Publishers Weekly articles from November 2007

Publishers Weekly archives from November 2007

B&N, borders expect green Christmas: strong third quarter provides hope for the holidays.(Foreword)(Barnes & Noble Inc.)
November 26, 2007... Stronger than expected third-quarter results at the nation's two major bookstore chains led execs at those retailers to predict that their companies will be able to overcome a generally soft retail environment and post solid gains over the...

Going in style.(Brief article)(Photograph)
November 26, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Todd Anton, author of No Greater Love (Rounder Books), a collection of stories about baseball players who served in the armed forces, arrives at a signing, he likes to do it in style. For an event at B&N in...

Books gain at Hastings.(Hastings Entertainment)(Brief article)
November 26, 2007... Same-store sales in the book segment rose 2.5% in the third quarter at Hastings Entertainment, driven by strong sales of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series. Sales of used books were also up. Total revenue for the retailer increased 2.7%, to...

Kindle meets Grendel.(Foreword)
November 26, 2007... The holiday book season has definitely begun. You know how I know? Not because the tables at my local independent are loading up with titles like Cooking for the Holidays and not even because the chains around town have already brought out...

CPi, MBI consolidating.(Brief article)
November 26, 2007... Quayside Publishing is moving its two Minnesota subsidiaries--Creative Publishing international and Motorbooks International--into new 30,000-sq.-ft, offices in the Wyman Building in downtown Minneapolis. CPi will move on November 26,...

Fodor's in cellular deal.(Fodor's Travel Publications Incorporation)(Brief article)
November 26, 2007... Fodor's Travel has teamed with mobile search company AskMeNow to provide its content to cell phone users. AskMeNow will work with Fodor's to tailor the company's content for the service.

Slager to lead Milkweed.(Daniel Slager at Milkweed Editions )(Brief article)
November 26, 2007... Milkweed Editions has promoted editor-in-chief Daniel Slager to publisher and CEO. Before being named publisher and CEO, Slager shared leadership duties at Milkweed with managing director Hilary Reeves. No announcement was made about Reeves's...

Young booksellers on the front line.(Emerging Leaders)
November 26, 2007... Several years after a group of young booksellers from different parts of the country began exploring ways to get together and share their concerns, both the American Booksellers Association and the regional trade organizations have stepped in...

'Top' event at the strand.(Top Chef )(Brief article)(Photograph)
November 26, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Top Chef host and author of the new cookbook Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet (Weinstein Books) Padma Lakshmi (seated) was joined by fellow foodies and Top Chef judges Gail Simmons and Tom Colicchio, at a recent book...

Larson again to Crown.(Deals)(Erik Larson and Crown Publishing Group)(Brief article)
November 26, 2007... Erik Larson has signed with Crown for two new books; Tina Constable negotiated the deal with David Black, and Larson's longtime editor, Betty Prashker, will edit. The first book, yet to be titled, is said to continue the mode of historical...

Putnam keeps Gibson.(Deals)(William Gibson and Putnam Berkley Group Inc.)(Brief article)
November 26, 2007... Susan Allison at Putnam has acquired North American rights to William Gibson's next novel in a major deal with Martha Millard. No information on the new book is forthcoming; tentative Putnam pub date is 2010. Gibson's latest, Spook Country,...

Two for Lea.(Deals)(Susanna Lea)(Brief article)
November 26, 2007... Gary Fisketjon at Knopf has preempted U.S. rights to a debut novel and story collection by Adam Ross Via Mark Kessler and Susanna Lea at Susanna Lea Associates. The stories, Ladies & Gentlemen, are set mostly in New York and feature...

'Secret' teacher to Grand Central.(Deals)(The Secret)(Brief article)
November 26, 2007... Diana Baroni at Grand Cenrtal's Wellness Central imprint just won a big auction for world rights to No Matter What by motivational speaker Lisa Nichols; Bonnie Solow brokered this major deal. Nichols, the author of two Chicken Soup for the...

