Publishers Weekly articles from January 2008

Publishers Weekly archives from January 2008

Publishers monitor Google's, 'continuous browsing' feature: some houses are concerned that new search capability will discourage book buying.(Foreword)
January 28, 2008... As part of what it says is its ongoing effort to improve the quality of Google Book Search, Google began experimenting with a new continuous browsing feature in December. Unlike Google's traditional searches, which prohibit readers from...

Quebecor files for bankruptcy.(Quebecor World Inc.)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Printing giant Quebecor World has filed for bankruptcy protection in both Canada and the U.S. The filing came after the company was unable to reach a final agreement on a C$400-million bailout package it had been negotiating. Quebecor said...

Bloomsbury cuts 7.(Bloomsbury USA)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Bloomsbury USA has eliminated seven positions, including that of publishing director Annik LaFarge, whose responsibilities will be divided among other Bloomsbury executives. The cuts bring the number of employees to 50, and came after a...

Results rise at MHE.(McGraw-Hill Education)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Total revenue at McGraw-Hill Education rose 7.2%, to $2.70 billion, in 2007, with operating income jumping 21.5%,to $400 million. Profits in the year incorporate a $16.3-million charge to account for the elimination of 304jobs. Sales in the...

Emotional truth.(Foreword)(Viewpoint essay)
January 28, 2008... Last week was not a great week for journalists or book people. For those of us who fancy ourselves a bit of both, it was particularly trying. An Australian newspaper several stories questioning some facts in the bestselling boy-soldier...

Friedman to Keynote BEA.(Thomas Friedman )(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Thomas Friedman will be the keynote speaker at this Friedman year's BookExpo America in Los Angeles. The three-time Pulitzer Prize winner will discuss his upcoming book, Green IS the New Red, White and Blue, at the convention on May 30 at 11...

Random HQ gets Green Nod.(Random House Inc., headquarters)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Random House's world headquarters at 1745 Broadway in New York City has been certified as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) building by the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED promotes a "whole-building approach" in making...

Marvel, Soleil bring euro-comics to U.S.(Comics Co-venture)(Marvel Entertainment Group Inc.)
January 28, 2008... Marvel and French comics publisher Soleil have announced a partnership that will bring four of the French publisher's book series to the U.S. in new editions produced by Marvel. Marvel consulting editor C.B. Cebulski and Soleil managing...

'No radical departure' at Ingram.(Strategy)(Ingram Book Group)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Skip Prichard, who took over for the retiring Jim Chandler as president and CEO of Ingram Book Group last week, said he plans to focus on executing the strategy put in place by Chandler during the three and a half years he spent running the...

Credit crunch may cool M&A deals.(Impact)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... A report issued recently by the investment banking firm Berkery, Noyes predicts that prices paid for companies in the information, media and technology segments will weaken a bit in 2008 compared to 2007. Problems in the mortgage markets and...

iUniverse to Relocate.(Foreword)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Author Solutions, parent company of iUniverse, is moving the vanity press from Lincoln, Neb., to Bloomington, Ind. iUniverse's 70 employees have been offered positions in Bloomington, but it is unclear how many will relocate. iUniverse...

BAM picks Brownstone.(Foreword)(Brooklyn Academy of Music)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Brownstone Books, an African-American--oriented bookstore located in Brooklyn, will add a second outlet when it takes over operation of the Brooklyn Academy of Music bookstore this month. The new Brownstone Books at BAM store is 300 sq. ft....

Correction.(Correction notice)
January 28, 2008... In last week's "50 Under 40" profile of Scribner senior editor Brant Rumble, his age was incorrect. He is 34, not 35. Also, he attended DePauw University, not Auburn.

'Bookforum' to Revamp following banks departure.(Eric Banks)
January 28, 2008... Eric Banks, Bookforum's editor since 2003, will leave the magazine in March, after closing the April/ May issue, and with his departure Bookforum publisher Artforum International has decided to act on a long-discussed plan to include current...

