Author & Pastor Max Lucado Reaches 100 Million Products in Print
Posted on September 21st, 2010
Author and Pastor Max Lucado has 100 million products in print since his first book was published 25 years ago. Lucado’s writings have been published in a wide variety of formats including trade books, gift books, children’s books, study Bibles, devotionals, commentaries, animated children’s videos, calendars, greeting cards, teaching curriculum and licensed gift products.
Of the 100 million products in print, 80 million are books.
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Mystery and History: A Winning Combination
Posted on May 4th, 2010
Read more here at Publishers Weekly about the popularity of historical mysteries.
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Book Review (Courtesy of BookLoons)
Posted on April 27th, 2010
When the action begins, Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands is driving through the south of France in August of 1926 on an important errand: he is bringing his adolescentniece Dorcas Joliffe to a medieval castle where the girl’s eccentric father and a colorful assortment of artists have taken up temporary residence. Almost immediately, a vandalized statue and the murder of a beautiful artist’s model, investigated by local police, ensnare Sandilands in a complicated mystery, one in which a dastardly villain lurks in the shadows.
Strange Images of Death: A Joe Sandilands Mystery
by Barbara Cleverly
Soho, 2010 (2010)
Hardcover
Barbara Cleverly’s Joe Sandilands mysteries have earned plenty of respect in the past from reviewers (e.g., Publishers Weekly boasted that ‘Cleverly out-Christie’s Agatha Christie‘; the New York Times described the novels as ‘spectacular and dashing‘; and the Library Journal praised Cleverly for ‘evocative narrative{s}, sensitive characterizations, artful dialogue, and masterly plotting‘), and, as further confirmation of that respect, Strange Images of Death, the latest in the series, almost certainly means even more satisfied readers and reviewers.
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The Challenge of Diversity
Posted on November 14th, 2009
The Guerrilla Girls on Tour site, which I discovered by accident through another blogger’s site, justifiably complains about the exclusive nature of some book awards and lists of “bests”; in this case, the one offered by Publishers’ Weekly was deemed offensive because it excluded books by women and people of color.
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Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel (Dark-Hunter Novels)
Posted on August 17th, 2009
Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel (Dark-Hunter Novels)
By Sherrilyn Kenyon
Average customer review: 
A stunning and suspenseful new landscape emerges in the thrilling Dark-Hunter world—a world where nothing will ever be the same again.
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