Publishers Weekly articles from June 2008

Publishers Weekly archives from June 2008

Slower growth forecast for 2008: sluggish economy, no Potter will limit gains, BISG says.(Foreword)
June 2, 2008... Book sales are projected to increase 3.2% in 2008, to $41.22 billion, according to the latest forecast developed by the Book Industry Study Group and released over the weekend at BookExpo America. The projected increase will be slower than the...

Zondervan Reorganizes.(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... In an attempt to streamline operations, Zondervan announced last week that it was "reducing management layers" and reorganizing the company into eight business units. Five executive positions were eliminated, including that of executive v-p of...

Microsoft ends book scanning.(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... Microsoft abruptly announced that it is ending Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and taking down both sites. Through the programs, Microsoft has digitized 750,000 books and indexed 80 million journal articles. Those results...

Scott's honor.(Foreword)
June 2, 2008... What a lucky coincidence that just as T of us were boarding planes for L.A. the 2008 BEA, excerpts of What Happened, Scott McClellan's apparently scathing attack on his former boss were somehow--I'm shocked, shocked!--leaked all over the press....

Results up at indigo in fiscal '08.(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... Indigo Books and Music reported that total revenue grew 5.5%, to C$922.9 million ($931 million), while net earnings jumped 76.0%, to C$52.8 million ($53.5 million) for the year ended March 29. Total revenue for the fourth quarter increased...

Kicking off a good cause.(Jim Nantz)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Last month CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz headlined a charity breakfast coordinated by Warwick's in La Jolla, Calif., to promote his new book, Always by My Side: A Father's Grace and a Sports Journey Unlike Any Other...

Chains stumble out of gate.(Tough Start)(Bookstores' first quarter earnings)
June 2, 2008... With only Barnes & Noble posting a sales increase among the major bookstore chains in the first quarter ended May 3, total revenue for the top three book retailers inched up 0.3%, to $2.07 billion. Similar to B&N and Books-A-Million, Borders...

Readership by the numbers.(Foreword)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... 11: % of people who enjoy reading books digitally 13: % of people under 30 open to reading books digitally 6: % of people over 65 open to reading books digitally 43: % of people who go into a bookstore looking for a specific book...

Goofy foot and AMS settle.(Goofy Foot Press and Advanced Marketing Services Inc.)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... The only former PGW publisher to file for damages, Goofy Foot Press, has reached a settlement in its legal battle with Advanced Marketing Services (Reorganized), the successor company to AMS. The suit grew out of a distribution breakdown tied...

Dorman gets imprint at Penguin.(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... Pamela Dorman is leaving her top executive spot at Hyperion to launch her own imprint at Penguin. Dorman is stepping down as editorial director of Voice and executive editor at Hyperion to run Pamela Dorman Books at Viking, an imprint Dorman...

Return of the Bestsellers.(Deals)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... At Viking, Clare Ferraro has signed up a new book by Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire author Rafe Esquith via Bonnie Solow, who sold world rights. The untitled book, aimed primarily at parents, but applicable to anyone who works with children,...

Hyperion takes two.(Deals)(Hyperion won multiday auction for Pulitzer winner Thomas French's Zoo Story and preemted Francesco Clark's I'm Not Just Going to Sit Here )(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... Gretchen Young and Will Balliett won a multiday auction for Pulitzer winner Thomas French's Zoo Story; Jane Dystel sold world rights. French has followed the reinvention of Tampa, Fla.'s zoo, Lowry Park, for the pabst four years; his book will...

Preempt for Twelve.(Deals)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... Two days after it was submitted, Jonathan Karp at Twelve preempted My Little Red Book, an anthology of first-person recollections from women and girls on having their first periods. The editor of the book, Rachel Kauder-Nalebuff, an 18-year-old...

Getty's story.(Leslie Berlin's Getty)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... Collins senior editor Ben Loehnen bought world English rights to Leslie Berlin's Getty, a biography of oilman J. Paul Getty, via an exclusive submission from Christy Fletcher and Donald Lamm at Fletcher & Parry. Stanford historian Berlin will...

Reading McCall Smith.(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In April the Pierce County Library System, in Tacoma, Wash., launched Pierce County READS, its own countywide reading program featuring a specific title. Alexander McCall Smith, whose No. 1 Ladies Detective Series...

First for Tobias.(Teri Tobias)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... Teri Tobias, foreign rights director at Sanford Greenburger, is also now an agent there and has made her first sale, Lorna Byrne's Angels in My Hair; Jason Kaufman at Doubleday paid six figures for North American rights. In this true-life tale...

