Publishers Weekly articles from May 2007

Publishers Weekly archives from May 2007

Publishers tap new promo source: foreign embassies: countries will support U.S. tours for national authors.(Foreword)
May 7, 2007... Last week, Penguin author Linda Olsson was something of an international celebrity. After being honored at a party in New York Thursday night by the general consul of New Zealand, she was at a breakfast the next morning hosted by the Swedish...

Ditlow steps down at Listening Library.(Tim Ditlow )(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Tim Ditlow has stepped down as publisher of Listening Library, an imprint of Random House Audio since its purchase by RH in 1999. Ditlow will take on new duties as v-p and publisher-at-large for Random House Audio. Random is not directly...

Investors buy D&M.(Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group acquired by investment group)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Douglas & McIntyre, one of Canada's largest independent publishers, has been acquired by an investment group headed by Mark Scott, a former Canadian banker. Scott has become president of D&M, while Scott McIntyre, a cofounder of the company,...

New look quills set for October 22.(Awards)
May 7, 2007... A streamlined voting process and a revamped presentation ceremony are two of the changes being introduced for the third annual Quill Awards. The ceremony, to be held October 22 at Lincoln Center in New York City, will be taped and the program...

SEC moves against Nicita.(Securities and Exchange Commission investigations of accounting fraud by Michael Nicita)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... The Securities and Exchange Commission filed "a subpoena enforcement action" last week against Michael Nicita, the former CEO of AMS, and Edward Leonard, the company's ex-CFO. The action seeks to compel Nicita and Leonard to appear for...

First-quarter scorecard ($ in millions).(Simon & Schuster Inc. companys sales and earnings )(Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. companys sales and earnings)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... First-Quarter Scored ($ in millions) Simon & Schuster Sales Profits %Chg 2006 $229 21.4 Sales 26.6 2007 $181 3.7 Profits 478 Led by the international blockbuster The Secret, Simon &...

Come gather 'round people.
May 7, 2007... The recent announcements that several newspapers are making major changes in the way they cover, or, more accurately, won't cover books, provoked the predictable reaction in Publishing Land. For anyone who loves books, this is a disaster, most...

Weldon Owen forms imprint.(formation of new book imprints)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Book packager Weldon Owen is forming a new imprint called Gold Street Press and has signed with Ingram Publisher Services to bring its first two titles to the trade in the fall. Although packaging will remain the company's primary focus, Gold...

McGuigan forms new agency.(Peter McGuigan forms a media agency)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Sanford Greenburger agent Peter McGuigan is teaming up with Yfat Reiss, founder of SharpMan Media, to start Foundry Literary & Media. McGuigan will open up his new shop with Reiss on June 1 at 33 W. 17th St. in New York City. McGuigan will...

Clarification.(Correction notice)
May 7, 2007... In our BEA exhibitors list(Apr. 30), the Warner Books entry (p. 122) should have been titled Grand Central Publishing, to reflect the name change announced in March.

Online agent courts authors, editors.(Dubbed e-Literary Agency started by Fred N. Grayson for helping authors and editors)
May 7, 2007... Publishing entrepreneur Fred N. Grayson has launched a business that promises to help writers who don't have an agent get their work in front of acquiring editors--for a price. Dubbed e-Literary Agency (www.e-literaryagent.net), the online...

To a new century.(John Wileys resignation as CEO of John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Wiley-Academy)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... John Wiley CEO Will Pesce (center) rang the closing bell May 1 at the New York Stock Exchange as part of the company's 200th-anniversary celebration. Wiley was founded in 1807 as a publisher/bookseller. Representing the Wiley family at the NYSE...

'Tiger' to Free Press.(Deals)(selling book rights)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... In a big fiction buy for the Free Press, Amber Qureshi beat out bids from Spiegel & Grau and Grove for North American rights to Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger; Jay Mandel at William Morris conducted the auction. This debut novel by Time writer...

