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'You could absolutely make an argument to do this in trade paper. And you can make an argument to do it in mass market. We decided on the latter.' So [...]

Bestselling financial adviser Suze Orman is back on the bestselling charts, this time in the #8 slot on the trade paper list, with The Road to Wealth: A Comprehensive Guide [...]

DICK DONAHUE Frank McCourt's 'Tis is being released for the first time in trade paper on August 29; Simon & Schuster's first printing will be 650,000. The hardcover spent 29 [...]

It's been a very good run for Iris Johansen, with five consecutive million-copy-plus suspense bestsellers (that figure includes paper and hardcover books). Number six, The Search, looks like it will [...]

reporter's interview with Jesus You head to the local newsstand for your daily paper and discover that it contains an unprecedented, exclusive interview--with Jesus. That's the intriguing premise behind A [...]

Schuessler is a Brooklyn-based freelancer BLANCHE WIESEN COOK has spent the past two decades reconstructing the life of Eleanor Roosevelt from millions of words on paper. But, on the one [...]

On paper, Anthony Swofford seems like an intimidating guy. His searing 2003 memoir, Jarhead, which chronicled his stint in the first Iraq war, depicted an angry, frustrated 20-year-old going crazy [...]

'I'M DROWNING IN PAPERS,' exclaims Wislawa Szymborska, pointing to piles of mail in the study of her fifth-floor, three-room walk-up in Krak6w. Since receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in [...]

Children put pen to paper and become a voice for themselves, their peers - and their publishers Their lives are structured by the givens of school days, bedtimes and . [...]

When equestrian consultant Jan Neuharth, daughter of USA Today founder Al Neuharth, penned her first mystery, The Hunt (Paper Chase Farms Publishing Group, 2003), she set it in the world [...]

The author of the first of this week's trade paper newbies is no stranger to national bestsellerdom. Anna Quindlen's latest book, Blessings, spent nine weeks on PW's hardcover fiction chart, [...]

Three of Shel Silverstein's best-loved books--Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic and Falling Up--come together in paper-over-board versions with slightly smaller trim sizes (roughly 6'x8') in the [...]

Platform is a plus in any category--what publisher wouldn't want authors to arrive with launching pads? But when it comes to diet and fitness titles, to paraphrase football coach Vince [...]

Hotel Bel-Air 'You didn't like my first book'--Steve Martin Last night, PW attended a BEA 2003 party in Beverly Hills for novelist Gigi Levangie Grazer, wife of movie producer Brian [...]

MARGARET CUTHBERT Silent Cradle Pocket Books (Apr.) It took Berkeley, Calif., ob/gyn Margaret Cuthbert 10 long, soul-searching months before she reluctantly decided to close her medical practice and become a [...]

Children's authors and artists talk about their spring '97 debuts Milly Lee, the author of Nim and the War Effort (FSG, March), is not your typical first-time author. A retired [...]

ABINGDON PRESS Entertainment Evangelism: Taking the Church Public by Walt Kallestad (Sept., $15.95) suggests how to make worship service uplifting and entertaining. Advertising. The Search for Meaning in the Workplace [...]

Funny things can happen on the way to the (publishing) forum. Take for example, the following statement from a book editor: 'I've seen dozens of O.J. Simpson humor book proposals. [...]

It took six years--and the conquest of many obstacles--before Canadian author Julie Johnston saw her first novel published. After that, however, official recognition of her gifts came swiftly. Hero of [...]

This was first published as part of The Larger Agenda Series [from Whittle Books], but I did quite a lot of work on it, so it's a heavily revised and [...]

MICHAEL YORK Accidentally on Purpose Simon & Schuster (Mar.) When I was first asked by Simon & Schuster for an autobiography, I thought it far too pretentious and presumptuous--and far [...]

Write While You Can Shirley MacLaine describes how she began writing to conquer boredom on the movie set--and how it just took over Running around the world, trying to find [...]

Scene of the Crime When Edmund Wilson wrote his celebrated essay 'Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?' in 1945, he found himself much in the minority; of the many letters [...]

The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA) met October 3-5 in Oakland Calif., and a week later, October 10-12, the Upper Midwest Booksellers Association (UMBA) gathered at RiverCentre in St. [...]

