Books
| Harry Potter sales: they're not just for books and movies | |
| News > Books | July 11, 2007 |
| The Nielsen Company has compiled a large report on the Harry Potter series's impact on the entertainment industry, breaking it down by category and country. We've excerpted the 11-page report here, and provide a link to the complete document... | |
| More than 600,000 Deathly Hallows audiobooks in first printing | |
| News > Books | July 10, 2007 |
| Listening Library is printing 635,000 copies of the unabridged audiobook of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, most CDs but some cassettes. The suggested retail price is $79.95, but its already available for pre-order for $49.97... | |
| New author Peter Bilsborough in his own words | |
| News > Books | July 9, 2007 |
| Amusing excerpts from a publicity interview with new author David Bilsborough, discussing the genesis of his novel, The Wanderer's Tale, and his opinion of the internet. | |
| Fantasy Half of Year's Best Fantasy and Horror | |
| News > Books | July 3, 2007 |
| The fantasy half of the contents of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection has been announced. Authors include Jeffrey Ford, Ellen Kushner, Tim Pratt, Geoff Ryman, Delia Sherman... | |
| Author Karl Schroeder Seeking "Virga" RPGers | |
| News > Fandom | June 29, 2007 |
| Author Karl Schroeder is looking for role-playing gamers who are creating scenarios based on his world "Virga." Not to stop them, but because he wants to play... | |
| Subterranean Finalizes Details of Philip Jose Farmer's Venus on the Half-Shell | |
| News > Books | June 29, 2007 |
| Subterranean Press has finalized their plans for their edition of Philip José Farmer's Venus on the Half-Shell and Others (with a cover by Bob Eggleton). It will be the first collection of "the best of the best from Philip José Farmer's scintillating 'fictional-author period.'" | |
| "Harry Potter Place" coming to New York City | |
| News > Books | June 26, 2007 |
| To kick off the actual publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Scholastic is hosting a street fair at their New York City headquarters on 20 July. "Harry Potter Place" will feature entertainment, magicians, wand-making... | |
| Hadley Rille's Ruins to be Two Books | |
| News > Books | June 22, 2007 |
| Hadley Rille's previously announced anthology Ruins is being split into two complementary volumes: terrestrial and extraterrestrial. They expect to publish both this summer... | |
| Subterranean to Publish Martin, Dozois, Abraham, and Novik | |
| News > Books | June 20, 2007 |
| Subterranean Press will publish limited editions of Hunter's Run—a significant expansion of "Shadow Twin" by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, and Daniel Abraham—and the Temeraire books by Naomi Novik. | |
| New Resnick and Lebbon Books Coming from Subterranean | |
| News > Books | June 15, 2007 |
| Subterranean Press will publish limited editions of Mike Resnick's The Other Teddy Roosevelts and Tim Lebbon's After the War: Two Tales of Noreela in February... | |
| Biographer Looking for Kurt Vonnegut Encounters | |
| News > Activities | June 14, 2007 |
| Biographer Charles J. Shields continues work on And So It Goes, the biography of Kurt Vonnegut he was writing at the time of Vonnegut's death. He is looking for people who had memorable encounter with Vonnegut... | |
| J.K. Rowling Open Book Tour to Bring Harry Potter Author to US | |
| News > Activities | June 14, 2007 |
| J.K. Rowling will visit three US cities in October, doing three reading/talk events for schoolchildren, and a fourth for any Harry Potter fan who wins a sweepstakes sponsored by Scholastic... | |
| An editor, an author, and an archbishop walk into a publisher... | |
| News > Activities | June 14, 2007 |
| ...not so much a joke as an unplanned gathering in the halls of publisher Tor Books. Editor Moshe Feder, authors Rudy Rucker and Gary K. Wolf, and archbishop and author John J. Myers (along with editor David Hartwell behind the camera). | |
| Coyote Road has Successful Launch Events | |
| News > Books | June 14, 2007 |
| Datlow and Windling's The Coyote Road launched with three successful events in New York City last weekend. Datlow's pictures are available... | |
| Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf to be CD release | |
| News > Audio Book Sales | June 12, 2007 |
| Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf is Toby Hadoke's autobiographical piece that tracks his growth from fan geek to geeks success... | |
| Subterranean's New Bradbury and Farmer Books Coming; Will Publish New Farmer Collection | |
| News > Books | June 12, 2007 |
| Subterranean Press has moved to the production of the slipcases for its newest limited editions of Ray Bradbury and Philip José Farmer collections, and signed a deal... | |
| Three new Doctor Who audio books coming soon | |
| News > Audio Book Sales | June 11, 2007 |
| Three new Doctor Who audiobooks are being published on 2 July. Each is read by a cast member... | |
| Fewer Signed Bradbury's Available from Subterranean | |
| News > Books | June 4, 2007 |
| Subterranean Press will only be able to produce 200 signed copies of their limited edition I Sing the Body Electric by Ray Bradbury, rather than the 250 originally announced... | |
| Gene Wolfe sells Memorare to Wyrm Publishing | |
| News > Book & Novel Sales | June 1, 2007 |
| Gene Wolfe's Memorare will be published as a stand-alone, limited edition novella. The book tells the story... | |
| Erikson's Malazan Book of the Dead to Subterranean | |
| News > Republication | June 1, 2007 |
| Subterranean Press will publish limited, collectors' editions of the first two of Steven Erikson's The Malazan Book of the Fallen in... | |
| Harry Potter: The Theme Park. Coming in 2009. | |
| News > Other Stuff | May 31, 2007 |
| Author J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros. Entertainment, and Universal Orlando Resort have jointly announced that they'll be opening "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" in... | |
| Scalzi sells in Russia, and limited Subterranean editions in the US | |
| News > Foreign Rights | May 26, 2007 |
| John Scalzi sold Russian rights to three more novels to Eksmo. In addition, Subterranean Press is producing limited editions of... | |
| Comic Book Poetry Anthology | |
| News > Books | May 23, 2007 |
| Look! Up in the Sky! An Anthology of Comic Book Poetry is the newest publication of Sacred Fools Press. Profits from its sales will be donated to... | |
| Scalzi's compilation "Your Hate Mail Will be Graded" delayed to 2008 | |
| News > Books | May 23, 2007 |
| Subterranean Press and author John Scalzi are delaying publication of his Your Hate Mail Will be Graded: Selected Writings 1998-2007 until 2008 to take advantage of... | |
| Kelly and Kessel's Rewired and other Tachyon Publications | |
| News > Books | May 22, 2007 |
| Tachyon Publications has announced the table of contents for Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, to be edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, and published in... | |
