Publishers Weekly articles from February 1999, page 3

Publishers Weekly archives from February 1999

EVERY BREATH SHE TAKES.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Suzanne Forster. Jove, $6.99 (432p) ISBN 0-515-12443-5 In her latest (after Husband, Lover, Stranger), Forster weaves a spellbinding tale of murder and intrigue that guarantees a long night of reading suspense. Stalkers are being stalked...

ANNIE'S RAINBOW.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Fern Michaels. Zebra, $6.99 (384p) ISBN 0-8217-6173-0 Poor girl Annie Daisy Clark finds a bag containing half a million dollars. Even though she knows the money comes from a bank heist, she decides to use it, launching a successful...

SHOOTING STARS AND OTHER DEADLY THINGS.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Nancy Tesler. Dell, $5.99 (256p) ISBN 0-440-22614-7 Carrie Carlin, a biofeedback clinician at a relaxation clinic and divorced mother of two, becomes entangled in the murder investigation of wealthy socialite Helena Forester after taking...

DEADBEAT.(Review)
February 22, 1999... Leo Atkins. Berkley, $5.99 (320p) ISBN 0-425-16781-X Nine-year-old Cody "Blister" McGraw enlists the aid of Connor Gibbs, a CIA agent turned private investigator, to find his long-lost father, Noah Sizemore, on the run from the police....

EVERYTHING TO SPEND THE NIGHT FROM A TO Z.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Ann Whitford Paul, illus. by Maggie Smith. DK Ink/Kroupa, $15.95 (40p) ISBN 0-7894-25 11-4 Asked to pack for even the briefest excursion, children invariably put in everything but the kitchen sink-a proclivity that Paul (Hello Toes!...

ROSIE'S BABIES.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Martin Waddell, illus. by Penny Dale. Candlewick, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 0-7636-0718-5 Waddell (previously paired with Dale for When the Teddy Bears Came) perfectly captures the nuances of a child's conversation with her mother in this...

EGGDAY.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Joyce Dunbar, illus. by Jane Cabrera. Holiday, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 0-8234-15 10-4 In a story both clever and wise, Dora the duck decrees that the following day will be "eggday' complete with a competition for best egg. She tells Humphrey...

THE UGLY DUCKLING.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Hans Christian Andersen, adapted and illus. by Jerry Pinkney. Morrow, $16 (4Op) ISBN O-688-15932-X Pinkney's (Rikki-Tikki-Tavi) supple, exquisitely detailed watercolors provide a handsome foil to his graceful adaptation of the Hans...

LITTLE BUNNY'S SLEEPLESS NIGHT.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Carol Roth, illus. by Valeri Gorbachev, North-South, $15.95 ISBN 0-7358- 1069-9 Like Goldilocks trying out successive porridge servings, chairs and beds until she finds the one that is just right, so Little Bunny, an "only" rabbit faced...

SUNDAY WEEK.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Dinah Johnson, illus. by Tyrone Geter. Holt, $15.95 ISBN 0-8050-4911-8 "Blue Monday, everybody's got the Monday morning blues," opens Johnson's (All Around Town: The Photographs of Richard Samuel Roberts) impressionistic poem with a...

LITTLE DOG POEMS.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Kristine O'Connell George, illus. by June Otani. Clarion, $12 ISBN 0-395- 82266-1 Experienced dog owners will recognize the familiar behavior of a winsome brown puppy as it attacks the "enemy" vacuum cleaner until it "stops growling," or...

THE BIRDS' GIFT: A Ukrainian Easter Story.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Eric A. Kimmel, illus. by Katya Krenina. Holiday, $16.95 ISBN 0-8234-1384-5 This atmospheric folktale by the author and illustrator of The Magic Dreidels will interest anyone who has ever admired Ukrainian decorated Easter eggs, or...

RAISEL'S RIDDLE.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Erica Silverman, illus. by Susan Gaber. FSG, $16 (40p) ISBN 0-374-36168-1 Starring a Jewish orphan in a long-ago Polish village, this colorful, expertly structured variation on Cinderella offers many things: an independent-minded heroine...

