Publishers Weekly articles from September 2004

Publishers Weekly archives from September 2004

S&S, AP settle Hillary embargo dispute: but experts say issue is likely to recur.
September 6, 2004... A LEGAL DISPUTE between Simon & Schuster and the Associated Press over the newswire's decision to publish passages from Hillary Clinton's memoir, Living History, in June 2003 in violation of a media embargo has been settled, with the AP...

Author caucus.(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... The Republican National Convention in New York wasn't all protests, speeches and cops--it was also cause for several book-related panels. At the Time-Life Building, a dozen conservative authors spoke at a gathering sponsored by Bookspan's...

Wiley offers cliffs notes free online.(News)
September 6, 2004... THE BATTLE OF THE STUDY guides--John Wiley's classic Cliffs Notes guides versus Barnes & Noble's SparkNotes series--opened a new front with the launch of a redesigned Cliffs Notes Web site offering its study guides both for sale and for free....

FSG launches new line.(Classic Formula)(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... One of the country's most venerable publishers is dipping into its backlist to start a classics line. FSG will launch a reissuing and rejacketing effort for some of the house's older, forgotten works, with the occasional acquisition of another...

Xlibris shifts jobs, fields complaints.(Outsourcing)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... OUTSOURCING IS LIKELY behind the number of recent author complaints about customer service from Xlibris, the Philadelphia-based print-on-demand subsidy publisher. In early August, Xlibris laid off about 35 customer-service workers and moved...

Reference helps Franklin.(First-Quarter Results)(Franklin Electronic Publishers)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... DRIVEN ENTIRELY by sales of higher margin product in its reference group, net income at Franklin Electronic Publishers jumped 178% in the first quarter ended June 30, to $779,000, on a revenue jump of 6.7%, to $16 million. Sales of...

Lexile ratings catch on.(Measuring Reading)
September 6, 2004... DESPITE SOME EARLY CRITICS who questioned its growing use, the Lexile Framework for Reading, a reading comprehension program that measures both the difficulty of a text and individual reading ability, is becoming a popular tool for evaluating...

Goodman acquires Carlton Publishing.(U.K. Publishing)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... THE U.K. COMMERCIAL television corporation ITV has sold its publishing arm, Carlton Publishing Group, to its founder and current managing director, Jonathan Goodman. Goodman has acquired the nonfiction reference and entertainment publisher for...

Ivy League's 'The Chosen' to HM.(hot deals)(Hougton Mifflin)(The Chosen: Admissiona nd Exclusion at Harvard, Yale and Princeton, 1990)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Amanda Cook at Houghton Mifflin won a keenly contested auction for a book called The Chosen: Admission and Exclusion at Haryard, Yale and Princeton, 1900 to Today, which offers a detailed examination of the admissions procedures of the Ivy...

Morrow wins Indian's novel.(hot deals)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Another tightly contested auction, this one among four publishers, was won by Morrow's Claire Wachtel, who paid six figures for a second novel by Bombay-born novelist and journalist Thrity Umrigar. It's called Thicker Than Water and is about...

An Evers bio by his widow.(hot deals)(The Autobiography of Medgar Evers by Myrlie Evers)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... A book called The Autobiography of Medgar Evers will actually be written by the widow of the celebrated civil rights leader assassinated in 1963, Myrlie Evers, writing with noted African-American author and scholar Manning Marable. It was...

Crime anthology moves to Ecco.(hot deals)(Best American Crime Writing)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... An annual anthology called The Best American Crime Writing, edited by Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook, has moved to Ecco in a deal orchestrated by Harper's Dan Conaway and Jill Schwartzman. They made the North American rights buy from agent Nat...

An account of Canadian author Ryan Knighton's progressive blindness, beginning at age 18, made sales to Lisa Kaufman at Public Affairs here and to Diana Turbide at Penguin Canada.(Short Takes)(The View from Here: Dispatches from the Edge of Blindness)
September 6, 2004... An account of Canadian author Ryan Knighton's progressive blindness, beginning at age 18, made sales to Lisa Kaufman at Public Affairs here and to Diana Turbide at Penguin Canada. It's called The View from Here: Dispatches from the Edge of...

