Publishers Weekly articles from November 2004

Publishers Weekly archives from November 2004

Myers named CEO at Advanced Marketing: cofounder Tillinghast will retire November 12.(news)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... BRUCE MYERS, chief financial officer of Advanced Marketing Services, has been named to succeed Charlie Tillinghast as president and CEO of the company, effective November 12. Tillinghast, a cofounder of AMS and its CEO until 1996, took over as...

Fitzgerald fest.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The St. Paul Public Library, the Minnesota Historical Society Press and a number of library and literary organizations celebrated F. Scott Fitzgerald's birthday and the dedication of the author's birthplace as a national literary landmark....

S&S has strong period, expects more.(Simon & Schuster Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... IN JULY, SIMON & Schuster president Jack Romanos said he had high expectations for the second half of 2004, and those expectations were largely met in the third quarter ended September 30. Romanos said sales and EBITDA both rose by double-digit...

Author, lit agency challenge treasury regs.(Free Speech)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... THE IRANIAN HUMAN RIGHTS activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, together with the Strothman Agency, filed a lawsuit last week against the U.S. Treasury Department, charging that the rules and regulations of its Office of Foreign...

Weak mass market hurts Harlequin.(Third-Quarter Results)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... HARLEQUIN HAD ANOTHER difficult period in the third quarter ended September 30, parent company Torstar Corp. reported last week. Sales fell 11.2%, to C$135.8 million ($111 million), and operating profit plunged 35.6%, to C$23.3 million ($19...

NBA head describes uncertainty over nominee.(Prizes)
November 1, 2004... WITH CONFUSION and controversy marking this year's National Book Awards, Harold Augenbraum, the new National Book Foundation executive director, said that there remain questions about its most prominent nonfiction nominee, even as he welcomed...

Melcher Media gets book patent.(Book Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... IN AN UNUSUAL advancement in book production, Melcher Media has received a patent for its DuraBooks technology, a synthetic paper and binding that makes DuraBooks virtually indestructible but still recyclable. DuraBooks are made from synthetic...

More discounts from Amazon.com.(Third-Quarter Results)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... In a conference call with analysts about third-quarter results, Amazon.com chief financial officer Tom Szkutak said the e-tailer has begun testing "even greater discounts" for books "that meet certain price points and elasticity criteria."...

OverDrive offers new audiobook platform.(Digital Audiobooks)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... LOOKING TO PRIME the market for digital audiobooks, e-publishing vendor OverDrive has developed a new digital platform that it claims will make it easier to download and buy audiobooks, as well as to check them out from libraries. Steve...

Borders Group to launch franchise in Malaysia.(Retailing)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... BORDERS GROUP and Berjaya Group, a public corporation in Malaysia with a variety of business interests, have signed a "memorandum of understanding" for Berjaya Group to operate Borders stores in Malaysia under a franchise arrangement. This is...

Winning streak ends at EDC.(2nd-Quarter Results)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... THE LONG STRING of quarterly sales increases posted by Educational Development Corp. came to an end in the second quarter ended August 31. Revenue fell 1.7%, to $6.8 million, while earnings declined 15.3%, to $452,000. The sales decline...

Reading is patriotic.(news)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... READING IS PATRIOTIC: The National Book Foundation has unveiled a new poster to promote reading. The poster is illustrated by the New Yorker's cartoon editor Robert Mankoff. The National Book Award Ceremony will be held on November 17 in New...

Perlmutter named Marvel CEO.(Marvel Entertainment Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... MARVEL'S VICE-CHAIRMAN and principal stockholder, Isaac Perlmutter, has been named CEO, succeeding Allen Lipson, who held the post since 2003. Lipson is retiring after five years at Marvel. Morton Handel, Marvel's nonexecutive chairman of...

General tells her story.(hot deals)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Gen. Janis Karpinski, who was the first woman flag officer to serve in a combat zone (in Desert Storm) and became a controversial figure in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq, is writing a memoir about her military life, which Miramax's...

Delacorte gets new Sachar.(hot deals)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... We described recently how Holes author Louis Sachar suddenly sprang a new book, a sequel to that huge success, on his agent and former editors, just before Frankfurt. Now the smoke has cleared around the succeeding excitement, and Beverly...

