Category Archives: Book Release

Now in Stores: THE COLLECTORS by David Baldacci

Posted on October 23, 2006 by Aurel
 

THE COLLECTORS by David Baldacci (Thriller)
Reviewed by Kate Ayers
In this sequel to David Baldacci’s 2005 thriller, THE CAMEL CLUB, a quartet of self-appointed government watchdogs uncovers a ring of killer opportunists when one of them discovers a body. When they learn of a connection to another death, the stakes become higher — a matter of their lives. 

-Click here to read an excerpt from THE COLLECTORS.
Click here to read a review of THE COLLECTORS.  

 
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Book Review: Philip Gerard's Creative Nonfiction

Posted on October 23, 2006 by Aurel

Creative Nonfiction: Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life
Author: Philip Gerard
Publisher: Story Press
ISBN: 1-884910-07-6
Review: According to Philip Gerard, in his book Creative Nonfiction, there are five hallmarks of creative nonfiction that get your story read and purchased by editors and read and remembered by readers. The writer’s foundations are the plot and subplot, or what the nonfiction writer calls the apparent subject and the deeper subject. On these foundations, the timely and immediate story snapshot offered in the headlines is deepened and cultivated, broadening and filling out the larger story.

Gerard identifies the third hallmark as narrative, “it always tells a good story.” There is also the quality of reflection—how we got to this spot—similar in scope to flashbacks in fiction. In the case of creative nonfiction however, the writer makes connections between the subject at hand and his own reading, writing, and life experience. (more…)

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Lemony Snicket Promises Deaths

Posted on October 21, 2006 by Aurel

The Author of the ‘Series of Unfortunate Events’ series may be trying to keep up with JK Rowling’s highly controversial claims of killing off main characters in the final installment of the wildly popular ‘Harry Potter’ series.

Snicket (a.k.a. Daniel Handler, 36) released his 13th and final installment of his series, fittingly on Friday, October 13th, 2007.  The book is titled “The End”

Read More from Newsweek/MSNBC

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Pakistan President Defends Writing Book in Office

Posted on October 19, 2006 by Aurel

“President Pervez Musharraf has defended his decision to write his autobiography while in office and claimed that it is the first time that a book from Pakistan has because a bestseller.

“Talking to media representatives at an Iftar-dinner here on Wednesday, the president’s message to the critics was: “No need to be jealous.” He argued that it made sense to write a book when one was at peak as it captured world attention.

“Refuting allegations of his book being ‘a pack of lies’, he asserted: “This book is the truth, nothing but the truth and the whole truth. And I have documentary evidence of all I have said.” – Asia Media News Daily

Musharaff claimed that a portion of his advance and 15 percent of future royalties would go towards a foundation he plans to set up promoting economic empowerment of the poor.

 

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'Kite Runner' Author to Release Second Novel

Posted on October 19, 2006 by Aurel

“Khaled Hosseini, author of the million-selling novel “The Kite Runner,” will have a new book, “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” out next spring, publisher Riverhead Books announced Thursday.” – The Associated Press

Hossieni’s new book is described as, “”heart-wrenching chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith and the salvation to be found in love.” by Riverhead.

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Elsevier to Release New Book on Writing for Animation, Comics & Games

Posted on October 19, 2006 by Aurel

“Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games explains the practical aspects of creating scripts for animation, comics, graphic novels, and computer games. It details how you can create scripts that are in the right industry format, and follow the expected rules for you to put your best foot forward to help you break-in to the trade. This book explains approaches to writing for exterior storytelling (animation, games); interior/exterior storytelling (comics and graphic novels), as well as considerations for non-linear computer games in the shortest, pithiest, and most economical way. The author offers insider’s advice on how you can present work as professional, how to meet deadlines, how visual writing differs from prose, and the art of collaboration.”

For more information, visit the Elsevier website.

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"Notebook Girls" nabs book deal.

Posted on October 17, 2006 by Aurel

Ah highschool, the boys, the drunken cat-fights, the sexual exploration the notes passed furtively between classes.  For four former Stuyvesant High School students, all that ninth and tenth grade drama is really paying off.  The girls, who are now college freshman, decided to write and pass their notes in a a shared journal, instead of duplicating the same stories for each girl, and after passing along some Xeroxes of the notebooks to a literary agent in 2004 nabbed a book deal with Warner Books, who published “The Notebook Girls” in April.

 Read more from ABC News or visit The Notebook Girls site.

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PW interview with publisher Shaye Areheart

Posted on October 17, 2006 by Keren

Publisher’s Weekly has an interesting and (very) short interview with publisher Shaye Areheart, discussing debut novels and Robert James Waller.

PW: You’ve published several debut novels over the past few seasons. Do you have a special affinity for publishing first-time authors, and what are the challenges involved in that?

SA: I think because we have published so many debut novels and have had some notable success with them that agents think of us for those books. The challenge, of course, is always to make people pay attention and to get them to actually read the book. Because with a fine debut novelist you’re saying this book is great, this story is wonderful, these characters are affecting, please, please read this book. If you can get people to read something, the chances are good that they’ll say, yeah, this really is quite wonderful; or at least they’ll give it a fair chance.

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Bloomsbury says its autumn list is a knockout

Posted on September 20, 2006 by Keren

Bloomsbury’s autumn schedule is its best yet, boasts the publisher’s chairman Nigel Newton, with books as diverse as David Blunkett’s political memoirs, the latest from William Dalrymple and Margaret Atwood, Schott’s Almanac and even the collected speeches of Gordon Brown.

Announcing first-half profits in line with the City’s own scribblings, Mr Newton said its forthcoming list was “the strongest autumn programme in our 20-year history”.

 Read the Guardian Unlimited article here.

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Hannibal Lecter rises again

Posted on September 19, 2006 by Keren

A new “Hannibal Lecter” novel, originally scheduled to come out last year, will be published this December. Thomas Harris’ “Hannibal Rising,” which tells of the early years of literature’s most famous cannibal, is the fourth of the million-selling series that includes “The Silence of the Lambs,” made into an Academy-Award winning film starring Anthony Hopkins. The new book will have a first printing of at least 1.5 million copies.

“Now, in `Hannibal Rising,’ readers will at last learn of Lecter’s beginnings and will see the evolution of his evil,” Irwyn Applebaum, president and publisher of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, said Tuesday in a statement.

Read the Yahoo News article here.

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