Calendar Feb. 3-8.(Calendar)
January 28, 2008... 2/3 Massachusetts police chief Jesse Stone returns for his seventh adventure in Robert B. Parker's Stranger in Paradise (Putnam). PW called it "sizzling." 2/5 It's Tuesday, so it's time for a new James Patterson novel: 7th...

Mandanipour to Knopf.(Deals)(Shahriar Mandanipour, Alfred A. Knopf Inc.)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... On the basis of a partial translation, Knopf's Robin Desser acquired North American rights to Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour via Georges Borchardt, who accepted what he called a "substantial" advance. The novel is the...

Firsts for Park, Santora.(Deals)(Chris Park, Frank Santora)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Chris Park, formerly an editor at Center Street and now an agent at Foundry, has made her first sale, which is Frank Santora's Identity Crisis; Denny Boultinghouse at Howard Books won North American rights to two books for six figures at...

Inside networks.(Deals)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Tracy Behar at Little, Brown preempted North American rights to Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler's untitled book on social networks and how they affect our health, wealth, happiness, relationships, political and religious behaviors,...

In the Middle East.(Deals)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Emily Loose at the Free Press bought world rights to The Shia Revival author Vail Nasr's untitled book on the Middle East via Susan Rabiner. Nasr will concentrate on Iran, Pakistan and Turkey to explain how events in those countries...

Deals for Robbins, Lefcourt.(Deals)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... David Robbins has moved to Simon & Schuster in a world English deal for his new novel, The Comfort Woman; Colin Fox will edit and Tracy Fisher at William Morris handled the deal. The novel will detail the story of a 19-year-old Korean girl...

Putnam debut.(Deals)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Peternelle van Arsdale at Putnam bought North American rights to Lynn Cullen's first two historical novels via Emma Sweeney. The first is The Black Legend, based on the true, little-known story of Sofonisba Anguissola, a renowned female...

Cashion to Abrams Image.(People)(David Cashion)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... David Cashion has been named executive editor of Abrams Image, the 2006-launched imprint of Harry N. Abrams dedicated to illustrated gift books. Cashion arrives from Penguin, where he was an editor acquiring for the Penguin, Viking and Plume...

Landis, Duffy up at voice.(People)(Sarah Landis, Brendan Duffy)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Sarah Landis and Brendan Duffy have both been promoted to editor at Hyperion's Voice imprint. Landis has worked on such books as Born Survivor, The Monsters of Templeton and the forthcoming Irreplaceable. Duffy has worked on The Coldest...

Hartley Up at Peter Pauper.(People)(John Hartley, Peter Pauper Press)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... John Hartley has been promoted from director of sales to v-p of the White Plains, N.Y., gift book publisher Peter Pauper Press. Hartley began working at Peter Pauper as director of key accounts in 2001; prior to that, he was at Borders Group....

Bialosky takes two.(Deals)(Jill Bialosky; The American Painter Emma Dial; The Culinary Imagination: How (and Why) We Think, Write and Wark with Food in the 21st Century)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Jill Bialosky at Norton just bought world rights to a debut novel by Samantha Peale titled The American Painter Emma Dial; Robert Guinsler at Sterling Lord made the sale. The novel, about an artist's assistant in New York's contemporary art...

Doubleday makes first sloan picks.(Partnership)(Edward Ball, Mark Kurlansky, Jane Smiley and Walter Mosley)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Gerald Howard has signed Edward Ball, Mark Kurlansky, Jane Smiley and Walter Mosley to write the first four books in Doubleday's joint Great Innovators series with the Sloan Foundation. The eightbook series will consist of full-length...

Wasserman to Knovel.(People)(Barbara Wasserman)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Barbara Wasserman has been named executive v-p of operations at Knovel (www.knovel.com), an online resource offering access to technical information. Wasserman was most recently executive v-p and CO0 of Oxford University Press.

