Publishers Weekly articles from October 2004

Publishers Weekly archives from October 2004

Lyon Resigns from Advanced Marketing: Exec had responsibility for advertising, distribution.(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... KEVAN LYON, who had served in a variety of roles at Advanced Marketing Services and, until spring 2003, was responsible for the advertising department, has resigned. AMS's ad department has been the target of two ongoing investigations and,...

B&N vs. Borders.(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... Borders's announcement earlier this month that it would not meet its third-quarter financial targets was quickly followed by more positive news from Barnes & Noble. That continues a trend that has been evident for all of 2004. For the six...

Is culture clash costing borders sales?(News)(Borders Group)
October 25, 2004... BORDERS GROUP EXECUTIVES earlier this month tied the company's failure to hit its third-quarter financial targets to hurricanes and elections. But interviews with a number of publishers--mostly at midsized houses--found the problems at the...

Wal-Mart not carrying America'.(Decisions '04)(America: The Book)
October 25, 2004... THOUGH America: The Book has been the country's number-one hardcover nonfiction bestseller for three weeks, it has achieved those sales without the help of America's largest retailer. Warner Books publisher Jamie Raab confirmed last week that...

College sales lead MHE.(Third-Quarter Results)(McGraw-Hill Education)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... DRIVEN BY A 5.8% increase in its higher education, professional and international group (HPI), total revenue at McGraw-Hill Education rose 2%, to just over $3 billion, and operating profit increased 9.1%, to $323.3 million, in the third...

'Line of beauty' takes man booker.(Prizes)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty from Picador has won the Man Booker in England, beating the odds of bookies and the chattering class alike. The Guardian describes Beauty as a "novel of gay love in the Thatcherite '80s." Hollinghurst...

Settlement 'Imminent' in Tasini' v. Times'?(Copyright Infringement)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... A SPOKESPERSON FOR the National Writers Union has told PW that a final agreement on the damages to be levied against the New York Times and its co-defendants in a 2001 Supreme Court ruling on copyright infringement is "imminent." Another...

Interim head and new graphic line for Capstone.(Supplemental Publishing)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... MATT KELLER has been serving as interim president of supplemental publisher Capstone Press since the September resignation of Jon Martin. Keller, president of the Coughlan Companies, educational publishers, which owns Capstone, said Martin...

Public affairs won't publish Clarke book.(Solo)(Richard Clarke)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... A BOOK COAUTHORED by Richard Clarke, one of the big trade titles at Frankfurt, won't be published by the trade house that had originally intended to do it. Public Affairs, which had announced at the show a copublication deal for Defeating the...

Smithsonian Institution overhauling book unit.(Privatized?)
October 25, 2004... ALTHOUGH THE SMITHSONIAN Institution Press came close to reaching break-even in the fiscal year ended September 30, the Smithsonian board is proceeding with a plan that will put the publication of SIP's scholarly books under the direction of...

Bookstore sales fall 4% in August.(Retailing)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... August was another soft month for bookstore sales, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, Sales in the month fell 4.1%, to $2.08 billion, while the entire retail segment had a 4.5% sales gain. The weak August...

Llewellyn adding mystery imprint.(Thrilling)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... LLEWELLYN WORLDWIDE, best known for publishing a wide range of New Age titles, is adding a mystery imprint. The pub date for the first five releases under the still unnamed imprint is fall 2005. The mysteries will range in style from...

Wide sales for lost WWII novels.(hot deals)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... A pair of novels, long believed lost, written more than 60 years ago by a Russian exile in Paris about France during World War II surfaced just before Frankfurt and won a worldwide flurry of sales for the French publisher that rediscovered...

Big new deal for Finder.(hot deals)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... Former intelligence officer-turned-novelist Joseph Finder has signed a new two-book deal, worth seven figures, with St. Martin's Press editor Keith Kahla. Finder's previous thrillers center on crime in the corporate world (Paranoia; High...

Prohibition story, for book and TV.(hot deals)(Daniel Okrent)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... The recently appointed public editor at the New York Times, Daniel Okrent, has signed to write a major book about the Prohibition era in the United States, which lasted from 1920 to 1933 and had a vast impact on the country's social and moral...

