We are hosting a book release party for the fourth and final book in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga here at Newtonville Books. There’s still time to call or come in and reserve your copy of Breaking Dawn, which officially comes out Saturday, August 2nd.
We will open at 11:30 pm on Friday, August 1 for the Breaking Dawn party. Join us for trivia, prizes, and refreshments while mingling with other fans. Dressing up is encouraged!
J.K. Rowling turns 43 on July 31, 2008.
A special edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone will be released September 23 for its 10-year anniversary. Worldwide sales of Harry Potter exceed 400 million.
Publisher’s Weekly July 21, 2008
Calendar July 21-August 1
By David Mehegan
Globe Staff / July 29, 2008
SALEM – Every first novel needs a plan for introducing the new writer to a national audience, and the plan for Brunonia Barry, author of “The Lace Reader,” has a rare and clever twist. Along with the standard ad campaign and author tour, publisher William Morrow is working with Salem’s tourism agency, local merchants, and historic sites to promote the book, which is set here, and the city at the same time. While Salem hopes “The Lace Reader” will draw tourists to town, author and publisher hope the city’s attractions will bolster the book.
For the complete Boston Globe article, click here. For the book’s website, click here.
Tank Books has launched a new marketing campaign to “Take your breath away.” Using cigarette packs as a model, Tank has repackaged classic titles such as “Heart of Darkness,” “The Undefeated” and “The Man Who Would be King” in the form of cigarette packs. Why, one may wonder would Tank Books want to do this? According to the website “Cigarette packs are iconic objects, familiar, tried and tested, and over time TankBooks will become iconic objects in their own right.” In addition to being “iconic objects” many cigarette packs will be left unopened due to the UK’s recent ban on smoking in public places.
For more on the story visit Tank Books website http://www.tankmagazine.com/tankbooks/
Next January, Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers will publish 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows, which follows three girls entering the same high school featured in the author’s bestselling four-book series, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. “These three girls are going off to high school and their big fear is how things will change,” said Wendy Loggia, executive editor at Delacorte, who edits Brashares. “They’re already seeing some of the middle-school connections and friendships start to shift. It doesn’t come as easy for them—there are no magic pants in this sisterhood.” Random House plans a 500,000-copy first printing, and the Listening Library imprint will publish the book simultaneously in audio.
3 Willows will be followed by two additional novels starring the new characters, though pub dates for those have not yet been set. “Ann felt that there were more stories to tell about friendship and girls,” said Loggia, of the decision to set 3 Willows at the school from the previous series. “For fans who love the Sisterhood [series], there are little moments and characters and details woven in that will delight them and that they won’t see coming.”All four Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants novels were bestsellers and have sold more than eight million copies in North America, with foreign rights sold in 42 languages. On August 6, the Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. On August 6, the Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, based largely on the plot of the fourth book in the series, Forever in Blue, will debut in movie theaters nationwide.
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Written by John A. Sellers — Publishers Weekly, 7/22/2008
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6580362.html
–Rachel
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) — Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose “last lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.
For the full cnn.com article, click here.
Nantucket author Elin Hilderbrand (“A Summer Affair”) appears at Newtonville Books on Thursday, July 24th, at 7 pm with Benjamin Taylor (“The Book of Getting Even”). Click here to check out a video interview with her in which she discusses her seventh novel, the challenges of being a modern mom today, and her love affair with Nantucket.
By Todd Leopold
CNN
In Salman Rushdie’s new novel, “The Enchantress of Florence,” the exasperated Mughal emperor Akbar the Great agrees to let a mysterious Florentine adventurer, Mogor dell’Amore, finish a tale. But as the troublesome Mogor prepares to continue, Akbar says with a touch of venom: “A curse on all storytellers. And a pox on your children, too.”
Rushdie knows the sting.
It wasn’t so long ago that the Indian-born author was a hunted man, placed under guard in an undisclosed location, because of an Islamic edict, or fatwa, against his life issued by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini. All for telling a story — 1988′s “The Satanic Verses.”
For a short interview with Salman Rushdie talking about his wonderful new book, The Enchantress of Florence, click here.
When young Jeremy Jacob goes to the beach one day, he has no idea that he will spend the rest of the day aboard a pirate ship (he is recruited by Braid Beard and his crew to hunt for buried treasure because of the digging skills he showed when making a sand castle). Jeremy gets to live every boy’s fantasy: plundering, sailing through storms, finding buried treasure, staying up past bedtime. The book has enough text so that it can be read to a child of five or six (acting out all the pirate dialogue is a great opportunity for silly voices), and a child of 8 or 9 can read it to themselves. If you enjoy this book, there’s also a sequel out entitled “Pirates Don’t Change Diapers.”– Rachel
“Wave” by Suzy Lee is a book that doesn’t contain a single word, and yet easily tells a story that children of any age can relate to. A young girl visits the beach for a day, conquering waves, frightening (and later befriending) a flock of seagulls, and collecting seashells. Lee’s simple charcoal paintings allow you and your child to create the story for yourselves, and the beauty of the pictures will make it a book that they can flip through as they grow older. — Rachel
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