Big deal for debut fantasy.(hot deals)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... A first novel called The Stolen Child, inspired by the title and theme of a poem by Yeats, made a big sale at auction--in the low to mid six figures--to Coates Bateman at the Nan Talese imprint at Doubleday. The author, Keith Donohue, heads the...

A captive in Iraq.(hot deals)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The story of a journalist and documentary filmmaker, Micah Garen, who was held captive for 10 days by Iraqi militants and threatened by death at one point, before his colleague and fiancee, Marie-Helene Carleton, managed to pull the right...

Japanese bestseller for Dutton.(hot deals)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... A book that has already sold a million copies in Japan and won a prestigious literary award there for its 20-year-old author was swiftly preempted for U.S. rights by Julie Doughty at Dutton. It's Snakes and Earrings, a harrowing study of a...

A first novel by Laura Dave, a young journalist for Self and Glamour, was bought by Carole Desanti for Viking.(Short Takes)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... A first novel by Laura Dave, a young journalist for Self and Glamour, was bought by Carole Desanti for Viking. It's called London Is the Best City in America and is a humorous tale about the marital affairs of a young woman and her much-admired...

Bill Press is doing a book called How the Republicans Stole Christmas, suggesting that conservatives have hijacked religious issues for their own purposes, often twisting them in the process.(Short Takes)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Bill Press is doing a book called How the Republicans Stole Christmas, suggesting that conservatives have hijacked religious issues for their own purposes, often twisting them in the process. It was bought for six figures for world English...

Rock star Tom Petty signed with little Omnibus Press for what will in effect be his autobiography, a book of conversations about his life and music with music journalist Paul Zollo.(Short Takes)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Rock star Tom Petty signed with little Omnibus Press for what will in effect be his autobiography, a book of conversations about his life and music with music journalist Paul Zollo. The book was signed by Omnibus's Andrea Rotondo and will be...

Inner Traditions bets on 'Alternative Christianity'.(Strategy)
November 1, 2004... INNER TRADITIONS/BEAR & CO. has published successfully for nearly 30 years with a strategy of moving out of niches into new areas once a segment becomes too crowded, explained Rob Meadows, v-p for sales and marketing. That tactic has led Inner...

Rockport changes name, distributor.(Strategy)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... QUARTO GROUP has changed the name of its Rockport Publishers unit to Quayside Publishing Group and announced that all distribution for the group will be handled by Creative Publishing international, the how-to publisher acquired by Quarto in...

WordsWorth to close main Harvard store.(Market Conditions)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... A LITTLEL MORE THAN a month after its holding company sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, 29-year-old WordsWorth Books in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass., closed Oct.29. The store's inventory had been noticeably diminished in recent...

Web comics send readers looking for books.(Web to Print)
November 1, 2004... PURELY AN EXPERIMENTAL Form just a few years ago, online comic strips--and longer comics narratives published on the Web--are becoming so popular that sonic are being turned into books and providing small publishers and promising new talents an...

Cumberland lands WND books.(Deals)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... WND BOOKS, the book extension of the WorldNet Daily Web site, which recently ended its agreement with Thomas Nelson, has found a new home. The imprint will become a part of Cumberland House, the publisher formed by ex-Rutledge Hill executive...

AAP aiding 'Reading at Risk'.(Outreach)
November 1, 2004... THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS is providing the National Endowment for the Arts with a $19,000 grant to help the foundation spread the word about the findings in its "Reading at Risk" study. The money will be used to reprint the...

New Holtzbrinck library post.(Appointment)(Holtzbrinck Publishers)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... HOLTZBRINCK PUBLISHERS has created a new department for adult library marketing and has named Talia Ross to oversee the unit as library marketing manager. Ross will Coordinate the library marketing efforts of all of Holtzbrinck's adult trade...

Bringing home the bacon.(behind the bestsellers)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... That is what irreverent and hardcore comedian George Carlin is doing with his latest hit, When Will Jesus Bring Home the Pork-chops? Moving up from #9 to #3 on PW's nonfiction list in its second appearance, the book is selling strongly in all...

A fantastic twosome.(behind the bestsellers)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Two bestselling writers in the fantasy genre hit the national charts this week, In the #2 spot on PWs fiction list is the conclusion of R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms: The Hunter's Blades Trilogy, The Two Swords. Wizards of the Coast...

