Publishers Weekly articles from October 2011

Publishers Weekly archives from October 2011

Doubting Thomas.(Pick of the week)(The Rook)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... * The Rook Daniel O'Malley. Little, Brown, $25.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0316-09879-3 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At the start of Australian author O'Malley's impressive debut, a supernatural detective thriller distinguished by its adept use of...

Survey says library users are your best customers: groundbreaking new study shows value of libraries to the book--and the e-book--business.(News)
October 31, 2011... In the Internet age, there's been no shortage of talk about the future of libraries, and much speculation about where libraries fit in the increasingly digital-rich media market for American consumers. Now, there is data. This month Library...

Sales jump, earnings dive at Amazon.(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... Amazon posted huge sales increases in the third quarter ended September 30, with total revenue up 44%, to $10.88 billion. But continued investments in technology and infrastructure led to a 73% decline in earnings, to $63 million. Amazon...

HC buys Newmarket.(HarperCollins acquires right Newmarket Press' titles)(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... HarperCollins has acquired the rights to the majority of the titles published by Newmarket Press. The press's 200 film and entertainment titles will continue to be released under the Newmarket name, which has become part of HC's It Books...

Worthy inks Jerry Jenkins book deal.(Worthy Publishing)(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... Worthy Publishing has inked a seven-figure, six-book deal with Jerry B. Jenkins, coauthor of the bestselling Christian series Left Behind. The first book is slated to appear in 2013. Left Behind, one of the most popular Christian series ever...

Hachette, RTC ink app license.(Round Table Companies and Hachette Book Group)(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... Prose and graphic nonfiction packager Round Table Companies has inked a deal with the Hachette Book Group to license its app development platform. RTC plans to launch its own iPad app with about 13 titles by the end of the year.

Thomas Nelson opens Mexico unit.(Thomas Nelson Publishers)(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... Thomas Nelson Publishers has opened Thomas Nelson Mexico, a new division in Mexico City. TN said the new division's goal is to "improve our distribution of Spanish content, garner access to understanding of the marketplace, and sign local...

Publishers find more uses for QR codes.(Integrating)(quick response)
October 31, 2011... Quick Response, or QR, codes, those black-and-white pixel squares that function as super charged consumer bar codes, are on advertisements, Web sites, and anything else at which you can point a QR reader. While publishers have been putting QR...

Layoffs at Marvel.(Marvel Comics)(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... In a cost-cutting move tied to soft sales over the past year, Marvel Comics laid off 11 employees. The layoffs include three editors, four in production, two in collections, and two from digital compositing. Jim Sokolowski, Marvel's COO, was...

Signing at GLIBA.(Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association)(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kadir Nelson (Heart and Soul, Balzer & Bray) signs books after GLiBA's Children's Book & Author Brunch for bookseller Joanna Molitov, co-owner of the Bookbug in Kalamazoo, Mich., while Bookbug co-owner Derek...

Moving quickly at Bettie Youngs Books.(Indie Publishing)
October 31, 2011... When talking business with Bettie Youngs, publisher of Bettie Youngs Books, you'll quickly get an idea of the scale of her ambition, as you'll hear a lot of numbers. She wrote her first book in graduate school and has since authored 36 books,...

Miller moves up at Bloomsbury.(Nancy Miller)(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... Nancy Miller, previously executive editor at Bloomsbury, has been promoted to editor-in-chief at Bloomsbury USA. Miller, who has been at Bloomsbury since 2009, is not replacing anyone. She will report to Bloomsbury USA publishing director George...

Akashic to pub real kids' book.(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... Akashic's Kids' book parody, Go the F**k to Sleep, has more than 500,000 copies in print, and it plans to publish Seriously, Go to Sleep, in April next year.

Shan gets Zombified at LBYR.(Deals)(Darren Shan signs with Little, Brown Books for Young Readers )(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... In a high six-figure deal, Darren Shan has signed with Little, Brown Books for Young Readers to do a 12-part series called Zom-B. Cindy Eagan bought U.S. rights to the novellas from agent Christopher Little, of the Christopher Little Agency. The...

Callahan nabs 'Sugar' nanny.(Deals)(Allison Callahan buys rights to Spoonful of Sugar)(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... Doubleday's Allison Callahan bought North American rights (plus audio) to A Spoonful of Sugar, a memoir by Brenda Ashford, a 90-year-old British woman who has the claim of being England's oldest living nanny. Callahan closed the deal with Diane...

McAlpine's 'Poes' go to Viking.(Deals)(Gordon McAlpine's Meet the Poe Boys)(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sharyn November at Viking took world rights to a middle-grade series, Meet the Poe Boys, by Gordon McAlpine, with illustrations by Sam Zuppardi. Kelly Sonnack at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency brokered the three-book...

