The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett.About the book, from the publisher:The eagerly anticipated debut novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not a Stranger Here: a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the first decade of the twenty-first century.At the heart of Union Atlantic lies a test of wills between a young banker

Colourful publisher, writer and zealous promoter of poetry John Rety, who has died aged 79, was a writer, publisher, poetry entrepreneur, community worker and general arts gadfly. He was one of the most resourceful and colourful characters of the London literary scene. Born Reti Janos in Budapest, as a child partisan in the second world war he saw his grandmother shot in front of him. As...

Genre: Hard SF, Space Opera, Adventure Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Tor Books Publication Date: October 3, 2006 ISBN-10: 0765315432 ISBN-13: 978-0765315434 Author Website: Karl Schroeder Karl Schroeder’s Sun of Suns is an interesting mashup of fiction. It borrows bits and pieces from the great stories by C. S. Forester and Patrick O’Brian, the hard science of Vernor Vinge, and the a...

I’m delighted to be today’s stop of the first Spotlight Series tour. This is a blogger-created event done to increase awareness of small presses (much like the Classics Circuit does for classic authors), and their first publisher is Unbridled Books. Before this, I’d read four novels published by Unbridled, and I’d enjoyed all

More winners...This time for Apologize, Apologize by Elizabeth Kelly. They are: EDMONTONJB RUBYNREBA SUE Congrats everyone! I'll be sending out emails today to get your mailing addresses. Your book will be coming to you directly from the publisher. Enjoy!

A few more draws to go...This time the winners for Worst Case by James Patterson Audio Books are: JANETFAYE SKKORMAN ANNE-MARIE T Congrats to you all! I will be emailing you today for your mailing addresses. Your audio book will be coming to you directly from the publisher. Enjoy!

And last but not least there are the winners for Black Hills by Dan Simmons Audio Books. They are: MARC MISUSEDINNOCENCE JAIME Congrats everyone! I will be emailing you today sometime for your mailing addresses. Your audio book will be coming to you directly from the publisher. Enjoy!

The publishing world will watch four major publishers very closely for the next few weeks. According to Publishers Marketplace, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Penguin, and Hachette--a quartet dubbed "Agency Four"--could have their buy buttons removed by Amazon (AMZN) if they can't strike an eBook deal. Here's an excerpt from the subscription-only story: "The indications are that if...

This Means War! by Ellen Wittlinger. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. April 2010. Reviewed from Advance Reviewer Copy from publisher. Middle grade. The Plot: Juliet, ten, has lost her best friend, Lowell. Why? Because Juliet is a girl. Six years of friendship mean nothing, now that Lowell is friends with Tommy and Mike. Boys do boy stuff, she is told, and girls do girl stuff. GO. AWAY...

Baldacci Hopes Enhanced E-Book Will Put Focus on Content, Not Price – 2010-03-16 18:53:08 | Publishers Weekly Bestselling author David Baldacci said he was eager to work on the new enhanced e-book that will be released with his new hardcover Deliver Us from Evil because he didn't like the way the landscape was playing out in