A critic of consumerism gets the hard sell ONE MORNING LAST MONTH, Don DeLillo emerged from the shadows of a well-protected life in an undisclosed suburb, arrived at his publicist's [...]

Book chronicle lives--and love--of bookselling spanning more than 50 years Less than one month after reading a New York Times profile of Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, Doubleday senior editor [...]

HIS BOOKS HAVE religious themes and they are published by Bethany House, an evangelical Christian book company. But John Fischer has firm ideas on how he wants to be viewed [...]

BETSY BOWEN A common assignment for children returning to school in the fall is to write an essay titled 'What I Did on My Summer Vacation.' As an adult, Minnesotan [...]

Most of us would be happy to succeed at just one of the many creative areas of art and publishing in which Chip Kidd seems to thrive. Best known for [...]

PW: For years your fans have been clamoring for The Book of Counted Sorrows. Why now, and why as an e-book? DK: When people write to us, they get a [...]

British author Steve Aylett depicts a world devoid of morality and consequence in his latest futuristic novel, The Crime Studio. In the stark world of Beerlight, 'crime is the last [...]

Stephen E. Ambrose served as the historical consultant on Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, the 1998 blockbuster starring Tom Hanks. Now the three are together again for another WWII film, [...]

Sure he coos, 'Are you the cutest thing on earth or what?' to his one-year-old. Yes, he can hold forth intelligently on the virtues of Disney's Tarzan. And seeing him [...]

Novelist Jane Green has made it onto the British bestseller list four times and now enjoys her first American chart landing with Jemima J. Broadway Books published it in trade [...]

Nearly two decades after its publication by Knopf in 1982, The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley's retelling of the Arthurian legend, is enjoying a new lease on life, thanks [...]

Finding Joy in Kids Self-confessed 'moody writer' and former alcoholic Mike Mason found safety in being cerebral, rather than loving. When his daughter Heather was born 14 years ago, Mason's [...]

Susanna Vance says she's always been a daydreamer. 'I had a hard time paying attention in school because I was always thinking of things and thinking of stories,' she says. [...]

No one was more surprised than David Hajdu when Lush Life, the groundbreaking 1996 biography that re stored composer/arranger Billy Strayhorn to his rightful place in jazz history, not only [...]

Do male authors and heroes outsell their female counterparts, or vice versa--or is it a draw? IN THE DAYS WHEN MEN WERE MEN and women baked Toll House cookies and [...]

Gene Marshall, the collectible movie-star doll created by artist/illustrator Mel Odom and sold by Ashton-Drake, is now featured in her own fictional rags-to-riches biography, Gene Marshall: Girl Star(Hyperion), written by [...]

PW: The dust jacket of Waiting for My Cats to Die (speaks to a predominantly single, middle-aged female audience. Do you hope to break out of this readership and reach [...]

This May, the lovable aardvark, star of many books and a PBS TV series, turns 25 While Marc Brown's Arthur will always be eight years old, his book and TV [...]

It happened in the waning days of World War II. After completing her mission to deliver the nuclear essence of the bombs later dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to an [...]

Bing Crosby might seem an un likely subject for Gary Giddins, best known as jazz columnist for the Village Voice and author of the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award [...]

Hungry Historian Some of Dan Sack's fondest church memories involve fried chicken, potato salad and Jell-O. That's because it was the potluck suppers in the church basement that 'made the [...]

PW: You're a man in your late 3Os. In The Journey Home you're writing from the point of view of a woman, Disa, who for much of the novel is [...]

PW: After producing so many illustrious mainstream children's books, what made you decide now to write Adam, Adam What Do You See?, a Christian children's book? BM: I really didn't [...]

Still another second-week tenant on our fiction chart is megaseller Clive Cussler's second installment in his series from the files of the National Underwater and Marine Agency-Blue Gold: A Novel [...]

Veteran authors talk about how they keep their books-plot, settings, characters-fresh Stella Cameron Does the Dog Need a New Dentist? Stella Cameron eavesdrops. Not intentionally, mind you, she just can't [...]

With reporting by Dick Donahue. Gary Zukav's new book, Soul Stories, landed on PW's hardcover nonfiction list in the #4 slot and his back list paperback bestseller, The Seat of [...]