Two for tower.(Heather Schroders)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Courtney Hodell at FSG has preempted a debut collection of stories entitled Executors of Important Energies as well as a novel-in-progress called Restoration by Wells Tower; Heather Schroder at ICM sold world rights. Tower's stories, which...

Hyperion wins POD bestseller.(Deals)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Maryann McFadden, whose self-published first novel, The Richest Season, became a regional bestseller, has sold that novel and a second to Ellen Archer at Hyperion in an auction conducted by agent Victoria Sanders. The Richest Season is about a...

Black to white.(Deals)(selling book rights)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Vanessa Mobley at the Penguin Press won an auction for Daniel Sharfstein's Sun & Shade: Three American Families Journey from Black to White via Dan O'Connell at the Strothman Agency, who sold world rights. Sharfstein, a professor at Vanderbilt...

On impulse.(Deals)(selling book rights)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Possibly taking the subject matter to heart, on the eve of a scheduled auction Touchstone Fireside's Zachary Schisgal preempted Nick Tasler's The Impulse Factor via agent Harvey Klinger in a six-figure world rights deal. Tasler, the head of...

Date mistakes.(Deals)(selling book rights)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Lindsey Moore at Crown won an auction for Rachel Greenwald's Why He Didn't Call You Back via Andrea Barzvi, who sold world rights from her new location in ICM's Los Angeles office. Greenwald, the author of Find a Husband After 35 Using What I...

Calendar: May 13-May 19.(Calendar)
May 7, 2007... 5/13 A perfect Mother's Day gift: Susan Anderson's humor photo book, Porn for Women (Chronicle), which offers photos of (clothed) hunks listening, cooking, cleaning and asking for directions. 5/14 Lee Child's Bad Luck and Trouble...

Silko back to Viking.(Deals)(Leslie Marmon Silko )(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Leslie Marmon Silko will return to Viking, which published her first novel in 1977, for two new books, a memoir and a novel acquired by Stephen Morrison via Jin Auh at the Wylie Agency; Paul Slovak will edit. To be published first is The...

The briefing.(Deals)(selling book rights)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... PW deputy reviews editor Jonathan Segura has sold his first, presently untitled novel to Sarah Hochman at Simon & Schuster via Steve Hanselman at Level5Media. This noir thriller set in Omaha features a burnt-out local newspaper reporter whose...

Disney comics goes to school.(Education)
May 7, 2007... A group of Maryland students have been reading comic books in the classroom--with the teacher's blessing. Since 2006, more than 500 third-graders have taken part in Comics in the Classroom, a pilot educational program that uses classic Disney...

New agency looks to bring Chinese authors West.(Opportunity)
May 7, 2007... Tapping into Western book publishers' recent interest in China, a new literary agency has set up shop in Hong Kong, with the goal of bringing Chinese voices to the West. Creative Work Ltd. began agenting last year and has since sold Chinese...

Industry stocks: April performances.(Market Watch)(Statistical table)(Financial report)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Market Watch Industry Stocks: April Performances Surprisingly strong first-quarter sales and earnings at Amazon helped to drive up the e-tailer's stock price 54.1% In April, easily making it the best performing stock on the PWSI for...

Howard up at S&S.(People)(Chrys Howard promoted at Simon and Schuster)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Chrys Howard has been promoted to senior editor and creative director at Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. In her new position, Howard will be handling gift book acquisitions and overseeing the cover design of all the imprint's...

McHardy joins S&S Australia.(People)(appointed Francois McHardy at Simon and Schuster Australia)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Francois McHardy has been named deputy managing director of Simon & Schuster Australia. McHardy, who will assume his new role June 1. has held a number of senior executive roles in publishing and was most recently editorial director of...

Mey up at Zondervan.(People)(promoted Alicia Mey )(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Alicia Mey has been promoted from senior director of marketing to v-p of marketing at Zondervan's Zonderkidz Group. Mey has been with the company for 12 years.

