Is there such a thing as an old year’s resolution? That’s what I feel I’ve been doing recently. As we’re racing toward the end of the year, I’m looking at the stacks of very good graphic novels accumulating around me and I’m getting nervous. I’m thinking about how I’ve just gotten to get them reviewed soon because some of them are too good not to talk about. It would be easier if they weren’t good; then I wouldn’t have to bother with them at all. But these are books I really want to talk about, to spread the word about them, and to give them just a little bit of recognition.
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From acclaimed bestselling author Sandra Brown comes a powerfully moving novel celebrating the gifts, generosity and foresight of a great bygone generation.
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A CITY GRIPPED BY FEAR...
Seattle newspaper photographer Nick Wilder has gained a reputation capturing gruesome homicide scenes on film. His latest assignment: Tracking an unpredictable, deranged serial killer terrorizing the dark, wet streets of Seattle.
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In the foreword to his book 1,000 Comic Books You Must Read, Tony Isabella mentions that we indeed are. He asserts that, with the breadth of quality comics now being published, as well as the ready access to easily affordable reprints of classic works, this is the true Golden Age, one that’s better than any ever before. It’s hard to disagree, but I’ve been pondering it ever since reading it.
November 2009
On the last day of my vacation in September, I sat by the pool and read an advance copy of RAINWATER by Sandra Brown, her first historical novel. Set during the Great Depression in Gilead, Texas, it’s a beautifully and tightly written story of love and hope in a world torn with economic and racial strife.
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November 2009
Fourteen-year-old Eric Welch, with some help from his younger brother, hides a runaway girl named Grace in the clubhouse in their backyard for two months. In due time Grace’s secret is revealed, and Eric grows up all too quickly while trying to protect her.
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Nov 1, 2009
Actor, screenwriter and novelist Chris Grabenstein recently spoke with Kidsreads.com's Amy Alessio about his latest release, THE HANGING HILL --- the sequel to his award-winning mystery/thriller for middle-grade readers, THE CROSSROADS.
As I write this note, I am making lists and making piles. I leave tomorrow for the Miami Book Fair International, the fifth time I have attended this wonderful multi-day booklover's dream event. More than 350 authors will gather there to talk books this week and through the weekend. Nirvana. I travel a lot, which the Sagittarian in me just LOVES, and have made lists of what I need for day trips, short trips and long trips that I click down when packing. But somehow, the night before I still find myself up way later than I planned, adding things to my itinerary, making notes on places and people I want to see in whatever city I am headed to, winding yarn for projects to knit while traveling, deciding what books to take with me, making last-minute notes for the staff in New York, and plotting little details to make my hotel room comfortable and my trip just a bit more special.
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Greg Sadowski is one of comicdom’s great historians. As an editor, he’s won both the Harvey and Eisner Awards, and he’s just been nominated for YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens list for Supermen: The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes. Recently, he’s just announced he’ll be doing seven new books for Fantagraphics, beginning in June 2010. The upcoming titles include Four-Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s; Setting the Standard: Alex Toth at Standard Comics 1952–1954; The Road to Plastic Man; The Comic Book Frankenstein; and more. Here’s your chance to get to know Greg a little bit better.