Portfolio buys Chinese entrepreneur's tale.(Deals)(Ping Fu's Life Is a Mountain Range)(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... Laura Yorke at the Carol Mann Agency sold world rights to Ping Fu's Life Is a Mountain Range. Adrian Zackheim at Portfolio acquired the book, which will be edited by Niki Papadopoulos. Fu is the president and CEO of Geomagic, a software company...

Killick to MCPG.(Angus Killick appointed at Macmillan Children's Publishing Group)(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... Angus Killick has been appointed v-p and associate publisher, a newSy created position, at Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. Killick is currently associate publisher and director of marketing of Kingfisher, a division of Pan Macmillan, an...

Delivering the message.(Breast Cancer Awareness)(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... Scholastic's mailmen put their stamp on Breast Cancer Awareness this month by wearing pink. During October, mailroom employees were not only delivering packages to employees but also spreading the word about breast cancer awareness. ...

BAM!'s stores in place.(Retailing)(Books-A-Million)(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... When the 2011 holiday selling season begins in earnest V IT around Thanksgiving, Books-A-Million will have more than 250 stores open as it completes the rebranding and re-opening of stores it took over from Borders. BAM! will move into 41 former...

Bill Lewis, Northshire Bookstore, Manchester Center, Vt.(Galley Talk)(The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes)(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... I've liked Charles Mann's earlier books as well as The River of Doubt, Turn Right at Machu Picchu, and Lost City of Z, and we do a good job hand-selling all of them. But none have had the impact of Scott Wallace's The Unconquered: In Search of...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
October 31, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Who is Richard DiLallo? He is co-author of one other Patterson book, Alex Cross's Trial (2009), a Holy Cross alum ('68) who cut his teeth at J. Walter Thompson, when Patterson was chief creative director. Nearing...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
October 31, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Our Intellectual and cultural elites reject the God our parents believed In," asserts Buchanan. The bestselling author of such books as The Death of the West. How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
October 31, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When asked how he creates such bizarre and terrifying villains, Koontz replied, "The glib answer is to say I news. In fact, however, the antagonists In my novels create themselves, just as do the protagonists. I...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
October 31, 2011... We've previously noted the paucity of new arrivals on this list; in the five weeks in October, 13 bestsellers made their trade paper debuts; in the same span on the Fiction list, there were 31 new novels. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In O...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.
October 31, 2011... "Wry humor, a fully realized lead, and tense atmospherics lift Sandford's suspenseful fifth novel featuring Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Virgil Flowers (after Edgar-winner Bad Blood). When a bomb kills a construction...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.
October 31, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "My purpose in writing this book is to help you arrange your mind so that you choose happiness each and every day. Whatever challenges you may face, whatever circumstances are weighing you down, you can choose your...

Digital catalogues take over: booksellers find pros and cons in switching from print.(RETAIL NATION)
October 31, 2011... Going from paper to electronic catalogues has become one of the biggest upheavals in the way independent bookstores buy, on a par with cutbacks in field sales reps. "I don't think our choice is between paper and electronic catalogues," says...

Here come the memoirs.(Tip Sheet: The latest on current releases in the marketplace)(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... The week of October 31 is being blitzkrieged by personal essays and memoirs. For funny bones: Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling, and That Is All by John Hodgman. For the...

Q n A.(Tip Sheet: The latest on current releases in the marketplace)(Anthony Horowitz on The House of Silk)(Brief article)
October 31, 2011... Anthony Horowitz, tapped to write The House of Silk, the first authorized Sherlock Holmes adventure since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's death 81 years ago, shares favorite Holmes stories with us. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I fell in love with the...

Excerpt: don't peak in high school.(Tip Sheet: The latest on current releases in the marketplace)(Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?)(Excerpt)
October 31, 2011... Here's a taste of Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), out on November 1 from Crown. For the full exclusive excerpt from the memoir by The Office writer, producer, and actress, go to...

PW picks.(Tip Sheet: The latest on current releases in the marketplace)(Publishers Weekly)(Brief article)(Recommended readings)
October 31, 2011... Our top books hitting bookstores this week. Go online for our reviews and full On-Sale Calendar. NOVEMBER 1 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling (Crown Archetype, $25; ISBN 978-0-307-88626-2). 200,000...

Staying relevant: manufacturers are finding new approaches to working with publishers.(Manufacturing)
October 31, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Not that long ago book manufacturers and paper suppliers looked at digital print production as a wholly unwelcome alternative to the honored publishing tradition of putting real ink on real paper. Today everyone...

