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No Matter Where You Live, Guernsey is Tops
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows has landed in the top spot of six regional independent bestseller lists and was the runner-up on the remaining two. From New England to Southern California Guernsey has catapulted onto the book-lovers’ scene and remains a steadfast and celebrated presence.
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Oprah Talks to The Gift of Fear Author
We’ve all had that moment when something inside tells us to turn back, say “no,” run, scream. In his empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah calls the nation’s leading expert on violent behavior, shows you how to spot even subtle signs of danger—before it’s too late. Learn more. Tune in today’s broadcast of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
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Two Instant New York Times Bestsellers
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows debuts as the #5 Hardcover Fiction Bestseller on this week’s New York Times list. Karin Slaughter also graces the Hardcover Fiction list at #15 with her latest suspense novel, Fractured. John Grisham is still going strong with Playing For Pizza as the #1 Paperback Fiction for the second week in a row and The Innocent Man stays on as the #17 Paperback Nonfiction.
Little Heathens Chosen as Midwest Booksellers’ Favorite
The Midwest Booksellers have spoken and Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish is their pick as the Nonfiction winner of the 2008 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award. The Choice Awards honor authors from the Midwest Booksellers Association (MBA) region and books about the region. The Awards will be presented on September 25 during the MBA annual trade show in St. Paul, Minn.
Logorrhea Nabs Three Nominations for the 2008 World Fantasy Awards.
The finalists for the World Fantasy Awards for 2008 have been announced and Logorrhea, an anthology of short stories edited by John Klima and released by Bantam Spectra, racked up three nominations. Two stories from the anthology — “The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics” by Daniel Abraham and “Singing of Mount Abora” by Theodora Goss — were nominated in the Short Story category. In addition, Logorrhea was selected as one of five finalists in the Anthology category. Also of note, John Klima received a nomination in the Special Award—Non-professional category for his magazine Electric Velocipede. Bantam Spectra author Tim Pratt (The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl) who also has a short story in Logorrhea, received a nomination for his collection Hart & Boot & Other Stories.
Earlier this year, Bantam Spectra made the full text of “The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics” available for free via Issuu. Click on the book image below to read the story.
Dean Koontz Talks Odd Thomas, Manga Comics, Movies, and Webisodes.
For the first time ever, Dean Koontz attended San Diego ComicCon as part of a special panel focusing on the author and to launch his brand new In Odd We Trust manga graphic novel. In addition he also revealed that a movie version of his book Odd Thomas is in the works. Here is a clip of Dean discussing the Odd Thomas manga, movie, and the serialized webisodes released for his latest hardcover, Odd Hours, which you can view here.
Two Bantam Dell Titles Selected for September Indie Next List
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti and Stalking Irish Madness: Searching for the Roots of My Family’s Schizophrenia by Patrick Tracey were each selected for the September Indie Next List. The Indie Next List is drawn from independent bookseller-recommended favorite handsells.
Lessons of Desire Wins RITA Award for Best Historical Romance
Kudos to Madeline Hunter who was named the recipient of the RITA Award for Best Historical Romance for her novel Lessons of Desire. The RITA Award, sponsored by the Romance Writers of America (RWA), is one of the romance-publishing industry’s highest awards of distinction. Winners were announced at the RITA and Golden Heart Awards Ceremony at RWA’s 28th Annual National Conference in San Francisco, California.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel-Prize Winning Soviet Critic, Dies at Age 89
Russian writer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose first novels described the grimness of life in Stalin’s vast labor-camp system, died on Sunday in Moscow at the age of 89. Solzhenitsyn’s work was continually censured by the Soviet press and in the late 1960s he was regarded as a dangerous and hostile critic of Soviet society. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. The Bantam Classics imprint includes his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a scathing indictment of Communist tyranny, and an eloquent affirmation of the human spirit.
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Karen Marie Moning’s Darkfever debuts as an audiobook podcast.
Bantam Dell has officially launched the audiobook podcast of New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning’s Darkfever. This the very first joint effort between Bantam Dell and one of its authors to release the full version of a book for free as a podcast. The book will be presented in its entirety, with four episodes per week available for download. Darkfever is the first book in Moning’s Fever series which features protagonist MacKayla “Mac” Lane, a woman who possesses the gift to see beyond the world of man and into the dangerous realm of the Fae.
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Seattle Times Calls The Mirrored Heavens “Wild and Relentless”
In a recent review, the Seattle Times gave high praise to The Mirrored Heavens, David J. Williams debut novel that blends military SF and dystopian cyberpunk.
“Calling to mind Clint Eastwood and Dirty Harry more than Humphrey Bogart and Philip Marlowe, ‘The Mirrored Heavens’ ’ action is wild and relentless…. In a welcome respite from noir stereotyping, Williams’ female protagonist is neither killed nor kidnapped. A subject, not an object, Claire Haskell moves and shakes her dystopic world.”
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Bantam Dell Mysteries Rack Up Two Barry and Three Shamus Award Nominations
Linwood Barclay’s No Time for Goodbye and Brett Battles’ The Cleaner were each nominated for the Barry Award for Best Thriller. The Barry Awards, named for ambassador of mystery fiction, Barry Gardner, are voted on by the readers of Mystery News and Deadly Pleasures.
Battles’ The Cleaner was also nominated for the Shamus Award for Best First Novel. Barclay and Kelley Armstrong were selected as nominees for the Best Paperback Original for their novels Stone Rain and Exit Strategy, respectively. The Shamus Awards, given annually by the Private Eye Writers of America, recognizes outstanding achievement in private eye fiction.
All winners will be announced on October 9 at Bouchercon in Baltimore.
Bantam Spectra at San Diego Comic-Con 2008
The Bantam Spectra Team is heading off to San Diego for Comic-Con 2008 and you can follow along virtually on Facebook and MySpace as our editors send updates, videos and more.
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Sarah Graves on NPR’s Morning Edition: Crime in the City
The author of the Home Repair Is Homicide series, Sarah Graves, was featured as part of Morning Edition’s “Crime in the City” series on NPR, where crime novelists give listeners a tour of the places they and their characters inhabit. Graves, who moved from Manhattan to Eastport over a decade ago, uses her hometown, Eastport, Maine, as the setting for all 12 of her mysteries.
Click here to listen to the full interview and read an excerpt from her latest book, The Book of Old Houses.
Read Three Chapters of Conquistador for Free
You can now read chapters two-four of Conquistador, the astonishing history by Buddy Levy, for free.
Conquistador is the story of the clash of cultures between Montezuma, the enigmatic leader of the Aztecs, and the brash, brilliant upstart, Hernán Cortés, who would bring down the empire in just 2 years. From Cortés’ arrival in Cuba in 1519 to his defiant burning of the ships at Vera Cruz and the astonishing military campaign in Tenochtitlan—the famed City of Dreams—Conquistador is a tale of adventure and discovery.
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