RAINY MORNING.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Jill Pinkwater. S&S, $16 (32p) ISBN 0-689-81143-8 At first, this tale offers nothing but dismal weather and a polite couple, Mr. and Mrs. Submarine, breakfasting on corn muffins. Their cat bumps at the window...

OUR NEIGHBOR IS A STRANGE, STRANGE MAN.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Tres Seymour, illus. by Walter Lyon Krudop. Orchard, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 0-531-30107-9 Seymour's (Hunting the White Cow) triumphant tale of Melville Murrell, who in 1876 built the first airplane, champions pioneers who dare to step outside...

I WAS ONCE A MONKEY: Stories Buddha Told.(Review)
February 22, 1999... Jeanne M. Lee. FSG, $16 (4Op) ISBN 0- 374-33548-6 A monkey that takes refuge in the ruins of Buddha's temple during a monsoon sets the stage for these finely honed retellings of six Jatakas, or birth stories. As the monkey's eyes adjust...

JOAN OF ARC OF DOMREMY.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Michael Morpurgo, illus. by Michael Foreman. Harcourt, $23 (l28p) ISBN 0-15-201736-4 Following their Robin of Sherwood and Arthur, High King of Britain, Morpurgo and Foreman turn their talents to historical fiction about the Maid of...

SEAL ISLAND SCHOOL.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Susan Bartlett, illus, by Tricia Tusa. Viking, $13.99 (80p) ISBN 0-670- 88349-2 This brief, humor-filled novel follows an engaging girl during the course of a school year on a small island off the coast of Maine. Pru Stanley is having a...

CHARLIE MUFFIN'S MIRACLE MOUSE.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Dick King-Smith, illus. by Lina Chesak. Crown, $16 (ll2p) ISBN 0-517- 80033-0 King-Smith's (Babe) latest may leave fans feeling less than satisfied. The story shows glimmers of King-Smith's familiar oddball humor but overall feels...

STAR OF LUIS.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Marc Talbert. Clarion, $16 ISBN 0395-91423-X It's December 1941 in East Los Angeles, and Luis's world turns topsy-turvy in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. First his father joins the army, then his mother takes him for the first...

WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE, VOLUME TWO: Original Stories About Growing Up.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Edited by Amy Ehrlich. Candlewick, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 0-7636-0407-0 Ehrlich offers more of a good thing in this second volume of memoirs of adolescence by renowned, contemporary YA authors. Here, readers can journey to their favorite...

TERROR OF THE SPANISH MAIN: Sir Henry Morgan and His Buccaneers.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Albert Marrin, Dutton, $19.99 (256p) ISBN 0-525-45942-I While debunking romantic myths and misconceptions, Marrin (Commander in Chief Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War) ably proves fact stranger than fiction in his portrait of the...

BIG GALAXY FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... From the universe's start with a bang--the Big Bang, to be precise--to the blastoff of space travel, from the Italian astronomer Galileo to the probe Galileo that traveled to Jupiter in 1995, Scholastic First Encyclopedia: All About Space by...

WHEN PARENTS DRINK.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
February 22, 1999... Written for kids with alcoholic parents, Bottles Break by Nancy Maria Grande Tabor confronts their confusion and helplessness. Silhouettes of bottles and people, cut from tissue paper, illustrate the first-person narrative. Coping strategies...

DREAM ON.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
February 22, 1999... Lullabies by Eleanor Farjeon, Russell Hoban and Walter de La Mare join some traditional bedtime songs in Dreamtime: A Book of Lullabies, edited by Belinda Hollyer, illus. by Robin Bell Corfield. The soft watercolor artwork is as soothing as...

WINDOW OF CREATIVE OPPORTUNITY.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... A bilingual introduction to the traditional Mexican cut-paper art (papel picado), Magic Windows/Ventanas maglcas by Carmen Lomas Garza combines childhood memories, Mexican traditions and Aztec legends. The striking spreads often feature only...

ANOTHER'S RICE CAKE LOOKS BIGGER.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
February 22, 1999... Enigmatic folk sayings offer insight into Korean culture in Tigers, Frogs, and Rice Cakes: A Book of Korean Proverbs, edited by Daniel Holt, illus. by Soma Han Stickler. The literal-minded illustrations do little to help interpret the 20...

