Publishers Weekly articles from October 2005

Publishers Weekly archives from October 2005

Publishing and printing in Singapore: players are capitalizing on the island-state's pro-business climate and efficient infrastructure to expand their export markets.
October 3, 2005... On the map, Singapore is often located by its name rather than its land mass of only 692 square kilometers. A small dot in the Indian Ocean, it is an island-state where the longest road trip takes less than 45 minutes and on which 6,400...

Booking their space: having outgrown the local and regional contexts, Singapore publishers are now actively seeking co-edition partners and new export markets.
October 3, 2005... With more than 700 publishers in Singapore--including multinational publishers whose Asian headquarters call the island-state home--the current publishing scene is positively bubbling with more universal content. But it hasn't always been this...

On the dot: precision, quality, timeliness: these define the state of the printing and color-separation industry in Singapore.(SINGAPORE REPORT)(Industry Overview)
October 3, 2005... This much is true: when buying print, most people focus on price--the lower the better. But that should not be the whole story. Quality, service and even the supporting infrastructure are just as important, as they determine how the final...

Used books: threat or opportunity? Industry looks for ways to react to trend.
October 3, 2005... The finding that sales of used trade and professional books jumped in 2004, to $589 million, was good news for online retailers, who have been fueling that sales growth, and consumers, who have access to books at lower prices. But it was bad,...

Pubs file copyright suit.(Cann Copy and Printing, Tan Tien Publications sued for copyright infringement)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Five publishers have filed a lawsuit against Cann Copy & Printing and Tan Tien Publications, charging the two San Jose, Calif., companies with copyright infringement for allegedly producing unauthorized photocopies of their titles and selling...

HC adds mass market to Rayo.(HarperCollins Publishers Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Rayo, HarperCollins's Spanish-language imprint, is launching Mass Market en Espanol, an initiative offering a selection of popular Harper genre fiction in Spanish-language mass market paperback format. The program will launch later this month...

Author, sell thyself.
October 3, 2005... "If I am not for me, who will be for me?" That's a line found in prayerbooks read by a lot of people at this time of year. It is also the mantra for writers, whatever their religion, pretty much anytime and anywhere. Amid complaints that...

Deahl joins 'PW'.(Rachel Deahl, Publishers Weekly)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Rachel Deahl has joined PW as news editor, taking over some of the reporting duties from Steve Zeitchik, who is moving to Variety. Deahl most recently was associate editor at the Book Standard and, before that, was assistant editor at Working...

Herling leaving Harper.(Lisa Herling, HarperCollins Publishers Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Lisa Herling, head of corporate communications at HarperCollins for seven years, will be leaving the company at the end of this month. Herling said she felt "the time is right to try something new." Before joining HC, Herling had led corporate...

AMS expects earnings in '06.(Advanced Marketing Services Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... In a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission last week, Advanced Marketing Services said it is on track to generate EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) of $7.2 million for the fiscal year ending...

Karp signs three.(Jonathan Karp, Warner Twelve imprint)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Jonathan Karp has signed the first three books for his new Warner Twelve imprint. Christopher Buckley's Boomsday, Christopher Hitchens's God Is Not Great and Julie Checkoway's Waiting for Hockney will all appear on Warner Twelve's inaugural...

Nardin is Springer CEO.(Ted Nardin appointed as Springer Publishing Co.'s chief executive officer)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Ted Nardin has been appointed CEO and publisher of the Springer Publishing Company. Formerly group v-p of the McGraw-Hill professional group, Nardin succeeds Diana Schneider, who has been named managing director of Springer parent company...

Swihart moves to Consortium.(Jennifer Swihart joins Consortium Book Sales and Distribution Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Jennifer Swihart has been named marketing director for Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, replacing Susan Doerr, who moved to the University of Minnesota Press in July. Swihart previously worked in marketing and publicity at a number of New...

S&S launches podcast.(Simon & Schuster Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Simon & Schuster followed the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group into podcasting last week with the creation of SimonSays Podcast, a free, subscription-based weekly half-hour of original digital audio programming. The podcast, which can be downloaded...

