Publishers Weekly articles from October 2006

Publishers Weekly archives from October 2006

The street date conundrum: indie booksellers grapple with early reviews.(Foreword)
October 30, 2006... Although Richard Ford fans weren't able to buy the final entry in his Frank Bascombe trilogy, The Lay of the Land, until it went on sale October 24, reviews in prominent publications had readers going to bookstores before then looking for a...

Amazon, AAP balk at subpoenas.(Association of American Publishers)(Google Inc. copyright infringement case)(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... Amazon and the Association of American Publishers have objected to subpoenas issued to them by Google as part of the discovery phase of the copyright infringement lawsuit brought against the search giant by the AAP and the Authors Guild. The...

New B&N discount.(Barnes & Noble Inc. and .com)(bookstores)(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... Customers who belong to Barnes & Noble's Members program will now receive a 40% discount on fiction and nonfiction hardcover bestsellers, 20% off all adult hardcover books, and 10% off everything else sold in B&N stores and online at Barnes &...

Don't stop the presses.(Foreword)(Column)
October 30, 2006... Remember Ned Ludd? He's the guy who tried to stop the Industrial Revolution by destroying textile machines. Nice try. For his efforts, he became the root of a noun describing anyone in opposition to the new. Let's get one thing straight right...

Ingram aids Graphic Arts.(Graphic Arts Publishing Center has distribution agreement with Ingram Publishers Services)(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... As part of its plan to reemerge from Chapter 11, Graphic Arts Publishing Center has signed a distribution agreement with Ingram Publishers Services under which IPS will assume all back-office fulfillment functions. In addition, IPS parent...

Media sales up at Amazon.(books . . .)(North America)(Financial report)(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... For the third quarter ended September 30, sales in Amazon's North America media segment rose 15%, to $785 million, compared to growth of 21% in the comparable period in 2005. The slower growth was attributed to the 1.6 million copies of Harry...

Banta to add China.(book publishing)(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... Banta Corp. is close to acquiring a book printer in southern China. The company has signed a memorandum of understanding with an unidentified printer and hopes to close the deal before the end of the year. If the purchase goes through, it...

Hachette finds new home.(Moving On)(Hachette Book Group)(moving to 237 Park Avenue, New York, New York)(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... Details on the Hachette Book Group's upcoming office move have come into focus. Deputy director of publicity Jimmy Franco told PW that the publisher, which is currently situated in the Time & Life Building at 51st St. and Sixth Ave., will...

The Whiting winners.(Foreword)(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... The Giles Whiting Foundation awarded its annual literary prizes to 10 writers who will each receive $40,000. Seated (1. to r.) are poet Suji Kwock Kim, playwright Bruce Norris and novelist Micheline Aharonian Marcom. Standing (l. to r.) are...

Carns launches Rookery.(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... Tracy Carns, formerly at Overlook Press, has launched her own independent publisher: Rookery Press. The Manhattan-based operation, which will be run out of Overlook's office and be distributed by the house, will focus on serious nonfiction...

HC wins Littell.(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... HarperCollins has acquired U.S. rights to Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, which was the hot book at Frankfurt. HC plans to publish the title, already a French bestseller, in spring 2008.

Quills 2006.(Foreword)
October 30, 2006... More than 600 publishers, authors and media members attended the second Quill Awards October 10. NBC News' Lester Holt presided over the gala, where awards were presented to authors who were voted their favorites by the reading public in 19...

Thomson Learning for sale; Houghton Mifflin next?(Big Deals)
October 30, 2006... The educational publishing landscape will change significantly in the next several months as two of the biggest players in the field are expected to get new owners. Thomson Corp. has placed Thomson Learning up for sale, and there are...

Amateur hour.(Deals)(John Hitt's "The Pursuit of Happiness")(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... Sean Desmond at Crown has preempted world English rights to a new book by veteran journalist Jack Hitt entitled The Pursuit of Happiness; David McCormick at McCormick & Williams negotiated the deal. In the book, Hitt will contend that...