POETRY READING.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Tea Party Today: Poems to Sip and Savor by Eileen Spinelli, illus. by Karen Dugan, serves up bright little rhymes, with tea party ideas on the side. Cheerful, colorful illustrations and memories of the author's own childhood tea parties add...

GO ON, OPEN IT.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
February 22, 1999... Interactive books include surprises pleasant and otherwise. Don Freeman's teddy bear Corduroy and his plush animal friends prepare for Easter in the lift-the-flap Corduroy's Easter by B.G. Hennessy, illus. by Lisa McCue. Under the flaps are...

GRUFF LOVE.(Review)
February 22, 1999... David McPhail adds his characteristic whimsy to illustrations of the cast in A Friend for Growl Bear by Margot Austin, text adapted from the 1951 Growl Bear. Because the woodland animals are afraid of his growl, little Growl Bear doesn't have...

THE LITTLEST PROSPECTORS.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
February 22, 1999... Packed with photographs, Children of the Gold Rush by Claire Rudolf Murphy and Jane Haigh offers a rare look into the lives of 10 children in the Yukon and Alaskan territories in the late 19th century. Their varied circumstances included a...

BUZ.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
February 22, 1999... BUZ Richard Egielski. HarperTrophy! Geringer, $5.95 ISBN 0-06-443479-6. Telling the story of a boy who swallows a bug, Egielski "paints as if with a zoom lens, magnifying the mundane and creating a quirky, effectively claustrophobic...

THE CHICKEN SISTERS.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
February 22, 1999... THE CHICKEN SISTERS Laura Numeroff illus. by Sharleen Collicott. HarperTrophy/Geringer, $5.95 ISBN 0-06-4435202. Praising the "humorous [and] intricately detailed" art and the author's "deadpan delivery," PW said this tale of three...

MOE THE DOG IN TROPICAL PARADISE.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
February 22, 1999... MOE THE DOG IN TROPICAL PARADISE Diane Stanley, illus. by Elise Primavera. PaperStar, $5.99 ISBN 0-69811761-1. Moe the mutt and his springer spaniel sidekick devise a cure for the midwinter blues. "This happy-go-lucky narrative suggests that...

GRASPER.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
February 22, 1999... GRASPER Paul Owen Lewis. Tricycle, $7.95 ISBN 1-883672-98-8. A young crab finds wisdom when he explores the world beyond his tide pool. Ages 5-8. (Feb.)

SWEET MEMORIES STILL.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
February 22, 1999... SWEET MEMORIES STILL Natalie KinseyWarnock, illus. by Laurie Harden. Puffin, $4.99 ISBN 0-14-130168-6. Several life-transforming events involve a girl, her ailing grandmother and a house fire; PW's review praised the author's "gentle touch in...

THREE DOG WINTER.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
February 22, 1999... THREE DOG WINTER Elizabeth Van Steenwyk. Dell/Yearling, $3.99 ISBN 0440-41495-4. Despite his mother's remarriage and a move, Scott determines to be champion sled-dog racer in this novel that inspired the movie Kayla. "The story builds to a...

VIRTUAL WAR.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
February 22, 1999... VIRTUAL WAR Gloria Skurzynski. S&S/Aladdin, $4.50 ISBN 0-689-82425-4. "Taking place almost entirely in a shifting series of simulated environments," said PW, "this speed read could be just the ticket for cyberfiction enthusiasts." Ages 10-14....

PAPERBACK BESTSELLERS.
February 22, 1999... PAPERBACK BESTSELLERS MASS MARKET Last Weeks Week on List 1 Message in a Bottle. Nicholas Sparks. 1 6 Warner Vision, $6.99...

HARDCOVER BESTSELLERS.
February 22, 1999... HARDCOVER BESTSELLERS Last Weeks FICTION Week on list 1 The Testament. John Grisham. 1 2 ...

So Different, Not So Different.(Book Manufacturing: Production and Technology Report)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... In this first installment of a new series, we take an up-close look at current book production industry developments. With this special section we inaugurate our Book Manufacturing: Production & Technology Report, a year-long, four-part...