Meizlik up at HC.(People)(Shelby Meizlik promoted at HarperCollins)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Shelby Meizlik has been promoted to senior publicity director at HarperCollins's Collins imprint. Meizlik, who started at HC nine years ago as an assistant in the publicity department, has worked on campaigns for a number of bestselling books...

Rheinberg promoted at PUP.(People)(Brigitta Rheinberg )(Princeton University Press)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Brigitta Rheinberg has been promoted from acquisitions editor in history to editor-in-chief at Princeton University Press. Rheinberg is replacing outgoing editor-in-chief Sam Elworthy, who's at Auckland University Press.

Bond to e-tailer.(People)(Lynn Bond joins WebNotions )(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Lynn Bond has joined the online e-tailer WebNotions as senior v-p of business development and publisher relations. Before moving to WebNotions, Bond was with the remainder house Book Club of America, and held senior spots with Random House...

Chronicle Books builds with a green thumb.(Eco-Friendly)
May 7, 2007... When Chronicle Books decided three years ago that the time was right for it to buy its own office building, the publisher also determined that it wanted a workplace that not only allowed for the cross-pollination of ideas among departments but...

Obituary: Dorothy Markinko.(People)(Obituary)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Children's book agent Dorothy Markinko died on April 24 at the age of 80. She established the children's department at McIntosh & Otis and worked for the agency from 1963 until her retirement in 2001. She represented authors Ed Young, Scott...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
May 7, 2007... Warner published the latest Baldacci as the author's first spring debut, and it was, simply, a genius decision--the book lands in the top slot after less than a week in the stores. Simple Genius is Baldacci's 13th national bestseller, and...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
May 7, 2007... "The book's strength lies in Iacocca's emotional honesty, which shines when he details the reasons he passed on a presidential run, how he felt when his wife died and his frustration at the poor decisions he's made during his retirement...

Paperpack bestsellers/mass market.
May 7, 2007... According to his Web site, John Sanford wrote two novels that were rejected before he wrote The Fool's Run (1989). The first, The Wheel Key Number, was a perhaps too-realistic detective story. The second, The Chippewa Zoo, was a near-future,...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
May 7, 2007... Suite Francaise's translator, Sandra Smith, won the 20th annual Fiction Translation Prize, awarded for superior translation of a French literary work published in 2006. The award is presented by the French-American Foundation and the Florence...

Comics bestsellers.
May 7, 2007... Millennium Snow makes its debut on PW's bestseller list. It's a magical love story about an ailing, teenage girl about to die and a young vampire who hates the bloodsucking business, even though his bite could keep her alive for 1,000 years....

Maine.(United States of Bookselling)(Market overview)
May 7, 2007... Maine is a state of contrasts. Just look at some of its best known writers, like Stephen King, Richard Russo and Ursula Le Guin on the adult side, and E.B. White, Robert McCloskey and Barbara Cooney in children's. With an area of 30,861...

Getting teachers to pay attention.(Children's Books)
May 7, 2007... "The school market is about the only place we make our money," says Dana Harper of Brystone Children's Books in Fort Worth, Tex. "It's 90% of our business." While other children's booksellers may be more dependent on sales to parents and...

Seriously gay and lesbian.(Queer Studies)(Cover story)
May 7, 2007... There's no shortage of light gay fare from mainstream publishing, but university presses are increasingly doing the heavy lifting. Readers browsing the selection of gay and lesbian titles in bookstores will find no shortage of lifestyle,...

On sale September-December 2007.
May 7, 2007... It's another fall crammed with big names. Mega-pastor Joel Osteen towers over the season with a 3-million-copy announced printing, while Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet Oz's franchise roils on with 1.25-million copies of YOU: Staying Young. We'll...