Death in Kenya: Christopher Goffard.(Author Profile)(death of John Kaiser)
October 31, 2011... Christopher Goffard's dive into a true story of murder, madness, and Kenyan politics began four years ago when he stumbled across a wire service brief buried in the Los Angeles Times, where he is a staff writer. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The...

The Gilly Salt Sisters.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... The Gilly Salt Sisters Tiffany Baker. Grand Central, $24.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-446-19423-5 From the author of The Little Giant of Aberdeen County comes this quirky and uneven novel set on Cape Cod's salt marshes and the family salt farm of...

Friends Like Us.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Friends Like Us Lauren Fox. Knopf, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-307-26811-1 Fox's funny and bittersweet new novel tackles the fragility of friendship. In high school, heroine Willa was best friends with Ben, but the two drifted apart after...

The Technologists.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... The Technologists Matthew Pearl. Random, $26 (480p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6657-5 Set in 1868 Boston, the latest historical fiction from Pearl (The Dante Club) finds protagonist Marcus Mansfield on the cusp of graduation from the newly formed...

A Life of Bright Ideas.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... A Life of Bright Ideas Sandra Kring. Bantam, $15 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-553-38682-0 In Kring's long-awaited sequel to The Book of Bright Ideas, set in Vietnam-era smalltown Wisconsin and full of convoluted relationships, Winnalee...

The Big Town.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... The Big Town Monte Schulz. Fantagraphics, $29.99 (494p) ISBN 978-1-60699-503-7 Businessman Harry Hennessy craves power and respect, but he'll settle for enough money to get by. All he needs is a big break (and to stop bedding every...

Norumbega Park.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Norumbega Park Anthony Giardina. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-27867-0 One night in 1969, while driving with his family, Richie Palumbo accidentally discovers the (fictional) New England town of Norumbega, a WASPy...

The Lost Saints of Tennessee.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... The Lost Saints of Tennessee Amy Franklin-Willis. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2005-2 In 1985, a decade after losing his twin brother, Carter, in a drowning accident, Zeke Cooper leaves his hometown of Clayton, Tenn. (and...

Cain at Gettysburg.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Cain at Gettysburg Ralph Peters. Forge, $25.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3047-5 Peters (The Officers' Club) uses the same structure as Michael Shaara's 1974 Civil War classic The Killer Angels to depict the seven crucial days before, during,...

Bond Girl.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Bond Girl Erin Duffy. Morrow, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-006-206589-6 Despite promising insider secrets about what really happens at a Wall Street firm, Duffy's debut crashes as fast as the stock market did. Alex Garret, a recent college...

All Fall Down.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... All Fall Down Megan Hart. Mira, $14.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1306-9 Fans of melodrama will cleave to Hart's latest, which is inspired by the Jonestown massacre and the Peoples Temple cult. Sunshine ("Sunny"), 19, and her three...

PW Talks with Eduardo Jimenez Mayo and Chris N. Brown: Apocalipsis Mexicano Fantastico.(Q & A)(Interview)
October 31, 2011... Three Messages and a Warning (Reviews, Sept. 12) presents a diverse collection of stories of the strange and fantastical by new and established Mexican writers, edited by critic and translator Eduardo Jimenez Mayo and author and critic Chris N....

The Nun.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... The Nun Simonetta Agnello Hornby, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Europa (Consortium, dist.), $15 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-60945-062-5 Agata Padellani, the rebellious daughter of a poor Neapolitan officer from an...

Knit One, Pearl One.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Knit One, Pearl One Gil McNeil. Hyperion/Voice, $14.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-4013-4167-1 In this follow-up to Needles and Pearls, McNeil returns to Jo Mackenzie's lively knitting store in Broadgate, England. Now a mother to three...

The Sound of Red Returning.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... The Sound of Red Returning Sue Duffy. Kregel, $14.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-8254-2574-5 Duffy (Fatal Loyalty) opens a new series with pianist Liesl Bower, who is thrust into danger after a concert at the White House brings back a...

Hope: A Tragedy.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... * Hope: A Tragedy Shalom Auslander. Riverhead, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59448-838-2 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Cultural anthropologists trying to figure out if there really is a recognizably Jewish voice and sense of humor, and if so,...

The Fourth Passenger.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... The Fourth Passenger Mini Nair. Roman Books (PBS, dist.), $24.95 (254p) ISBN 978-93-80905-06-8 The 1990s were a time of Hindu-Muslim conflict in Mumbai and form the background for this novel of four women who open a restaurant together...