Tate on James Brown.(Deals)(Greg Tate)(Brief article)
November 26, 2007... Longtime Village Voice writer Greg Tate has sold his first full-length book, an untitled work on James Brown; Jim Rutman at Sterling Lord sold world rights to Sean McDonald at Riverhead. Tare will track the movement of Brown from folk culture...

Calendar: Dec. 2-8.(Calendar)
November 26, 2007... 12/2 PEN/Faulkner Award-winner T. Coraghessan Boyle turns 59; Penguin has just released his first novel in the suspense genre, Talk Talk, in paperback. 12/3 ABC reruns A Charlie Brown Christmas tonight. Running Press has a...

Want to understand the writers' strike? Read this book.(In the News)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... WHAT HAPPENS NEXT: A History of American Screenwriting Marc Norman. Harmony, $27 (560p) ISBN 978-0-307-38339-6 Just in time to put the current Writers Guild of America strike into perspective comes this sprawling, rollicking and very...

Balliett makes first buys at Hyperion.(Deals)(Will Balliett)(Brief article)
November 26, 2007... Will Balliett, who moved to Hyperion as editorial director in August from Perseus, has made his first two acquisitions for the imprint. The first is Donny Deutsch's Big Idea: 100 Ways to Make Your Entrepreneurial Dreams Come True, from the...

Bendon: 0 to 80 million in five years.(Second Act)
November 26, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bendon Publishing International, located in rural Ashland, Ohio, has grown quickly since it was founded in 2002 by partners Ben Ferguson, Don R. Myers III and Terry Gerwig, all former executives at Landoll Inc.,...

Hulse, Chou up at HC.(People)(Leslie Hulse and Rachel Chou of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.)(Brief article)
November 26, 2007... Leslie Hulse and Rachel Chou have both been promoted in the Internet Development Group at HarperCollins. Hulse, who previously led the development team behind www. harpercollins. com, has been named to the new position of v-p, digital...

Bitting to Thomas Nelson.(People)(Stuart M. Bitting on Thomas Nelson Inc.)(Brief article)
November 26, 2007... Stuart M. Bitting has been named executive v-p and CFO of Thomas Nelson. Bitting will succeed Joe L. Powers, who has held the post since 1979, on December 3. Bitting most recently served as CFO of David Weekley Homes, one of the largest...

Kline to Scholastic.(People)(Daisy Kline )(Brief article)
November 26, 2007... Daisy Kline has been named director of marketing & brand management at Scholastic Media. Kline will report to Leslye Schaefer, senior v-p of marketing and consumer products, and will oversee all marketing initiatives and brand strategies for...

Barbara Peters, the poisoned pen, Scottsdale, Ariz.(Galley Talk)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... It is the gift of a novelist like British lawyer C.J. Sansom to illuminate present uncertainties, conflicts and moral dilemmas by touring similar landscapes in the past in Winter in Madrid (Viking, Jan. 24). It's 1940 in Spain, the Civil War...

Amazonkindle vs. Sony Reader.(Foreword)(Brief article)
November 26, 2007... amazon kindle vs. Sony Reader [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Price: $399 $299 Where Available: Through Through sonystyle. Amazon.com com and some ...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
November 26, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Goodkind began his Sword of Truth series in 1994 with Sword of Truth--it was an immediate hit. Each subsequent book in the series (12 in all), according to Tor, sold better than the one before it, and some 20...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
November 26, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Bad news for the Godless: Religion is inescapable. There has never been a human society without some form of worship. And don't point to communist societies like the Soviet Union--they worshipped blue jeans. Of...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
November 26, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Harper launched Michael Crichton's Next with four different covers. Senior v-p/publisher Liate Stehlik explained: "We created four cover looks for the mass market so that the book would pop off shelves in a truly...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
November 26, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ken Follett discussed The Pillars of the Earth on his Web site: "This is my most popular book. It's overwhelmingly the book that readers talk to me about when I meet them in bookshops. It's becoming a cult." And...