Marine hero's tale sold.(hot deals)(Jason Dunham)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... Cpl. Jason Dunham, a Marine from a small town in upstate New York, was on patrol with some buddies in Iraq when an Iraqi grabbed him and threw a grenade. Dunham instantly dropped his helmet on the grenade as it exploded, killing him and...

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline.(Short takes)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... Riverhead's Sean McDonald signed two new books by satirist George Saunders, whose previous work, including CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, has won several awards; one will be a novella, the other a new book of stories, and the North American...

Trident Media Group.(Short takes)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... Doubleday's Kendra Harpster won a literary first novel at auction, an untitled work by Shaft Goldhagen, who writes short stories as a reprieve from her day job writing for the National Enquirer. Goldhagen's book, an untitled tale of the...

Also at Trident, Jenny Bent and John Silbersack sold a book by former veteran Republican congressman (and now Fox-IV figure) John Kasich called What's Wrong with This Country: Setting Right the American Pendulum.(Short takes)
October 25, 2004... Also at Trident, Jenny Bent and John Silbersack sold a book by former veteran Republican congressman (and now Fox-IV figure) John Kasich called What's Wrong with This Country: Setting Right the American Pendulum, which suggests a bipartisan...

Stephanie Tade at Rodale bought a book by a large, cheerful lobbyist and man-about-politics in Washington named Michael S. Berman.(Short takes)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... Stephanie Tade at Rodale bought a book by a large, cheerful lobbyist and man-about-politics in Washington named Michael S. Berman. His book, Living Large: A Big Person's Journey to Happiness, suggests that even fat people can enjoy life, a...

Zagat surveys: more than just restaurants.(Rated)
October 25, 2004... OCTOBER 18 WAS the laydown date for Zagat Survey's 2005 New York City Restaurant Guide, the flagship publication for a company that will publish more than 60 leisure guides this year. The new edition is likely to sell more than 650,000 copies...

Clarke moves up at RD.(People)
October 25, 2004... READER'S DIGEST HAS promoted Harold Clarke to president and publisher, trade publishing and special markets. Clarke has been with RD since 2000, serving as v-p and publisher, new market development, while also overseeing the adult trade book...

Three new small presses debut.(Independent Publishing)(Reverse/Grain Publishing)(Jazoli Publishing)(Rescue Press)
October 25, 2004... THREE INDEPENDENT press startups in New England and the Mid-Atlantic region are skipping traditional book distributors and instead relying on wholesalers Ingram, Baker & Taylor and their own Web sites to successfully market their lists. ...

McGorry new 'PW publisher.(People)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... VETERAN MAGAZINE publisher Bill McGorry has been named executive v-p and publisher of Reed Business Information's publishing group, home to Publishers Weekly as well as PW's affiliated publications Library Journal, School Library Journal and...

Gabriel to S&S backlist post.(People)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... LOOKING TO BOOST backlist sales, Simon & Schuster has promoted B.J. Gabriel to the newly created spot of v-p, sales development, in the company's sales and distribution division. Gabriel has been director of national accounts, a position she...

Cook joins Milkweed.(People)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... EMILY COOK has joined Milkweed Editions as marketing and publicity manager. Cook was director of Chicago's Printers Row Book Fair for three and a half years. Prior to organizing Printers Row, Cook spent several years as a bookseller. "Emily's...

A fit fiction foursome.(behind the bestsellers)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... Actually, four new fiction titles with five I fiction authors. That's because Double p Homicide: Santa Fe, marking its second r week in the #14 slot, is by two veteran I bestselling authors: the husband-and-wife mystery duo Faye and Jonathan...

Nonfiction newbies.(behind the bestsellers)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... Four new nonfiction hardcovers--A Paper Life,, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?; Your Best Life;, and Magical Thinking--land on PWs chart this week and nary a one has any politics in them. We're not sure if that's a coincidence, or...

Who's afraid of Elfriede? Nobel honor holds modest sales bonanza for Elfriede Jelinek's London indie house.(book news)
October 25, 2004... Though the announcement that Elfriede Jelinek had won the Nobel prize for literature was met in the U.S. book industry with a resounding cry of "who?", it was a great joy for Peter Ayrton, who has published her for nearly 15 years as editor...

