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Twenty years ago, a small company named Dark Horse Comics
began publishing with a simple vision: To publish the kinds
of comics and graphic novels that its founders wanted to read.
This approach has served the company well, as we’ve watched
our ambitious little project achieve amazing success over the last
two decades. The passage of time has not changed our goal of
finding fascinating characters with compelling stories to tell, nor
our search for more ways to tell them.
Two years ago we made the decision to expand our vision into
more traditional publishing areas. As a result, M Press was born.
This new division of Dark Horse was created to take advantage
of the relationships we’ve developed over the years with many
gifted writers, as well as to expand the types of books we publish.
We’ll take on the kinds of projects you might expect from Dark
Horse—science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery—but for the
first time, you might also find a historical novel, a biography, or
even a book focused on self-help. All of this is fair game for our
M Press imprint.
Nothing has changed with regard to the goals we set all those
years ago—we’re still looking for great stories and themes. And,
of course, we can’t wait to read those same stories ourselves.
Happy reading,
Mike Richardson
Publisher
M Press
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CONTENTS
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Eternal Strangers
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Shanghai Diary
6 Race for the Gold
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The Playboy Interviews: The Comedians
10 The Playboy Interviews Backlist Titles
12
LeRoy Neiman: Femlin
14
Leonard Maltin’s Movie Crazy
16 Harlan Ellison’s Watching
18
Spider Kiss
20 Diary of Indignities
22
John Landis
24
Order form
26 Backlist titles
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• See page 24 for ordering information
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“[A] riveting and heartwarming account of its
author’s experiences in a dark time.”
—jewish review (Advance praise for Eternal Strangers)
ETERNAL STRANGERS
Ursula Bacon
A much anticipated prequel to Shanghai Diary, Eternal Strangers
is the compelling story of young people overcoming adversity in
the face of insurmountable odds. While in the shadow of Nazi
Europe, two people fall in love and build a life together as their old
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world, and their old life is changing all around them.
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ursula bacon • portland, or
This new book by Ursula Bacon introduces us to her parents and
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follows their romance at a time of war. Inspiring, thought-provoking,
memoir
and starkly honest, Eternal Strangers will be a book discussed for
rights: worldwide • july 2007
years to come.
KEY SALES POINTS
• Discussion questions at the end of the book; perfect for book clubs
• Shanghai Diary, the companion volume, is currently in development
as a motion picture with Clancy Sigal (Frida) writing the screenplay.
• Fans and readers of Shanghai Diary will want to continue the story and
see how it began.
• Readers of history, especially geographic history, will be fascinated
by Bacon’s interpretation of Europe and the continuing relationship
between her parents during the trials of the Greatest Generation.
PROMOTION AND PUBLICITY
• National review attention
• $20,000 marketing budget
• Education focus targeted toward schools for adoption into required
reading programs
• Publicity and promotion in conjunction with author’s speaking
engagements
• Promotion with book clubs
• Exhibit and promotion at book and library trade shows
• Promotional mailings targeting public and higher education libraries
• Promotion on author’s website: www.ursulabacon.com
• Recently nominated for the 2007 Sophie Brody Medal, which is to be
awarded to the U.S. author of the most distinguished contribution to
Jewish literature for adults in 2007.
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URSULA BACON fled Nazi Germany
with her parents in 1939 and landed in
Shanghai, China, along with 18,000 other
middle-European refugees. The family spent
most of the war years in a Japanese-controlled
“Designated Area” often referred to as a ghetto.
Today, Ms. Bacon lectures and conducts workshops. She is a frequent keynote speaker at
women’s conferences and educational events.
She and her husband live in Oregon and
enjoy hosting parties for friends. They have
two children.
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[EXCERPT]
fRomETERNALSTRANGERS
H
E FELL IN LOVE THE first time he saw her. His
eyes followed the young woman with the dark hair
as she moved gracefully, dance-like, between the few narrow, rough-hewn wooden tables and benches in the small,
dimly lit tavern. To the waiting men who came to the tavern
for their early afternoon meals, she carried heavy white
plates heaped with onion-fried potatoes and thick chunks
of smoked sausages. Her faced was flushed from the heat
of the coal-fed iron stove where she and her younger sister,
Lucy prepared the simple country food.
Carefully, she placed a full-to-the-brim bowl of a thick,
fragrant soup in front of the tall, slender soldier in his fieldgray uniform. She brushed a loose strand of hair out of
her face with the back of her hand and was about to return
to the makeshift kitchen when the soldier spoke up. The
passionate tone in his deep, low voice struck a chord within
her. “Just a moment please; I want to talk with you. Please!”