Life of Hazan.(Deals)(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... Gotham's William Shinker has acquired world rights to Amarcord: Marcella Remembers: A Life with, for, Because of Food, a memoir by acclaimed cookbook author Marcella Hazan and her husband, Victor; agent Robert Levine made the deal and Erin...

On Liz.(Deals)(Holt's acquires world rights to William J. Mann's "How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood")(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... Holt's George Hodgman has acquired world rights to William J. Mann's How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood from agent Malaga Baldi. This will be a definitive biography as well as a large-scale Hollywood epic that will show how...

Superpower secrets.(Deals)(Penguin/Avery acquires rights to Dr. Uzzi Reiss and Yfat Reiss's "The Natural Superwoman")(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... Megan Newman and Lucia Watson at Penguin/Avery have acquired North American rights to Dr. Uzzi Reiss and Yfat Reiss's The Natural Superwoman; Peter McGuigan at Sanford Greenburger made the six-figure deal. Dr. Reiss, a Hollywood ob/gyn and...

Harmony's John Glusman has acquired world rights to a yet-untitled autobiography by film honcho Sherry Lansing; Lynn Nesbit at Janklow & Nesbit brokered the deal.(The Briefing)(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... Harmony's John Glusman has acquired world rights to a yet-untitled autobiography by film honcho Sherry Lansing; Lynn Nesbit at Janklow & Nesbit brokered the deal. The book will cover her entire life. Lansing intends to donate proceeds to...

Calendar: Nov. 5-11.(Foreword)(Calendar)
October 30, 2006... 11/5 PW enjoyed actor/ playwright/comic John Leguizamo's "hilarious... brash autobiography," Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends: My Life (Ecco). 11/6 PW's starred review called Nelson DeMille's...

Memoir publishing, post-frey.(Fallout)(repercussions of the James Frey scandal)
October 30, 2006... Now that the media uproar over James Frey's fabrications in his memoir A Million Little Pieces has begun to fade, the scandal's repercussions are becoming apparent in three ways. A number of forthcoming nonfiction books now carry unusually...

Ackroyd joins Quayside.(People)(Peter Ackroyd named vice-president of sales and marketing at Quayside Publishing Group)(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... Peter Ackroyd has been named v-p of sales and marketing at the Massachusetts-based Quayside Publishing Group. Ackroyd, who had headed Element Books and Turtle, will be working out of the publisher's Gloucester office.

Oakes to Atlas.(People)(John Oakes appointed executive director at Atlas Books)(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... John Oakes, former publisher and editorial director of Thunder's Mouth Press, has joined Atlas Books as executive editor. He will be acquiring nonfiction, current affairs, history, biography and popular science.

Hire, promo at Public Affairs.(People)(Lindsay Jones and Morgen Van Vorst)(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... Lindsay Jones has been promoted to editor at Public Affairs. She's worked on such books as Marjorie Williams's The Woman at the Washington Zoo and Kenneth Turan's Never Coming to a Theater Near You. Morgen Van Vorst, coming from W.W. Norton,...

Conlin to S&S sales.(People)(Jim Conlin named national account manager at Simon & Schuster)(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... Jim Conlin has been named national account manager in the sales team at Simon & Schuster. He will sell to Barnes & Noble, With Elena Blanco, and be responsible for imprints like S&S BFYR, Pulse, Little Simon and Simon Spotlight.

Starbucks selection process raises eyebrows.(Stirring the Pot)(William Morris Agency acting as consultant)
October 30, 2006... Mitch Albom's novel For One More Day has been a big hit at Starbucks, selling 45,000 copies since it became available at the stores on October 3. The company also confirmed it is looking at extending sales of the book through the holiday...

Goodman to PSUP.(People)(Eleanor Goodman named executive editor for the humanities at Penn State University Press )(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... Penn State University Press has named Eleanor Goodman executive editor for the humanities. She was most recently head of programs at the library at University of Virginia.

