Posted by: Publicity on Apr 28, 2010
Sourcebooks is proud to announce that it has acquired the book assets of Minneapolis-based greeting card, gift and stationery publisher Marianne Richmond Studios.
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Sourcebooks Acquires Bestselling Author Marianne Richmond
NAPERVILLE, IL (April 29, 2010)-In a deal announced this morning, Sourcebooks has acquired certain assets of Minneapolis-based Marianne Richmond Studios, Inc., publisher of popular gift books, including I Love You So... and Hooray for You.
Marianne Richmond Studios, Inc., founded in 1991 by Marianne Richmond, started as a greeting card company with just 20 designs and has become a recognized creator of numerous books that celebrate milestones in life, memorable journeys, and relationships. Since her first book in 1997, Gift of an Angel, writer and artist Marianne Richmond has touched the lives of millions through her line of greeting cards and gift books.
Posted by: Publicity on Apr 27, 2010
Issue: May 15, 2010
The Making of a Duchess.
Galen, Shana (Author)
Jun 2010. 384 p. Sourcebooks/Casablanca, paperback, $6.99. (9781402238659).
Posted by: Publicity on Apr 25, 2010
Publishers Weekly gave The Food, Folklore and Art of Lowcountry Cooking (9781402230981) by Joseph Dabney a great review in this week's web exclusives!
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/457064-Web_Exclusive_Reviews_4_26_2010.php
The Food, Folklore and Art of Low Country Cooking: A Celebration of the Foods, History, and Romance Handed Down from England, the Caribbean, France, Germany, and Scotland
Joseph Dabney. Cumberland, $29.99 (400p) ISBN 9781402230981
Even a dyed-in-the-wool Yankee will feel like a local after conquering Dabney's voluminous follow-up to his James Beard-winning Appalachian cookbook Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread and Scuppernong Wine. Digging deep, Dabney explores the culinary traditions and folklore of the coastal plain that runs from South Carolina into Georgia, from colonization to today. Tracing the lineage of the iconic dishes like Frogmore Stew and She Crab Soup, Dabney combines research and first-person interviews to create a rich portrait of the land and people. Quick to laud the contributions of slaves for many of the region's favorite dishes and key ingredients (like okra and peanuts), not to mention plenty of local characters, Dabney immerses culinary carpetbaggers via guided tours of cities like Savannah and Charleston, including a helpful guide to Charleston dialect ("Minuet: You and I have dined"). Though the book's scope may intimidate some-recipes and key dishes are woven into the text rather than set apart-diners who want to eat like a Low Country local will find plenty of suggestions here for crab cakes, sweet tea, pimento cheese, oyster roasts, hoppin' John, pig roasts, and fried chicken, along with plenty of sides and accompaniments. (May)
Posted by: Publicity on Apr 25, 2010
RT Book Reviews (formerly known as Romantic Times) dedicated an entire page to a Sourcebooks feature article in the June issue including several quotes by editorial manager Deb Werksman, cover images of Lessons in French by Laura Kinsale, Duplicate Death by Georgette Heyer, The Turning by Helen Ellis and We Hear The Dead by Dianne Salerni, as well as previews of other 2010 and 2011 titles.
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RT Book Reviews is geared primarily toward women who read women's fiction and those interested in the women's fiction publishing industry. Regular issue features include book reviews, entertainment features as well as new trends in the industry.
RT Book Reviews has a circulation of 70,000.
Posted by: Publicity on Apr 22, 2010
Tony Williams, author of Pox and the Covenant, was featured in the Boston Globe on Tuesday. The newspaper said that Williams injected "a welcome shade of gray into the traditional depiction of Puritans as repressive and closed-minded."
The Boston Globe has a daily circulation of about 265,000 subscribers, but the website boasts over 4,554,000 unique visitors per month! http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/04/20/tony_williams_to_discuss_his_book_the_pox_and_the_covenant_at_the_harvard_coop/
Posted by: Publicity on Apr 21, 2010
Wendy Holden, author of Beautiful People, has been interviewed on SheKnows.com, a popular women's site which receives 1.9 million unique visitors per month! You can find the interview here http://www.sheknows.com/articles/814794/page:1
This is a great follow up to Beautiful People being included in Complete Woman's recent Book Club List, as well as a bunch of great web reviews and from the pre-pubs, some of which are listed below:
Posted by: Publicity on Apr 19, 2010
Mr. Ed Dead: And Other Obituaries of the Most Famous People Who Never Lived (9781402237447) by Barry Nelson and Tom Schecker is featured in today's issue of Philadelphia Metro (circulation: 128,927), Metro New York (circulation: 307,312), and Metro Boston (166,267).
"Who Made Hello Kitty Into Goodbye Kitty?" http://www.metro.us/us/article/2010/04/20/03/1612-82/index.xml
Tom and Barry are speaking at the Society of Professional Obituary Writers Conference this weekend in Philadelphia. http://www.obitwriters.org/convention.html
Posted by: Publicity on Apr 19, 2010
Rumor Has It by Jill Mansell (ISBN 9781402237508) has been chosen as "Mother's Day Possibility" in today's Shelf Awareness Newsletter! You can see the full issue archived online here http://news.shelf-awareness.com/mv/a1/872369.html, but the great review from Marilyn Dahl is below:
Rumor Has It by Jill Mansell (Sourcebooks Landmark, $14 trade paper, 9781402237508/1402237502, May 2010)
Tilly Cole's boyfriend has just moved out of their London flat, and while she's relieved to see him go (he was kind of boring and had failed to mention his bell-ringing club), she doesn't know how she'll pay the rent by herself. Visiting her best friend in the country, she sees an ad in the local paper for a girl Friday and impulsively applies for the job. Of course, she gets it, and moves into a swell house owned by a gay interior designer and his 13-year-old daughter. Of course, the designer has a best friend, Jack, who is not only darkly gorgeous, but has a tragic past and a Lothariol presence. Of course, Tilly is warned to stay away from the irresistible Jack. Rumor Has It is filled with the charms of small-town Roxborough, where the worst things to happen involve cows getting stuck in gratings and the dangers of overhanging tree branches, and with delightful characters: the soon-to-be ex-wife, Stella (" 'Thirty-seven. I know I don't look it, but I am.' Stella was alarmingly modest too."); the best friend, Erin, who has a secret; Stella's estranged husband, Fergus, who is the secret; Max the interior decorator and his daughter, Lou; and Tilly and Jack, fighting their mutual attraction. We know where this will end up, but the journey to the happy ending is well worth taking.
Posted by: Publicity on Apr 15, 2010
In addition to In Over Her Head, cowboy romance author Carolyn Brown's One Lucky Cowboy has also been nominated for an OKRWA National Reader's Choice Award, in the Best Single Title category! http://www.okrwa.com/NRCA/nrca_finalists09.htm#single title
This is shaping up to be a very exciting RWA National Conference for Sourcebooks Casablanca-2 nominees in the National Reader's Choice, and of course of our RITA nominated title, What Would Jane Austen Do? by Laurie Brown!
Posted by: Publicity on Apr 15, 2010
Judi Fennell's mer romance, In Over Her Head (ISBN 9781402220012) has been nominated for Best First Book in the Oklahoma RWA Chapter's National Reader's Choice Award!
Many RWA chapters sponsor their own awards, and the OKRWA National Readers' Choice Award is one of the most competitive and highly regarded in the romance community. You can find a full list of categories and finalists here: http://www.okrwa.com/NRCA/nrca_finalists09.htm. OKRWA will announce the winners at RWA's National Conference in Nashville in July!
Congrats to Judi and all who have been involved with her books!