Ridley Pearson: gets real in Sun Valley.(Author Profile)
May 7, 2007... When Killer Weekend, Ridley Pearson's new crime series kicks off in July, he'll be bringing murder and mayhem to his own backyard--and he couldn't be happier about it. Pearson clearly loves Sun Valley, Idaho, where he's lived for part of each...

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... * An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England BROCK CLARKE. Algonquin, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56512-551-3 Clarke's fourth book (after the story collection Carrying the Torch) is the delightfully dark story of Sam Pulsifer, the...

The View from Mount Joy.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... The View from Mount Joy LORNA LANDVIK. BALLANTINE, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-46837-6 Landvik's latest light drama opens its Joe Andreson transfers into a Minneapolis high school as a class of '72 senior. Like everyone else, Joe has a...

The Empress of Weehawken.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... The Empress of Weehawken IRENE DISCHE. FARRAR, Straus & Giroux, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-29912-5 Frau Professor Doktor Rother, the narrator of this brutally funny debut, is self-centered, cynical, sarcastic, fiercely proud of her Aryan...

What You Call Winter: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... What You Call Winter: Stories NALINI JONES. Knopf, $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4276-0 In her auspicious debut, Jones reveals the hopes and disappointments of young children, mothers and old men living in Santa Clara, a mostly Catholic...

Mad Dash.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Mad Dash PATRICIA GAFFNEY. Crown/Shaye Areheart, $23 (368p) ISBN 978-0-307-38211-5 Gaffney's latest (after The Goodbye Summer) chronicles a 20-year marriage on the verge of imploding. Vivacious, impulsive professional photographer Dash...

Love Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Love Life RAY KLUUN, TRANS. FROM THE DUTCH BY SHAUN WHITESIDE. St. Martin's/Griffin, $14.95 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-36681-0 In the Dutch Kluun's brutal roman 5. clef, Dan and Carmen van Diepen are successful professionals in their 30s,...

Getting Rid of Matthew.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Getting Rid of Matthew JANE FALLON. Hyperion, $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0320-4 Brit TV producer Fallon takes "careful what you wish for" to hilarious heights in her debut novel, a comedy of errors triggered by a mistress who discovers...

The Sabotage Cafe.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... The Sabotage Cafe JOSHUA FURST. Knopf, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-41432-9 After examining the lives of children in his well-received short story collection, Short People, Furst explores the pains and perils of adolescence in this first...

The Russian Concubine.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... The Russian Concubine KATE FURNIVALL. Berkley, $15 paper (560p) ISBN 978-0-425-21558-6 The experiences of the author's mother inspired this debut novel, a somewhat improbable tale of star-crossed love in 1928 China. Valentina Ivanova and...

PW talks with Nancy Horan: the other woman behind a great architect: Frank Lloyd Wright's mistress gets her due in Loving Frank (Reviews, Mar. 26), Nancy Horan's debut novel.(Q&A)(Interview)
May 7, 2007... A globe-trotting love story involving Frank Lloyd Wright is a pretty big order to fill in a first novel. There's a lot to this story. It's a love story, but the context of it is remarkable. First of all, you've got these characters--this...

New England White.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... * New England White STEPHEN L. CARTER. Knopf, 826.95 (576p) ISBN 978-0-375-41362-9 Two lesser characters from Yale law professor Carter's bestselling first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002)--husband and wife Lemaster and Julia...

Confession$ of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Confession$ of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy DOUG STUMPF. HarperCollins, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-088953-1 A Wall Street comedy of manners by Vanity Fair deputy editor Stumpt; this fast-paced debut novel updates The Bonfire of the...

Touching Stars.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Touching Stars EMILIE RICHARDS. Mira, $24.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2472-0 The setup of Richard's 50-somethingth book is wince-inducing: Gayle Fortman's ex-husband, hot-shot TV journalist Eric, has had a nasty run-in with the Taliban; at...

Don't Make a Scene.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Don't Make a Scene VALERIE BLOCK. Ballantine, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-46185-8 Block (None of Your Business) adds a nearing-40 protagonist to the chick lit formula in her third novel, and the result is an entertaining winner. Diane...

