Pics of the Week, 5/2
-- Publishers Weekly, 5/2/2005
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This week our pictures present Edgar Award winner Domenic Stansberry; Scholastic's chicken party; a graphic novel panel in New York; a card shark in Las Vegas; a party for bookstore managers in L.A.; and manga writer Richard Knaak at the L.A. Times Book Festival. | |
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CRIME PAYS
Novelist Domenic Stansberry with his 12-year-old Daughter, Gellis, after winning an Edgar Award for the best original paperback novel for The Confession (Hard Case Crime) at the Mystery Writers of America's annual Edgar Awards banquet in New York.
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NOBODY HERE BUT US CHICKENS
Scholastic threw a party in New York to celebrate its acquisition of the U.K's Chicken House Publishing. Pictured (l. to r.) are Jean Feiwel, Scholastic publisher; Dick Robinson, Scholastic CEO; Barry Cunningham, managing director, Chicken House; Ellie Berger, senior v-p, Scholastic trade books; Kate Wilson, managing director, Scholastic UK; and Barbara Marcus, president, Scholastic Children’s Books. |
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COMICS ARE BOOKS, TOO
The Center for Communication and the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art hosted a panel of artists and publishers discusing the development and newfound interest in graphic novels at Housing Works Used Book Cafe in Manhattan. Pictured (l. to r.) are Ken Worcester, moderator; artists Tom Hart, Raina Telgemeier and Peter Kuper; Chip Kidd, designer and Pantheon editor; Charles Kochman, Abrams editor.
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CARD SHARK
Richard Sparks, author of Diary of a Mad Poker Player: A Journey to the World Series of Poker (Russell Enterprises), in front of a Mandalay marquee in Las Vegas, where his book is prominently displayed, before a book signing at the casino.
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WAITING FOR COURTESAN
Novelist Dora Levy Mossanen hosted a dinner party at her home for more than 25 local L.A. bookstore managers and event coordinators, from indie stores and chains, to prep them all for her new novel, Courtesan, coming from S&S/Touchstone in July. Pictured (r. to l.) are Mossanen; Robyn Kamimura and Rebecca Martinez from Vroman's bookstore; and (standing) Mossanen's daughter Negin Ascher. |
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WARCRAFT DOES L.A.
Richard A. Knaak (l.), author of Tokyopop's Warcraft manga series (illustrated by Kim Jae-Hwan), took center stage at the L.A. Times Book Festival ,along with Chris Metzgen of Blizzard Entertainment, to talk about the making of the manga series, which is based on the popular Warcraft online roleplaying game and franchise. |
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