Children's series and tie-ins bestsellers.
November 26, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Philip Pullman, speaking at the New York Times earlier this month, directly addressed the current controversy over the religious themes in his His Dark Material series. Much of the "fuss" over the books, he said,...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.
November 26, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Christopher Evan Welch kicks and scores with his engaging narration of Grisham's charming tale of touchdowns and tortellini. Welch perfectly captures the tone for this humorous and often touching fish out of water...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.
November 26, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Donald's first title for HarperAudio had an announced first printing of 15,000 copies. While audio veteran Sklar handles the unabridged reading duties, Trump reads the foreword. Coauthor Zanker is the president...

Washington.(United States of Bookselling)
November 26, 2007... It's said that rainy Washington has the perfect Climate for book reading. Whatever the reason, the state has a reputation for avid readership. "Chuck Robinson, Owner of the 27-year-old Village Books in Bellingham and a former ABA president,...

Booksellers drop clues.
November 26, 2007... Five stores specializing in mysteries build a case for success. On any given week, at least half the titles on the national bestseller lists are crime fiction--books rooted in the mystery and thriller categories. Mystery bookstores, says...

Oh pure and radiant Millet.(Author Profile)(Biography)
November 26, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lydia Millet is lovely to look at and hugely pregnant, but she's driven more than an hour from her home west of Tucson in the Avra Valley to eat enchiladas and hang out at the Circle Z, a dude ranch 20 miles from...

The Painter from Shanghai.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... * The Painter from Shanghai JENNIFER CODY EPSTEIN. Norton, $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-393-06528-2 Epstein's sweeping debut novel, set in early 20th-century China, fictionalizes the life of Chinese painter Pan Yuliang. Born Xiuquing, she is...

The Woman Who Wouldn't.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... The Woman Who Wouldn't GENE WILDER. St. Martin's, $19.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-37578-2 Wilder's short second novel, following the similarly semifarcical My French Whore, takes a poignant and whimsically romantic poke at...

Mistress of the Revolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Mistress of the Revolution CATHERINE DELORS. Dutton, $24.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-525-95054-7 Against the backdrop of the lead-up to the French Revolution, Delors's mostly successful debut follows the life of Gabrielle de Montserrat, a...

Pravda.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Pravda EDWARD DOCX. Mariner, $13.95 paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-618-53440-1 Docx's second novel (after The Calligrapher) wrings out all the theatrics to be had from unhappy urban-dwelling twins, their sexually voracious father and dead...

Fear and Yoga in New Jersey.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Fear and Yoga in New Jersey DEBRA GALANT. St. Martin's, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-36725-1 Galant follows up her colorful debut, Rattled, with another funny suburban family satire. Nina Gettleman's new yoga studio on the swank side of...

Civil & Strange.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Civil & Strange CLAIR NI AONGHUSA. Houghton Mifflin, $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-618-82936-1 This richly detailed and deceptively simple American debut centers on Ellen Hughes, a 38-year-old teacher from Dublin who leaves her unraveling...

Promise Me Tomorrow.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Promise Me Tomorrow LINDA INGMANSON. Five Star, $25.95 (265p) ISBN 978-1-59414-651-0 Cranberry, Conn., seemed way too old-fashioned for Ash Wheeler, so he headed for L.A. to be a cop instead of signing on to the smalltown police force...

Split Estate.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... * Split Estate CHARLOTTE BACON. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-28183-0 Bacon's beautifully wrought, precisely observed and haunting latest follows a New York family struggling to survive a suicide. When Laura King...

The Dancer and the Thief.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... The Dancer and the Thief ANTONIO SKARMETA, TRANS. FROM THE SPANISH BY KATHERINE SILVER. Norton, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-06494-0 Skarmeta (The Postman) conjures in his impressive sixth book a contemporary Santiago, Chile, where the...

