Publishers Weekly articles from May 2007

Publishers Weekly archives from May 2007

Industry sales flat in '06: trade sales rise 2.9%.(Foreword)(Industry overview)
May 28, 2007... Total industry sales slipped marginally last year, falling 0.3%, to $24.20 billion, according to preliminary estimates released last week by the Association of American Publishers. Sales declined in seven categories and rose in seven others....

B&N surprises.(Retailing)(Barnes & Noble)(Financial report)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... A strong April helped drive sales up 2.8%, to $1.45 billion, at Barnes & Noble in the first quarter ended May 5. CEO Steve Riggio credited "the strongest first-quarter release schedule in two or three years" for the increase, which was...

Major restructuring at Bookspan.(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Bertelsmann has implemented a major overhaul at Bookspan, a process that will eliminate 280 positions, or about 15% of its workforce. As part of integrating Bookspan into BMG Columbia House, an unspecified number of smaller clubs will be...

Publisher take all?(Foreword)
May 28, 2007... Being a spokesperson for a major media company is probably always a difficult job, but last week, at Simon & Schuster, I bet it was a nightmare. Not only was the publisher bombarded with questions and comments regarding alleged inaccuracies...

Murray up at HC.(Brian Murray, HarperCollins)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Brian Murray, HarperCollins group president, has been promoted to the newly created position of president of HarperCollins worldwide. In the new job, Murray will work with CEO Jane Friedman, helping to "identify and direct the company's...

Reich to head PGW.(Susan Reich, Publishers Group West)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Susan Reich has been named president of Publishers Group West, effective July 30. Reich, who at one time was v-p, marketing, at PGW, is currently president and CO0 of the Avalon Publishing Group, a position she will step down from at the end...

Lockhart leaving Zondervan.(Doug Lockhart)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Zondervan president and CEO Doug Lockhart is stepping down from his position June 1. Bruce Ryskamp, former president and CEO, will serve as interim president and CEO. Ryskamp retired from Zondervan in 2005, when Lockhart took the helm.

Results up at Indigo in fiscal '07.(Indigo Books & Music Inc.)(Financial report)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Indigo Books & Music Inc, reported that total annual revenue grew 2.7%, to C$875 million ($805 million), while net earnings rose 18.5%, to C$30.0 million ($27.6 million) for the fiscal year that ended March 31, 2007. Same-store sales at its...

Warner biz rebranded.(Grand Central Publishing)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... The Hachette Book Group USA's Grand Central Publishing division will rename its Warner Business imprint Business Plus; the new name will appear on titles in September. The imprint is also partnering with Hachette's U.K. subsidiary, Headline...

Hastings earnings rise.(Hastings Entertainment)(Financial report)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Total sales at Hastings Entertainment fell 2.6% in the first quarter ended April 30, to $128 million, but earnings rose to $2.5 million from $1.9 million. The improvement in profits was attributed to changes in the retailer's merchandising...

Pepper Parker.(Galley Talk)(The Maytrees)(Brief review)
May 28, 2007... Pepper Parker, Vintage Books, Vancouver, Wash. At long last, Annie Dillard is at it again. Known for her gift of braiding ribbons of darkness to flame great light, using tragedy and death to reveal the marvel of life, now she's turned her...

USA Today extends brand to books.(Leveraging)
May 28, 2007... With newspaper companies searching for new ways to deliver content beyond the traditional printed newspaper, USA Today has struck licensing deals with several publishers for an array of book projects. "It seemed like the place to go,"...

Harcourt auction wins.(Deals)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Ann Patty at Harcourt won an auction for a debut novel by David Levinson titled Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence; agent Emma Sweeney sold North American rights. This work of literary suspense is a tale of ambition and greed that is said to...

Novel preempts.(Deals)(Viking, Houghton)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Carole DeSanti at Viking preempted a novel by Dirk Wittenborn titled Pharmakon; Zoe Pagnamenta at PFD NY sold North American rights on behalf of Caroline Dawnay at PFD in London. Based on experiences in Wittenborn's life, the novel opens in...