Chelsea green scores with instant book.(Framing Politics)
October 25, 2004... For a book that wasn't even a glint in the author's eye until mid-July, Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate (Sept. 13) by George Lakoff has turned into one big bundle of joy for Chelsea Green. The 125-page, $10...

Nobel peace prize sours second printing.(Framing Politics)(Lantern books to republish work by Wangari Maathai.)(Brief Article)
October 25, 2004... On the heels of Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai's newly awarded Nobel Peace Prize, her 2003 book, The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience (Lantern Books), will be republished next month in paperback,...

Spicing up the regionals.(New England Booksellers Association Trade Show)(Great Lakes Booksellers Association)
October 25, 2004... NEBA: TAKING A CUE FROM REALITY SHOWS If there was a theme at this year's 31st annual New England Booksellers Association Trade Show, held in Boston's World Trade C enter, it was "extreme makeover." From the educational panel led by...

Kate McMullan: On the Trail of an Ancestor.(Interview)(Biography)
October 25, 2004... One of Kate McMullan's most vivid childhood memories is that of listening to stories about a distant relative by the name of George "Pegleg" Shannon, an Ohio native who lost his leg after being shot while escorting a Native American chief to...

Allan Wolf: the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 14 Voices.(Interview)(Biography)
October 25, 2004... A first novel published by Candlewick this September also tracks the travels of Lewis and Clark, this one weaving together the first-person accounts of 14 members of the Corps of Discovery. Author Allan Wolf explained that New Found Land:...

Andrea Warren: a Vietnamese Child's Journey.(Interview)(Biography)
October 25, 2004... On the eve of Saigon's fall to the North Vietnamese in 1975, Long, an eight-year-old boy living in a Saigon orphanage, was flown out of that city as part of Operation Babylift, which brought 2,300 Vietnamese orphans to the U.S. to be placed...

Don Brown: Bringing Historical Figures to Life.(Interview)(Biography)
October 25, 2004... The creator of numerous picture-book biographies of historical figures, Don Brown explained how he found his niche. "I have always loved to read history and have a particular bent for forgotten or unusual history," he said. "I think that who...

Nancy Farmer: Fantasy Rooted in Facts.(The Sea of Trolls)(Interview)(Biography)
October 25, 2004... Known primarily for her fantasy books infused with science-fiction, Nancy Farmer started The Sea of Trolls (Atheneum/Jackson, Sept), an epic Viking tale, "as a vacation from my last two books [The House of the Scorpion and A Girl Named...

Phillip Hoose: Championing a Cause.(Interview)(Biography)
October 25, 2004... "I've always wanted to instill passion in young people for the work that I do, and the way to do that is by telling a good story," said Phillip Hoose, a conservation planner for the Nature Conservancy. Hoose wanted to write a story "with a...

Angela Bourke: Maeve Golightly?(interview)(Interview)(Biography)
October 25, 2004... From the 1950s through the early 1970s, the New Yorker published a writer self-described as "The Long-Winded Lady." She wrote extraordinary pieces about the ordinary', everyday life of New York City, be it walking the dog or observing people...

Forests of the Night.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... Forests of the Night JAMES W. HALL. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-312-27180-8 Police detective Charlotte Monroe arrives home in Coral Gables, Fla., one evening to find her lawyer husband, Parker, and their teenage...

Los Angeles.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... LOS ANGELES PETER MOORE SMITH. Little, Brown, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-316-80392-8 As an albino in sunny Los Angeles, Angel Veronchek is a stranger in a strange land, and Smith's moody and atmospheric psychological thriller embraces the...

American Purgatorio.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... AMERICAN PURGATORIO JOHN HASKELL. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $23 (256p) ISBN 0-374-10432-0 A man scrutinizes what it means to live and love during a cross-country search for his missing wife in a prickly, penetrating novel by the...

The Good Neighbor.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... THE GOOD NEIGHBOR WILLIAM KOWALSKI. HarperCollins, $24.95 (416p) ISBN 0-06-621137-9 Better living through chemistry. That's what Francie Hart, the Stepford wife-like protagonist of this melodramatic novel by Kowalski (Eddie's...