Treadwell to Oceanview.(People)(Gayle Treadwell joins Oceanview Publishing)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Gayle Treadwell has joined the Ipswich, Mass.--based Oceanview Publishing as director of sales. In the newly created position, Treadwell will handle nationwide sales to independent booksellers, as well as author tours and events. Treadwell...

By the numbers.(facebook)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... 35 million: Number of unique visitors to Facebook in December 2007 6: Facebook's ranking on a list of the country's most-trafficked Web sites 700: Estimated number of employees Facebook will have by the end of this year 70,000:...

Fashion show draws attention to changing hands.(Retailing)(Go Fashionably Green)
January 28, 2008... In the first of what Changing Hands Bookstore hopes will be a series of evening events, more than 150 people attended the Go Fashionably Green fashion show at the Tempe, Ariz., store on January 19. "It brought a lot of new people into the...

Weissman to MLM.(People)(Gary Weissman joins Martin Literary Management)(Brief article)
January 28, 2008... Ginny Weissman has joined Martin Literary Management as a literary agent. Weissman, an author who has also worked as a journalist, producer and manager, will be specializing in the Mind, Body & Spirit category. Weissman is based in Chicago.

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
January 28, 2008... Though the movie version of The Kite Runner didn't strike box office gold, plans for a film adaptation of Hosseini's second novel are underway. Set for a 2009 release, the movie will feature a screenplay by Steve Zaillian, who took home...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
January 28, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I've never seen such a media frenzy around a publication," said St. Martin's associate director of publicity Steve Troha about Tom Cruise. With a 400,000 first printing and Morton giving more than 130 interviews,...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
January 28, 2008... Read any good movies lately? No doubt because of its seven Oscar nominations, Atonement moved up five notches on this week's list. One of those nods was for Best Adapted Screenplay, which film buffs can read in Atonement: The Shooting Script,...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
January 28, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] New Year's solutions for a healthier and trimmer 2008 may have dieters choosing different diet plans, but when it comes to portable-sized books providing a quick check on calories, carbs and fat content of food and...

Children's series and tie-ins bestsellers.
January 28, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Januray 28, 2008 1 Twilight saga. Stephenie Meyer. Little, Brown/Tingley His Dark Materials. 2 Philip Pullman. Knopf 3 Harry Potter. J. K. Rowling. Scholastic/Levine 4 The Spiderwick Chronicles....

Audio bestsellers/fiction.
January 28, 2008... January 1 The Golden Compass (unabr.). Philip Pullman. Read by the author and a full cast. Listening Library/Random Audio. Nine CDs, 11 hours, $29.95 ISSN 978-0-8072-0471-9 2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (unabr.). J.K....

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.
January 28, 2008... January 1 Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day (abr.). Joel Osteen. Read by the author. Simon & Schuster Audio. Five CDs, five hours, $29.95 ISBN 918-0-1435-0942-2 2 The Secret (unabr.). Rhonda Byrne. Read by...

A poet's cover: Jeff Clark breaths new life into indie book design.(Independent Publishing)
January 28, 2008... The jacket design for the typical poetry book has long consisted of a single-colored background and a cropped painting in a box in the middle, with the title above, the author's name below. As a younger, hipper, more design-conscious...

Getting to know DTDs: the code behind your digitized documents.(Content Services)(document type definition)
January 28, 2008... Think of the DTD (document type definition) as a road map of a document. It uses tags and attributes to define the structure of the document: the order of the elements, their relationships and the rules governing them. What's most important...

John Hugo: sales are how this bookseller keeps score.(50 Under 40)(Interview)
January 28, 2008... Like Emily Powell at Powell's Books in Portland, Ore., and Casey Coonerty Protti at Bookshop Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, Calif., John Hugo is a second-generation bookseller being groomed to take over the family business. "I wouldn't be doing...