A new book by a rock groupie who made her name with a racy memoir of her adventures called I'm with the Band was bought by Yuval Taylor at Chicago Review Press.(Short Takes)(I'm With the Band)
September 6, 2004... A new book by a rock groupie who made her name with a racy memoir of her adventures called I'm with the Band was bought by Yuval Taylor at Chicago Review Press. The author is Pamela Des Barres, the new title is Let's Spend the Night Together,...

Viking's Jane von Mehren bought a book called God on Trial: America's Religious Wars.(Short Takes)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Viking's Jane van Mehren bought a book called God on Trial: America's Religious Wars, in which author Peter Irons examines a range of religiously oriented issues that currently divide the country, including school prayer, abortion, stem cell...

Allworth press marks 15 years of growth.(Books for Art's Sake)
September 6, 2004... FOCUSED ON NONFICTION works for arts professionals, Manhattan-based Allworth Press will celebrate its 15th anniversary, n larked by years of steady growth and a growing backlist of titles aimed at nearly every area of the visual and performing...

New Ingram system?(Wholesale Changes)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... INGRAM IS REPORTEDLY considering a new system that could modernize and make more efficient its inventory and ordering process but that could cause concern for small publishers that rely on the wholesaler to always have their titles on band. ...

VTL: Sports Publishing's book info on a disk.(Digital Sales Rep)
September 6, 2004... IT WAS ONLY A MATTER of time before some computer-savvy publisher would hit upon a successful strategy for combining state-of-the art technology and traditional printed catalogues to make its titles more accessible to bookstore buyers. ...

'Rings' star starts press.(Startup)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... PERCEVAL PRESS, founded in 2002 as a direct-mail publisher by Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen, has announced a new distribution deal with PGW and signed an acclaimed author for its first list. Perceval (www.percevalpress.com) has...

Barron joins Mensa Agency.(Agency Shift)(Manie Barron)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... MANIE BARRON, the first African-American agent in the literary department of the Will tam Morris Agency, is leaving to join the Claudia Mensa Literary Agency. Barron told PW the parting was "amicable." He told PW he will be looking to...

The Jury is back.(behind the bestsellers)(The Winds of Change by Martha Grimes)
September 6, 2004... That's Richard Jury, Martha Grimes's urbane British detective, who's returning in his 19th starring vehicle, The Winds of Change. Grimes aficionados may recall that her previous outing was last year's Foul Matter, about which Marilyn Stasio...

Out for justice.(behind the bestsellers)(Dark Justice)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Our second fiction newbie on this week's list is Dark Justice, a modern-day tale of espionage about an assassination attempt on the president of the U.S., in which a White House operative and his British intelligence counterpart soon become...

Plain Jane--not.(behind the bestsellers)(Jane Pauley's Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Nearly 30 years ago, she became the first woman to co-anchor a weeknight evening newscast (at WMAQ-TV in Chicago). The rest, as they say, is history: chosen at 25 to fill one of the most visible positions in American TV news, co-host of Today;...

9/11 Report, part deux.(behind the bestsellers)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Steadily climbing PWs mass market list is The 9/11 Report, published by St. Martin's on July 29 with a first printing of 200,000 copies. (Its publication followed by one week the Norton edition, which today marks its sixth week atop our trade...

It's baaack.(behind the bestsellers)(Guinness World Records 2005)
September 6, 2004... It's on our charts for the seventh time, and it's a week earlier than last year. It's Guinness World Records 2005, this year sporting a vibrant gold cover to mark the venerable tome's 50th anniversary. Released by Guinness Publishing on August...

Fiction gets supersized: how many doorstop novels is too many?(book news)
September 6, 2004... Readers who sip 32-ounce sodas while driving their SUVs from their McMansions to a book superstore should feel right at home when they reach the new fiction display table this fall. Many of the season's biggest novels are just that: big. ...

'Callgirl' gets the nod.(Thank You, Oprah)
September 6, 2004... After 26 years of publishing primarily fiction, Permanent Press is poised for a major breakout with a racy memoir, Callgirl. The author is novelist Jeannette Angell, who supported herself as a lecturer at M.I.T. and Boston University, where she...

Chicago's new author series.(The Media Mix)(Writers on the Record)
September 6, 2004... In the six years since the Washington Center for the Book kicked off the nation's first city-wide reading program in Seattle, hundreds of communities have adopted similar initiatives and the concept has begun to evolve. In the Midwest, arts...

