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The Fiction of Prophecy
Chris Cleave has just returned from a pre-publication tour of the West Coast for his second book, Little Bee, due out from Simon & Schuster. His first novel, Incendiary, was the harrowing story of a terrorist bombing in London; it marked the debut of a remarkable writing talent overshadowed by the eerie coincidence of its British publication date—July 7, 2005, the same day...
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India-Based Author Takes a Virtual Tour
Even before the economic crunch, large publishers might have had trouble bringing over an author from India to promote a picture book. For Tilbury House in Gardiner, Maine, which publishes eight books a year, funding a U.S. tour for Katia Novet Saint-Lot would have been out of the question. Instead Saint-Lot (author of Amadi’s Snowman, illustrated by Dimitrea Tokunbo) and Tilbury publicist Sarah McGinnis came up with the idea of touring virtually.
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Q & A with Ann Brashares
In 2001’s The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares introduced four best friends with whom young readers soon made fast friends: that first novel and its three sequels together have sold more than eight million copies. Brashares returns to these characters’ hometown in 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows. Delacorte will launch the novel with a 500,000-copy first printing and a six-city author tour.
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Expecting Trouble
Hallie Ephron—in wire-rimmed glasses, a black turtleneck and moonstone ring (“like in Wilkie Collins”)—is digging into a plate of Indian food in a glass-walled restaurant above Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass. It's an autumn New England day, not unlike the November morning when a yard sale upends the life of Ivy Rose, the pregnant woman protagonist in Ephron's first st...
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Portraying Hard Things
In Eclipse, Richard North Patterson focuses on an American lawyer’s desperate struggle to save an embattled freedom fighter in an oil-rich African nation that resembles Nigeria.
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Nickole Brown
Many small press books aren't for everyone, and with modest print runs, they are not meant to be. While there may be 2,000 people who want to read a book like Jenny Boully's The Book of Beginnings and Endings—a collection of essays, with the middles missing, published by Sarabande in 2007—they probably don't live near each other or read the same magazines.
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A Life in Signs
In his first memoir, Hands of My Father, children's book author Myron Uhlberg writes of being a hearing child brought up by deaf parents. Do you think having American Sign Language as your first language helped you develop the creativity to become a writer? It played a very important part.
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Q & A with Anita Silvey
Bookshelf spoke with Anita Silvey about her new book, I’ll Pass for Your Comrade (Clarion).
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Talking About Torture
British novelist Glen Duncan's A Day and a Night and a Day delves into a contemporary world “more filthy than just.”
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The Monday Interview: Wally Lamb
Tomorrow, the decade-long wait for Wally Lamb’s third novel is over with the release of his 739-page The Hour I First Believed (Harper). Just before starting his 15 city tour, he spoke to PW about the new book, the Columbine shootings, Oprah Winfrey and more.
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There's a New Gang in Town: Austin's Delacorte Dames and Dudes
DDD—no, it’s not a heavy-duty new battery. It’s the acronym for an informal group of Austin, Tex., writers all published by Delacorte Press.
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Q & A with Marcia Williams
Bookshelf spoke with Marcia Williams about her new book, My Secret War Diary by Flossie Albright: My History of the Second World War, 1939—1945 (Candlewick).
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On the Scene with Darren Shan
It’s the right time of year for books about demons, vampires and other creatures of the night, making the recent U.S. tour for Cirque du Freak and Demonata series author Darren Shan particularly well-timed.
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The Monday Interview: Max Allan Collins
An interview with Max Allan Collins, whose collaboration with Mickey Spillane, The Goliath Bone, was published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Caitlin Friedman
You know what they say about rolling stones? It's safe to say Caitlin Friedman has gathered no moss. The Massachusetts native began networking in her first job out of college, when she was at Lisa Ekus Public Relations, one of the first PR agencies to focus on cookbooks. Friedman quickly made a name for herself in the field, and it wasn't long before the bright, outgoing publicist was offered a...
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In Search of a Legendary Explorer
In The Lost City of Z, David Grann travels to Brazil to retrace British explorer Percy Fawcett's fatal last mission in the 1920s.
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On Tour with Dave and Ridley
Science Fair, the seventh collaboration between Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, pubbed with a 250,000-copy first printing. The pair then embarked on an eight-city tour over 10 days, including a visit to Good Morning America.
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