Wrapping Up at Warp Speed.(the services of Quad/Graphics Book Division)
February 22, 1999... Quad/Graphics uses new modified cartoning equipment to make short work of packaging and mailing single-book orders. When Quad/Graphics, a commercial and publication printer, branched out into book production just three years ago, it...

Seizing Opportunities in a Changing Market.(book printing house McNaughton & Gunn)
February 22, 1999... Versatile equipment and employee training help veteran book printer McNaughton & Gunn compete successfully on customer service. Today's book publishing world is quite different than when McNaughton & Gunn, Inc. of Saline, Mich. began in...

Old-Style Binding, New-Style Delivery.(changes in book printing business)
February 22, 1999... A short-run edition bindery gears up for the marketplace's new demands with individual service and an array of production capabilities. Dramatic changes in the book printing business are being felt in the bookbinding industry as well....

A Running Start into Computer-to- Plate.(Courier Corp.)
February 22, 1999... Courier Corporation smartly laid extensive groundwork that made CTP as easy as 1-2-3. If book manufacturer Courier Corporation wrote its own "how-to" book on going computer-to-plate (CTP), the first chapter would likely be entitled:...

Co-op Policies of Online Retailers Under Scrutiny.(Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble)(Brief Article)
February 15, 1999... Media attention forces Amazon to alter its program, while B&N.com prepares its own A FRONT-PAGE story in the New York Times on February 8 about Amazon.com's practice of selling space and listings to publishers has set off an examination...

eBook Standards Committee Reviews Draft Specification.
February 15, 1999... THE OPEN EBOOK STANDARDS Committee met January 28 in San Francisco to review the first draft of a standard file format for electronic book devices, as called for by publishers and manufacturers at the first electronic book conference held...

New Firm Plans to Forecast, Track Book Sales.
February 15, 1999... A NEW COMPANY has been formed to take a crack at using point-of-sale information to help reduce book returns. Publishing Solutions Inc., based in White Plains, N.Y., announced last week that Barnes & Noble and Penguin Putnam have agreed to...

Lightning Print Offers Cambridge Titles on Demand.(Cambridge University Press)(Brief Article)
February 15, 1999... CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS has joined with Ingram Book Company's Lightning Print to make available a selection of its titles on demand. CUP will initially offer 113 titles through Lightning Print's digital library. Another 500 CUP titles...

Pearson, Versaware Ink Digital Textbook Agreement.(Brief Article)
February 15, 1999... PEARSON EDUCATION announced an agreement with Versaware Technologies to adopt the firm's Versabook technology. The technology will be used to convert Pearson's textbooks into electronic form. Versaware has developed a system (News, April...

Intervisual to Buy Distribution Co.(Brief Article)
February 15, 1999... INTERVISUAL BOOKS INC. continues to expand its operations through acquisitions. Following last month's purchase of White Heat Ltd. (News, Jan. 18), the company has signed a letter of intent to acquire Fast Forward Marketing Inc. Based in...

Fitzhenry & Whiteside to Market Titles in U.S.(Canadian publisher expands reach)(Brief Article)
February 15, 1999... THE CANADIAN PUBLISHER Fitzhenry & Whiteside has entered the U.S. market with a special American catalogue that features selected Fitzhenry titles. The publisher is using three commissioned rep groups--Ryan & Re, Abraham Associates and...

BEA Sets Independent Publisher Day.(Review)
February 15, 1999... OFFICIALS AT BOOKEXPO AMERICA have designated Saturday, May I, as "Independent Publisher Day" at the forthcoming convention set to run April 30-May 2. According to BEA show manager Courtney Muller, the purpose of the new program is to...

Crown Has 31.3 M Loss in November.
February 15, 1999... CROWN BOOKS reported that its net loss for November was $1.3 million on sales of $3.1 million. In the first nine months of the year, ended October 31, 1998, Crown had sales of $160.3 million and a net loss of $45.2 million. The company has...

THE BARD & BUSINESS.
February 15, 1999... Not content with shoving his way into the Oscars, Shakespeare is being treated big-time as an influence on current management practices. No fewer than two six-figure deals for management books inspired by his works were made in New York last...