Mystic River meets mystic pizza.(Julia Roberts signs to produce a movie on Cammie McGovern's Eye Contact and would perform its lead role)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... When the world's #1 female movie star wants to produce a big studio movie based on your manuscript, and the lead character just happens to be perfect for her, well, let's just say it wasn't one of Cammie McGovern's more difficult decisions....

Baja blues.(Jack Lopez)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Take a lower-middle class The O.C., throw in Endless Summer, mix it up with some Y tu mama tambien, and what do you get? In the Break, a first YA novel by surfer-author Jack Lopez and very likely the next YA title to land a sweet studio film...

An efficient executive.(Jennifer Weiner, DreamWorks L.L.C.'s Sara Roby )(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... In what must be a Gotham record, DreamWorks's Sara Roby has set up her first project, a scant two weeks after her promotion to head of the studio's New York office. Roby brought in Jennifer Weiner's The Guy Not Taken, a short story by the...

Low-price leaders.(Dollar stores)
October 3, 2005... Formerly perceived as a dumping ground for remainders, dollar stores have increasingly become a viable channel for new books, particularly in lower-end children's categories such as coloring and activity titles. Many dollar stores...

More 'PW' kids, comics coverage.(free online weekly newsletters through www.publishersweekly, com/article/ CA6253324 and www. publishersweekly. com/article/CA6259 007)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Publishers Weekly has just launched two free online weekly newsletters. Children's Bookshelf, which comes out on Thursdays, contains news and features about children's books and children's publishing; see www.publishersweekly, com/article/...

Graphic Arts refinances.(Graphic Arts Center Publishing)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Graphic Arts Center Publishing, one of the Northwest's largest publishers, is close to completing a refinancing that will allow the publisher to get its balance sheet back in order. Mike Hopkins said the refinancing would enable Graphic Arts to...

Talk of the trade.(books)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... It's been a while since booksellers have gotten really excited about a legal thriller. But the 7,300 galleys Doubleday sent out of Mark Gimenez's The Color of Law (Oct. 18) seem to have done the trick. The morality tale, which has a fresh twist...

Girl-friendly comics arrive.
October 3, 2005... Headlines are filled with news of the trend that teens, notably teenage girls, are into reading manga. But what about younger girls who like reading comic books but aren't old enough for the content in many of the manga titles filling bookstore...

Weighing Oprah's choice.(Oprah Winfrey's book club)
October 3, 2005... It's good news for contemporary authors at every stage of their careers that Oprah's book club is now open to living writers and all genres, after focusing on classic lit for the past two and half years. But how much will the change affect...

New hires at S&S kids.(appointments for Lizzy Bromley, Brooke Lindner and Sarah Payne)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Lizzy Bromley, most recently with Bloomsbury Children, has been named art director for S&S Books for Young Readers. Brooke Lindner, formerly with Modern Publishing, has joined Simon Spotlight as editor. Sarah Payne has joined McElderry Books as...

Stielstra joins Nelson.(Greg Stielstra, Thomas Nelson Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Greg Stielstra has been named v-p of marketing, Thomas Nelson. He had been with Zondervan.

Rodale tabs Carbonell.(Rodale Inc., Maria Carbonell)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Maria Carbonell, formerly executive director of communications at Time Warner, has been named senior v-p of corporate communications.

First Quills winner.(Foreword)
October 3, 2005... Beecroft Books of Superior, Wisc., won the drawing for a trip to the Quill Awards, open to booksellers who displayed Quill-nominated titles. Owner Jan Murphy (left) and bookstore assistant manager Carrie Sutherland will be flown to New York,...

Big manuscript, big advance.(Vikram Chandra's deal with HarperCollins Publishers Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... McMansions. SUVs. Fries.... With everything else getting bigger, perhaps it was only a matter of time before manuscripts jumped on the supersize bandwagon. Following closely behind Bantam's seven-figure deal for Gordon Dahlquist's 1,300-page...

A natural selection.(Hyperion buys novel rights from first-time novelist Dave Freedman)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... In one of the first big pre-Frankfurt deals, Hyperion publisher Ellen Archer and editor Leslie Wells have bought Natural Selection, a "Jaws-meets-Jurassic Park" thriller by first-time novelist Dave Freedman, from agent Marly Rusoff in a...