A Thinking Man's Bully.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... A Thinking Man's Bully Michael Adelberg. Permanent, $26 (190p) ISBN 978-1-57962-228-2 Adelberg taps a headline-grabbing, hot-button issue in his debut about a New Jersey man realizing the ramifications of his former violent behavior on...

The Forgotten Affairs of Youth.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... The Forgotten Affairs of Youth Alexander McCall Smith. Pantheon, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-307-37918-4 You needn't be a series-long admirer of Isabel Dalhousie to be beguiled by this curious philosopher and casual sleuth. In this eighth...

A Ship for the King.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... A Ship for the King Richard Woodman. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8078-9 After more than 30 books, British author Woodman begins a new series of historical novels set during the English civil war in the 17th century. This...

PW talks with Colin Cotterill: a Laotian Quincy.(Q&A)(Interview)
October 31, 2011... Colin Cotterill's eighth mystery starring Dr. Siri Paiboun, Slash and Burn (Reviews, Oct. 17), is billed as the last starring the acerbic Laotian national coroner. Why end the series? Why on earth would I end the series. I confess that...

Tribulations of the Shortcut Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Tribulations of the Shortcut Man P.G. Sturges. Scribner, $24 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4391-9421-8 Likable L.A. lowlifes and conniving Hollywood has-beens populate Sturges's entertaining sequel to 2011's Shortcut Man. It's all in a day's work for...

Need You Now.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... * Need You Now James Grippando. Harper, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-184030-2 A Ponzi scheme of Bernie Madoff proportions drives this winning financial thriller from bestseller Grippando (Money to Burn). Abe Cushman, "a former chairman...

Kill Switch.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Kill Switch Neal Baar & Jonathan Greene. Kensington, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-6686-6 Fans of high-octane, intricate thrillers will welcome TV producers Baer and Greene's fiction debut, which introduces New York City forensic...

A Devil Is Waiting.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... A Devil Is Waiting Jack Higgins. Putnam, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15809-4 Capt. Sara Gideon, "a brilliant linguist" just home from a rough tour in Afghanistan, joins the can-do ranks of Great Britain's anti-terrorism squad, the...

Hard Knocks.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Hard Knocks Howie Carr. Forge, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2640-9 Talk radio host Carr's solid fiction debut places its protagonist, Jack Reilly, a disgraced ex-cop turned PI and freelance political fixer, in the same intertwined worlds...

All I Did Was Shoot My Man: A Leonid McGill Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... * All I Did Was Shoot My Man: A Leonid McGill Mystery Walter Mosley. Riverhead, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59448-824-5 In Mosley's fourth Leonid McGill mystery (after 2011's When the Thrill Is Gone), the best in the series to date, the...

D.C. Dead.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... D.C. Dead Stuart Woods. Putnam, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15766-0 Bestseller Woods's lackluster 22nd Stone Barrington novel (after 2011's Son of Stone) takes the New York City lawyer and his NYPD sidekick, Lt. Dino Bacchetti, to...

One Perfect Shot: A Posadas County Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... One Perfect Shot: A Posadas County Mystery Steven F. Havill. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (340p) ISBN 978-1-59058-954-0; $14.95 trade, paper ISBN 978-1-59058-956-4 Fans of Havill's fine multicultural procedural series set in Posadas County,...

Last Dance.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Last Dance David Russell. Dundurn (Midpoint, dist.), $17.99 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-926607-28-3 In Russell's worthy sequel to 2006's Deadly Lessons, an Arthur Ellis Award finalist, Vancouver lawyer-turned-teacher Winston Patrick must...

The Chalk Girl.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... * The Chalk Girl Carol O'Connell. Putnam, $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15774-5 Near the start of bestseller O'Connell outstanding 10th novel featuring New York City cop Kathy Mallory (after 2006's Find Me), the enigmatic Mallory, despite...

Soft Target.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Soft Target Stephen Hunter. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4391-3870-0 Former Marine sniper Ray Cruz, the 42-year-old half-Asian son of Bob Lee Swagger, who was introduced in 2010's Dead Zero, plays a central role in...

The Devil's Elixir.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... The Devil's Elixir Raymond Khoury. Dutton, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-95243-5 An amazingly powerful drug provides the MacGuffin for Khoury's exciting thriller with a paranormal twist. Narco kingpin Raoul Navarro (aka El Brujo, the...

The Boy Who Shoots Crows.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... The Boy Who Shoots Crows Randall Silvis. Berkley Prime Crime, $15 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-24346-6 When 12-year-old Jesse Rankin vanishes while out shooting crows in rural Cumberland County, Pa., at the start of this thoughtful...

Mr. Kill.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... * Mr. Kill Martin Limon. Soho Crime, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-1-56947-934-6 Set in South Korea in 1974, Limon's excellent seventh mystery featuring U.S. Army investigators George Sueno and Ernie Bascom (after 2009's G.I. Bones) richly...

