A Million Penguins, v2.0

snipped from news.com We Tell Stories is a new alternate-reality game that tasks players with finding their way through six story lines based on classic Penguin novels and a seventh story that ties them all together. The alternate-reality game genre has a new friend,...

International Thriller Writers 2008 Award Finalists

click to visit the International Thriller Writers website Finalists for the 2008 Thriller Awards! By Joe Moore | Permalink Drum roll please! After much arduous and painstaking labor by our three panels of esteemed judges–overseen and orchestrated by this...

New Titles Out Next Week

snipped from Shelf-Awareness Selected hardcover titles appearing next Tuesday, March 25: Buckingham Palace Gardens: A Novel by Anne Perry (Ballantine, $26) is the 25th Thomas Pitt mystery. Hollywood Crows: A Novel by Joseph Wambaugh (Little, Brown, $26.99) examines...

Mystery Bestsellers for February

snipped from IMBA, noted by Shelf-Awareness The INDEPENDENT MYSTERY BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION (IMBA) Connecting Criminally Inclined Readers with Arresting Mysteries The following were the bestselling titles at member bookstores of the Independent Mystery Booksellers...

Send Your Poetry to The Guardian

from Guardian UK Sean O’Brien’s workshop Sean O’Brien Monday March 10, 2008 guardian.co.uk A central figure in the world of contemporary poetry, Sean O’Brien is famous for balancing the demands of tradition and poetic structure with a flair for...

Penguin Enhanced e-Book Classics

by Jim Milliot — Publishers Weekly Penguin is committed to trying different things in the digital space and things that work will be continued and those that don’t will be stopped, company chairman John Makinson told journalists at a luncheon in New York...