Touring on a shoestring: today's weakened economy is affecting travel publishing in diverse ways.(Cover story)
January 28, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sure, we'd all like a vacation, but with consumers cowed by recession fears, is anyone actually thinking about travel? Experts insist that high gas prices, a tightening job market and less discretionary income...

Are you on facebook? A week-long diary chronicling what's doing with books on the Web's second largest social network.(Social Networking)(Diary entry)
January 28, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] MySpace is over, it's just not cool anymore." So say the teens Lynn Hirschberg talked to for her recent article "The Music Man" in the New York Times Magazine. Grown-ups like Lee Lorenzen, a venture capitalist who...

The Story of a Marriage.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... * The Story of a Marriage ANDREW SEAN GREER. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22 (208p) ISBN 978-0-374-10866-3 As he demonstrated in the imaginative The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Greer can spin a touching narrative based on an intriguing...

So Brave, Young, and Handsome.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... So Brave, Young, and Handsome LEIF ENGER. Atlantic Monthly, $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-87113-985-6 An inviting voice guides readers through this expansive saga of redemption in the early 20th-century West and gives a teeming vitality to a...

The Art of Racing in the Rain.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... The Art of Racing in the Rain GARTH STEIN. Harper, $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-153793-6 If you've ever wondered what your dog is thinking, Stein's third novel offers an answer. Enzo is a lab terrier mix plucked from a farm outside...

Open Line.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... * Open Line ELLEN HAWLEY. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-56689-209-4 Everything changes for late-night radio talk show host Annette Majoris after she jokingly tells her Twin Cities audience that the...

The Book of Getting Even.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... The Book of Getting Even BENJAMIN TAYLOR. Steerforth, $23.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-58642-143-4 In this delightful, character-driven coming-of-age novel, Gabriel Geismar grows up in mid-20th-century New Orleans as the only son of a rabbi,...

Don't Make Me Choose Between You and My Shoes.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... Don't Make Me Choose Between You and My Shoes DIXIE CASH. Avon A, $13.95 paper (384p) ISBN 078-0-060-82974-2 The Domestic Equalizers take on Manhattan in Cash's latest big hair blitz. Edwina Perkins-Martin and Debbie Sue Overstreet...

Unaccustomed Earth.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... * Unaccustomed Earth JHUMPA LAHIRI. Knopf, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-307-26573-9 The gulf that separates expatriate Bengali parents from their American-raised children--and that separates the children from India--remains Lahiri's subject...

The Stone Gods.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... The Stone Gods JEANETTE WINTERSON. Harcourt, $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-15-101491-0 Prize-winning Brit Winterson applies her fantastical touch to a sci-fi, postapocalyptic setting. Heroine Billie Crusoe appears in three different...

The Sorrows of an American.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... * The Sorrows of an American SIRI HUSTVEDT. Holt, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7908-1 In her fourth novel (following the acclaimed What I Loved), Hustvedt continues, with grace and aplomb, her exploration of family connectedness, loss,...

Certain Girls.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... Certain Girls JENNIFER WEINER, Atria, $26.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9425-6 Following the story collection The Guy Not Taken, Weiner turns in a hilarious sequel to her 2001 bestselling first novel, Good in Bed, revisiting the...

Girls in Trucks.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... Girls in Trucks KATIE CROUCH. Little, Brown, $21.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-816-00211-0 An unenthusiastic Southern debutante copes with the cruelties of postcollege New York life in Crouch's amusing debut. Sarah Walters is neither a misfit...

A Perfect Revenge.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... A Perfect Revenge ANNABEL DILKE. St. Martin's, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-37626-0 Three generations of two warring families collide when young Laura Delancey returns from a lengthy trip to India and finds her family greatly...

1940.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... 1940 JAY NEUGEBOREN. Two Dollar Radio (Consortium, dist.), $15 paper (284p) ISBN 978-0-9763895-6-9 Neugeboren's (The Stolen Jew) first novel in 20 years presents a fictional account of an obscure historical figure in this...