Angel Face.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Angel Face Stephen Solomita. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8076-5 In this bleak stand-alone from Solomita (Mercy Killing), hit man Leonard Carter unexpectedly meets beautiful call girl Angela "Angel" Tamanaka after Carter...

The Winslow Incident.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... The Winslow Incident Elizabeth Voss. Five Star, $25.95 (498p) ISBN 978-1-4328-2546-1 Voss's debut blends horror and suspense to little effect. In the summer of 2010, the small town of Winslow, Wash., suffers a series of inexplicable...

Death Benefit.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Death Benefit Robin Cook. Putnam, $26.95 (420p) ISBN 978-0-399-15746-2 In this formulaic medical thriller from bestseller Cook (Coma), Pia Grazdani, a 26-year-old Columbia Medical School student who's overcome a difficult childhood to...

The Feng Shui Detective Goes West.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... The Feng Shui Detective Goes West Nury Vittachi. Felony & Mayhem (NBN, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-934609-79-8 Vittachi smoothly mixes humor and crime in his second whodunit to be made available in the U.S. featuring...

Theatre of Curious Acts.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Theatre of Curious Acts Cate Gardner. Hadley Rille, $12 trade paper (182p) ISBN 978-0-9839531-5-9 Gardner (Strange Men in Pinstripe Suits), a rising purveyor of high literary strangeness, offers a fresh slice of phantasmagoria densely...

Hell Train.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... * Hell Train Christopher Fowler. Solaris, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-1-90799-244-5 The affection of British Fantasy Award--winner Fowler for classic Hammer Films horror movies pays off in this intricately recursive tale of...

Subversion: Science Fiction & Fantasy Tales of Challenging the Norm.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Subversion: Science Fiction & Fantasy Tales of Challenging the Norm Edited by Bart R. Leib. Crossed Genres (www. crossedgenres.com), $11.95 trade paper (172p) ISBN 978-0-615-53329-2 Leib combines laudable ambition with remarkable...

Beta Test.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Beta Test Eric Griffith, Hadley Rille, $28 (278p) ISBN 978-0-9839531-0-4; $16 trade paper ISBN 978-0-9839531-1-1 Griffith offers up an unusually lighthearted apocalyptic tale. Thousands of people around the world abruptly disappear,...

The Cross.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... The Cross Sean McCabe. Signet, $9.99 mass market (480p) ISBN 978-0-451-41316-1 McCabe's second Vampire Federation urban fantasy (after February 2011's Uprising) tangles humans and vampires in lugubrious intrigues. Det. Joel Solomon...

An Ill Fate Marshalling.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... An Ill Fate Marshalling Glen Cook. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $14.99 trade paper (376p) ISBN 978-1-59780-320-5 This character-driven epic fantasy novel from 1988 has not aged well. Cook reintroduces the womanizing and...

Be My Texas Valentine.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Be My Texas Valentine Jodi Thomas, Linda Broday, Phyliss Miranda, and DeWannna Pace. Kensington/Zebra, $6.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-42011967-1 The authors' sixth Texas-themed collaboration (after Give Me a Texas Ranger) is all...

Immortal Rider.(Lords of Deliverance series)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Immortal Rider Larissa lone. Grand Central, $7.99 mass market (448p) ISBN 978-0-446-57447-1 Ione's second Lords of Deliverance paranormal (after Eternal Rider) provides a thrilling ride for readers. Limos, Satan's betrothed and daughter of...

Head over Heels: A Lucky Harbor Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Head Over Heels: A Lucky Harbor Novel Jill Shalvis. Grand Central/Forever, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-0-446-57163-0 Healthy doses of humor, lust, and love work their magic as Shalvis, tells Chloe's story in her newest Lucky Harbor...

It's All Greek to Me.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... It's All Greek to Me Katie MacAlister. Signet, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-23536-7 MacAlister (in the Company of Vampires) wins again with her signature sass and steam. Author Eglantine "Harry" Knight is hanging out with a band...

Acquainted with the Night.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... Acquainted with the Night Piper Maitland. Berkley, $9.99 mass market (544p) ISBN 978-0-425-24363-3 A young woman is thrust into the secret world of vampires in this cliched supernatural thriller, first in a proposed series. When...

The Kissing Tree.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 31, 2011... The Kissing Tree Prudence Bice. Cedar Fort/Sweetwater (www.cedarfort.com), $.15.99 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-59955-936-0 In Bice's sweet second novel of the Old West (after The Widower's Wife), a young woman rediscovers her western...