Fall book festivals: at regional celebrations, authors mingle amid signings, panels and workshops.(bookselling)(Calendar)
September 6, 2004... The following 31 book festivals are among the many scheduled to take place through November 2004. Check festival Web sites for complete author lists and more details on activities and educational programs. ATLANTA BOOK FESTIVAL ...

An independent spirit: Recorded Books celebrates 25 years of unabridged audio.(audio)
September 6, 2004... Recorded Books is something of an anomaly in the audiobook industry. Publisher Brian Downing considers Recorded Books an independent audiobook company that has maintained an independent spirit because it is not owned by or affiliated with a...

Books on Tape in new digs.(audio bits)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Books on Tape, the Southern California-based audiobook division of Random House that primarily services library, school and mail-order customers, is experiencing a growth spurt. As of August 9, BOT has a brand-spanking-new studio space. "We...

APA, CEA establish standards.(audio bits)(Audio Publishers Association)(Consumer Electronics Association)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... The Mobile Electronics Spoken Word Committee of the Consumer Electronics Association, in cooperation with the Audio Publishers Association, has ratified standards that create production guidelines for the audiobook and consumer electronics...

Hark!(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
September 6, 2004... HARK! ED MCBAIN, READ BY RON McLARTY. Simon & Schuster Audio, abridged, four cassettes, 5 hrs., $26 ISBN 0-7435-3675-4 * Several excellent narrators, including the author, have lent their voices to McBain's long-running series about...

Little Scarlet.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
September 6, 2004... LITTLE SCARLET WALTER MOSLEY, READ BY MICHAEL BOATMAN. Time Warner Audiobooks, unabridged, seven CDs, 7.5 hrs., $34.98 ISBN 1-58621-660-0 Admirably performed by reader Boatman, this audiobook--the latest in Mosley's series featuring...

Backstabber.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
September 6, 2004... BACKSTABBER TIM COCKEY, READ BY PATRICK GIRARD LAWLOR. Listen & Live Audio, abridged, six CDs, 8 hrs., $32.95 ISBN 1-593160283 What wisecracking mortician/amateur sleuth could resist the lure of a mysterious nighttime summons? Certainly not...

Kiss Me While I Sleep.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
September 6, 2004... KISS ME WHILE I SLEEP LINDA HOWARD, READ BY JOYCE BEAN AND DICK HILL. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hrs., $36.95 ISBN 1-59086-175-2 CIA contract agent Lily Mansfield has been a ruthless, professional assassin for nearly 20...

A Carnivore's Inquiry.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... A CARNIVORE'S INQUIRY SABINA MURRAY, READ BY WENDY HOOPES. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 9.75 hrs., $36.95 ISBN 1-56511-867-7 Katherine Shea, a highly intelligent 23-year-old, may be the most unusual protagonist in recent...

A Home at the End of the World.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
September 6, 2004... A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, READ BY COLIN FARRELL, DALLAS ROBERTS, BLAIR BROWN AND JENNIFER VAN DYCK. Audio Renaissance, unabridged, 11 CDs, 12 hrs., $44.95 ISBN 1-55927-990-7 * Two very different boys are drawn...

Sam's Letters to Jennifer.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
September 6, 2004... SAM'S LETTERS TO JENNIFER JAMES PATTERSON, READ BY ANNE HECHE AND JANE ALEXANDER. Time Warner AudioBooks, abridged, four CDs, 4.5 hrs., $31.98 ISBN 1-5862 1-6325 Unlike Patterson's Alex Cross thrillers, this sentimental tale does not...

The Great Bridge: the Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
September 6, 2004... THE GREAT BRIDGE: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge DAVID McCULLOUGH, READ BY EDWARD HERRMANN. Simon & Schuster Audio, abridged, six cassettes, 11 hrs., $35 ISBN 0-7435-3722-X * This outstanding audio adaptation...

Who Let the Dogs in?(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
September 6, 2004... WHO LET THE DOGS IN? MOLLY IVINS, READ BY THE AUTHOR. Random House Audio, abridged, four CDs, 5 hrs., $27.50 ISBN 0-7393-1384-3 Two decades of Ivins's smart, acerbic political commentary have been harvested for this highly entertaining...