Price is no object.(behind the bestsellers)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Miracle: A Celebration of New Life, a collaboration of photographs by Anne Geddes and music by Celine Dion, is cause for celebration. The $60 price tag (the highest among current national bestsellers) is no deterrent at the stores; the book...

Smitten with Smith.(behind the bestsellers)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Pantheon Books is off to a good start at making Scottish-American philosopher Elizabeth Dalhousie as much of a household name as Precious Ramotswe, the female PI in Botswana. Both are creations of Alexander McCall Smith, and Dalhousie stars in...

More money for trump.(behind the bestsellers)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The Donald continues to score hits--his latest, Think Like a Billionaire, rounds out PWs top 15 nonfiction list. Random House went out with a 265,000-copy first printing and is up to four trips to press with close to 325.000 copies in print....

Twisted Christmas: in an overdue breakout, Christopher Moore turns the holiday book on its head.(book news)
November 1, 2004... Those who spurn teary-eyed Christmas novels by tough guys, like Skipping Christmas by John Grisham or last year's The Boat of Dreams by Hot Zone author Richard Preston, may be primed for satirist Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel (Morrow,...

'Parade Picks' promises hits.(Media Alert)
November 1, 2004... Parade magazine, though still slim as ever, has been especially book-heavy of late. In addition to an originally commissioned piece by Harold Evans, author of They Made America (Little, Brown), the October 24 issue featured the recently...

Just say no to signage: three successful bookstores attract customers without in-store signage.(bookselling)
November 1, 2004... Most booksellers regard signage as a store necessity, right up there with good lighting, informed staff and strong selection. But three successful bookstore owners in different parts of the country not only question the received wisdom...

Watch the birdie.(distribution daybook)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Four-and-a-half-year-old Cardinal Publishers Group in Indianapolis offers full-service distribution primarily for publishers of sports, health and fitness titles. But as part of its program for controlled growth, it is reaching out to...

Always be selling.(distribution daybook)(Continental Sales Inc)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Four years ago, when Terry Wybel of the Wybel Marketing Group in the Midwest saw the number of independent accounts drop, he joined with three other regional rep groups--Faherty & Associates (West Coast), Melman-Moster Associates (New York, New...

One of the largest private treatment organizations, Hazelden in Center City, Minn., recently extended its distribution agreement with HCI Communications for another five years.(Short Takes)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... One of the largest private treatment organizations, Hazelden in Center City, Minn., recently extended its distribution agreement with HCI Communications for another five years. This year also marks the 50th anniversary of Hazelden's publishing...

Tuttle Publishing in North Clarendon, Vt., is extending its reach in martial arts with a new agreement with martial arts expert Maurice Elmalem, author of The Will Power (Budo International Publishing) on fitness and conditioning.(Short Takes)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Tuttle Publishing in North Clarendon, Vt., is extending its reach in martial arts with a new agreement with martial arts expert Maurice Elmalem, author of The Will Power (Budo International Publishing) on fitness and conditioning. Elmalem holds...

The newly relaunched Liverpool University Press, which was recently incorporated as a commercial business after 105 years, has chosen the University of Chicago Press to market and distribute its books in North America, starting this month.(Short Takes)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The newly relaunched Liverpool University Press, which was recently incorporated as a commercial business after 105 years, has chosen the University of Chicago Press to market and distribute its books in North America, starting this month. In...

Nonpartisan Book Festival is packed.(National Book Festival)
November 1, 2004... Approximately 85,000 book lovers turned out for the fourth annual National Book Festival held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, October 9. Sponsored by the Library of Congress and officially hosted by First Lady Laura Bush,...

Men and Cartoons: Stories.(Audiobook Review)
November 1, 2004... MEN AND CARTOONS: STORIES JONATHAN LETHEM, READ BY THE AUTHOR, TIM BLAKE NELSON, KEVIN CORRIGAN ET AL. Random House Audio, unabridged, four CDs, 4 hrs., $16.95 ISBN 0-7393-1489-0 Music resembling the theme from Star Wars--complete with...

