sfsignal.com - 7/13/2009
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Sad news...
Locus is reporting that Locus publisher, editor, and co-founder Charles N. Brown, 72, died peacefully in his sleep July 12, 2009 on his way home from Readercon.
Dan Brown, Used and Abused
newyorker.com 7/30/2009 —
Last week, a brouhaha erupted on the Web over this book cover:
Let us state clearly that the book is not, we repeat, not by Dan Brown. It’s by Simon Kernick.
This is all very tragic, but there’s a silver ...
Charles McCain
hachettebookgroup.com 6/2/2009 — Author Bio I was born in Mobile, Alabama in October of 1955 and grew up in my mother's hometown of Orangeburg, South Carolina. During my childhood my grandmother, Big Lurline, would often tell me stories about our family who had lived in the area for ...
Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol
knopfdoubleday.com 7/7/2009 — The Lost Symbol Cover THE LOST SYMBOL by Dan Brown The Lost Symbol , available wherever books are sold on 9.15.09, once again features Dan Brown’s unforgettable protagonist, Robert Langdon. The book’s narrative takes place in a twelve-hour period, and ...
Hold the front page! Dan Brown cover reveals things we already knew
guardian.co.uk 7/8/2009 — The Washington-set Lost Symbol will be set in, wait for it, Washington I blame JK Rowling. Her Harry Potter publishers Bloomsbury kicked off the trend of "releasing" book covers to eager fans months ahead of publication of the book itself, and now ...
Monarchs of Britain
britannia.com 8/21/2009 — Charles I was born in 1600, the second son of James I and Anne of Denmark. After several unsuccessful attempts at arranging a marriage, Charles married the 15 year-old daughter of France's King Henry IV, Henrietta Maria. Three years of coldness and ...
SF Signal Welcomes Charles Tan!
sfsignal.com 10/22/2009 — We're happy to announce that über-blogger Charles Tan has joined the ranks of our esteemed Irregulars !
As we like to do, we asked Charles to talk about himself in the third person. This is what he came up with: Charles Tan's fiction has appeared in publications such as The Digest of ...
Dan Brown Let Me Down
ageofuncertainty.blogspot.com 9/2/2009 — There are many reasons why I glad that I'm no longer working for Waterstone's, but if I started listing them I'd probably sound like a bitter old tart. So let's just pick one reason: I can completely ignore the new Dan Brown book, which is being released in two week's time: I see that at least ...
Souls adrift, seeking anchor —
Boston Globe -- Book reviews 7/12/2009
Nicola Keegan’s novel about a young swimmer is enthralling. Gaynor Arnold’s historical fiction was inspired by the plight of Charles Dickens’s abandoned wife, Catherine. And Elisabeth Hyde sends readers on an excellent armchair ...
In the News: The Brown Effect, Zombie Domination —
The Book Bench 7/13/2009
Upcoming novels are being rushed into print to avoid having to compete with Dan Brown's “The Lost Symbol.”
British children's authors are protesting proposed legislation that would require them to be vetted before visiting schools. ...
A New World: Scheduling E-Books —
NYT > Books 7/14/2009
No topic is more hotly debated in book circles at the moment than the timing, pricing and ultimate impact of e-books on the financial health of publishers and retailers.
Nora Roberts at The Washington Post —
Short Stack 7/15/2009
The diva of romance fiction, Nora Roberts herself, came to The Washington Post yesterday. About 550 women (and four hen-pecked men) filled our auditorium to ask her questions and get signed copies of her new bestseller, "Black Hills." She offered ...