Audio bestsellers.
September 6, 2004... Fiction 1 The Da Vinci Code (unabr. CD). Dan Brown. Read by Paul Michael. Random House Audio. 13 CDs, 16 hours, $44.95 ISBN 0-7393-1312-6 2 Is for Ricochet (unabr.). Sue Grafton. Read by Judy Kaye. Random House Audio Seven cassettes,...

Paula Danziger remembered: authors and friends offer their memories of the children's writer.(children's books)
September 6, 2004... A memorial service for Danziger, who died July 8, will be held on Tuesday, September 28, 6-8 p.m., at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York City. Margaret Frith Editor-at-Large, G.P. Putnam's Sons Years before...

New tweens line modeled after American girl.(children's books)(B*tween Productions)
September 6, 2004... If Addie Swartz has her way, girls will be able to be, well, girls, a little longer. The mother of two "tweenagers," ages nine and 12, Swartz is bringing the same determination and drive that helped her create Bright-Ideas, a children's...

Bill Martin Jr.(children's books)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Children's book author Bill Martin Jr. died on August n, at the age of 88. Over his long career, Martin was an air force sergeant, a teacher, a school principal, a textbook editor and finally a fulltime writer. He published his first book, The...

The team: Jean Chatzky and her colleagues go for the breakout.(Innovators Series)
September 6, 2004... Jean Chatzky, visited our offices in June 2004 at the invitation of PW publisher Joe Tessitore. Chatzky, an author and the financial editor of the Today Show, brought along lit. erary agent Richard Pine, independent publicist Heidi Krupp and...

Still shining brightly: key players discuss the challenges in this ever-evoling publishing sector.(new wave)
September 6, 2004... Charles Nurnberg Sterling Publishing America as the Audience The New Age audience is much broader than it used to be, observes Sterling president and CEO Charles Nurnberg. "In the old days, New Age had a very narrow, specific focus and...

Putting the 'New' in New Age.
September 6, 2004... Although the New Age bookshelf has become increasingly crowded of late, four publishers are convinced that there's always room for more. In fact, 24-year-old Adams Media in Avon, Mass., is so certain that it is adding its first imprint,...

Wolves Eat Dogs.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... WOLVES EAT DOGS MARTIN CRUZ SMITH. Simon & Schuster, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 0-684-87254-4 * Smith's melancholy, indefatigable Senior Investigator Arkady Renko has been exiled to some bitter venues in the past--including blistering-hot Cuba in...

Too Weird for Ziggy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... TOO WEIRD FOR ZIGGY SYLVIE SIMMONS. Grove, $12 paper (266p) ISBN 0-8021-4156-0 British music journalist Simmons has taken the years she spent interviewing rock's most outrageous personalities and compressed them into this lurid, engrossing...

The Zigzag Way.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... THE ZIGZAG WAY ANITA DESAI. Houghton Mifflin, $23 (176p) ISBN 0-618-04215-6 Like the recent film Lost in Translation, Desai's new novel tells of an American adrift in a foreign culture that remains frustratingly inscrutable. Eric is a New...

The Captain's Vengeance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... THE CAPTAIN'S VENGEANCE DEWEY LAMBDIN. St. Martin's/Dunne, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 0-312-31547-3 This 12th installment of the Alan Lewrie naval adventure series sends the British captain to 1799 New Orleans in pursuit of pirates. Unlike the...

Northern Lights.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... NORTHERN LIGHTS NORA ROBERTS. Putnam, $25.95 (576p) ISBN 0-399-15205-9 * Roberts shines again with a nuanced tale of the Alaskan wilderness and the appealing eccentrics who cluster there. Former Baltimore cop Hate Burke accepts the...

Villages.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... VILLATES JOHN UPDIKE. Knopf, $25 (336p) ISBN 1-4000-4290-9 In this 21st novel by one of the premier chroniclers of American life, a man recalls a lifetime spent in New England communities of women. Owen Mackenzie, now in his 70s and living...

Lux.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... LUX MARIA FLOOK. Little, Brown, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 0-316-00092-2 An iconoclastic cast of Cape Cod year-rounders peoples Flook's moody, intelligent novel. Alden Warren works for the National Park Service, counts birds for the Massachusetts...

The Red Queen: A Transcultural Tragicomedy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... THE RED QUEEN MARGARET DRABBLE. Harcourt, $24 (368p) ISBN 0-15-1011060 * In her 16th novel, Drabble exhibits her characteristic ironic detachment in an elegantly constructed meditation on memory, mortality, risk and reward. Dr. Babs...