The Reserve.(Book review)
November 26, 2007... The Reserve RUSSELL BANKS. Harper, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-143025-1 Like Banks's two most recent novels--Cloud-splitter, a 1998 book about the abolitionist John Brown, and The Darling, about the wages of'60s radicalism--The Reserve...

The Palace of Illusions.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... The Palace of Illusions CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI. Doubleday, $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-51599-3 Recasting the Indian epic Mahabharata from the perspective of Princess Panchaali, veteran novelist Divakaruni (Queen of Dream) offers a...

The Seduction of the Crimson Rose.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... The Seduction of the Crimson Rose LAUREN WILLIG. Dutton, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-95033-2 In the fourth installment of the Pink Carnation series, Mary Alsworthy suddenly finds herself on the outside of polite society after her...

The Monsters of Templeton.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... * The Monsters of Templeton LAUREN GROFF. Hyperion, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4013-2225-0 At the start of Groff's lyrical debut, 28-year-old Wilhelmina "Willie" Upton returns to her picturesque hometown of Templeton, N.Y., after a...

Shavetail.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Shavetail THOMAS COBB. Scribner, $25 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6119-4 Set in 1871 Arizona, the second novel from Cobb (Crazy Heart) is a thoughtful western that is more character-driven adventure tale than plot-driven novel. Connecticut...

The First Patient.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... The First Patient MICHAEL PALMER. St. Martin's, $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-812-34353-8 This over-the-top yet endlessly entertaining thriller from bestseller Palmer (The Fifth Vial) pits a country doctor against a conspiracy to kill the...

The Chameleon's Shadow.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... The Chameleon's Shadow MINETTE WALTERS. Knopf, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-307-26463-3 One look at Lt. Charles Acland's disfigured face and anyone can see that the Iraqi bomb that blew up two of his men has left him profoundly changed--but...

PW talks with Douglas Preston: writing the words of God.(Q&A)(Interview)
November 26, 2007... In Douglas Preston's thriller Blasphemy (Reviews, Oct. 22), a physicist builds a giant particle accelerator that allows people to talk with God You raise the possibility of a rather dire consequence that could occur when scientists turn...

Touchstone.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Touchstone LAURIE R. KING. Bantam, $24 (560p) ISBN 978-0-553-80355-6 Set shortly before Britain's disastrous General Strike of 1926, this stand-alone thriller from bestseller King (Keeping Watch) offers impeccable scholarship and the...

The Painter of Battles.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... The Painter of Battles EDUARDO PEREZ-REVERTE, TRANS. FROM THE SPANISH BY MARGARET SAYERS PEDEN. Random, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6598-1 Novelist and former war correspondent Perez-Reverte (The Club Dumas; The Queen of the South)...

Sharp Teeth.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... * Sharp Teeth TOBY BARLOW. Harper, $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-143022-0 Barlow's gut-wrenching, sexy debut, a horror thriller in verse, follows three packs of feral dogs in East L.A. These creatures are in fact werewolves, men and women...

And Sometimes Why.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... And Sometimes Why REBECCA JOHNSON. Putnam, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15452-2 Vogue contributing editor Johnson examines in her heartbreaking debut the ties that bind and break in the face of tragedy. Darius, a Shakespeare scholar and...

Lumby's Bounty.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Lumby's Bounty GAIL FRASER. NAL, $14 (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-22288-6 The third installment of Fraser's Lumby series looks in on the Rocky Mountain burg and finds its quirky citizens as busy as ever. In the midst of renovating the inn...

Death Song.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Death Song MICHAEL MCGARRITY. Dutton, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-95036-3 McGarrity's solid eighth police procedural to feature Santa Fe County, N.Mex., police chief Kevin Kerney (after 2005's Nothing but Trouble) opens on a deceptively...