Double O'Donnell.(Deals)(Patrick K. O'Donnell)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... Da Capo executive editor Robert Pigeon has acquired world rights to two new books by Patrick K. O'Donnell via Andrew Zack. The first is They Dared Return, a never-before-told war adventure story of two Jewish soldiers who volunteered to...

ABA rolls out new campaign.(Buying Local)(American Booksellers Association)
June 2, 2008... At the just concluded BookExpo America, the American Booksellers Association launched a new initiative that will replace Book Sense. IndieBound, seen by ABA as more comprehensive than the Book Sense marketing program, is aimed at taking...

Calendar: June 8-14.(Foreword)(Brief article)(Calendar)
June 2, 2008... 6/8 Former DC Comics editor Robert Greenberger's The Essential Barman Encyclopedia offers 500 illustrated pages of Batmania, including info on The Dark Knight. 6/9 It's been 44 days since the release of his last novel (Sundays at...

On-demand output soars.(Foreword)(Table)
June 2, 2008... The total number of new and revised editions released in the U.S. rose 39% in 2007, to 411,422 titles, according to preliminary figures released by R.R. Bowker. Output among traditional titles increased only 1% in the year, but sales of...

These boots were made for jackets.(Hot Topic)(Belong to Me, My Best Friend's Girl, Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl )(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... As chick-lit jacket art exhausts all variations on high-heeled shoes and handbags, some publishers are embracing a new staple of the modern woman's I wardrobe: the rain boot. [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos...

Cooper publisher at Adams Media.(People)(Karen Cooper )(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... Karen Cooper has been named publisher at Adams Media, a division of F+W Publications. Cooper was group managing director for F+W's entire U.S. book division.

Israel, Nevada to NetGalley.(People)(Claire Israel and Cass Nevada have both joined NetGalley)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... Claire Israel and Cass Nevada have both joined NetGalley. Israel, who was named regional v-p of business development, arrived from TurnHere, and before that was director of digital content at Simon & Schuster. Nevada, who was at Amazon, joins...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
June 2, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bantam's unusual campaign to bolster "Odd" enthusiasm has succeeded--Odd Passenger, a Web live action movie was released on four successive Mondays in May and can now be seen on www.oddthomas.tv. Odd Hours has nearly...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
June 2, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As is often the case, timing is everything, as evidenced by this recent Salon.com entry, "Barbara Waiters Interviews Barbara Waiters": "it Is surely fortuitous, if not planned, that Walters's book is being published...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
June 2, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Continuing with news of Bantam's "Odd" promotion for Koontz's newest hardcover (p. 12): Odd Passenger was cocreated by Jack Paccione Jr. and Jerry White, who were the winners of last summer's "Shoot the Good Guy"...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
June 2, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jodi Picoult, now working on book #16, is certainly one of the writing profession's Energizer bunnies. She talked about her stamina in a recent interview: "I don't think I ever switch off. The thing about being a...

Comics bestsellers.
June 2, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DC's 20th-anniversary hardcover edition of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's superhero classic, The Killing Joke, returns to the list for a second month, rising from #4 to the #2 slot. Originally published in 1988, the...

Marcus Leaver: Sterling's president focuses on people.(50 UNDER 40)(Interview)(Brief biography)
June 2, 2008... It may seem surprising that Marcus Leaver, president of Sterling Publishing, one of the world's leading nonfiction publishers, used to own three restaurants in London. Leaver himself notes the incongruity: "I was brought in [to Sterling] as the...

Animal house: how one small press is making a name for itself telling true tales about pets and zoos.(Independent Publishing)(No Voice Unheard)
June 2, 2008... It's become an all too familiar story: author shops book idea, is told that it's "unmarketable" and publishes it successfully herself. In the case of Diane Leigh and Marilee Geyer's book on homeless animals, One at a Time: A Week in an...

Love keeps winning: the romance category continues to bloom.(Cover story)
June 2, 2008... In an anxious publishing industry, the romance category remains a bright spot--or should that be hot spot? Tor editor Heather Osborn says, "Overall, romance as a genre is incredibly healthy. Sales are strong, readers are loyal and in these...

An independent perspective.(Medallion Press)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... Medallion Press, an independent publisher specializing in romance, was founded in 2003 by Helen A. Rosburg; its home office has relocated from the Tampa, Fla., area to St. Charles, Ill. The company currently publishes, says senior editor...

