Wild About Orchids

Jude Deveraux's Wild Orchids blooms on the national charts after just a week in the stores. It is #10 on PW's hardcover fiction so far. Atria Books launched the title with a first printing of 230,000 and plenty of national advertising. Key buyers across the country received orchid plants to thank them for their support of Deveraux (visitors to Amazon's page for the novel "may also be interested in" a number of Web sites related to the showy bloom). Deveraux's oeuvre includes 29 books with a combined in-print total of more than 45 million.