LAND 0 HOPE & COSBY.
February 15, 1999... College graduates marching down the aisle to the traditional strains this summer will have a savvy companion in their knapsacks. Hyperion senior editor Maureen O'Brien has signed none other than TV dad Bill Cosby to utter words of wisdom to...

PHANTOM RETURNS-AGAIN.(sequel to Phantom of the Opera acquired by St. Martin's Press)(Brief Article)
February 15, 1999... That sequel being written by Frederick Forsyth to the worldwide musical hit Phantom of the Opera has found another buyer. Forsyth's agent, Ed Victor, who had originally sold it (Hot Deals, Nov. 2, 1998) to Michael Viner of New Millennium...

HarperCollins Posts Another Strong Quarter.(adult trade and children's groups lead performance)(Brief Article)
February 15, 1999... HARPERCOLLINS CONTINUES to enjoy a strong fiscal 1999. The company's parent company, News Corp.. reported last week that operating profit in the second quarter ended December 31, 1998, rose 38% to $18 million, while sales rose 15% to $211...

Random of Canada Sets Executive Management Team.(Brief Article)
February 15, 1999... JOHN NEALE and David Kent have been named to the two top spots at the new Random House of Canada Ltd. Neale, who formerly headed Doubleday Canada and Bantam Books Canada, has been named chairman of Random House's Canadian subsidiary and will...

Sales Jump at Noodle Kidoodle.
February 15, 1999... NOODLE KIDOODLE reported that sales for the fiscal year ended January 30, 1999, rose 32%, to $107.9 million. The addition of new stores plus a 16% increase in comparable store sales helped drive the revenue gain. The company also benefited...

Black Literary Hall Of Fame Founded.
February 15, 1999... IN AN EFFORT TO PROVIDE "black writers and their philosophies with proper acclaim," the Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent, a national organization honoring distinguished black authors, was founded by a group of black...

RD Reports Results; Sells U.K. HQ.
February 15, 1999... READER'S DIGEST may end up cutting more than the $350 million in expenses that it promised shareholders last year. RD chairman Thomas O. Ryder reported that the company is "slightly ahead of schedule" in its restructuring efforts; the...

Haber Leaves S&S For Role at VS&A.
February 15, 1999... MITCHELL HABER has joined Veronis Suhler & Associates as a principal in VS&A Communications Partners, the media buyout unit affiliated with the investment banking firm. Haber most recently served as executive v-p of Simon & Schuster's...

RH Establishes Chappell Scholarship.
February 15, 1999... TO HONOR THE MEMORY of Random House senior v-p and deputy publisher Wanda Chappell, who died in a Manhattan fire in December. Random House has endowed the Wanda Chappell Scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,...

Obituary.
February 15, 1999... WALTER RETAN, division v-p and editor of Random House's juvenile division from 1966 to 1978, died on February 1 of cancer, in New York City. He was 79. Retan began his publishing career at Random House in 1957. In 1978, he joined Western...

GRISHAM'S A PERFECT 10.
February 15, 1999... John Grisham's 10th bestseller, The Testament, had a one-day laydown on February 2 and the rest is history, meaning history repeating itself, a la Grisham. The book lands in the lead spot, as did all his books except for The Firm and A Time...

3 OTHER FICTION DEBUTS.
February 15, 1999... As good as Testament sales were, some other new novels, too, enjoyed sales strong enough to debut on the top-15 charts. Perennial favorite and one of the topselling names in the romance genre, Julie Garwood, makes it to #8 with her newest...

ANOTHER REASON TO BE HAPPY.
February 15, 1999... Riverhead's November Dalai Lama book is the #1 religion hardcover bestseller on PW's February list and #10 on the general nonfiction list--a commendable feat considering the number of books by and about His Holiness. In The Art of Happiness:...

JUDGE JUDY PREVAILS.
February 15, 1999... Not only does Judy Sheindlin rule on court TV--her syndicated show Judge Judy is rated #3 nationally--but her newest book, Beauty Fades, Dumb Is Forever: The Making of a Happy Woman, lands on the national charts after its first week in the...

Authors Rethink the Book Tour.(new marketing strategies)(Brief Article)
February 15, 1999... From blood drives to slide shows, authors add new twists to in-store appearances IN THE FACE OF growing competition, saturation of not only primary but secondary and even tertiary markets, and tours that in some cases go on for months,...

