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Jan 15 2007: In a move that they hope will find new readers for their stable of literary fiction authors, San Francisco publisher MacAdam/Cage (best known for publishing "The Time Traveler's Wife") plan to publish 7 of their 11 Spring titles simultaneously in hardcover and paperback...
Jan 11 2007: Tillie Olsen died today, just two weeks shy of her 95th birthday. A longtime San Francisco resident, Olsen is best known to readers for her first published work, the much-anthologized short story, "I Stand Here Ironing". The story won the O’Henry Award for best short ...
Jan 10 2007: The shortlist for the 2006 Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Awards) has been announced.
First Novel: "The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Novel: "Restless" by William Boyd
Children's Book: "Set in Stone" by Linda Newbery
Poetry: "Letter to Patience" by ...
Jan 08 2007: The Sobol Award, the contest that promised unpublished writers cash, literary representation and publication, has been canceled. Recently, Simon & Schuster had agreed to publish the winners under their Touchstone/Fireside imprint but, according to a statement on the ...
Jan 04 2007: Dr. Richard Carlson died of a cardiac arrest at the age of 45 in December 2006 while in flight from San Francisco to New York where he was scheduled to make two TV appearances for his latest book Don't Get Scrooged: How to Thrive in a World Full of Obnoxious, ...
Jan 04 2007: A federal judge has sentenced the former vice president of advertising at Advanced Marketing Services to 36 months in prison for her role in falsifying earnings. Sandra Miller Christie pleaded guilty in 2005 to charges that she conspired with other former ...
Jan 04 2007: The title of the seventh and final Harry Potter book has been announced: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. No on-sale date has been announced but the word from those who study all things Potter suggest that 7.7.07 is a likely contender.
Jan 04 2007: Judith Regan, publisher of Regan Books, the HarperCollins imprint responsible for a number of controversial but highly profitable titles such as three books about Scott Peterson, was dismissed shortly before Christmas following the furor over the planned memoir by O....
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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