The Send-Away Girl: Stories.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... THE SEND-AWAY GIRL BARBARA SUTTON. Univ. of Georgia, $24.95 (202p) ISBN 0-8203-2655-0 Companionship emerges in unexpected places for the characters of Sutton's shining collection of 10 short stories, a Flannery O'Connor Award--winning...

Snowleg.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... SNOWLEG NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE. Harcourt, $25 (400p) ISBN 0-15-101146-X The personal and the political clash in this sometimes haunting but often baffling novel about Peter Hithersay, an English teenager, and his one-night encounter with an...

The Librarian.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... THE LIBRARIAN LARRY BEINHART. Avalon/Nation, $15.95 paper (448p) ISBN 1-56025-636-2 Beinhart's first novel in a decade (the last, American Hero, became the film Wag the Dog) takes a worst-case scenario conceived by leftist conspiracy...

A Gentleman's Game: a Queen & Country Novel.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... A GENTLEMAN'S GAME: A Queen & Country Novel GREG RUCKA. Bantam, $24 (340p) ISBN 0-553-80276-3 Inspired by his Eisner Award-winning Queen & Country graphic novel series, the author of the adrenaline-charged Atticus Kodiac thrillers...

Absent Friends.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... ABSENT FRIENDS S.J. ROZAN. Delacorte, $24 (384p) ISBN 0-785-33803-1 * New York City Fire Capt. James McCaffery is a hero to everyone who knew him, and many who didn't, even before his death at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001....

Color Blind.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... COLOR BLIND JONATHAN SANTLOFER. Morrow, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-06-054104-0 In this run-of-the-mill serial killer thriller, nothing much separates Santlofer's psychotic villain from his fictional brethren other than his fancying himself an...

The Parisian Affair.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... THE PARISIAN AFFAIR JUDITH GOULD. NAL, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-451-21274-6 When struggling New York jewelry designer Allegra Sheridan is hired to fly to Paris and bid up to $100 million on an Arab princess's emerald ring, she figures it's an...

Kipligat's Chance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... KIPLIGAT'S CHANCE DAVID ODHIAMBO. St. Martin's Griffin, $12.95 paper (288p) ISBN 0-312-32954-7 John "Leeds" Kipligat, the 17-year-old Kenyan emigre narrator of Odhiambo's earnest but awkward second novel (after diss/ed banded nation),...

The White Night of St. Petersburg.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... THE WHITE NIGHT OF ST. PETERSBUGH PRINCE MICHAEL OF GREECE, TRANS. FROM THE FRENCH BY FRANKLIN PHILIP. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (352p) ISBN 0-87113-922-7 The publishing world-and possibly readers as well--never tire of the Romanovs. This...

Angel of Harlem.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... ANGEL OF HARLEM KUWANA HAULSEY. Random/One World, $19.95 (352p) ISBN 0-375-50870-8 May Edward Chinn (1896-1980), the first black female doctor in New York City, is the inspiration for Haulsey's (The Red Moon) stirring second novel. May's...

He Had it Coming.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... HE HAD IT COMING CAMIKA SPENCER. St. Martin's, $19.95 (224p) ISBN 0-312-32334-4 "He's a narcissist, and he hates women" is one of the mildest barbs tossed by a group of five black book club members at war with a self-centered, narcissistic...

In the Midst of Wolves.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... IN THE MIDST OF WOLVES KEITH REMER. Volt, $22.95 (278p) ISBN 1-56625-227-X A devout believer refuses to disavow his faith and is forced to watch as his seven-year-old daughter is shot to death in this overwrought, overwritten novel. David...

The Real Minerva.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... THE REAL MINERVA MARY SHARRATF. Houghton Mifflin, $24 (272p) ISBN 0-618-46232-5 This story of three women--a mother, her daughter and the town pariah--living in a Minnesota hamlet in 1923 is a heartfelt tale of female empowerment, hampered...

How I Paid for College.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... HOW I PAID FOR COLLEGE MARC ACITO. Doubleday, $21.95 (240p) ISBN 0-7679-1841-X * Portland humor columnist Acito debuts dazzling comic panache in this story of a teenage would-be swindler and budding drama queen. Edward Zanni is dying to...