The English Major.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... The English Major Jim Harrison. Grove, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-08021-1863-9 In Harrison's funny, spirited latest, Cliff, a 60-year-old former Michigan high school teacher, bids adieu to his inherited family farm (lost in a shady real...

Fault Lines.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... * Fault Lines Nancy Huston. Grove/Black Cat, $14 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-7051-4 Winner of France's Prix Femina and shortlisted for the Orange Prize, Huston's 12th novel captures four generations of a family and examines the...

Yesterday's Weather.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Yesterday's Weather Anne Enright. Grove, $24 (320p) ISBN 978-08021-1874-5 In this overstuffed collection from Booker Prize-winner Enright (The Gathering), the gems are overshadowed by the sheer number of stories (there are 31)....

Wedding Belles.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Wedding Belles Haywood Smith. St. Martin's, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-32973-0 The Atlanta chapter of the Red Hat Club--Georgia, Teeny, Diane, Linda and Pru--meets again, sharing tea and sympathy in Smith's wry sequel to The Red...

The Silver Linings Playbook.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... The Sliver Linings Playbook Matthew Quick. Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-26426-0 Pat Peoples, the endearing narrator of this touching and funny debut, is down on his luck. The former high school...

The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie the Second.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie the Second Drew Ferguson. Kensington, $15 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2708-9 A gay Lutheran teen, Charles James Stewart II (aka "Smart-ass") chronicles a very memorable senior year at South High in...

Woman of a Thousand Secrets.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Woman of a Thousand Secrets Barbara Wood. St. Martin's Griffin, $13.95 paper (496p) ISBN 978-0-312-36369-7 In the latest epic from Wood (Daughter of the Sun), Tonina, a young Mayan-era woman born on tiny Pearl Island (off Cuba), is...

PW talks with Michael Koryta: burden of revenge.(Q&A)(Interview)
June 2, 2008... In Edgar-finalist Michael Koryta's Envy the Night (p. 28), a stand-alone thriller, Frank Temple III struggles to come to terms with the violent legacy of his father, a government agent turned gun for hire. What made you decide to write a...

Broken.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Broken Daniel Clay. Ecco, $13.95 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-156104-7 English writer Clay's disjointed debut traces the story of Skunk Cunningham, an 11-year-old girl living with her father, brother and au pair. One day, Skunk watches...

I Want You to Want Me.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... I Want You to Want Me Kathy Love. Kensington/Brava, $14 paper (308p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1857-5 Erika Todd moves to New Orleans to pursue her career as a sculptor, staying with friends Ren and Maggie. Ren's brother Vittorio, an enigmatic,...

Rough & Tumble.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Rough and Tumble Mark Bavaro. St. Martin's, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-37574-4 A former New York Giants tight end and two-time Pro Bowler, Bavaro turns in a gritty, behind-the-scenes look at life in the NFL for his debut novel....

First Daughter.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... First Daughter Eric Van Lustbader. Forge, $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2170-1 In this uneven thriller from bestseller Lustbader (The Bourne Legacy), Alli Carson, the 19-year-old daughter of the U.S. president-elect, moderate...

Forced Out.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Forced Out Stephen Frey. Atria, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4963-5 Known for his financial thrillers, Frey (The Takeover) mixes baseball and crime in his less than compelling 15th novel. Arthritic, 63-year-old Jack Barrett, who lives...

Envy the Night.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... * Envy the Night Michael Koryta. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-36158-7 Revenge drives this superb standalone from Edgar-finalist Koryta (A Welcome Grave). Frank Temple II, a U.S. marshal, commits suicide...

What Happened to Anna K.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... What Happened to Anna K. Irina Reyn. Simon & Schuster, $24 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5893-4 Set among early 21st-century Russian Jewish immigrants in New York City, Reyn's debut beautifully adapts Anna Karenina's social melodrama for a...

The Gaudi Key.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... The Gaudi Key Estaban Martin and Andreu Carranza, trans. from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. Morrow, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-143491-4 At the start of Martin and Carranza's Da Vinci Code knockoff, members of a secret group known...

It's a Crime.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... It's a Crime Jacqueline Carey. Ballantine, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-345-45992-3 When Frank Foy, a high-living corporate accountant, goes to jail after his company's Enronesque fall, Pat, his landscape-designer wife, is pathologically...

Good-bye and Amen.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Good-bye and Amen Beth Gutcheon. Morrow, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-053907-8 Gutcheon concludes the Moss family saga that began with Leeway Cottage in a disappointing fashion. Laurus and Sydney Brant Moss have died, and it's up to...