America in the Middle East.(Deals)(Harmony Books)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Harmony's John Glusman has acquired North American rights to Jim Sciutto's Against Us via agent Gail Ross. Based on his reporting in the Middle East, senior foreign ABC correspondent Sciutto will explore Muslim perceptions of America in...

Murphy's memoir.(Deals)(Patrick Murphy)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Patrick Murphy, the only Iraq War veteran to be elected to Congress, has sold a memoir, Taking the Hill, to John Sterling at Holt via Esther Newberg at ICM. Murphy will share stories of his blue-collar Philadelphia childhood and his times as...

The briefing.(DEALS)(Running Press)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Jennifer Kasius at Running Press has acquired Missy Chase Lapine's The Sneaky Chef" How to Cheat on Your Man (in the Kitchen) via agent Joelle Delbourgo, who sold world rights. This sequel to The Sneaky Chef will showcase more recipes...

Calendar: June 3-9.(Foreword)(Calendar)
May 28, 2007... 6/3 Looking for a guide for a musical road trip? Chris Epting's Led Zeppelin Crashed Here (Santa Monica Press) suggests 600 U.S. rock and roll landmarks to visit. 6/4 Mick Brown tracks the rise and fall of reclusive music...

Imagine Nation Books announces settlement of Reader's Digest suits.(Breaking News)
May 28, 2007... Imagine Nation Books announced today that the legal actions that Books Are Fun and its parent, the Reader's Digest Association, brought against it, Earl Kaplan, Reader's Choice Books and Stephen Rosebrough have been settled. The terms of the...

Amazon's brilliance purchase sparks criticism, questions.(Going Vertical)(Brilliance Audio)
May 28, 2007... Amazon's acquisition of Brilliance Audio is being met with relative calm in publishing circles, compared to the furor that arose when Barnes & Noble implemented its own vertical integration strategy with the purchase of Sterling Publishing in...

Krebs joins Globe Pequot.(People)(Gary Krebs)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Gary Krebs has resigned as publisher of Adams Media in Avon, Mass., to join former Adams colleague Scott Watrous at Guilford, Conn.-based Globe Pequot Press. At Globe, Krebs will take on the newly created position of group publisher and will...

Ariza to Holtzbrinck.(People)(Jaime Ariza)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Jaime Ariza has been named v-p, special markets, at Holtzbrinck. Ariza arrives from Simon & Schuster, where she's been in the special markets division for the past 12 years, most recently as director of custom publishing.

Google's Book Search moves forward.(Scanning)
May 28, 2007... Since it officially went live in the fall of 2004, Google Book Search has added more than one million titles to its database, signed agreements with over 10,000 publishers and, after overcoming some initial reluctance from international...

Git-r-done!(Hollywood Reader)(Parallel Entertainment and James Sallis)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... From the producer of Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector and Delta Farce comes... a noir mystery set in New Orleans featuring an African-American detective sometimes compared to James Lee Burke's character Dave Robicheaux. That's next in...

The year of Creech.(Hollywood Reader)(Sharon Creech)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Having procured an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Olive, the smallest member of Little Miss Sunshine's dysfunctional Hoover family, Abigail Breslin sets her sights on another unusual family, orphaned brother and sister Dallas...

Munro's movie tie-in.(Hollywood Reader)(Movie review)
May 28, 2007... Those seeking a respite from the green ogres, swashbuckling pirates and web-slinging superheroes of summer might find quiet relief in Away from Her, Sarah Polley's adaptation of Alice Munro's 1997 short story "The Bear Came Over the...

Takoudes Up at HC.(People)(Emily Takoudes, HarperCollins)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Emily Takoudes has been promoted to senior editor at HarperCollins's Ecco imprint.