Othello.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... OTHELLO SATOMI IKEZAWA. Del Rey, $10.95 paper (208p) ISBN 0-345-479-130 This could have been vet another in the long line of manga sagas focusing on the life and loves of a cute high school girl. Ikezawa's tale of 16-year-old Yaya Higuchi...

Gold Mine!(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... GOLD MINE! The California Gold Rush Story SHEKHAR SHIMPI AND GINGER TURNER. Gossamer, $15.95 paper (44p) ISBN 0-9742502-3-6 Gossamer's new series of graphic novels takes historical events and facts and turns them into entertaining tales....

In the Shadow of No Towers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... IN THE SHADOW OF NO TOWERS ART SPIEGELMAN. Pantheon, $19.95 (20p) ISBN 0-375-42307-9 * Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Spiegelman's new work is an inventive and vividly graphic work of nonfiction. It's an artful rant focused on the...

Ursula.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... URSULA FABIO MOON AND GABRIEL BA, TRANS. FROM THE PORTUGUESE BY THE AUTHORS AND JOAN AND GUILHERME PINTO. AiT/PlanetLar (2034 47th Ave., San Francisco, Calif. 94116), $9.95 paper (60p) ISBN 1-932051-22-8 Brazilian cartoonists (and twin...

The Prince of Tennis: Volume 2.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... THE PRINCE OF TENNIS: Volume 2 TAKESHI KONOMI. Viz, $7.95 paper (188p) ISBN 1-59116-436-2 This popular sports manga explores the difference between practiced technique and innate power. Ryoma is a former U.S. junior tennis champion who...

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... THE NEW ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, EDITED WITH A FOREWORD AND NOTES BY LESLIE S. KLINGER. Norton, $75 (2 vols.; 650p each) ISBN 0-393-05916-2 * Sherlockians and more casual Holmes fans alike will delight in this...

Murder at the B-School.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... MURDER AT THE B-SCHOOL JEFFREY CRUIKSHANK. Mysterious, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-89296-793-5 Some fine description helps offset plot weaknesses in this competent first mystery from former Harvard Business School administrator and financial...

Double Homicide: Boston Double Homicide: Santa Fe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... DOUBLE HOMICIDE JONATHAN AND FAYE KELLERMAN. Warner, $23.95: (256p) ISBN 0-446-53296-7 Those who admire risk, take note: two authors at the top of their game have done something quite new. Those who fear change, take heart: the results are...

The Burnt Orange Sunrise: a Berger and Mitry Mystery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... THE BURNT ORANGE SUNRISE: A Berger and Mitry Mystery DAVID HANDLER. St. Martin's Minotaur/ Dunne, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 0-312-30735-7 A severe winter storm and a house fill of trapped guests, a murderer among them, test odd couple Mitch Berger...

Sugar Cookie Murder: a Hannah Swenson Mystery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... SUGAR COOKIE MURDER: A Hannah Swenson Mystery JOANNE FLUKE. Kensington, $16 (352p) ISBN 0-7582-0681-X In her first holiday mystery, Fluke (Fudge Cupcake Murder, etc.) takes her series heroine, Hannah Swensen, amateur sleuth and owner of...

Not so elementary.(PW Talks with Leslie S. Klinger)(Interview)
September 6, 2004... PW: How do you account for the lasting appeal of Sherlock Holmes? Leslie S. Klinger: It's different for different people. For some, it's nostalgia for an era that they imagined was a simpler world and age. Although these are crime stories,...

Speak Now.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... SPEAK NOW MARGARET DUMAS. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (726p) ISBN 1-59058-121-0 Short-listed for Britain's C.W.A. 2003 Debut Dagger Award, Dumas's sparkling debut should appeal to both cozy and chick-lit fans. Thirty-four-year-old Charley Van...

Treason Keep: Book Two of the Hythrun Chronicles.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... TREASON KEEP: Book Two of the Hythrun Chronicles JENNIFER FALLON. Tor, $25.95 (496p) ISBN 0-765-34866-7 Convoluted intrigues, rivalries and romance provide an entertaining tangle in the second book in Australian fantasy author Fallon's...

Crisscross.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... CRISSCROSS F. PAUL WILSON. Forge, $24.95 (414p) ISBN 0-765-30691-3 The eighth novel in Wilson's Repairman Jack saga pulses with the usual entertaining mix of pulp heroics and supernatural thrills. lack, a private vigilante-for-hire who...