My Summer of Southern Discomfort.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... My Summer of Southern Discomfort STEPHANIE GAYLE. Morrow, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-123629-7 Short story writer Gayle makes her a novelist with this chronicle of a young, liberal New York lawyer who starts over in the South. The daughter...

The Exception.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... * The Exception CHRISTIAN JUNGERSEN, TRANS. FROM THE DANISH BY ANNA PATERSON. Doubleday/Talese, $26 (512p) ISBN 978-0-385-51629-7 slow burn of office politics can be just as riveting as international intrigue, as shown in Jungersen's second...

Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking AOIBHEANN SWEENEY. Penguin Press, $21.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-59420-130-1 Sweeney's debut novel centers around Donnal, who grows up on Maine's lonely Crab Island, where her father decides to hunker...

Queen of Babble in the Big City.(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Queen of Babble in the Big City MEG CABOT. MORROW, $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-085200-9 Midway though Cabot's latest novel, Chaz (the boyfriend of protagonist Lizzie Nichols's best friend) tells Lizzie', "Someday you're really going to...

Before.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Before IRINI SPANIDOU. Knopf, 823 (22-1p) ISBN 978-0-375-41381-0 The evocative third novel from Spanidou (Fear) centers uneasily on a group of late 1960s New York bohemians over the course of several tense months. Beautiful, delicate...

On the Wing: Book Two of Flying, a Trilogy.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... On the Wing: Book Two of Flying, a Trilogy ERIC KRAFT. St. Martin's, $23.93 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-36374-1 This fanciful novel, the second volume in Kraft's Flying trilogy (begun with 2006's Taking Off) describes Peter Leroy's solo...

Justice Denied.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Justice Denied J.A. JANCE. Morrow, $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-054092-0 In bestseller Jance's complex, overlong 18th J.P. Beaumont novel (after Long Time Gone), the Seattle special homicide investigator works three cases simultaneously....

Up High in the Trees.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Up High in the Trees KIARA BRINKMAN. Grove, $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1847-9 Asperger's afflicted narrator of Brinkman's sincere, sober debut struggles to cope with his pregnant mother's recent death after she was hit by a car. Already...

The Island.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... The Island VICTORIA HISLOP. Harper, $14.95 paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-134032-1 Travel writer Hislop's unwieldy debut novel opens with 25-year-old Alexis leaving Britain for Crete, her mother Sofia's homeland, hoping to ferret out the...

Restitution.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Restitution LEE VANCE. Knopf, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-26632-3 The plot setup of this debut thriller may sound familiar, if not trite: husband and wife in troubled marriage; wife found murdered; police focus on husband as prime suspect;...

Chambermaid.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Chambermaid SAIRA RAO. Grove, $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1849-3 Here is the legal system exposed and skewered for what it is: haplessly human. Columbia Law School grad Sheila Raj accepts a clerkship from Judge Helga Friedman of the federal...

Dead Connection.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Dead Connection ALAFAIR BURKE. Holt, $19.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7785-8 Putting feisty DA Samantha Kincaid on hold after three novels (Close Case, etc.), Burke introduces a disappointingly dull heroine in 30-year-old NYPD detective Ellie...

The Worst Intentions.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... The Worst Intentions ALESSANDRO PIPERNO, TRANS. FROM THE ITALIAN BY ANN GOLDSTEIN. Europa (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-933372-33-4 his gall-coated Jewish-Italian family folly opens with patriarch Bepy Sonnino, a...

The Nazi Hunter.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... The Nazi Hunter ALAN ELSNER. Arcade, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-55970-839-5 At the start of this gripping debut thriller set in 1994, a German-accented woman named Sophie Reiner appears tit the desk of Marek Cain, a Nazi hunter in the U.S....

