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GIVING ‘CHOPIN’ A LISTEN
Jeffrey Deaver, Lee Child, David Hewson, Lisa Scottoline and Joseph Finder are among the 15 authors who have created the first serialized audiobook thriller, titled THE CHOPIN MANUSCRIPT. Narrated by SPIDER-MAN 2 villain Alfred Molina, the book is now available through Audible.com. To learn more, you can listen to a free excerpt or watch a video of some of the authors discussing their involvement.

COMING SOON A LAP NEAR YOU
Book-trailers.net is a new site which – drumroll, please – posts video trailers for books, in a variety of genres. The service is free for authors, not to mention lots of fun for the YouTube-inclined.

THOSE PRICKLY QUILLS
Winners have been announced for the 2007 Quill Awards, with Diane Setterfield’s runaway hit THE THIRTEENTH TALE and Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer-winning, Oprah-approved THE ROAD coming out as big winners. Only one winner was reviewed on these virtual pages: sports category victor THE KINGS OF NEW YORK by Michael Weinreb. A complete list is available; these awards continue to baffle me with their randomness.

EVERYTHING MUST GO!
Break open your piggy banks and PayPal accounts! Author/anthologist Jeff VanderMeer is cleaning house for a virtual book sale. As of this writing, 502 books have been sold, but 819 are still available. Check it out for some interesting rare finds, signed editions, chapbooks, oddities, sets, ARCs and other reading treasures.

I SUSPECTED AS MUCH OF JAMES PATTERSON FANS
Actress Angie Harmon tells Entertainment Weekly about her new TV series WOMEN’S MURDER CLUB being based on the James Patterson books: “Every time you get on a plane, every single person has one. The chapters are two and three pages long – you can get through six chapters in a hour.” You do the math; she adds up to slow and stupid.

SELF-PROMOTION CORNER
An updated edition of GRAPHIC CLASSICS: BRAM STOKER is now available. This trade paperback features a sweet new comics adaption of DRACULA in 48 pages, illustrated by Joe Ollman. Whether or not you have the original 2003 edition, this volume is worth picking up just for the fresh material, but that’s not to discount republished pieces on “The Judge’s House,” “Torture Tower” and THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM, drawn by such talents as J.B. Bonivert, Mark A. Nelson, Onsmith Jeremi, Mitch O’Connell, Maxon Crumb and more. (In the interest of full disclosure, I contribute to the GRAPHIC CLASSICS series, but have nothing in this edition.) –Rod Lott

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