The King's Gold.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... The King's Gold YXTA MAYA MURRAY. Harper, $13.95 paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-089108-4 Law professor Murray continues her Red Lion series (following The Queen Jade) with a death-defying treasure hunt that transforms her "sedentary,...

My Name Is Russell Fink.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... My Name Is Russell Fink MICHAEL SNYDER. Zondervan, $12.99 paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-310-27727-9 In his debut novel, Snyder offers a hearty close of lad lit. Russell Fink sells copiers--a job he hates--and is engaged to a controlling...

The Rain Before It Falls.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... * The Rain Before It Falls JONATHAN COE. Knopf, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-26803-7 In the latest from acclaimed London novelist Coe (The Rotter's Club), the story of two cousins' friendship is keyed to a hatred that is handed down...

Blue-Eyed Devil.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... Blue-Eyed Devil LISA KLEYPAS. St. Martin's, $19.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-35164-9 Scenes of domestic abuse and the journey to recovery make Kleypas's modern romance anything but fluff. A Wellesley grad and daughter of a Houston...

Buckingham Palace Gardens.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... Buckingham Palace Gardens ANNE PERRY. Ballantine, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-46931-1 The detecting and diplomatic skills of Thomas Pitt, now assigned to the Special Branch, are tested as never before in bestseller Perry's solid 25th...

Devil's Peak.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... * Devil's Peak DEON MEYER. Little, Brown, $24.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-01785-5 Complex, finely wrought characters, keen psychological insight and a compelling plot lift this crime novel from South African author Meyer (Dead Before...

Dead Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... Dead Time STEPHEN WHITE. Dutton, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-96006-6 Bestseller White juggles too many story lines that never quite coalesce in his uneven 16th thriller to feature Boulder, Colo., psychologist Alan Gregory (after...

A Stranger's Game.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... A Stranger's Game JOAN JOHNSTON. Pocket, $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5438-4 Ten years after Merle Raye Finkel, a terrified runaway girl, is wrongfully convicted of killing her abusive father in bestseller Johnston's exciting seventh...

Bone Machine.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... * Bone Machine MARTYN WAITES. Pegasus (Consortium, dist.), $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-933648-35-4 Characters struggle, sometimes heroically, against their compulsions and addictions in Waites's messy sequel to The Mercy Seat (2006)....

The Night Following.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... * The Night Following MORAG JOSS. Delacorte, $22 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-34118-9 Distracted by the daffodil-flocked Wiltshire countryside speeding past her, or perhaps by the condom wrapper she has found in her husband's car, the...

The Boundless Deep.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... The Boundless Deep KATE BRALLIER. Forge, $14.95 paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1972-2 Reincarnation and past-life recall figure in the efforts of Liza Donovan, a young grad student, to solve a 163-year-old "murder" via her dreams in...

Kuroshio: The Blood of Foxes.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... Kuroshio: The Blood of Foxes TERRY WATADA. Arsenal Pulp (Consortium, dist.), $18.95 paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-55152-233-3 Somewhere within this fashionably fractured narrative, a based-on-real-events murder mystery is struggling to get...

Mafiya.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... Mafiya CHARLIE STELLA. Pegasus (Consortium, dist.), $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1933648-65-1 A reformed prostitute turns avenging angel in Stella's disappointing sixth crime novel, which does little new with this familiar theme. Agnes Lynn,...

If I Die in Juarez.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... If I Die in Juarez STELLA POPE DUARTE. Univ. of Arizona, $16.95 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-8165-2667-3 Human rights activist Duarte's latest novel is based on a string of real-life murders in Ciudad Juarez in the 1990s. Forced out of...

The Renovation: A Project Restoration Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... The Renovation: A Project Restoration Novel TERRI KRAUS. David C. Cook, $13.99 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7814-4846-8 Kraus, an interior designer who has coauthored multiple inspirational novels with her husband, Jim, offers a fairly...