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.(Bibliography)
May 28, 2007... The folks at Delacorte report that Child's 11th Jack Reacher novel (275,000 copies after four printings) is his fastest-selling hardcover, with sales up almost 50% across the board. Janet Maslin's glowing review in the May 14 New York Times...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.(Bibliography)
May 28, 2007... Jesus of Nazareth is the first part of a proposed two-volume work by Joseph Ratzinger. He wrote the first four chapters before being elected pope, and the following six "using all my free moments." Doubleday reports 140,000 copies of the U.S....

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.(Bibliography)
May 28, 2007... "He slipped the safety again, teared up, wiped the tears away,... said 'Lincoln," and pulled the trigger. Without the earplugs, the blast would have been shattering; it was bad enough as it was. The naked man bucked upward, his eyes opening...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.(Bibliography)
May 28, 2007... Piper's tale of his car accident, his time in heaven and his grueling recovery now has 1.8 million copies in print after 37 printings. "We did not fully anticipate its wider appeal as a book of comfort and promise," said Baker Publishing...

Children's series and tie-ins bestsellers.(Bibliography)
May 28, 2007... Life's been a bit of a whirlwind for Rick Riordan this month. Book Three of his Percy Jackson series, The Titan's Curse, is a #1 bestseller, and he's been on tour for most of May. Titan's Curse was picked as the new choice for Al Roker's Book...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.(Bibliography)
May 28, 2007... Roberts comes by his facility with narration rightly--it's in the blood. According to a profile in All Movie Guide, Roberts is the son of announcer Ken Roberts and the cousin of actor Everett Sloane, both alumni of such classic radio programs...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.(Bibliography)
May 28, 2007... Herrmann's grandfatherly gig on the just-canceled TV series Gilmore Girls is done. Maybe now he'll have more free time to record audiobooks. (Although he may need a rest after recording, back-to-back, the 22-hour Einstein and an 18-hour...

At 80, the Strand feels as young as ever.(Retailing)
May 28, 2007... It's a nondescript Wednesday afternoon in Manhattan, but the ground floor of the Strand's flagship store on Broadway and East 12th Street is jammed with customers. Arguably New York City's most beloved independent bookstore, the Strand--which...

Michigan: college towns & car trouble?(United States of Bookselling)
May 28, 2007... Despite its gritty manufacturing hub populated by blue-collar factory workers, Michigan extends far beyond Detroit, Grand Rapids and Flint: the state is a popular vacation destination as well. Its $13 billion per year tourism industry,...

Life after Harry.(Children's Books)
May 28, 2007... When J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows hits shelves on July 21, fans can be sure of only one thing: the seventh and final volume in the series marks the end of an era. Harry's creator has said that she may pen a companion...

New life for Soft Skull: Richard Nash's vision finds safe haven at Counterpoint.(Independent Publishing)
May 28, 2007... As editor and, until last week, owner of Soft Skull press, Richard Nash had the kind of bumpy year that no one bargains for: first, PGW, his distributor, went bankrupt, leaving Soft Skull and many other publishers in the lurch. Then, Perseus...

Love for sale: what romance fiction may lack in literary cachet it makes up for in innovative marketing techniques that yield blockbuster sales.
May 28, 2007... Book publishing may be famous (or infamous) for its--ahem--occasional "throw it at the wall and see what sticks" approach; publishers aren't exactly sure what people are going to buy, so they publish a wide variety and hope for the best....

The Indian Clerk.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... The Indian Clerk DAVID LEAVITT. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-59691-040-9 Ambitious, erudite and well-sourced, Leavitt's 12th work of fiction centers on the relationship between mathematicians G.H. Hardy (1877-1947) and Srinivasa...

Daughter of the Sun.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Daughter of the Sun BARBARA WOOD. St. Martin's Griffin, $13.95 paper (464p) ISBN 978-0-312-36368-0 The prolific and bestselling Wood (The Blessing Stone) explores life in the pre-Columbian Americas in this evocative historical romance....

The Fires: Two Novellas.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... The Fires: Two Novellas ALAN CHEUSE. Santa Fe Writers Project (IPG, dist.), $10 paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-9776799-1-1 In these two novellas, Cheuse (The Grandmothers Club; Lost and Old Rivers; etc.) dissects the aftermath of two very...