Hart's war.(Times Books acquires world rights for former senator Gary Hart's still-untitled book)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Times Books editorial director Paul Golob has acquired world rights for a still-untitled book from former senator Gary Hart, who represented Colorado from 1975 to 1987. Hart's book (his 15th) grew out of a recent Washington Post editorial; in...

Philadelphia story.(Disney Entertainment Productions)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Hollywood has long trawled publishing for source material, so it's nice to see the film industry return the favor. Disney is currently in production with the Mark Wahlberg-Greg Kinnear project Invincible, based on the life of Vince Papale, the...

Two takes on Schiavo.(Michael Schiavo to write a book on Terri Schiavo)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... The Terri Schiavo case may have receded somewhat in the public memory, but publishers continue to see opportunities there. In July, agent David Vigliano sold a book by Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo, to Brian Tart at Dutton, to be co-written...

Calendar: Oct. 9-Oct.15.(Calendar)
October 3, 2005... 10/9 Favorite smarty-pants A.J. Jacobs's bestseller, The Know-It-All (S&S), is released in trade paperback. Jon Stewart called it "a hilarious book and quite an impressive achievement." 10/10 Out now: Janis Karpinski's One...

Steve Shapiro, bookseller, rainy day books, fairway, Kans.(Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... If the religious novel Gilead seemed unexpected from Marilynne Robinson, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt [Knopf, Nov.], coming from vampire connoisseur Anne Rice, is doubly unexpected. Yet this novel, like each of her best books, thrives on the...

Settlement halts pirates.(John Wiley & Sons Inc., Pearson Education Inc. and Thomson Book/Reference Group's settlements in unauthorized copying case)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Three textbook publishers have reached a settlement in two lawsuits, first brought in 2004, to stop the unauthorized copying and distribution of their textbook solution manuals through eBay. One lawsuit was filed by John Wiley and Pearson...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
October 3, 2005... "It begins, as most things begin, with a song. In the beginning, after all, were the words and they came with a tune. That was how the world was made, how the void was divided, how the lands and the stars and the dreams and the little gods and...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
October 3, 2005... "Humble to a fault, Alda spends more time discussing his formative years than he does his Emmys and Oscar nominations, which he glosses over.... It's a brief but entertaining autobiography tempered with humility and a depth rarely found in...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
October 3, 2005... Harlequin's More Than Words program honors women who have "made extraordinary contributions to their communities." A celebratory luncheon was held at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall on September 27, at which the publisher made a $10,000...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
October 3, 2005... For James Frey, 54 is a very lucky number. On Thursday, September 22, his 2003 title, A Million Little Pieces, was selected by Oprah as her 54th book club pick. It was the on-sale date for the trade paperback edition, and Anchor reported it had...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.
October 3, 2005... Patterson took time out from the whistle-and-sunscreen thriller to record a special message for audio fans through the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) radio system. The AAFES generates funds to support military morale, welfare and...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.
October 3, 2005... Following a goodwill tour of duty with former president George Bush to raise funds for tsunami victims, Bill Clinton has been racking up even more frequent flier miles traveling to Africa and other countries on behalf of AIDS relief and now has...

Frankfurt, then and now: the Frankfurt Book Fair has changed a lot since the days of big American deals. But the show is more important than ever for international sales. Here's the rights scoop you'll need to survive the '05 gathering.
October 3, 2005... No book fair gets slapped with the tag of traditional more than Frankfurt. And yet few fairs have Changed more in recent years. In the early '90s, a partial from an unknown went out just before the fair and was snapped up by Delacorte's Carole...

Bastard out of Istanbul: free speech runs afoul of Turkish authorities.(novelist Orhan Pamuk faces treason charges )
October 3, 2005... On December 16, Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, whose memoir Istanbul: Memories and the City was published in June, will go on trial for remarks he made recently to a Swiss newspaper regarding the 1915 Armenian genocide: "thirty thousand Kurds...

