON. Tor, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 0-312-87404-9 Bisson offers up a wide-ranging second story collection (after Bears Discover Fire) of cuffing-edge SF. The future of virtual reality comes under his gaze here and there--as in his...

PW Talks to Richard Chizmar.(Editor of Cemetery Dance Publications)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 24, 2000... Richard Chizmar is the founder, publisher and editor of Cemetery Dance Publications, launched in 1988. From its beginnings as publisher of Cemetery Dance magazine, then of collectors' book editions, CD has evolved into arguably the nation's...

PROSPERO'S CHILDREN.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... JAN SIEGEL. Del Rey, $24 (368p) ISBN 0-345-43901-5 Proving that a breath of imagination can rekindle the embers of a spent theme, Siegel enlivens this schematically familiar fantasy with a new twist on the old legend of Atlantis. The...

May Publications.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... "Go west, young man" -- or go somewhere else. Award-winning SF editor Gardner Dozois surveys the history of the field in two new, theme-driven "best of" collections. Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons surveys the past 50 years of...

A WOMAN SCORNED.(Review)
April 24, 2000... LIZ CARLYLE. Pocket, $6.50 (416p) ISBN 0-671-03826-5 The latest from Carlyle (My False Heart) offers up a charming yet erotic Regency that entertains despite a few flaws. Jonet Cameron, the Marchioness of Mercer, is a femme fatale shunned...

THE BURNING POINT.(Review)
April 24, 2000... MARY JO PUTNEY. Berkley, $6.99 (352p) ISBN 0-425-17428-X Known for her historical romances (The Wild Child, etc.), Putney successfully moves into contemporary fiction. Kate Corsi and Patrick Donovan, divorced 10 years ago, are reunited by...