The Sixth Form.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... The Sixth Form TOM DOLBY. Kensington, $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2258-9 Dolby (The Trouble Boy) puts his own prep school experience to fine use in his second novel, which chronicles the travails of Ethan Whitley, the smart but insecure...

Bass Cathedral.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Bass Cathedral NATHANIEL MACKEY. New Directions, $14.95 paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-81121720-0 In the fourth installment of this National Book Award--winning poet and novelist's ongoing epistolary work of fiction, Mackey (Splay Anthem) is...

The Leper Compound.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... The Leper Compound PAULA NANGLE. Bellevue Literary (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-934137-06-2 Zimbabwe and South Africa at the last half of the 20th century provide the complex backdrop for Nangle's melancholy debut....

Single Mama Drama.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Single Mama Drama KAYLA PERRIN. Mira, $13.95 paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2551-2 Just when Vanessa Cain, a young Miami single mama, thinks she's found Mr. Right after a string of meaningless hookups in Perrin's heart-stomping,...

Solemnly Swear.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Solemnly Swear NANCY MOSER. Tyndale, $12.99 paper (330p) ISBN 978-1-4143-0163-1 At the heart of this absorbing, Grishamesque Christian novel by Christy Award-winner Moser (Time Lottery) are four Branson, Mo., residents who are chosen to...

Murder in the Rue de Paradis.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Murder in the Rue de Paradis CARA BLACK. Soho Crime, $24 (312p) ISBN 978-1-56947-474-7 In Black's riveting eighth Aimee Leduc mystery (after 2007's Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis), Aimee reconnects in the summer of 1995 with a former...

The Poisoner of Ptah.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... * The Poisoner of Ptah P.C. DOHERTY. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-35962-1 Prolific British author Doherty (The Assassins of Isis) spins a rich, complex tale of murder in this gripping ancient Egyptian mystery, his...

An Incomplete Revenge: A Maisie Dobbs Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... An Incomplete Revenge: A Maisie Dobbs Novel JACQUELINE WINSPEAR. Holt, $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8215-9 In Edgar-finalist Winspear's enjoyable fifth installment in her Maisie Dobbs series (after 2006's Messenger of Truth), the...

Hush My Mouth: A Southern Fried Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Hush My Mouth: A Southern Fried Mystery CATHY PICKENS. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0312-93747-8 At the start of Pickens's absorbing fourth uthem Fried mystery (after 2007's Hog Wild), smalltown South Carolina...

The Eye of Jade: A Mei Wang Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... The Eye of Jade: A Mei Wang Mystery DIANE WEI LIANG. Simon & Schuster, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4955-0 Chinese exile Liang, who fled her country after participating in the Tiananmen Square protests, makes an impressive debut with this...

Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter NANCY ATHERTON. Viking, $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-670-01854-3 Near the start of Atherton's engaging 13th Aunt Dimity mystery (after 2007'S Aunt Dimity Goes West), series heroine Lori Shepherd, the...

Wash and Die: A Charlotte LaRue Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Wash and Die: A Charlotte LaRue Mystery BARBARA COLLEY. Kensington, $22 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2251-0 Full of lush descriptions of the Big Easy, Colley's seventh Charlotte LaRue whodunit (after 2007'S Scrub-a-Dub Dead) finds the New...

Death's Door.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Death's Door QUINTIN JARDINE. Headline (Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-07553-2909-0 The star doesn't take center until stage late in Jardine's hard-hitting 17th Bob Skinner mystery (after 2007's Dead and Buried), but when...

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... * Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse EDITED BY JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks. corn), $15.95 paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-59780-105-8 This harrowing reprint anthology of 22 apocalyptic tales reflects the stresses of...

Black Sheep: A Dystopian Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Black Sheep: A Dystopian Novel BEN PEEK. Prime (www.prime-books. com), $14.95 paper (332p) ISBN 978-08095-6263-3 Society has fractured into three supposedly pure race factions and multiculturalism is a crime in this bleak Orwellian debut,...