Oz struck.(Wicked's author Gregory Maguire writes sequel, Son of a Witch)
October 3, 2005... Surrounded by posters, buttons and Playbills promoting Wicked, the wildly successful play based on the novel he wrote a decade ago, Gregory Maguire sits in his home office and speaks softly but with intense emotion about the political...

A knockout Christmas: boxing nostalgia and coaching legends lead the way.(Cover Story)
October 3, 2005... Elvis used to lament that it'll be "a blue Christmas without you." For literate sports fans (and the booksellers who love them), Christmas 2005 may well turn out to be "black and blue," thanks to the many superb books on the bruising sports of...

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Love and Other Impossible Pursuits AYELET WALDMAN. Doubleday, $23.95 (336p) ISBN 0-385-51530-8 How a five-year-old manages to make the adults in his life hew to the love he holds for them is the sweet treat in this honest, brutal, bitterly...

A Killing in This Town.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... A Killing in This Town OLYMPIA VERNON. Grove, $22 (246p) ISBN 0-8021-1813-5 The horrors of the lynch mob inform every paragraph of this viscerally moving novel that gives the back-story to the 1998 James Byrd murder. In Jim Crow-era...

The People's Act of Love.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... * The People's Act of Love JAMES MEEK. Canongate, $24 (400p) ISBN 1-84195-730-5 Set during the waning days of the Russian revolution, Meek's utterly absorbing novel (after The Museum of Doubt) captivates with its depiction of human nature...

Skinner's Drift.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... * Skinner's Drift LISA FUGARD. Scribner, $25 (304p) ISBN 0-7432-7299-4 A vivid sense of place and an effective dramatic arc distinguish this debut novel from the daughter of South African playwright Athol Fugard. After a 10-year...

The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster KATE GIBBONS. Harcourt, $23 (224p) ISBN 0-15-101204-0 In this folksy sequel to the 1997 Oprah pick Ellen Foster, Gibbons's plucky heroine is 15 and hoping for early admission to Harvard on account of...

One Last Look.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... One Last Look LINDA LAEL MILLER. Pocket, $13 paper (320p) ISBN 0-7434-7050-8 Miller concludes her bestselling romantic suspense trilogy (Don't Look Now; Never Look Back) with more slick sleuthing featuring blunt, resourceful attorney Clare...

Above Suspicion.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Above Suspicion LYNDA LA PLANTE. Touchstone, $14 paper (400p) ISBN 0-7432-7685-X La Plante's gripping thriller (after Cold Shoulder, Cold Blood and the Prime Suspect television series) launches the crime-fighting career of another brainy,...

Speak of the Devil.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Speak of the Devil RICHARD HAWKE. Random, $21.95 (336p) ISBN 1-4000-6425-2 Corrupt cops, venal politicians and a madman killer propel shamus Fitz Malone to the top of the wisecracking romantic-heroic PI heap in Hawke's hugely enjoyable...

Company.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Company MAX BARRY. Doubleday, $22.95 (336p) ISBN 0-385-51439-5 With broad strokes, Barry once again satirizes corporate America in his third caustic novel (after Jennifer Government). This time, he takes aim at the perennial corporate crime...

Long Way Back.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Long Way Back BRENDAN HALPIN. Villard, $22.95 (160p) ISBN 1-4000-6278-0 Halpin (Donorboy) puts sensitive, studious Francis Kelly in the loving if slightly snarky hands of his older sister, Clare, who tells Francis's story with tenderness,...

The Big Why.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... The Big Why MICHAEL WINTER. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 1-59691-025-9 This odd bird of a lucidly written biographical novel about 20th-century American painter Rockwell Kent is not about art. Other than the titles of a few paintings,...

Mademoiselle Benoir.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Mademoiselle Benoir CHRISTINE CONRAD. Houghton Mifflin, $20 (240p) ISBN 0-618-57479-4 Conrad's pleasant first novel follows Tim Reinhart, a 30-something American mathematics professor, as he transforms a run-down farmhouse in the south of...

Language of the Geckos and Other Stories.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Language of the Geckos and Other Stories GARY PAK. Univ. of Washington, $18.95 (184p) ISBN 0-295-98527-5 The nine somber, simply-told tales of Pak's collection (after Children of a Fireland) illustrate the friction and cross-cultural...

