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A Busy Week for Bantam Dell Books on Bestseller Lists
Sophie Kinsella’s latest stand-alone novel, Remember Me? and Danielle Steel’s Honor Thyself both remain on the hardcover fiction bestseller list for the New York Times this week, while Tami Hoag’s The Alibi Man and Steel’s Sisters continue as mass market fiction paperback bestsellers. John Grisham’s first nonfiction book, The Innocent Man, holds on as a paperback bestseller. William Ury’s The Power of a Positive No debuts on the BusinessWeek bestseller list.
Three Spectra Authors Nominated for Hugo Awards
The 2008 Hugo Award nominees were recently announced and three Spectra authors are included on the list. Scott Lynch (author of Red Seas Under Red Skies and The Lies of Locke Lamora) was nominated for the John W. Campbell award, “The Cambist and Lord Iron: a Fairytale of Economics” by Daniel Abraham from Spectra’s Logorrhea (edited by John Klima), was nominated for Best Novelette and Elizabeth Bear (author of Dust, published by Bantam Spectra in January) was nominated for a short story. Winners will be announced at the Hugo Awards Ceremony at the World Science Fiction Convention in Denver in August.
Nova Swing wins 2007 Philip K. Dick Award
Congratulations to M. John Harrison, whose novel Nova Swing won the Philip K. Dick Award. This award honors distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time in the U.S. The winner was announced at Norwescon 31.
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Two Bantam Dell International Thriller Writers Book Nominations
Linwood Barclay’s No Time For Goodbye and Tom Piccirilli’s The Midnight Road have each been nominated for the International Thriller Writers awards! Barclay’s book was nominated as Best Novel and Piccirilli’s as Best Paperback Original. Winners will be announced this July in NYC at ThrillerFest.
Arthur C. Clarke, One of the Pioneering Writers of Science Fiction, Dies at Age 90.
Considered one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, British author Arthur C. Clarke died early Wednesday at the age of 90 in Sri Lanka, his home since 1956. Clarke has written almost 100 books and has more than one hundred million copies of his fiction and nonfiction titles in print worldwide. Clarke was also known as a space age visionary, an article written by him in 1945 led to the invention of satellite technology. His Bantam Dell titles include The Hammer Of God, Rama II, Rama Revealed, and Rendevous With Rama.
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Be a Character in a Jack Reacher Novel!
New York Times bestselling author Lee Child is participating in Authors for Autism Research, a series of auctions on ebay hosted by Autism Speaks UK, an international charity raising funds for research into the causes of autism. Beginning March 23, bid to win a character named after you in either the 2009 or 2010 Reacher novel. Bidding ends April 2.
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Beyond Reach nominated for the Georgia Writers’ Association Award
Congratulations to Karin Slaughter whose book, Beyond Reach, has been nominated for “Best Novel” by the Georgia Writers’ Association. Winners will be announced in June.
Bad Luck and Trouble Nominated for Gumshoe Award
Lee Child’s Bad Luck and Trouble has been nominated as a “Best Thriller” for the seventh annual Gumshoe Awards. These awards are given by the readers of the online magazine Mystery Ink each year to recognize the best achievements in the world of crime fiction. Winners will be announced April 21.
Remember Me? An Instant Top-of-the-Lists Bestseller
Congratulations to Sophie Kinsella whose new novel, Remember Me?, landed the #1 and #2 spots on this week’s hardcover fiction bestseller lists for the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, respectively. In this irresistible novel, 24-year old Lexi Smart wakes up to find she not only has amnesia-but that her once imperfect life is now … perfect. How did this happen? Will she ever remember? And what will happen when she does? For more information, visit the Sophie Kinsella Homepage.
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