Navigator: Time's Tapestry: 3.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Navigator: Time's Tapestry: 3 STEPHEN BAXTER. Ace, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-441-01559-7 The engrossing third Time's Tapestry novel (after Emperor and Conqueror) from Philip K. Dick Award-winner Baxter focuses on Christianity's reconquest...

The Traitor.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... The Traitor MICHAEL CISCO. Prime (www.primebooks.com), $12.95 paper (152p) ISBN 978-0-8095-7235-9 Cisco (The Tyrant) ups the ante for provocative dark fantasy by giving this coming-of-age tale a subtle metaphysical edge. While still a...

Debatable Space.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Debatable Space PHILIP PALMER. Orbit, $12.99 paper (496p) ISBN 978-0-316-01892-0 It's rarely a good sign when an author tells readers with "sad grasshopper minds" to skip ahead if they're bored, as Palmer does in this muddled debut space...

Keepers of the Flame.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Keepers of the Flame ROBIN D. OWENS. Luna, $14.95 paper (560p) ISBN 978-0-373-80262-3 Twin sisters Elizabeth and Brigid "Bri" Drystan are pulled from Denver into another dimension in this overcrowded fourth installment of the Summoning...

Bandersnatch.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Bandersnatch EDITED BY PAUL TREMBLAY AND SEAN WALLACE. Prime (www.prime-books. com), $19.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-8095-7266-3 It may or may not be frumious, but this original anthology from Tremblay (City Pier: Above & Below) and Wallace...

Blood in the Fruit: Book Four of the Marq'ssan Cycle.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Blood in the Fruit: Book Four of the Marq'ssan Cycle L. TIMMEL DUCHAMP. Aqueduct (www.aqueductpress.com), $19 paper (568p) ISBN 978-1-933500-15-7 Originally written in the mid-'80s and revised in 1996, this fourth installment of the...

December publications.(SF/Fantasy/Horror Notes)(book reviews)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Fantasy fans who love high-tech toys and Mission: Impossible-style intrigue will get a kick out of Jennifer Rardin's Another One Bites the Dust: AJaz Parks Novel, in which Parks, an irreverent CIA assassin, goes undercover to hunt down...

The Thieves of Faith.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... The Thieves of Faith RICHARD DOETSCH. Bantam Dell, $6.99 (530p) ISBN 978-0-440-24289-5 Retired art thief Michael St. Pierre (star of Doetsch's debut The Thieves of Heaven) tests the limits of his skills and of reader credulity as he...

Morning Light.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Morning Light CATHERINE ANDERSON. Signet, $7.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-22277-0 Crusty Clint Harrigan (of the same Harrigan clan as Anderson's Sun Kissed), is, at 37, a Catholic cowboy who's sworn off romance. The arrival of a cute...

Dust.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Dust ELIZABETH BEAR. Bantam Spectra, $6.99 (342p) ISBN 978-0-553-59107-1 Bear proves there's still juice in one of science fiction's oldest tropes, the stranded generation ship, in this complex coming-of-age tale. Rien, a handmaid in a...

A Seduction in Scarlett.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... A Seduction in Scarlett SARA BENNETT. Avon, $5.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-133634-8 Bennett's latest skirt-lifter featuring Courtesan Aphrodite, a Victorian London madam, stars Portia, Lady Ellerslie, who's weary of living her life to honor...

Evermore.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... Evermore LYNN VIEHL. Signet, $7.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-22284-8 Scottish vampire Byrne wrestles with love for Jayr, his female seneschal (or senior officer in charge of domestic ceremonies) in this fifth book in the Darkyn series. In...

I Was Told There'd Be Cake.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 26, 2007... * I Was Told There'd Be Cake SLOANE CROSLEY. Riverhead, $14 paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-59448-306-6 This debut essay collection is full of sardonic wit and charm, and Crosley effortlessly transforms what could have been stereotypical tales...