The Lady in Blue.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... The Lady in Blue JAVIER SIERRA, TRANS. FROM THE SPANISH BY JAMES GRAHAM. Atria, $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3223-1 Destiny propels an agnostic journalist to rediscover his faith in this intriguing paranormal puzzler about a mysterious...

Anarchy and Old Dogs.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Anarchy and Old Dogs COLIN COTTERILL. Soho Crime, $23 (288p) ISBN 978-1-56947-463-1 Set in 1970s Communist Laos, Cotterill's delightful fourth novel to feature Dr. Siri Paiboun, the Laotian national coroner and one of the more eccentric...

The Ever-Running Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... * The Ever-Running Man MARCIA MULLER. Warner, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-446-58242-1 After 25 books in 30 years the novelty of a female private eye such as MWA Grand Master Muller's Sharon McCone has worn off, but McCone has only gained...

The Gold of Thrace.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... The Gold of Thrace AILEEN G. BARON. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (200p) ISBN 978-1-59058-430-9 Former archeologist Baron has slipped off form a bit in her third novel, a somewhat confusing mystery about the contemporary trade in stolen...

The Cliff House Strangler: A Sarah Woolson Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... The Cliff House Strangler: A Sarah Woolson Mystery SHIRLEY TALLMAN. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-31235756-6 Plucky lawyer Sarah Woolson arrives at rugged Land's End on a predictably dark and stormy night in Tallman's...

Ham Bones.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Ham Bones CAROLYN HAINES. Kensington, $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1092-0 In the outrageous seventh episode of Haines's delightful Southern Belle series (after 2006's Bones to Pick), PI Sarah Booth Delaney explores the Mississippi Delta in...

Reduced Circumstances: A Frank Cole Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Reduced Circumstances: A Frank Cole Mystery VINCENT H. O'NEIL. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $22.93 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-36966-8 At the start of this appealing sequel to O'Neil's Malice Domestic Contest-winning debut, Murder in Exile...

The Maze Murderer.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... The Maze Murderer CHARLES PERO. SterlingHouse (CyntoMedia, dist.), $24.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-56-315391-4 FBI legend Frank Logan head of the Bureau's elite Special Circumstances Killer squad, breaks off his ongoing book tour to investigate a...

Thirst.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Thirst PETE LARSON. Bleak House (www.bleakhousebooks.com), $24.95 (214p) ISBN 978-1-932557-40-4; $12.95 paper ISBN 978-1-932557-34-3 Set at a fictional Texas university, Larson's sharp debut blends religion, philosophy and murder. The day...

Space Boy.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... Space Boy ORSON SCOTT CARD. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $33 (90p) ISBN 978-1-S9606-111-8 Hugo- and Nebula-winner Card (Speaker for the Dead) gives a familiar childish fear a science fiction spin in this youthful tale of a...

Whispers in the Night.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... * Whispers in the Night EDITED BY BRANDON MASSEY. Dafina, $14 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1741-7 African-American horror writer and editor Massey has another slam dunk with his third Dark Dreams anthology (after 2006's Voices from the...

The Man with the Golden Torc.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... The Man with the Golden Torc SIMON R. GREEN. Roc, $23.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-46145-2 Readers who recognize the pun on Ian Fleming's James Bond title, The Man with the Golden Gun, will find the secret agent in question has more up his...

A Thousand Deaths.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... A Thousand Deaths GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER. Golden Gryphon, $24.95 (340p) ISBN 978-1-930846-47-0 A heartfelt homage to the late (and largely underappreciated) SF author Effinger (1947-2002), this intimate collection of stories revolving around...

The Spirit Stone: Book Two of The Silver Wyrm.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 7, 2007... The Spirit Stone: Book Two of The Silver Wyrm KATHARINE KERR. DAW, $24.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0433-8 After the disappointment of Kerr's first entry in her Silver Wyrm series, The Gold Falcon (2006), part of her popular Deverry cycle,...