Agent Orange.(Audiobook Review)
November 1, 2004... AGENT ORANGE GEORGE HAY, READ BY WILLIAM SHATNER. AV Books (www.avbooksinc.com), unabridged, one MP3 CD, 12 hrs., $19.95 ISBN 0-9740926-0-6 In combining e-book and audiobook features, AV Books offers a product that will allow readers, and...

Florence of Arabia.(Audiobook Review)
November 1, 2004... FLORENCE OF ARABIA CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY, READ BY PATRICIA KALEMBER. Random House Audio, abridged, five CDs, 5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 0-7393-1687-7 One has to admire the pluck of an author who dares satirize what may be the touchiest subject in...

The Egyptologist.(Video Recording Review)
November 1, 2004... THE EGYPTOLOGIST ARTHUR PHILLIPS, READ BY GIANFRANCO NEGROPONTE, SIMON PREBBLE AND ALYSSA BRESNAHAN. Recorded Books, unabridged, 14 CDs, 16.25 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 1-4025-8956-5 This recording of Phillips's maddeningly suspenseful novel of...

Little Earthquakes.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... LITTLE EARTHQUAKES JENNIFER WEINER, READ BY THE AUTHOR. Simon & Schuster Audio, abridged, four cassettes, 5 hrs., $26 ISBN 0-7435-3622-3 Novels that shift among multiple points of view, such as this one, are often read by multiple...

Shopaholic and Sister.(Audiobook Review)
November 1, 2004... SHOPAHOLIC & SISTER SOPHIE KINSELLA, READ BY KATHERINE KELLGREN. Random House Audio, abridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 0-7393-1573-0 England is a land of plentiful shopping opportunities and colorful regional accents, and actress...

Nights of Rain and Stars.(Audiobook Review)
November 1, 2004... NIGHTS OF RAIN AND STARS MAEVE BINCHY, READ BY TERRY DONNELLY. Penguin Audio, unabridged, six cassettes, 9.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 0-14-280098-8 Binchy's latest work (after Quentins) would present a challenge to any narrator; the large cast of...

When will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... WHEN WILL JESUS BRING THE PORK CHOPS? GEORGE CARLIN, READ BY THE AUTHOR. Hyperion Audiobooks, unabridged, six CDs, 7 hrs., $31.98 ISBN 1-4013-9916-9 * There's no better way to enjoy one of Carlin's books than to hear him read it himself....

The Sweet Potato Queen's Field Guide to Men: Every Man I Love is Either Married, Gay, or Dead.(Audiobook Review)
November 1, 2004... THE SWEET POTATO QUEENS' FIELD GUIDE TO MEN: Every Man I Love Is Either Married, Gay, or Dead JILL CONNER BROWNE, READ BY THE AUTHOR. Random House Audio, abridged, three CDs, 3 hrs., $16.95 ISBN 0-7393-1504-8 * Browne's fourth venture into...

Between a Rock and a Hard Place.(Audiobook Review)
November 1, 2004... BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE ARON RALSTON, READ BY THE AUTHOR. Simon & Schuster Audio, abridged, four cassettes, 6 hrs., $26 ISBN 0-7435-3728-9 Ralston's story is one of the most gut-wrenching and compelling real-life adventures in...

Audio bestsellers.(Illustration)
November 1, 2004... PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Fiction [1] Trace (unabr. CD). Patricia Cornwell. Read by Kate Reading. Penguin Audio. 11 CDs, 12.5 hours, $29.95 ISBN 0-14-280087-2 [2] Hour Game (unabr.). David Baldacci. Read by Scott...

On a role: children's books are still riding high in Hollywood.(children's book)
November 1, 2004... Ogres and wizards and princesses, oh my! Yes, feature films for kids about these favorite archetypes are some of the biggest box-office winners of the year. Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and The Princess Diaries 2 have raked...

In the works.(children's books)
November 1, 2004... Here are some of the children's books that have recently been optioned or are in production or development for film or television. The A-List by Zoey Dean (Little, Brown), film rights purchased by Universal Studios. A Strong Right Arm:...

Big, bigger, biggest: in more ways than one, this category is broadening its size and scope.(Large print: category closeup)
November 1, 2004... AS BABY BOOMERS--defined as members of the generation born between 1946 and 1964--get older and improved medical technology lengthens the average life span, the number of American seniors continues to grow. That demographic shift has had an...

