Tsunami Books Crashes

by Jim Milliot -- Publishers Weekly, 4/10/2007 1:19:00 PM

The independent publisher Tsunami Books is closing down and selling off the inventory of the only two books it published, The Loch and Meg, both by Steve Alten. Tsunami was founded in 2004 by Creative Entertainment Services to publish high concept books, but after some success with the Alten novels, and a few other books signed up, it decided to focus on its music operations, a spokesperson said.

Alten has had several different publishers since he first published Meg with Bantam in 1997, publishing one title with Kensington and four with Tor/Forge. Alten now has the rights to all his books and has just finished a new novel, The Shell Game. "I just want to find a steady home," Alten said. He remains optimistic that New Line Cinema, which has an option on Meg, will soon greenlight the project.