Kazeniac up at Da Capo.(People)(Kate Kazeniac promoted to associate director of publicity)(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... Kate Kazeniac has been promoted to associate director of publicity, Da Capo Press and Da Capo Lifelong Books.

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
October 30, 2006... Two lucky Baldacci fans will win a trip to Washington, D.C., a special tour of the Rare Books Room at the Library of Congress and lunch at a famous D.C. watering hole with Baldacci. One other winner will get an iPod Nano loaded with all of...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
October 30, 2006... It was close, but Barack Obama couldn't unseat Grisham from the top spot on the nonfiction list--not even with a Time cover story with book excerpt, a one-hour Oprah special and lots of national media, including a full hour on Larry King and...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
October 30, 2006... In a Movies Online interview, Bradley talks about what his father, one of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima, would have thought of the movie: "... the situation with my father was that he was always approached as the hero of Iwo...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
October 30, 2006... Edwards has topped the trade paper lists for 16 of her 18-week bestselling tenure and her book has passed the two million mark, with 2,031,375 copies in print after 16 printings. She was recently chosen for the Charlotte Weekly book club in...

Bookstore builds identity through charitable works: Page & Palette Foundation ties store to community.(Retailing)
October 30, 2006... A recent author signing organized by Page & Palette in Fairhope, Ala., drew 1,000 customers and raised $10,000. The event, for Fannie Flagg's Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, was just the most recent fund-raiser put together by P&P owner Karin...

Second store for The First Page.(WHAT'S NEW)(Christy Coyne opens new store at Newport Hills Center in Newport Beach)(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... Christy Coyne, who opened her children's bookstore, The First Page in Costa Mesa, Calif., in 2003, now has a second store, at the Newport Hills Center in Newport Beach. The new location is 8,000 sq. ft. and, like the original store, carries...

Grisham to the top.(CHAIN WATCH)(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... John Grisham's nonfiction work, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, topped the nonfiction list at both Walmart.com and Target last week. At Walmart, Innocent Man beat out Mitch Albom's For One More Day, while Lemony...

Power in numbers.(Children's Books)(first-time children's book authors form Class of 2k7)
October 30, 2006... They call themselves the Class of 2k7. They're a group of first-time children's book authors 40 strong from 20 states, who have banded together to attract attention to themselves collectively and individually. Founded by author Greg Fishbone,...

Potty on tour.(release of "Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People")(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... When Day Pilkey was unavailable to tour for the release of Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People, Scholastic decided to tour a portable potty in his place. The potty, made of foam, is visiting 10 cities...

Film czar for indies? L.A. film producer with small press options.(Independent Publishing)(Greg Zanfardino of Alliance Filmworks turns to some non-mainstream small presses for material)
October 30, 2006... Since Alliance International got its start bringing quirky British series like Queer as Folk and Two Fat Ladies to the small screen in the U.S., it is not surprising that founder Greg Zanfardino has turned to some non-mainstream small presses...

Little books, big success: they are the little books that can. In a world of thick, high-priced bestsellers, these pint-sized books--for lack of a better term, let's call them vest-pocket books--all smaller than the standard cloth or trade paperback, have turned into a major success story for publishers and booksellers alike.(Cover story)
October 30, 2006... They cover anything and everything that's nonfiction. There are vest-pocket books on presidents, generals, writers, Jews, philosophers, terrorism, myths, music, even issues and ethics. They come in hardcover and paperback, are inexpensive...

Not your mother's Bible.(Selling the Good Book)
October 30, 2006... It's been burned in bonfires and dug up in peat bogs; posted online and read on cellphones. You can get it free on street corners, pilfer it from a hotel nightstand or buy it at auction for hundreds of thousands of dollars. And, yes, verses...

No One Belongs Here More Than You.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... No One Belongs Here More Than You MIRANDA JULY. Scribner, $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9939-8 It's a testament to July's artistry that the narrators of this arresting first collection elicit empathy rather than groans. "Making Love in...