The Girl Who Married a Lion: And Other Tales from Africa.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... THE GIRL WHO MARRIED A LION: And Other Tales From Africa. ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH. Pantheon, $20 (208p) ISBN 0-375-42312-5 Straying from the safety net of a best-selling series (The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, etc.), Smith tells 40...

Need: Stories from Africa.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... NEED: Stories from Africa WILLIAM McCAULEY. Permanent, $24 (167p) ISBN 1-57962-109-0 Set in Sierra Leone during the final year before the gruesome civil war of the 1990s, this bleak collection of nine short stories draws on the...

A Time of Angels.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... A TIME OF ANGELS PATRICIA SGHONSTEIN. Morrow, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 0-06-056242-0 A colorful expatriate neighborhood of Italian Jews in post-apartheid Capetown is the setting for this charming if familiar novel of food, love and magic....

One Night Stand.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... ONE NIGHT STAND BEN TYLER. Kensington, $23 (2880) ISBN 0-7582-0683-6 Tyler (Gay Blades, etc.) puts a sunny spin on the rent-boy business in this sex-filled rags to riches tale. Barely making ends meet waiting tables at a trendy L.A....

The Distance Between Us.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US MASHA HAMILTON. Unbridled (www.unbridledbooks.com), $24.95 (304p) ISBN 1-932961-02-X A foreign correspondent's facade of emotional invincibility is shattered by the death of a colleague in journalist...

Dillinger in Hollywood: New and Selected Short Stories.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... DILLINGER IN HOLLYWOOD: New and Selected Short Stories JOHN SAYLES. Nation Books, $13.95 paper (272p) ISBN 1-56025-632-X Though Sayles is best known as the writer/director of acclaimed independent films (Lone Star; Matewan), he's also...

Damned if I Do.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... DAMNED IF I DO PERCIVAL EVERETT. Graywolf, $15 paper (208p) ISBN 1-55597-411-2 Novelist and satirist Everett (Erasure; A History of the African American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond) gives his own particular spin to tales of...

Case Histories.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... CASE HISTORIES KATE ATKINSON. Little, Brown, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-316-74040-3 In this ambitious fourth novel from Whitbread winner Atkinson (Behind the Scenes at the Museum), private detective Jackson Brodie--ex-cop, ex-husband and...

A Good Man is Hard to Find.(PW Talks with Kate Atkinson)(Interview)(Biography)
October 25, 2004... PW: Do you see your new novel, Case Histories [see review above], as a cross-genre book? Kate Atkinson. I'm not sure I even know what that means. I don't think of myself as writing in a particular genre. I don't know what genre you would...

Men and Cartoons: Stories.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... MEN AND CARTOONS: Stories JONATHAN LETHEM. Doubleday, $19.95 (176p) ISBN 0-385-51216-3 Like Lethem's bestselling novel The Fortress of Solitude, this collection blends the literary with the fantastical, probing themes of loneliness,...

Dr. Zastro's Sanitarium for the Ailments of Women.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... DR. ZASTRO'S SANITARIUM-For the Ailments of Women LUDMILLA BOLLOW. Behler (www.behlerpublieations.com), $16.95 paper (346p) ISBN 1-933016-01-9 A Gypsy woman's search for healing leads to a passionate affair with a New York doctor in...

Death in Danzig.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... DEATH IN DANZIG STEFAN CHWIN, TRANS. FROM THE POLISH BY PHILIP BOEHM. Harcourt, $24 (256p) ISBN 0-15-100805-1 There's a mystery of sorts at the center of this probing, hermetic look at wartime Danzig--the Polish port known after WWII...

The Autobiography of God: a Novel.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GOD: A Novel JULIUS LESTER. St. Martin's, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 0-312-28820-4 Lester, author of the critically acclaimed novel Do Lord Remember Me and the memoir Lovesong, melds the classic college mystery with...

Silver Bells: a Holiday Tale.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... SILVER BELLS: A Holiday Tale LUANNE RICE. Bantam, $15 (224p) ISBN 0-553-80411-1 A Christmas tree farmer from Nova Scotia and a lonely New York widow come together in this Christmas weepie by bestseller Rice (Beach Girls, etc.)....