BookSite Offers Indies a Cyber Network.(BookSite Network )(Brief Article)
February 15, 1999... WHEN DICK HARTE, then owner of the Rutherford Book Shoppe in Delaware, Ohio, first developed Nautilus, a $2500 turnkey system for online book retailing in 1996, he claimed it would allow independent booksellers to "give the chains a run for...

B&N Holds Memorial Fund-raisers for Manager.
February 15, 1999... ON DECEMBER 3,1998,40 year-old Karen Marcin died after a battle with cancer. Marcin had been the manager of the Grand Rapids, Mich., Barnes & Noble for four years. The night before her death, Marcin and her family found comfort in Warren...

Time Warner VP Thanks Audio Workers.
February 15, 1999... LATE LAST YEAR, Time Warner AudioBooks v-p/director Judy McGuinn paid a visit to the WEA Manufacturing plant in Olyphant, Pa., to personally thank the factory workers who duplicate the tapes and construct the cassettes and boxes. McGuinn told...

Borders Holds 'Audiobook Social'.
February 15, 1999... BORDERS BOOKS AND MUSIC in Austin, Tex., held an "Audiobook Social" in its cafe on the afternoon of December 13. As customers ate their pastries and sipped coffee or tea, they were treated to the recorded first chapters of John Irving's A...

The Online Advantage.(Internet book sellers)
February 15, 1999... It's not just co-op: certain category and backlist books get free boosts, which leads to offline sales LAST WEEK the consumer media was abuzz about the New York Times report that Amazon.com is taking a page from bricks-and-mortar...

The Race for Harry Potter.(fans seek UK edition)
February 15, 1999... The sequel to England's hottest kids' book lands in the hands of U.S. readers RARELY HAS THERE BEEN a R success story as sweet as that of Scottish author J.K. Rowling. Her book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was first published...

REFNA WILKIN RETIRES.(Brief Article)
February 15, 1999... At the end of December, Refna Wilkin, executive editor for the Putnam children's imprint, retired after 40 years in children's books. Over 100 colleagues, authors and illustrators gathered at the Penguin Putnam headquarters to commemorate...

HOLTZBRINCK PRESIDENT IDENTIFIED AS CHILDREN'S BOOK AUTHOR.(John Sargent of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings)(Review)(Brief Article)
February 15, 1999... John Sargent, president of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings, has another, little known, role in his multifaceted publishing career--that of children's book author. Under the pen name S.T. Game (an anagram for Sargent) he has created two...

Tidings That Bloom in the Spring.(religious literature publishing industry)(Brief Article)
February 15, 1999... Publishers offer a wide array of books for every faith, interest and level of expertise THOUGH THE NATURAL year revolves through four seasons--with changes subtle or extreme, depending on geography and the luck of the draw--for...

Pocketful of Religion.
February 15, 1999... Next time you reach for your car keys or gloves, you might also find answers to life's big questions in pocket-sized books with a spiritual slant. The Pocket Professor series from Pocket Books tackles the big topic of religion with the latest...

Three Views of Heaven.
February 15, 1999... A peek at what waits beyond the pearly gates is offered in a handful of spring books tram three very different spiritual traditions. Evangelical publisher Word takes a lighthearted look via best-selling author Barbara Johnson's He's Gonna...

Tee Off for a Spiritual Hole-in-One.
February 15, 1999... Golfers have been KNOWA to pray as they swing, but probably few see the spiritual significance of the game. This spring a slew of authors address that handicap, making the connection between faith and the fairway. M. Scott Peck (The Road Less...

Mentoring Mothers.
February 15, 1999... People often buy books for friends, but for complete strangers? Innisfree Press hopes readers will be so impressed with first-time author Esther Davis-Thompson's spiritual advice for African-American families that they will want to help get...

The Scoop on Sacred Sex.
February 15, 1999... This once-taboo topic is getting quite a bit of ink these days, and even religion publishers are finally venturing into the bedroom, sometimes with a touch of humor. In kosher Sex (Doubleday, Apr.), Rabbi Shmuley Boteach brings a Jewish...