Beyond Sleep.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Beyond Sleep WILLEM FREDERIK HERMANS, TRANS. FROM THE DUTCH BY INA RILKE. Overlook, $25.95 (312p) ISBN 978-158567-583-8 Dutch geology student Alfred Issendorf makes a wonderfully quixotic journey in this previously untranslated 1966 gem...

Love and War in California.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Love and War in California OAKLEY HALL. St. Martin's, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-35762-7 Hall's sure-handed latest (after 20-plus novels) features Payton Daltry, who is a junior at San Diego State when Pearl Harbor is bombed on...

The Penny Tree.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... The Penny Tree HOLLY KENNEDY. NAL Accent, $14 paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-22055-4 Kennedy's tedious second novel (after The Tin Box) focuses on Annie Hillman, a mother of two in the middle of a divorce. Her 11-year-old son Eric's rare...

PW talks to Ellis Avery: tea for two: set in late 19th-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire, follows Aurelia, an American orphan who is taken in--as both servant and sister--by Yukako, the daughter of Japan's most important teacher of the ancient art of tea ceremony.(Q&A)(Interview)
October 30, 2006... You studied Japanese tea ceremony for five years. How did you first get involved with it? A college friend was living and teaching ESL in Japan and invited me to come visit. While I was there, a woman at the pension where I was staying...

Winterton Blue.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Winterton Blue TREZZA AZZOPARDI. Grove, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1841-7 Anna, a graphic designer, may have a streak of gray in her hair, but she's still young and inchoate. Lewis, a dodgy loner, is on a late, misguided, oedipally...

Against the Day.(Book review)
October 30, 2006... * Against the Day THOMAS PYNCHON. Penguin Press, $35 (1,120p) ISBN 978-1-59420-120-2 Knotty, paunchy, nutty, raunchy, Pynchon's first novel since Mason & Dixon (1997) reads like half a dozen books duking it out for his, and the reader's,...

Remainder.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... TOM McCARTHY. Vintage, $13.95 (322p) ISBN 978-0-307-27835-7 McCarthy's debut novel, set in London, takes a clever conceit and pumps it up with vibrant prose to such great effect that the narrative's pointlessness is nearly a nonissue. The...

In the Country of Men.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... * In the Country of Men HISHAM MATAR. Dial, $22 (250p) ISBN 978-0-385-34042-7 Shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, Matar's debut novel tracks the effects of Libyan strongman Khadafy's 1969 September revolution on the el-Dawani...

Zoli.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Zoli COLUM MCCANN. Random, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6372-7 In his bittersweet fourth novel, McCann chronicles the imperiled world of the Slovakian Roma (Gypsies, to their enemies) from World War II through the establishment of the...

White Lies.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... White Lies JAYNE ANN KRENTZ. Putnam, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15373-0 This spirited paranormal romance is the latest in Krentz's Arcane Society series (which includes some novels, like the recent Second Sight, written as Amanda...

Bad Blood.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Bad Blood LINDA FAIRSTEIN. Scribner, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8748-7 In the exciting ninth Alexandra Cooper legal thriller from bestseller Fairstein (after Death Dance), the Manhattan prosecutor is confronted with the trial lawyer's...

The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud JULIA NAVARRO, TRANS. FROM THE SPANISH BY ANDREW HURLEY. Bantam, $23 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-33962-9 For readers who can't get enough of the religious suspense genre, here's a heaping helping of more...

The Teahouse Fire.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... * The Teahouse Fire ELLIS AVERY. Riverhead, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59448-930-3 In 1865, nine-year-old Aurelia Caillard is taken from New York to Japan by her missionary uncle Charles while her ailing mother dies at home. Charles soon...

D*U*C*K: A Tale of Men, Birds, and One's Purpose in Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... D*U*C*K: A Tale of Men, Birds, and One's Purpose in Life POPPY Z. BRITE. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (132p) ISBN 978-1-59606-076-0 The ghosts of pre-Katrina New Orleans haunt Brite's latest culinary caper (after Soul...