Billie's Ghost.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... BILLIE'S GHOST CHAD HAUTMANN. Plume, $12 paper (176p) ISBN 0-452-2848 1-3 Casey Cooper, who narrates this maudlin first novel, hasn't worked in the year since his wife, Virginia, died. He's been living off life insurance, savings and...

When Strange Gods Call.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... WHEN STRANGE GODS CALL PAM CHUN. Sourcebooks, $14 paper (272p) ISBN 1-4022-3030-9 Chun follows up The Money Dragon with another book set in Hawaii, this time a sentimental tale of star-crossed lovers unfolding in 1970, 11 years after the...

Playing Out the String.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... PLAYING OUT THE STRING B.J. LEGGETT. Livingston, $14.95 paper (204p) ISBN 1-931982-44-9 Leggett's debut fancies itself a mystery--though not so much a whodunit as a sustained inquiry into the subterfuge of petty academics and the perils...

The Originals.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... THE ORIGINALS DAVE GIBBONS. DC Comics, $24.95 (160p) ISBN 1-4012-0355-8 * Gibbons's masterful skills as writer and artist energize this coming-of-age story set in a slightly skewed world full of familiar frustrations and temptations....

The Wallflower.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... THE WALLFLOWER TOMOKO HAYAKAWA. Del Rey, $10.95 paper (216p) ISBN 0345-47912-2 Sunako is an awkward teenager who's about to get the "Queer Eye for the Straight Manga Heroine" treatment from four young men who will win three years of free...

1602.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... 1602 NEIL GAIMAN AND ANDY KUBERT. Marvel, $24.99 (248p) ISBN 0-7851-1070-4 * The always inventive Gaiman has concocted an unlikely--but fantastically successful--superhero comic that transfers Marvel's classic characters to the...

Cities of the Fantastic: the Invisible Frontier, Vol. 2.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... CITIES OF THE FANTASTIC: The Invisible Frontier, Vol. 2 FRANCOIS SCHUITEN AND BENOIT PEETERS. NBM, $15.95 (72p) ISBN 1-56163-400-X Schuiten and Peeters published the first volume of this satire of political unrest in the former Yugoslavia...

A Few Perfect Hours: and Other Stories from Southeast Asia & Central Europe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... A FEW PERFECT HOURS: And Other Stories from Southeast Asia & Central Europe JOSH NEUFELD. Josh Neufeld (Alternative Comics, dist.), $12.95 paper (128p) ISBN 1-891867-79-2 Neufeld and his girlfriend, Sari, have traveled all over the world,...

The Fire Baby.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... THE FIRE BABY JIM KELLY. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-312-32145-7 * British author Kelly proves that his outstanding mystery debut, The Water Clock (2003), was no fluke in this gripping sequel. When his mother's old...

The Pact.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... JENNIFER STURMAN. Red Dress Ink, $12.95 paper (320p) ISBN 0-373-25079-7 In the prologue of this breezy, absorbing mystery, Rachel Benjamin and her four college girlfriends promise to keep each other from romancing unlikable men by...

Dance of the Thunder Dogs.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... KIRK MITCHELL. Berkley Prime Crime, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 0-425-19836-7 In Mitchell's impressive fifth mystery (after 2003's Sky Woman Falling) featuring federal investigator Emmett Quanah Parker, the badly injured Parker has returned home...

The Christmas Thief (Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... THE CHRISTMAS THIEF: An Alvirah and Willy Christmas Mystery MARY HIGGINS CLARK & CAROL HIGGINS CLARK. Simon & Schuster, $20 (208p) ISBN 0-7432-7155-6 Mother and daughter Clark, each a bestseller in her own right, have produced a...

The Man Who Tried to Get Away.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... THE MAN WHO TRIED TO GET AWAY STEPHEN R. DONALDSON. Forge, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 0-765-30205-5 At the start of fantasy author Donaldson's tense "and-then-there-was-none" whodunit, PI "Brew" Axbrewder is recovering from a gunshot wound when...

Carnage on the Committee.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... CARNAGE ON THE COMMITTEE RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (226p) ISBN 1-59058-133-4 In her 10th comic Robert Amiss mystery, Dudley Edwards (The Anglo-Irish Murders) mercilessly skewers the book publishing world. The poisoning...