Strawberry Fields.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Strawberry Fields MARINA LEWYCKA. Penguin Press, $24.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-59420-137-0 U.K.-based Lewycka, a Booker and Orange Prize nominee for 2005's A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, follows up with a Chaucer-inspired tale of...

Up Close and Personal.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Up Close and Personal FERN MICHAELS. Kensington, $19.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1271-9 In Michaels's fable-like latest, wicked South Carolina heiress Sarabess Windsor must face the fallout of a decision she made 30 years ago: when her...

The Secret Lives of the Kudzu Debutantes.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... The Secret Lives of the Kudzu Debutantes CATHY HOLTON. Ballantine, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6368-0 Ithaca, Georgia's Eadie Boone, the soon-to-be-former Nita Broadwell and Lavonne Zibolsky--the Kudzu Debutantes of Holton's 2006...

PW talks with David Malouf: where all lives tend: harsh surroundings and random violence mark The Collected Stories, bringing together 25 years of Australian Malouf's shorter work.(Q&A)(Interview)
May 28, 2007... Now that you've seen them all together, how do the stories look in relation to your seven novels? It's a strange thing looking at work you've written over so many years. What I find myself committed to more than anything else is the way...

Starburst.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Starburst ROBIN PILCHER. St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-35434-3 The bustling Edinburgh International Festival--an actual annual cultural event in Scotland featuring a plethora of the arts--serves as the dynamic backdrop...

Outlaw Hearts.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Outlaw Hearts DIANE AMOS. Five Star, $26.95 (285p) ISBN 978-1-59414-570-4 Unlikely sweethearts enliven this thin post-Civil War romance from Amos (A Long Walk Home). In 1868 Bekah Benson travels from England to Londonderry, N.H., to find...

The Whale Road.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... The Whale Road ROBERT LOW. St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-36194-5 British journalist Low's debut novel is a rousing, sprawling saga of Viking warriors and the quest for hidden treasure. The adventure begins in A.D. 965,...

What Matters Most.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... What Matters Most LUANNE RICE. Bantam, $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-80533-8 True love never dies--but it may need the helping hand of the Virgin Mary and the luck o' the Irish to survive in Rice's latest, effectively a sequel to last year's...

Silence.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Silence THOMAS PERRY. Harcourt/Penzler, $25 (448p) ISBN 978-0-15-101289-3 Edgar-winner Perry (Pursuit) delivers another intelligent, literate thriller. Jack Till, a retired LAPD detective turned PI, has settled into a somewhat monastic...

The Dark River.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... The Dark River JOHN TWELVE HAWKS. Doubleday, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-51429-3 At the start of the engrossing second entry in bestseller Twelve Hawks's Fourth Realm trilogy (after The Traveler), the Brethren continue to control...

Heaven's Net Is Wide: The First Tale of the Otori.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Heaven's Net Is Wide: The First Tale of the Otori LIAN HEARN. Riverhead, $26.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-59448-953-2 Set in a brutal and breathtaking feudal Japan, this lyrical and moving prequel to Hearn's Tales of the Otori and also the...

Salt.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... * Salt JEREMY PAGE. Viking, $24.95 (256p) 188N 978-0-670-03868-8 This remarkable first novel by British script editor Page elevates a tragic family history to the level of myth. In "the dying months of the Second World War," Goose, a...

The Huntress.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... The Huntress SUSAN CARROLL. Ballantine, $13.95 paper (512p) ISBN 978-0-345-49061-2 Fun, intricately plotted and with lots of derring-do, Carroll's latest should be popular with fans of historical romance. With a temper to match her fiery...

The Cleaner.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... The Cleaner BRETT BATTLES. Delacorte, $22 (368p) ISBN 978-0-440-24370-0 Displaying an enviable gift for pacing and action, Battles's debut novel is a page-turner that may remind some readers of the cult TV spy series Alias. Ex-cop...