Tales from the Town of Widows and Chronicles from the Land of Men.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles from the Land of Men JAMES CANON. HarperCollins, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-114038-9 On November 15, 1992, the men of the tiny Colombian town of Mariquita are forced by guerillas to join or die...

First Fridays.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... First Fridays CHERLYN MICHAELS. Hyperion, $14.95 paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0814-8 Naja Rodgers has always wanted to be her own boss, so when she's laid off from her awful office job, she begins pursuing her dream in earnest. At the...

Allah's Scorpion.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Allah's Scorpion DAVID HAGBERG. Forge, $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-765-30623-4 At the vivid start of Hagberg's latest thriller to feature former CIA director Kirk McGarvey, al-Qaeda terrorists attack Camp Echo--the part of the U.S. base at...

Trouble.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... * Trouble JESSE KELLERMAN. Putnam, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15403-4 Kellerman, the son of bestsellers Faye and Jonathan Kellerman, shows that his impressive debut, Sunstroke, was no fluke with this gripping psychological page-turner...

Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel WALTER MOSLEY. Bloomsbury, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59691-226-7 Mosley returns from the vastly underrated Fortunate Son and from Fear of the Dark with a piece of what one might call "deep...

The Fabric of Night.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... The Fabric of Night CHRISTOPH PETERS, TRANS. FROM THE GERMAN BY JOHN CULLEN. Doubleday/Talese, $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-51447-7 At the start of Peters's challenging second novel, his first to be published in English, 28-year-old...

Breathing Underwater.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Breathing Underwater LU VICKERS. Alyson, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-55583-964-9 Coming out young is tough enough, but poor Lily has the misfortune of doing it in a setting as gothic and claustrophobic as anything Faulkner could have...

The Rhythm of the Road.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... The Rhythm of the Road ALBYN LEAH HALL. St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-35944-7 Raised on the road, Josephine Pickering loves her truck-driving daddy, Bobby, even though his sometimes-dark moods make him go silent. The...

Supersonic Thunder: A Novel of the Jet Age.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Supersonic Thunder: A Novel of the Jet Age WALTER J. BOYNE. Forge, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-765-30843-6 Best known for his numerous first-class nonfiction aviation histories, Boyne has also produced aviation sagas (such as Roaring...

Ladies' Night Out.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Ladies' Night Out ELECTA ROME PARKS. NAL, $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-451-22025-7 Parks's hardcover debut (after three paperback originals) follows Lexie, Meshell, Tracee and Tonya, four best girlfriends who think they know everything about...

Fly Me to the Moon.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Fly Me to the Moon ALYSON NOEL. St. Martin's Griffin, $12.95 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-35508-1 Former flight attendant Noel's valentine to high-flying single gals is Sex and the City at 37,000 feet, a fashionably dressed, ditzy romp up...

Rabid.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Rabid T K KENYON. Kunati (www.kunati. com), $26.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-60164-002-4 When a New England woman discovers her research scientist husband is cheating, she appeals to the clergy for guidance and unleashes high drama that pits...

The Sidewalk Artist.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... The Sidewalk Artist GINA BUONAGURO AND JANICE KIRK. St. Martin's/Dunne, $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-35803-7 When blocked writer Tulia Rose hits it off with a handsome sidewalk artist while touring Paris, she's intrigued. Is he an...

Brother Odd.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Brother Odd DEAN KOONTZ. Bantam, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-553-80480-5 Bestseller Koontz's third Odd Thomas novel (after Forever Odd) offers an irresistibly offbeat mix of supernatural horror and laugh-out-loud humor. A resident of St....

Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea MARY HIGGINS CLARK AND CAROL HIGGINS CLARK. Scribner, $22 (261p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3552-2 At the start of the lighthearted fourth yuletide mystery from the bestselling mother-daughter Clarks (after...

Bermuda Schwartz.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Bermuda Schwartz BOB MORRIS. St. Martin's Minotaur, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-32893-1 Wisecracking ex-NFL player Zack Chasteen hunts treasure--and people willing to kill for it--in Morris's offbeat third island-themed adventure (after...

