Apple Seeds - November/December 2005
Sandy Pauly, Owner
Kay Hooper: Just checked out her website (kayhooper.com) and are happy to report it’s a good one! She explains the timeline usage in her “Bishop” series (about a specialized psychic FBI department). The Evil, Shadows & Fear books are page turners and hard-to-put-downers.
A-n-d, speaking of hard-to-put-down, you just have to read our area author Terry Oliver Mejdrich’s 3-book suspense series. The Cass County Sheriff’s Office is his base location, and you can travel with the sheriff, his deputies (and the bad guys) throughout area cities and familiar countryside forests, fly over or do a little boating on local lakes as the crimes unfold.
Read his:
A Mammoth Resurrection
The Bog Lady
The Devil’s Kettle
And Terry’s book “Thoughts From The Deep Woods” will have you pondering his insightful poetry long after the book is closed.
THEN – are you ready for this? Retired Game Warden and popular author of “Poachers Caught!” our Tom Chapin has his second book ready for your Christmas packages: “MORE Poachers Caught!”
If you plan on purchasing both of Tom’s books, we also have a free gift box for you!
We are once again combining two months for our “off season” newsletters. It’s also time for our winter hours to start: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday--10:00 to 5:00. Apprehensive about cutting hours, I was reminded that I’ve done this for almost 15 years—so it’s nothing new to our faithful customers.
Sharon, our summer-lover/winter-hater, is also taking time to enjoy life. Stephen King will write a new installment of the Dark Tower series for Marvel Comics in 2006. The comic periodical, later to be released as a Marvel hardcover in the fall of 2006, will be illustrated by Jae Lee with the colorist, Richard Isanove. It’s never “same old, same old” in this exciting book business.
On February 21, 2006, Penguin Young Readers Group will release “The Adventures of Win Fiz” by Clive Cussler. The cover promotional shows a young boy & girl & a dog sitting in between the two wide “paper” wings of one of those old planes fitted with bicycle tires.
Cute note in Publishers Weekly presenting Diane Mott Davidson’s paperback bestseller “Double Shot”: “…when Davidson was a young newlywed in 1969, her first attempt at steak was a disaster—she baked it in the oven for an hour…”
Remember “Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden? It’s back on the bestseller charts, with notice of the movie opening December 9th. (Rob Marshall is the director.)
Karen Kingsbury’s “Fame” has made the Religion Paperback Bestseller List. This is the first of five books in her new Firstborn Series. Lori Wick’s “Just Above a Whisper” also made the list, two points above Kingsbury, in late Oct.
Also look for Don Piper’s “90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life”. Originally with 7,500 in print, it’s now up to 430,000.
Did you know that Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” was banned in Boston in 1881?
One morning I found an empty box of Decon. Bleaah. So, I took LOTS of boxes to the basement steps—which I only enter with enough lights to bring in an airplane. Don’t know if the little critters ate the stuff, but no dried up bodies appeared anywhere. Sooo…
Michael Korda, (author, editor, agent and publishing guru) has announced his retirement. He stated, however, that he will continue as a consultant for the bestselling authors he has been working with in the past few years.
Debbie Macomber won the 2005 Quill Award for Best Romance Novel of the year for “44 Cranberry Point”.
I’ve been going thru a little more than 3,000 of our Sci-Fi & Thriller Comics, sorting by series, companies, etc., and looking for Young Adult (teen) acceptable reads. Why oh why don’t they grade or rate them on the covers?
Publishers Weekly is literally grabbing people off the street (nationally) and asking them, “What are you reading?” You’d be surprised at the numbers reading “used” books!
Are you still eating Halloween Candy? Me too.
Love those “Before & After” remodeling magazines. ‘course, there are usually bucco bucks involved, but some of the changes (even paint jobs) boggle the mind for people like me who just can’t visualize the end result.
Paperback Bestseller List:
James Frey: A Million Little Pieces
Anita Shreve: Light on Snow
David Baldacci: Hour Game
Heather Graham: Ghost Walk
James Patterson: London Bridges
Nora Roberts: Northern Lights
Jonathan Kellerman: Twisted
Janet Evanovich: Metro Girl
Edward P. Jones: The Known World
Jodi Picoult: My Sister’s Keeper
Jan Karon: On November 8th, the last book (#9) in her Mitford Series, Light from Heaven, entered bookstores. As Publishers Weekly did an “it’s okay, could be better” review of Paul McCartney’s children’s book, “High in the Clouds”, I was amused by his character’s name, Wirral Squirrel. But I really liked the city rat “Ratsy” who introduced his dad, Papa Ratsy, the photographer.
WALKER Author, Lois Templin: Wow. What an achievement. One of eleven, nationwide, Lois and her novel “Highland Revenge” were picked by Romantic Times for the American Title II contest. She can win only by your votes. Get her cards at the store and vote online! Winner is announced at the RT Conference in May, 2006. ? ? ? ?
Read “St. Dale”. By Sharon McCrumb, endorsed by racers Ward Burton, Junior Johnson, Kyle Petty and others, the magical bus ride and ensuing miracles, is a moving tribute to the one and only #3, Dale Ernhardt.
Nora Roberts’ Red Lily available 11/29.
Ted Lundrigan’s new book out in ’06.
Marcia Muller is another successful female mystery author told in college that she would never be a writer. What is it with those professors?
Our very own Prof. Bill, avid reader and “right on” critic of novels from each genre, visits us every week. (He just smiles at our retail problems. He’s retired, you know!)
End the year on a happy note:
Join Walker’s One Community, One Book.
Give generously to Toys for Tots and your Local Food Shelf.
Join our new prose writer’s group in January.
Read our Area Authors’ books!
From our family:
Happy Holidays to each of you!
Gotta go…bye for now…… |