Absent.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Absent BETOOL KHEDAIRI, TRANS. FROM THE ARABIC BY MUHAYMAN JAMIL. Random, $13.95 paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7742-4 Iraqi-Scot novelist Khedairi (A Sky So Close) tells the story of Dalai, a young girl growing up in a crowded Baghdad...

Mister Pip.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Mister Pip LLOYD JONES. Dial, $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-34106-6 A promising though ultimately overwrought portrayal of the small rebellions and crises of disillusionment that constitute a young narrator's coming-of-age unfolds against an...

Me and Mr. Darcy.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Me and Mr. Darcy ALEXANDRA POTTER. Ballantine, $12.95 paper (340p) ISBN 978-0-345-50254-4 U.K. author Potter makes her U.S. debut with Emily Albright, 29, a New York bookstore manager, who half-seriously blames Jane Austen's Fitzwilliam...

The Tenderness of Wolves.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... * The Tenderness of Wolves STEF PENNEY. Simon & Schuster, $25 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4074-8 The frigid isolation of European immigrants living on the 19th-century Canadian frontier is the setting for British author Penney's haunting...

A Nail through the Heart.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... A Nail Through the Heart TIMOTHY HALLINAN. Morrow, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-125580-9 Brutal torture and equally brutal empathy define this excellent, if sometimes familiar, thriller from Hallinan (The Bone Polisher). Poke Rafferty, a...

White Heat.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... White Heat CHERRY ADAIR. Ballantine, $21.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-47644-9 Adair delivers a steamy fusion of romance and heart-stopping suspense with this second T-FLAC (Terrorist Force Logistic Assault Command) thriller (after 2005's Hot...

The Guyanese Wanderer: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... The Guyanese Wanderer: Stories JAN CAREW. Sarabande, $14.95 paper (120p) ISBN 978-1-932511-50-5 The exploitation of Guyana's wry peasantry centers Guyana-born, Louisville-based Carew's lushly descriptive collection. "Chantal" proves a...

Sarah's Key.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... * Sarah's Key TATIANA DE ROSNAY. St. Martin's, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-37083-1 De Rosnay's U.S. debut fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the Velodrome...

Something More.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Something More JANET DAILEY. Kensington, $22 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1984-8 Known for her popular Calder saga set in Montana (Calder Storm, etc.), Dailey turns her attention to the Ten Bar Ranch, near Glory, Wyo. (pop. 51), run by a...

Kuperman's Fire.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Kuperman's Fire JOHN J. CLAYTON. Permanent, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-1-57962-152-0 Clayton (The Man I Never Wanted to Be) adroitly combines thriller elements with one man's particular, but resonant, Jewish legacy. Michael Kuperman's...

Royal Harlot.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Royal Harlot SUSAN HOLLOWAY SCOTT. NAL, $14 paper (384p) ISBN 078-0-451-22134-6 As in her popular Duchess, about Sarah Churchill, Scott captures in her latest historical romance the brilliance and hard beauty of Barbara Palmer (Lady...

Lean Mean Thirteen.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... * Lean Mean Thirteen JANET EVANOVICH. St. Martin's, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-34949-3 In her rollicking 13th Stephanie Plum adventure (after Twelve Sharp), bestseller Evanovich is in top, quirky form. Plucky, bumbling New Jersey...

False Fortune: A Pinnacle Peak Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... False Fortune: A Pinnacle Peak Mystery TWIST PHELAN. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (292p) ISBN 978-1-59058-363-0 In retired trial lawyer Phelan's lively fourth Pinnacle Peak mystery, attorney Hannah Dain, barely recovered from the adventures of...

Capitol Offense: A Nik Kane Alaska Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Capitol Offense: A Nik Kane Alaska Mystery MIKE DOOGAN. Putnam, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15431-7 In veteran Anchorage journalist Doogan's uneven second Nik Kane mystery (after 2006's Lost Angel), a wealthy widow hires Kane, a...