The Cloud of Unknowing.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... * The Cloud of Unknowing THOMAS H. COOK. Harcourt/Penzler, $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-101260-2 Jason Regan, a severely schizophrenic child, is found drowned in a pond behind his family's home in this usual, chilling mystery from...

The Case of the Missing Books: A Mobile Library Mystery.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... The Case of the Missing Books: A Mobile Library Mystery IAN SANSOM. Harper, $12.95 paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-082250-7 British author Sansom (The Impartial Recorder) launches a humorous new series set in Tumdrum, Northern Ireland, the...

The Dying Crapshooter's Blues.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... The Dying Crapshooter's Blues DAVID FULMER. Harcourt, $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-101175-9 In this departure from his New Orleans novels featuring Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr (Rampart Street, etc.), Fulmer paints the sprawling...

How to Marry a Ghost.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... How to Marry a Ghost HOPE MCINTYRE. Mysterious, $24.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-89296-014-9 Ghostwriter Lee Bartholomew leaves London for Long Island to attend her mother's barefoot commitment ceremony in McIntyre's second engaging romp to...

The Game.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... The Game DEREK ARMSTRONG. Kunati (www. kunati.com), $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-60164-001-7 Armstrong's debut falls short of its promising premise: having a murderer stalk the cast and crew of a top-rated reality TV series, Haunted...

Relative Danger.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Relative Danger JUNE SHAW. Five Star, $25.95 (309p) ISBN 978-1-59414-531-5 At the start of Shaw's promising first mystery, Cealie Gunther, an independent woman of a certain age, finds her granddaughter, Kat, in tears on a surprise visit...

November publications.(Mystery Notes)(Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers)(The Secret Lovers)(The Trinity Cat and Other Mysteries )(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers, edited by Jim Huang and Austin Lugar, features sparkling miniessays on the works of genre giants from Edgar Allan Poe to Dennis Lehane. Contributors include such notable...

The Assassin King: Book Six of the Symphony of Ages.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... * The Assassin King: Book Six of the Symphony of Ages ELIZABETH HAYDON. Tor, $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-765-30565-7 At the start of Haydon's lyrical sixth installment in her sweeping saga of musical magic and ancient prophecies (after...

Mistral's Kiss.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Mistral's Kiss LAURELL K. HAMILTON. Ballantine, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-345-44358-8 In bestseller Hamilton's steamy fifth in the Meredith Gentry fantasy series (after 2005's A Stroke of Midnight), the fey former Los Angeles PI has given...

Daughter of Hounds.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Daughter of Hounds CAITLIN R. KIERNAN. Roc, $14 paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-46125-4 Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's tales of legendary monsters running amok under the streets of New England, Kiernan's fifth novel (after Low Red Moon) to...

Serpent Girl.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Serpent Girl RAY CARTON. Cemetery Dance (www. cemeterydance.com), $35 (140p) ISBN 978-1-58767-144-9 This intense tale of real-life horror may remind some readers of Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment. On a whim, hit man Steven Benedetti,...

Zima Blue and Other Stories.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Zima Blue and Other Stories ALASTAIR REYNOLDS. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59780-058-7 This solid collection of 10 stories spanning the galaxies and the career of British SF author Reynolds (Pushing...

Thrillers 2.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... Thrillers 2 EDITED BY ROBERT MORRISH. Cemetery Dance (www.cemeterydance.com), $40 (230p) ISBN 978-1-58767-122-7 Horror aficionados will welcome Morrish's all-original dark fiction anthology, the long-awaited sequel to Thrillers (1993)....

The Crystal Rose.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 30, 2006... The Crystal Rose REBECCA BRANDEWYNE. Mira, $6.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2296-2 In romance veteran Brandewyne's latest entry, idyllic days in India in the 1830s are cut short for young Rose Windermere when her best friend, Hugo Drayton,...