The Burning of Rachel Hayes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... THE BURNING OF RACHEL HAYES DOUG ALLYN. Five Star, $25.95 (339p) ISBN 1-4104-0202-9 * Fans of Edgar-winner Allyn's Dr. David Westbrook will be thrilled by this first novel to feature his short story hero. The troubled veterinarian has...

November Publications.(Mystery Notes)(The Russian Passenger)(Please Do Feed the Cat)(Crushing Crystal: A Jane Stuart and Winky Mystery)(Wrapped Up in Crosswords)(And a Puzzle to Die On: A Puzzle Lady Mystery)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... Noir fans will welcome Gunter Ohnemus's The Russian Passenger, a literate thriller cum love story translated from the German by John Brownjohn. Munich taxi driver Harry Willemer and one of his passengers, a former KGB agent and wife of a...

Exultant.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... EXULTANT STEPHEN BAXTER. Del Rey, $25.95 (480p) ISBN 0-345-45788-9 Military SF fans will relish the second entry in Baxter's Destiny's Children trilogy, set long after the events recounted in 2003's Coalescent. When navy pilot Pirius and...

The Shades of Time and Memory.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... THE SHADES OF TIME AND MEMORY: The Second Book of the Wraeththu Histories STORM CONSTANTINE. Tor, $27.95 (448p) ISBN 0-765-39347-7 No one navigates "the web of the wyrd" quite the way British author Constantine (The Wraiths of Will and...

The Fear Planet and Other Unusual Destinations: the Reader's Bloch, Volume One.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... THE FEAR PLANET AND OTHER UNUSUAL DESTINATIONS: The Reader's Bloch, Volume One ROBERT BLOCH, EDITED BY STEFAN R. DZIEMIANOWICZ, Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $40 (300p) ISBN 1-59606-005-0 While now best known for his horror...

Wolf Captured.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... WOLF CAPTURED JANE LINDSKOLD. Tor, $27.95 (528p) ISBN 0-765-30936-X * Firekeeper, the wolf-girl, finally hits her stride in the exhilarating fourth book in Lindskold's well-received fantasy series (Through Wolf's Eyes, etc.). Born a human...

Singularity.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... SINGULARITY BILL DESMEDT. Per Aspera (www.perasperapress.com), $25.95 (512p) ISBN 0-9745734-4-2 DeSmedt's debut SF thriller, a brisk Michael Crichton clone, vividly depicts the Tunguska event that leveled a big patch of Siberia in 1908,...

The Romantic.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... THE ROMANTIC MADELINE HUNTER. Bantam, $5.99 (416p) ISBN 0-553-58729-3 The title belies the darkness at the core of Hunter's Regency romance cure legal thriller, the fifth in a series that started with The Seducer. Penelope, countess of...

The One That Got Away.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY VICTORIA ALEXANDER, LIZ CARLYLE, ELOISA JAMES AND CATHY MAXWELL. Avon, $6.99 (384p) ISBN 0-06-054026-5 Four of the brightest historical romance authors writing today serve up stories of lovers reunited in this...

Blue Dahlia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... BLUE DAHLIA NORA ROBERTS. Jove, $7.99 (368p) ISBN 0-515-13855-X Flower metaphors run amok in this first installment of Roberts's newest trilogy, which focuses on a quaint nursery called In the Garden and the haunted estate neighboring it....

Little Girl Lost.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... LITTLE GIRL LOST RICHARD ALEAS. Hard Case (www.hardcasecrime.com), $6.99 (224p) ISBN 0-8439-5351-9 Aleas's debut barrels forth at the speed of one of the Manhattan taxis its protagonist frequently catches and contains some...

Allah's Torch: a Report from Behind the Scenes in Asia's War on Terror.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... ALLAH'S TORCH: A Report from Behind the Scenes in Asia's War on Terror TRACY DAHLBY. Morrow, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 0-06-056090-8 Vast, vital and incredibly diverse economically, socially, ethnically and religiously, the Republic of Indonesia...

The World of Christopher Marlowe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 25, 2004... THE WORLD OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE DAVID RIGGS. Holt/John Macrae, $30 (432p) ISBN 0-8050-7755-3 Riggs (Ben Jonson: A Life), an English professor at Stanford University, traces the life of Elizabethan poet, playwright and spy Christopher...