A Stopover in Venice.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... A Stopover in Venice Kathryn Walker. Knopf, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-26706-1 Walker's debut of love, loss, renewal, art and history is set in a sensually realized Venice and follows the physical and emotional wanderings of an...

Vampyres of Hollywood.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Vampyres of Hollywood Adrienne Barbeau and Michael Scott. St. Martin's/Dunne, $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-36722-0 Actress Barbeau and bestseller Scott (The Alchemyst) give a novel twist to one of the hoariest cliches of vampire lore...

Cold Case.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Cold Case Kate Wilhelm. Mira, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 9780-7783-2528-4 In Wilhelm's sluggish 11th Barbara Holloway legal thriller (after A Wrongful Death), controversial academic David Etheridge returns to his hometown of Eugene, Ore., to...

A Night in the Cemetery and Other Stories of Crime and Suspense.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... A Night In the Cemetery and Other Stories of Crime and Suspense Anton Chekhov, trans, from the Russian by Peter Sekirin. Pegasus (Norton, dist.), $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-933648-86-6 Best known today as a playwright, Chekhov (1860-1904)...

The Smart One.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... The Smart One Ellen Meister. Avon A, $13.95 paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-112962-9 Now divorced, 35 and resolved to become a teacher after a series of entry-level design jobs, Bev Bloomrosen takes up temporary residence in her parents'...

Thanks for Nothing, Nick Maxwell.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Thanks for Nothing, Nick Maxwell Debbie Carbin. St. Martin's Griffin, $14.95 paper (480p) ISBN 978-0-312-38368-8 Carbin's brisk, funny first novel records the changes in a shallow, self-centered beauty brought on by a bun in the oven...

Who's Loving You.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Who's Loving You Mary B. Morrison. Kensington/Dafina, $24 (278p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1514-7 In Morrison's disjointed latest, former madam Honey Thomas has come into $50 million of her former pimp Valentino's money, courtesy of semicrooked...

More Than This.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... More Than This Margo Candela. Touchstone, $14 paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-4165-7134-6 In this just-miss he-said/she-said from Candela (Life Over Easy), Evelyn Morgan Reed-Sinclair is a reluctant socialite returning to San Francisco a...

Dear Neighbor, Drop Dead.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Dear Neighbor, Drop Dead Saralee Rosenberg. Avon A, $13.95 paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-125377-5 There's enough suburban-mom anxiety in Rosenberg's crackling fourth novel to fuel several ulcers: worrisome in-laws, spoiled-brat kids, a...

The Age of the Conglomerates.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... The Age of the Conglomerates Thomas Nevins. Ballantine, $14 paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-50391-7 Nevins's debut reads like the novelization of a film adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel. It's 2048, and the U.S. government is run by the...

Visit Me in California: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Visit Me in California: Stories Cooley Windsor. Northwestern Univ./Triquarterly, $16.95 (130p) ISBN 978-0-8101-2496-7 San Francisco poet Windsor's punchy, edgy briefs find his characters often caught in Homeric and Old Testament...

The Outsider.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... The Outsider Ann H. Gabhart. Revell, $13.99 paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-8007-3239-4 "Shaker romance" might seem like an oxymoron, but Gabhart (Summer of Joy) pens an interesting if emotionally lukewarm historical tale that explores the...

Quiet Meg.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Quiet Meg Sherry Lynn Ferguson. Avalon, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8034-9906-5 In this Regency novel from Ferguson (The Honorable Marksley), Charles Cabot's quality landscape architect work nicely complements his noble lineage. A routine...

People Who Walk in Darkness.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... People Who Walk in Darkness Stuart M. Kaminsky. Forge, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1886-2 While Chief Insp. Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov isn't as well developed a character as, say, Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko, he's still one of...

Forsaken Soul.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... * Forsaken Soul Priscilla Royal. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (236p) ISBN 978-1-59058-521-4 Set in the summer of 1273, Royal's excellent fifth historical (after 2007's Justice for the Damned) finds Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal beset by various...

Paint the Town Dead: A Judge Jackson Crain Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Paint the Town Dead: A Judge Jackson Crain Mystery Nancy Bell. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-36281-2 The lovable hero of Bell's light second Judge Jackson Crain mystery (after 2005's Death Splits a Hair)...

The Bordeaux Betrayal.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... The Bordeaux Betrayal Ellen Crosby. Scribner, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5166-9 Harvest time dumps a jeroboam of trouble on the doorstep of vintner Lucie Montgomery in Crosby's fizzy third mystery set in Virginia wine country (after...

