…the nice folks at Random House & Suvudu have set aside a few things for you: • Mark of the Demon signed by author Diana Rowland • Child of Fire signed by author Harry Connolly • Luck in the Shadows signed by author Lynn Flewelling • Black and White signed by authors Jackie Kessler and…
First the good news: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams Books, is set to release the fourth book in Jeff Kinney’s Harvey Award-winning series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, on October 12, 2009 (October 13 in Canada). To support the release of the book, a Diary of a Wimpy Kid ice cream truck…
From Quirk Books, the people who brought you Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, swashbuckling pirates, and other seaworthy creatures……
From a commenter of Megan McArdle’s at The Atlantic: I was walking through a bohemian part of town and ran across this place called a “bookstore”. I thought, “Hmm, that’s interesting. I’ve always gotten my books electronically on my kindle, but this could be an interesting idea.” So I stepped inside. What I saw was…
Kids aren’t just short adults; if you spend any time around them, you’ll learn that quickly. (This is also the reason why many people choose not to spend much time around children.) And, similarly, books for children aren’t the same as books for adults, nor are they adult books simplified or dumbed down. This week,…
We are saddened to report on the passing of David Eddings, author of the Belgariad and Malloreon series of books, at the age of 77. The first volume of the Belgariad series, Pawn of Prophecy, came out back in 1982 and was followed in short order by Queen of Sorcery, Magician’s Gambit, Castle of Wizardry…
It’s fascinating to see the same material presented in competing books, approached in entirely different ways. DK Publishing, the successful home to the various character-specific Ultimate Guides, offers up Wolverine: Inside the World of the Living Weapon (200 pages, $24.99) while Pocket Books, which has been home to the Marvel novels, gives us The Wolverine…
These three books don’t represent the comics community of the Philippines: I know almost nothing about that community and I’m sure of that. Extrapolating from these three stories – from the three comics stories I happen to have – is futile and silly and I’m going to try not to do it. Drawing any conclusions…
And you thought Watchmen warped book sales charts for comics. That’s nothing– according to USA Today, Watchmen came in ninth in sales for the first quarter of 2009. The first four books were the first four books in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. In fact, a whopping 16% of all books sold in America in…
Poor Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away, she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod’s humongous fruit-selling empire. Overseas departments, scads of inventory, conflicting prices, and so many customers! It’s all such a confusing mess. But a mysterious book and a helpful fairy promise to solve her organizational problems—with the…
From TechCrunch via Tom Galloway: Last October, Google signed a $125 million settlement with the Author’s Guild to pay authors for copyrighted works it has scanned and made available on the Web through its Google Book Search project. More than 7 million books have been scanned by Google so far, a large portion of them…
We’re getting zombie outbreaks all over the place. First, we have this news footage from Austin, Texas: From Amazon, we have reports of zombie invasions in Netherfield Park: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! And just for completism, we have Zombie Tales, Volume 1 from Boom!…
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