The Prisoner Pear.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... The Prisoner Pear ELISSA MINOR RUST. Ohio Univ./Swallow, $28.95 (194p) ISBN 0-80401038-8; $16.95 paper ISBN 0-80401078-1 In 12 efficient, accomplished stories inspired by snippets from the Lake Oswego, Ore., police blotter, Rust takes a...

Party Girl.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Party Girl SARAH MASON. Ballantine, $12.95 paper (336p) ISBN 0-345-46956-9 At the start of Brit Mason's amusing latest (after Society Girls), Isabel "Izzy" Serranti is newly dumped, plumped and certain that her future as an event planner...

Adrianne on the Edge.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Adriane on the Edge PAUL MANDELBAUM. Berkley, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 0-425-20803-6 Mandelbaum's lukewarm attempt at literary chick lit (after Garrett in Wedlock) stars Adriane Gelki, a confused, single woman approaching her 30s, stumbling...

The Protege.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... The Protege STEPHAN FREY. Ballantine, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-345-48058-9 Christian Gillette's second outing in financial thrillerland finds Chris heading Manhattan-based investment firm Everest Capitol after his boss was murdered in the...

Have Mercy on Us All.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Have Mercy on Us All FRED VARGAS, TRANS. FROM THE FRENCH BY DAVID BELLOS. Simon & Schuster, $14 paper (368p) ISBN 0-7432-8401-1 A bestseller in France, Vargas's U.S. debut presents a riveting blend of biothriller and historical cryptology:...

Paul and Virginia.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Paul and Virginia JACQUES-HENRI BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE, TRANS. FROM THE FRENCH BY JOHN DONOVAN. Peter Owen (Dufour, dist.), $22.95 (144p) ISBN 0-7206-1231-4 Naturalist Bernardin de SaintPierre (1737-1814), a disciple of Rousseau, led a...

Nostalgia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Nostalgia MIRCEA CARTARESCU, TRANS. FROM THE ROMANIAN BY 3ULIAN SEMILIAN. New Directions, $19.95 (352p) ISBN 0-8112-1588-1 Romania's leading poet plays with ideas of authorship and authority in this collection of five unconnected...

What Begins with Bird.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... What Begins with Bird NOY HOLLAND. Fiction Collective Two, $15.95 paper (156p)ISBN 1-57366-125-2 Though the dank, tremulous underside of motherhood and familial love is the ostensible subject of this daring but distancing collection of six...

Size 12 Is Not Fat: A Heather Wells Mystery.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... * Size 12 Is Not Fat: A Heather Wells Mystery MEG CABOT. Avon, $12.95 paper (368p) ISBN 0-06-052511-8 Bag the tiara and get out the gun: Heather Wells, former teen idol, turns detective in the cute debut of a new mystery series from...

Cat Breaking Free: A Joe Grey Mystery.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Cat Breaking Free: A Joe Grey Mystery SHIRLEY ROUSSEAU MURPHY. HarperCollins, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-06057809-2 Murphy's 11th Joe Grey cat cozy (after Cat Cross Their Graves) offers the usual winning blend of suspense and whimsy. A feral cat,...

A Venture into Murder.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... A Venture into Murder HENRY KISOR. Forge, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 0-765-31228-X When Lake Superior spits out a dead Chicago mobster on the shores of sleepy Porcupine County in Michigan's isolated Upper Peninsula, Deputy Stephen Martinez, who...

Ash & Bone.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Ash & Bone JOHN HARVEY. Harcourt/Penzler, $25 (384p) ISBN 0-15-101139-7 British veteran Harvey's second novel to feature former Nottingham cop Frank Elder is flatly written and cliche-driven, falling short of its predecessor, Flesh & Blood...

Lethal Intent.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Lethal Intent QUINTIN JARDINE. Headline (Trafalgar Square, dist.), $25 (376p) ISBN 0-7553-0406-3 Jardine's 15th Bob Skinner police procedural opens promisingly, taking the reader inside the corridors of power in Scotland as an ambitious...