Toronto Noir.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... Toronto Noir EDITED BY JANINE ARMIN AND NATHANIEL G. MOORE. Akashic, $15.95 paper (272p) IS8N 978-1-933354-50-7 Most U.S. readers will be surprised to learn from the editors' introduction to this fine addition to Akashic's noir...

Death on the Holy Mountain.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... Death on the Holy Mountain DAVID DICKINSON. Soho Constable, $24.95 (288p) IS8N 978-1-56947-503-4 Dickinson's witty, highly literate seventh Lord Francis Powerscourt novel (after 2007's Death on the Nevskii Prospekt) provides a...

The Dust of Death: An Inspector Starrett Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... * The Dust of Death: An Inspector Starrett Mystery PAUL CHARLES. Brandon (Dufour, dist.), $34.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-86322-369-3 The excellent first in a new series from Irish author Charles (Sweetwater and seven other Det. Insp....

The Silver Needle Murder: Tea Shop Mystery #9.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... The Silver Needle Murder: Tea Shop Mystery #9 LAURA CHILDS. Berkley Prime Crime, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-425-21946-1 In Childs's diverting ninth Tea Shop cozy (after 2007's Dragonwell Dead), Theodosia Browning, proprietor of...

Hidden in Havana.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... Hidden in Havana Jose LATOUR. St. Martin's Minotaur/ Dunne, $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-37567-6 This solid noir from Cuban expatriate Latour (Outcast) opens with a deceptive encounter in an upscale Havana suburb. Scan and Marina,...

Carrot Cake Murder: A Hannah Swenson Mystery with Recipes.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... Carrot Cake Murder: A Hannah Swenson Mystery with Recipes JOANNE FLUKE. Kensington, $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1020-3 Filled with juicy scandal, delightfully eccentric characters and 21 tempting recipes from Cream Cheese Frosting to...

Viewpoints Critical: Selected Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... * Viewpoints Critical: Selected Stories L.E. MODESITT JR. Tor, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1857-2 This impressive collection of reprints dating back to 1973 and a handful of new stories displays Modesitt's breadth of experience and...

Where Angels Fear.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... Where Angels Fear KEN RAND. Fairwood (www.fairwoodpress.com), $17.99 paper (376p) ISBN 978-0-9789078-4-6 Fans of well-written tales filled with ironic reversals will relish this quality collection of 34 stories (including 13...

The Alchemist's Code.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... The Alchemist's Code DAVE DUNCAN. Ace, $14 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-441-01562-7 Slightly overbalanced by dense, lush descriptions, Duncan's elaborate sequel to 2007's The Alchemist's Apprentice finds footing in intricate plots and...

Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy.(SIGNATURE)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... EDITED BY EKATERINA SEDIA. Senses Five (www.sensesfive.com), $14.95 paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-9796246-0-5 Original genre anthologies a have been mixed bag in recent years, with an overreliance on established household names at the expense...

PW talks with Iain M. Banks: less mainstream, more significant.(Q&A)(Publishers Weekly)(Interview)
January 28, 2008... A major presence in British science fiction since 1987, Iain M. Banks is best known in the U.S. for his novels of the posthuman interstellar civilization called the Culture. The eighth Culture novel is the bloodspattered and intrigue-laden...

The Ancient.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... The Ancient R.A. SALVATORE. Tor, $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1789-6 This ensemble-driven follow-up to 2004's The Highwayman finds bestseller Salvatore liberally borrowing themes and character types from his earlier novels. As in...

Rolling Thunder.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 28, 2008... Rolling Thunder JOHN VARLEY. Ace, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-441-01563-4 Nebula and Hugo--winner Varley continues the space opera saga of the Garcia-Strickland clan (last encountered in 2006's Red Lightning) in this enjoyable if...