Big on the club scene.
November 1, 2004... The Doubleday Large Print book club, one of the 29 clubs organized by Bookspan, will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2005. (Its first main selection, in 1985, was Howard Fast's The Immigrant's Daughter, from Houghton Mifflin). Jennifer...

Not just for seniors.
November 1, 2004... While older readers do make up the majority of the market for large-print books, there's another group of large-print readers who pass under the radar, and they sit at the other end of the age spectrum: kids. Barbara Mitchell, a reading...

Scoping 9/11 morality: S.J. Rozan.(interview)(Interview)
November 1, 2004... S.J. Rozan loves William Blake. The epigraph to her Shamus Award-winning mystery Winter and Night quotes these lines from Songs of Experience: "Then come home my children/The Sun has gone down... " The indelible shadow of 9/11 had yet to darken...

Stop That Girl: A Novel in Stories.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... STOP THAT GIRL ELIZABETH MCKENZIE. Random, $22.95 (208p) ISBN 1-4000-6224-1 Makeshift families, ill-advised relationships and a series of non-homes shape McKenzie's wry, clever debut, a novel in nine stories. The tidy world of Ann Ransom,...

Articles of War.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... ARTICLES OF WAR NICK ARVIN. Doubleday, $18.95 (176p) ISBN 0-385-51277-5 This fierce, compact tale of one grunt's war takes readers to the same time and place--the woods of northern France in 1944--where Vonnegut's Billy Pilgrim was...

Dr. King's Refrigerator: and Other Bedtime Stories.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... DR. KING'S REFRIGERATOR: And Other Bedtime Stories CHARLES JOHNSON. Scribner, $20 (144p) ISBN 0-7432-6453-3 Sages squabble, philosophers deliberate and kings dream in this collection of eight short stories by National Book Award-winner...

Drive Like Hell.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... DRIVE LIKE HELL DALLAS HUDGENS. Scribner, $23 (336p) ISBN 0-7432-5163-6 Sixteen-year-old Luke Fulmer gets an education in misbehaving in Hudgens's raucous, Southern-fried bildungsroman. Luke hasn't had the greatest role models: his...

Obsessed.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... OBSESSED TED DEKKER. WestBow, $21.99 (400p) ISBN 0-8499-4373-6 Dekker's (Red, etc.) novel begins intriguingly, flashing back and forth between the 1940s story of two pregnant concentration camp inmates tormented by an evil commandant and...

By Order of the President.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT W.E.B. GRIFFIN. Putnam, $26.95 (544p) ISBN 0-399-15207-5 Proving himself solidly in control of cutting-edge military material, Griffin bases his new series not on wars past but on today's murky exigencies of...

Prep.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... PREP CURTIS SITTENFELD. Random, $24.95 (416p) ISBN 1-4000-6231-4 A self-conscious outsider navigates the choppy waters of adolescence and a posh boarding school's social politics in Sittenfeld's A-grade coming-of-age debut. The strong...

The Memory of Running.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... # THE MEMORY OF RUNNING RON MCLARTY. Viking, $24.95 (358p) ISBN 0-670-03367-4 Smithy Ide is a really nice guy. But he's also an overweight, friendless, womanless hard-drinking, 43-year-old self-professed loser with a breast fetish and a...

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... THE FACTS BEHIND THE HELSINKI ROCCAMATIOS YANN MARTEI. Harcourt, $23 (1921p) ISBN 1-15-101090-0 Pathos is leavened with inventiveness and humor in this collection of a novella and three short stories first published in a slightly different...

Too Beautiful for You: Tales of Improper Behavior.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR YOU: Tales of Improper Behavior ROD LIDDLE. Doubleday, $19.95 (272p) ISBN 0-385-51308-9 Maxim meets Friends in this blithely irreverent story collection from British media's most unrepentant bad boy. Liddle, the former...

Now You See Him.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... # NOW YOU SEE HIM STELLA CAMERON. Mira, $19.95 (352p) ISBN 0-7783-2099-5 Cameron returns to Toussaint, La., setting of the popular Kiss Them Goodbye, for another soft-boiled, sexy thriller in which a local author's murder mysteries come to...