Damnation Falls.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Damnation Falls Edward Wright. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-38001-4 The nature of truth, the minefield of emotions between fathers and sons, and the madness of vengeance converge in Shamus-winner Wright's...

Trinidad Noir.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Trinidad Noir Edited by Lisa Allen-Agostini & Jeanne Mason. Akashic, $15.95 paper (340p) ISBN 978-1-933354-55-2 The volumes in Akashic's locale-based noir anthology series set outside North America (Dublin Noir, etc.) offer more...

Closer Still: A Brodie Farrell Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Closer Still: A Brodie Farrell Mystery Jo Bannister. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-38367-1 In British author Bannister's absorbing eighth Brodie Farrell mystery (after 2007's Flawed), Farrell continues to juggle...

Where Memories Lie.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Where Memories Lie Deborah Crombie. Morrow, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-128751-0 When a diamond brooch stolen decades ago turns up for sale at an upscale London auction house, the brooch's owner, Dr. Erika Rosenthal, a retired academic...

King of the Holy Hop: A Milan Jacovich Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... King of the Holy Hop: A Milan Jacovich Mystery Les Roberts. Gray (www.grayco.com), $24.95 (265p) ISBN 978-1-59851-038-6 Murder mars Milan Jacovich's 40th high school reunion in Roberts's routine 14th mystery to feature the Cleveland PI...

The Best of Lucius Shepard.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... * The Best of Lucius Shepard Lucius Shepard. Subterranean, $40 (623p) ISBN 978-1-59606-133-0 This fine selection of some of the best short fiction by one of the most respected dark fantasy writers in the world will be a must purchase...

III Met in the Arena.(Ill Mett in the Arena)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... III Met in the Arena Dave Duncan. Tor, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-07653-1687-5 Complicated politics and family scandals twist through this tale of courtly intrigue from prolific fantasist Duncan (Children of Chaos). Rape and murder are...

The Magicians and Mrs. Quent.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... The Magicians and Mrs. Quent Galen Beckett. Bantam Spectra, $23 (498p) ISBN 978-0-553-58982-5 Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and H.P. Lovecraft collide in Beckett's periodically entertaining debut. Young Ivy Lockwell, the unmarried...

Necking.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Necking Chris Salvatore. Pocket, $14 paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6020-3 Book publicist Salvatore skewers the publishing industry and recent trends in vampire fiction in this humorous debut. As if corralling supernatural-fiction...

Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show Edited by Edmund R. Schubert and Orson Scott Card. Tor, $15.95 paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2000-1 The first collection of short stories from online magazine Orson Scott Card's...

The Archangel Project.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... The Archangel Project C.S. Graham. Harper, $7.99 (384p) ISBN 9780-06-135120-4 Vietnam vet Steven Harris and Candice Proctor (of the Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries, written as C.S. Harris) write here as Graham and deliver rollicking good...

The Academy.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... The Academy Bentley Little. Signet, $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-22467-5 School principal Jody Hawkes, known for being easygoing, decides to turn John Tyler High into a charter school without notifying any of her staff. At first, as...

Blaze of Lightning, Roar of Thunder.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Blaze of Lightning, Roar of Thunder Helen A. Rosburg. Medallion (www.medallionpress.com), $7.95 (321p) ISBN 978-1-932815-64-1 Louisa Rodriguez was the only survivor of a brutal massacre that took her family and her village. Shot in the...

Some Like It Wicked.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Some Like It Wicked Teresa Medeiros. Avon, $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-123535-1 In veteran author Medeiros's wickedly clever latest, set in 1805, Catriona Kincaid is a lovely Scotswoman exiled in England after her parents' deaths for...

Time Stranger Kyoko.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Time Stranger Kyoko Arina Tanemura. Viz, $8.99 paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-4215-1797-1 Here's another early manga by the creator of Full Moon O Sagashite and Gentlemen's Alliance Cross. Fifteen-year-old Kyoko is the incognito princess of...

Jenny Finn, Doom Messiah.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... Jenny Finn, Doom Messiah Mike Mignola, Troy Nixey, and Farel Dalrymple. Boom! (www.boom-studios.com), $14.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-934506-14-1 This spooky Victorian thriller by the creator of Hellboy isn't particularly complex, but has a...

Red Colored Elegy.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 2, 2008... * Red Colored Elegy Seiichi Hayashi. Drawn & Quarterly, $24.95 paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-897299-40-1 An underground Japanese comic from the 1970s, Red Colored Elegy tells the breakup story of two young animators. Hayashi uses animation...