Coyote Frontier.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Coyote Frontier: A Novel of Interstellar Colonization ALLEN STEELE. Ace, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 0-441-01331-7 Steele's trilogy about human settlers on an alien planet facing practical and moral challenges comes to a fitting close. The Coyote...

Learning the World: Or, a Scientific Romance.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... * Learning the World: Or, A Scientific Romance KEN MACLEOD. Tor, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 0-765-31331-6 British author MacLeod (Newton's Wake) delivers perhaps the finest novel of first contact since Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky. When...

The Mark of Ran: Book One of the Sea Beggars.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... The Mark of Ran: Book One of the Sea Beggars PAUL KEARNEY. Bantam Spectra, $12 paper (320p) ISBN 0-553-38361-2 In this gritty fantasy swashbuckler from Kearney (Hawkwood's Voyage), the first in a new series, the inhabitants of Umer, a world...

Triad.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Triad TERRY MCGARRY. Tor, $27.95 (448p) ISBN 0-765-30429-5 Even though the magelight has been reborn and a new generation of mages--wordsmiths, illuminators and binders who work in triads--has arisen, the island continent of Eiden Myr...

A Feast for Crows: Book Four of a Song of Ice and Fire.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... A Feast for Crows: Book Four of a Song of Ice and Fire GEORGE R.R. MARTIN. Bantam, $28 (784p) ISBN 0-553-80150-3 Long-awaited doesn't begin to describe this fourth installment in bestseller Martin's staggeringly epic Song of Ice and Fire....

The Children of the Company.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... The Children of the Company KAGE BAKER. Tor, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 0-763-31455-X The latest, slightly disappointing volume in Baker's highly regarded Company series (The Life of the World to Come, etc.) incorporates previously published short...

November publications.(Winter Moon: Moontide, The Heart of The Moon, Banshee Cries)(Tides)(And Don't Forget to Rescue the Princess)(Cultural Breaks)(Unrealized Dreams)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Fans of romantic fantasy will welcome Winter Moon, which offers three lunar-themed novellas: Mercedes Lackey's "Moontide," Tanith Lee's "The Heart of the Moon" and C.E. Murphy's "Banshee Cries." (Luna, $13.95 paper 400p ISBN 0-373-80239-0) ...

Fetish.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Fetish TARA MOSS. Leisure, $6.99 (336p) ISBN 0-8439-5633-X Australian author Moss makes her U.S. debut with a steamy fast-paced romantic thriller, set in the not so glamorous world of international, middle-income fashion modeling....

The Snow White Bride.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... The Snow White Bride CLAIRE DELACROIX. Warner, $6.99 (432p) ISBN 0-446-61444-0 Scottish lord Alexander Lammergeier, having tricked two of his sisters into marriage in Delacroix's earlier medieval Bride romances (The Beauty Bride; The Rose...

Fear the Night.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Fear the Night JOHN LUTZ. Pinnacle, $6.99 (480p) ISBN 0-7860-1634-5 On a warm evening in Manhattan, a sniper's bullet kills a lowly theater district shop owner. It's the first of several killings in what becomes a twisted cat-and-mouse game...

Too Perfect.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Too Perfect JULIE ORTOLON. Signet Eclipse, $6.99 (304p) ISBN 0-451-21707-1 Ortolon's enjoyable final novel in her Perfect trilogy (Almost Perfect; Just Perfect) spins a good, old-fashioned contemporary fairy tale, but conscious suspension...

Dungeon, the Early Years, Volume 1: The Night Shirt.(review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Dungeon, The Early Years, Volume 1: The Night Shirt CHRISTOPHE BLAIN, JOANN SFAR AND LOUIS TRONDHEIM. NBM (www.nbmpublishing.com), $14.95 paper (96p) ISBN 1-56163-439-5 Thrilling action and gentle whimsy nestle comfortably together in this...

Masters of American Comics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Masters of American Comics EDITED BY JOHN CARLIN, PAUL KARASIK AND BRIAN WALKER. Yale Univ., $45 (256p) ISBN 0-300-11317-X This ambitious new book from Yale accompanies an exhibition of the same title debuting this fall at the Hammer Museum...