Accident of Birth.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... ACCIDENT OF BIRTH HEATHER NEFF. Broadway/Harlem Moon, $12.95 paper (256p) ISBN 0-7679-1751-0 A World Court trial of a Liberian man accused of war crimes forces an African-American woman to come to terms with her troubled past in Neff's...

The Godfather Returns.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... THE GODFATHER RETURNS Mark Winegardner. Random, $26.95 (456p) ISBN 1-4000-6101-6 * When Random announced that Winegardner, best known for the critically acclaimed mainstream saga Crooked River Burning and baseball novel The Veracruz Blues,...

The Covenant.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... THE COVENANT NAOMI RAGEN. St. Martin's, $24.95 (276p) ISBN 0-312-29119-1 Ragen, an American writer who's lived in Israel for more than 30 years, blends tragedies of the past with headline news of today in her gripping, emotionally charged...

The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (Book Review)
November 1, 2004... # THE FINAL SOLUTION: A Story of Detection MICHAEL CHABON. Fourth Estate, $16.95 (144p) ISBN 0-06-076340-X Initially published in the Paris Review in 2003, Chabon's first significant adult fiction since his Pulitzer-winning The Amazing...

McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... MCSWEENEY'S ENCHANTED CHAMBER OF ASTONISHING STORIES EDITED BY MICHAEL CHABON. Vintage, $13.95 paper (368p) ISBN 1-4000-7874-1 With this varied collection of enchanting though not always astonishing tales, Chabon (who also edited...

Jericho's Road.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... JERICHO'S ROAD ELMER KELTON. Forge, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 0-765-30955-6 Seven-time Spur Award-winner and the author of more than 40 books, Kelton serves up another action-packed western with this sixth volume in his Texas Ranger series. The...

A Handbook of American Prayer.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... A HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN PRAYER LUCIUS SHEPARD. Thunder's Mouth, $22 (262p) ISBN 1-56858-281-1 * Having made his reputation with literary SF and fantasy set in the jungles of Central America (The Jaguar Hunter), Shepard embarked on a second...

When Christmas Comes.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... # WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES DEBBIE MACOMBER. Mira, $14.95 (256p) ISBN 0-7783-2090-1 Christmas travel calamities lead to cross-country romances in bestseller Macomber's latest, a treacly but well-told story that begins when widowed Washington...

Fiction notes.
November 1, 2004... November Publications In a tortured burst of introspection, the Hungarian-Jewish narrator of Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kertesz's brief novel Kaddish for an Unborn Child examines his reasons for choosing not to have a child, addressing his...

Prison, prayerstyle and celebrity.(PW Talks with Lucius Shepard)(Interview)
November 1, 2004... PW: You mentioned A Handbook of American Prayer [see review p. 43] over a decade ago, in previous interviews. Did it take that long to write? Lucius Shepard: I originally intended it as a novella. I had it completed, and then I lost it. My...

From Eroica with Love, Vol. 1.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... FROM EROICA WITH LOVE AOIKE YASUKO. CMX Manga, $9.95 paper (144p) ISBN 1-4012-0519-4 This classic manga effort might be overlooked by the casual book-rack browser, but irreverent fun lurks within its pages. A parody of the girls'...

The Supernaturalists.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... PATRICK NEICHLY AND JORGE HEUFEMANN. Mad Yak (www.madyakpress.com), $9.95 paper (160p) ISBN 0-9717995-4-7 Despite the half-naked, bleeding-from-the-mouth goth babe on the cover, this isn't just another revisionist vampire story la Anne...

Full House, Vol. 1.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... FULL HOUSE VOL. 1: Incompatible SOO YON WON. CPM Manhwa, $9.99 paper (18819) ISBN 158664970-1 Romantic comedies fueled by "will they/won't they" tension are nothing new, but the genre gets a fresh going over in this amusing manhwa. A young...

Hymn for the Dead.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... DAEMON HUNTERS: Hymn for the Dead, Vol. 1 SEIUCHIROH TODONO. ADV Manga, $9.99 paper (184p) ISBN 1-4139-0201-4 This first of three volumes launches a convoluted fantasy epic set in an ancient era in which fallen angel Lucifer plots to plunge...