Fingerprints and Facelifts.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... * Fingerprints and Facelifts RICK COPP. Kensington, $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0962-7 Full of retro-fab fun, this smokin' first in a new series from Copp (The Actor's Guide to Greed) introduces the L.A. Dolls, three gutsy (and still very...

PW talks with Douglas Greene: Rescuing Classic Mystery Authors.(Q&A)(Interview)
May 28, 2007... In 2002, Douglas Greene, the editor and cofounder of Crippen & Landru, started a line of Lost Classics, devoted to authors of the past who wrote traditional mysteries. The 23rd entry in the series is The Grandfather Rastin Mysteries by Lloyd...

The Blackpool Highflyer.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... The Blackpool Highflyer ANDREW MARTIN. Harcourt, $14 paper (360p) ISBN 978-0-15-603069-4 Set in 1905, Martin's second Jim Stringer mystery (after 2004's The Necropolis Railway) starts slowly but builds a head of steam like the monster...

The Dust of Wonderland.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... The Dust of Wonderland LEE THOMAS. Alyson, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59350-011-5 Stoker-winner Thomas (Stained) delivers an intermittently eloquent supernatural tale reminiscent of Peter Straub's Ghost Story. Kenneth Nicholson returns to...

Territory.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... * Territory EMMA BULL. Tor, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-85735-6 World Fantasy-finalist Bull (War for the Oaks) takes huge chances and achieves something distinctively wonderful with this subtle reworking of a western legend. The...

Serpentine.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Serpentine THOMAS F. MONTELEONE. Borderlands (www.borderlandspress.com), $16.95 paper (288p) ISBN 9/8-1-880325-76-6 Sophia Rousseau, a lamia (or snake-woman) who feeds on the creative energies of brilliant artists, plays the formidable...

The Wanderer's Tale: Book 1, the Annals of Lindormyn.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... The Wanderer's Tale: Book 1, the Annals of Lindormyn DAVID BILSBOROUGH. Tor, $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1867-1 Bilsborough aims high but falls short in his debut, set in the world of Lindormyn. Drauglir, the canonical down-but-not-out...

Soul Song.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Soul Song MARJORIE M. LIU. Leisure, $6.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5766-2 in her newest Dirk & Steele novel, Liu introduces fiddle player Kitala Bell, cursed with the ability to foresee people's deaths, and merman M'Cal, slave to a...

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... * The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-fourth Annual Collection EDITED BY GARDNER DOZOIS. St. Martin's Griffin, $35 (704p) ISBN 978-0-312-36334-5; $21.95 paper ISBN 978-0-312-36335-2 Like a giant sequoia towering over a copse of...

Asimov's Science Fiction 30th Anniversary Anthology.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... * Asimov's Science Fiction 30th Anniversary Anthology EDITED BY SHEILA WILLIAMS. Tachyon (www.tachyonpublications.com), $14.95 paper (351p) ISBN 978-1-892391-47-6 In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Asimov's Science Fiction,...

Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition EDITED BY RICH HORTON. Prime (www.primebooks.net), $13.95 paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-8095-6297-8 Returning for his second stint editing Prime's annual SF compilation, Horton is faced...

Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition EDITED BY RICH HORTON. Prime (www.primebooks.net), $13.95 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-8095-6298-5 Horton fittingly describes "lyricism" as the quality linking his selections for the best...

Year's Best Fantasy 7.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... Year's Best Fantasy 7 EDITED BY DAVID G. HARTWELL AND KATHRYN CRAMER. Tachyon (www.tachyonpublications.com), $14.95 paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-892391-50-6 The seventh annual fantasy anthology from the renowned husband and wife editing...

Best American Fantasy.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 28, 2007... * Best American Fantasy EDITED BY ANN AND JEFF VANDERMEER. Prime (www.primebooks.net), $14.95 paper (460p) ISBN 978-0-80956280-0 In a genre where yearly "best of" volumes often repeat one another, the first in Prime's new annual...