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PW's Review of "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

| 05/05/2009 @ 01:24PM

Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series comes to a close with the release of The Last Olympian, which goes on sale today and has a 1.2-million copy first printing. The PW review follows.
Panelmania: Noir

Compiled by Heidi MacDonald & Laura Hudson | 05/04/2009 @ 10:51PM

Dark Horse's Fall release, the Noir anthology contains short stories in the crime and mystery genres, by a wide mix of comics luminaries.
Comics Briefly

compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 05/04/2009 @ 10:48PM
Job Moves

| 05/04/2009 @ 09:05PM

Former Scholastic editor Sheila Keenan has been hired by Harry Abrams as a senior editor working on the Abrams ComicsArts imprint.
May Comics Bestsellers

by Calvin Reid | 05/04/2009 @ 05:45PM

Jeff Kinney's Last Straw holds steady at #1; followed by Naruto at #2-3; Fruits Basket at #5; more Naruto after that and Marvel's hardcover graphic adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand: Captain Trips is at #12.
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/4/2009

| 05/04/2009 @ 06:00AM

Among this week's reviews: the latest picture books from Vera B. Williams and Jane Yolen, debut novels from Hallie Durand and Jacqueline Kelley, and a round-up of titles commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Fiction Book Reviews: Week of 5/04/2009

| 05/04/2009 @ 06:00AM

Reviewed this week, new novels by Oscar Casares, Rebecca Wells, Vikas Swarup (he of Slumdog Millionaire fame), Nick Laird and Norman Lebrecht. Nicola Keegan makes a splash with her debut, Swimming, while Jonathan L. Howard goes dark for his first, Johannes Cabal: The Necromancer.
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 5/04/2009

| 05/04/2009 @ 06:00AM

This week on the Web: copy editing with CMS Q&A guru Carol Fisher Saller, grilling with Emeril Lagasse, Ursula K. Le Guin tackles the importance of fantasty, Vera Ramone King chronicles life with Dee Dee, Mike Robbins champions authenticity, big-brained futurist Ray Kurzweil pens a self-help, and James Patterson's aviary heroine returns. Plus: Nancy Balbirer suffers the indignities of the acting life so you don't have to.
Children's Sales to Stay Soft

by Diane Roback | 05/04/2009 @ 06:00AM

Areport from Publishers Weekly and the Institute for Publishing Research projects soft sales for children's books through the end of 2012, with the lowest numbers in the five-year span expected for 2009. According to the new PW/IPR Book Sales Index, total children's trade sales totaled $3.16 billion in 2008; that number will dip to $3.
‘The Sorceress’ Heats Up with Marketing Muscle

By Shannon Maughan | 04/30/2009 @ 06:00AM

The “Summer of the Sorceress” campaign, which heralds the arrival of The Sorceress, third book in Michael Scott’s bestselling Immortal Secrets of Nicholas Flamel fantasy series, kicked off last weekend with RHCB’s first-ever PDF/e-book giveaway.
The Last Hurrah for Percy Jackson

By Matia Burnett | 04/30/2009 @ 06:00AM

Fans have only five days left to wait for the May 5 release of The Last Olympian, the fifth and final book in Rick Riordan’s mythological fantasy series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Here’s a roundup of the plans for The Last Olympian.
Multi-Platform 'Mackenzie Blue' Arrives

By Evie Nagy | 04/30/2009 @ 04:00AM

When HarperCollins publishes the first Mackenzie Blue novel on May 5, author and Buzz Marketing Group founder Tina Wells hopes the book will be only one of many ways that tween girls will engage with the title character—a 12-year-old student and aspiring pop star.
New Look for Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451'

by Calvin Reid | 04/28/2009 @ 09:30PM

Hailed for its bracing portrait of a future media-addled society victimized by the systematic burning of all books, Ray Bradbury's classic science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 is the perfect work to highlight issues of censorship and the freedom to read. And in August, Farrar, Straus & Giroux's Hill and Wang imprint will republish the book to do just that.
Fun Rules the Day at Kids Comic Con

by Brigid Alverson | 04/28/2009 @ 09:29PM

Show director Alex Simmons estimated attendance for the third year of the Kids Comic Con at 750 to 800 people, and he figures about two-thirds of those present were children.
Brian Azzarello’s 100th Bullet

By Laura Hudson | 04/28/2009 @ 07:27PM

With the 100th and final issue of the crime comic released less than a week earlier, Azzarello talked to PW Comics week about letting go of the long-running noir series, and the new work he has on the way from the new Vertigo Crime imprint.
Hill & Wang's Thomas LeBien: Turning History and Fiction into Comics

by Calvin Reid | 04/28/2009 @ 12:00AM

Hill & Wang publisher Thomas LeBien has now turned his attention to the world of fictional adaptation to create a "graphic translation" of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, one the classics of 20th century literature.
Comics Briefly - 4/28/2009

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 04/27/2009 @ 10:55PM

Free Comic Book Day May 2; Pushing Daisies Now DC Comic; Disney Comics Take On India; Carousel Comics @ Dixon Place; History of Wolverine with Claremont; Death Note Day in New York; This Week @ Good Comics for Kids; ACT-I-VATE Collective Live at Bergen Street Comics; Tokyopop/Pocky Art Contest; World War 3 Illustrated Release Party; SVA’s Fresh Meat and This Week in The Beat
Del Rey Gives Wolverine the Manga Treatment

By Kai-Ming Cha | 04/27/2009 @ 10:46PM

First unveiled during the 2007 New York Anime Festival, Wolverine: Prodigal Son, Del Rey’s manga-style recreation of Marvel’s popular X-Man character, goes on sale this month.
Cookbook Authors Rock Out with Book Trailers

By Lynn Andriani | 04/27/2009 @ 12:00PM

Can a video of a bunch of cute bakery counter workers rocking out to Joan Jett sell a cookbook? What about a clip of a beautiful woman in a tight dress gutting a fish? With book trailers now the norm for authors of commercial fiction, mystery, suspense and even some narrative nonfiction, cookbook authors are finally starting to realize the potential of short videos to promote their works.
Fiction Book Reviews: Week of 4/27/2009

| 04/27/2009 @ 06:00AM

Reviewed this week, new novels by James Rollins, Joe Lansdale, Marie Bostwick, Megan Abbott and Catherine Coulter; Percival Everett shows what it's like to be Not Sidney Poitier; and a powerful debut collection from Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah.

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