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The
reviews say:
"ACTION-PACKED...
ROLLICKING ADVENTURE... COMPLEX CHARACTERS... FAST-PACED...VIVID DESCRIPTIONS...IMPORTANT THEMES... PERILOUS
BATTLES... NARROW ESCAPES... GREAT HEART... EXCITING... CHARMING... CREEPY... SENSITIVE...THRILLING!"
(Click
on the book titles for more.)
Ask your favorite
bookstore to order these books for you, or click here to buy online:
>
Amazon.com
>
Barnes and Noble
>
Books-a-Million
Now on MySpace.
I have created a MySpace
page at
myspace.com/pwcatanese. Sometime in November a new version will appear,
eventually with some nice downloads and features related to my new Books
of Umber series. Feel free to stop by now and say 'hello' -- it's so new
that I am currently fairly friendless over there. But it will eventually
be a great venue for discussions and Q&A with readers and teachers.
Author visits.
Hello to all my new
friends in Virginia at Eagle Ridge and Harper Park schools. I really
enjoyed the visit and hope you did as well. I also took advantage of the
visit to get into Washington D.C. and see the sights. What a great city. And hey there, students
of Hastings Middle School in Michigan -- see you in November.
A new book coming in
January: Want to see the cover (and find out what it's about)?
Check it out here. As it turns out, my new
book, Happenstance Found (the first book in my new The Books
of Umber series) is going to be in hardcover. As a result, it's
being pushed back a few months. Instead of September 2008, it will come
out in January 2009.
Happenstance Found is the first
installment in a fantasy-adventure trilogy called
The Books of Umber.
(Don't worry - the first book does not end on a cliffhanger - it's a
satisfying read all by itself. )
A new cover for The
Brave Apprentice.
Wow - check out the exciting new
cover illustration for The Brave Apprentice, by artist Cliff
Nielsen. It's shown up top, and larger
right here. That is one scary looking
troll. At some point pretty soon (I'm not sure exactly when) the books
with the old covers will be gone and this cover only will be available.
The Eye of the Warlock is the next one to get a new look, before
long.
An award nomination
for The Mirror's Tale.
The Mirror's Tale has been
nominated for the Maud Hart Lovelace Award, sponsored by
the Minnesota Youth Book Award organization. Winners will be announced
in April 2009. This happily follows on the heels of the Boston Author's
Club honor for the same title.
"Further
Tales": Over 400,000 books in print.
My first five books are known
collectively as Further Tales. These
action-packed novels from Simon & Schuster/Aladdin Paperbacks pick up the loose
threads of famous fairy tales and use them to weave exciting new
adventures. Each book has its own story and characters; it doesn't
matter which you read first. Young readers like them -- even reluctant
readers. Adult readers like
them. And teachers have discovered that they make a sensational
read-aloud in the classroom. Dive
in!
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Also
of interest:
I'm
happy to report that The Thief and the Beanstalk is becoming
an audiobook as part of the Library of Congress' Talking Books for
the Blind Program. Production is beginning now at the Library of
Congress in Washington, D.C. featuring the voice talent of
actor/narrator Erik Synnestvedt. This is part of a free program of
braille and audio materials circulated to eligible borrowers in the
United States by postage-free mail, using a national network of
cooperating libraries. You can
learn
more here.
The
back story:
These fantasy adventure novels
are published by Simon and Schuster/Aladdin Paperbacks. To find out how you can buy a copy
online, click on the book covers above.
These
are novels, not picture books, between 240 and 280 pages long. Each
is a sequel (of sorts) to a famous fairy tale.
These are
separate stories with different characters, so it doesn't matter what
order you read them in. They fall
into the category of books for middle-school readers, but I wrote them
for anyone who likes a story with lots of adventure, action and thrills.
I seem to be picking up more and more grown-up fans.
If you'd like to buy a copy through your local independent bookseller,
find one through www.booksense.com.
It takes a few more clicks this way, but it's great to support the
independents.
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