He was overcome with a sense of awe and fascination
as his warm, hazel eyes locked on to her lively, deep brown
ones and searched her face. Like a magnet, the soldier held
her glance and slowly, almost dream-like, she sat down
beside him, drawn by a strange urgency not to let this
moment pass. Astonished, she knew, in that instant, their
future together was as inevitable as the appearance of stars
on a clear summer’s night.
Irene, innkeeper Herman Burger’s oldest daughter, had
never lacked the attention of eager, young men. Serious,
more often than not, they pleaded for courting time,
painted rosy pictures of a future union, and went as far as
asking her father for her hand in marriage. Most of these
young men were good Jewish boys from the small garrison
town of Lubitz—where everybody knew everyone. The
hard-working Jewish families from in and around the town
pursued their modest businesses, worked their trades,
faithfully attended their orthodox synagogue, and lived in a
relatively peaceful state with their gentile neighbors.
Ursula Bacon’s
impassioned memoir
Shanghai Diary has
touched the lives of people
around the world,
recounting the story of her
youth in China and of her
parents’ struggles to hold
their family together in the
face of the onrushing
horrors of World War II. In
Eternal Strangers Bacon
explores the events that
brought her parents Martin
and Irene together, the
horrors that nearly tore
them apart, and the love
that kept them united
through the end of one
world war and the
beginning of a second.
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“Iampleasedtoaddthisbooktomylibrary,asIhaven’t
readabetterstoryinalongtime.Boththecontentofthis
tale,andthemannerinwhichitistold,issuperb.”
—JOHN N. DAHLE, J.D, pHD. SEpTEMBER 2005
ShaNGhai diarY: a YOUNG Girl’S
JOUrNEY frOm hiTlEr’S haTE TO
War-TOrN ChiNa
Ursula Bacon
IN 1939, THE THIRD REICH was closing its iron grip around the
lives of Germany’s Jews. Most Western nations, not willing to
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involve themselves in volatile European politics, had shut their
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doors to Jewish immigrants. Tens of thousands of Middle-
URSULA BACON • pORTLAND OR
European refugees, fleeing Hitler’s brutal regime, set their hopes
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HOLOCAUST
for freedom on Shanghai—the only open port available.
Eleven-year-old Ursula Bacon was one such refugee, narrowly escaping with her parents from the clutches of the SS. After traveling
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ETERNALSTRANGERS
eight thousand miles from their lifelong home and witnessing the
arrest of fellow passengers, they arrived in Shanghai only to discover
that the long arm of Nazi influence had extended into China.
They made an abrupt transition from a life of privilege to one of
malnourished poverty, living in a district teeming with disease
and noxious waste. During the eight years that passed before
the family’s dream of emigrating to America was realized, they
relied on determination, ingenuity, the help of honest friends,
and the calming presence of an England-born Buddhist monk
to persevere.
In this fascinating memoir, Ursula recounts her struggles in that
overcrowded and dubious refuge of Shanghai—from the ensuing Japanese occupation to an intense moment of self-defense;
from targeted Allied air attacks to assisting the rescue of a downed
American crew.
Fifty years later, Ursula is ready to tell her story.
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fRomSHANGHAIDIARY
AUGUST1939:ThEYEARofThEhARE
W
“This is a very personal
story that has its place in
today’s world. Not to keep the
war alive, but to show how
adversity can be dealt with.”
—BONNIE CEHOVET,
Magazine for the Metaphysical,
Spiritual & Healing Communities, 2005
E WALKED DOWN ONE OF the busy, cluttered,
and noisy streets of Hongkew for the first time and
learned that they all looked alike. Narrow two-story houses
clung to each other in a row stretching the length of a city
block; broken up only by a gate-like entrance in mid-street
that led to inside lanes. The whole width of each house was
a storefront that had no door, stood wide open all day long,
and was boarded up at night. We saw a man making peanut
butter and someone boiling water from a cement cauldron
that was heated from below by a bright fire. There was a
candied-fruit vendor, a dried-herb business, a rice kitchen, a
fabric merchant, a primitive tea house, and a Chinese pharmacy. There was a sort of lending library where the books
were attached to thin chains and customers of all ages read
their selections squatting on their haunches or sitting on
tiny stools on the street. There were people in the business
of making cotton stuffing for quilts and robes, others were
selling smoked and dried duck, fish, and other indistinguishable items.
On the street itself, without the formality of a storefront, were people in the ear-cleaning and barbering business. The barbers were digging around in their customers’
ears with a thin bamboo stick, ends wrapped in cotton.
Others were being shaved from cheek to cheek. Business
was brisk, and people were waiting for their turn patiently,
squatting on their haunches in the dirt-littered streets.
We walked and gawked, dodged in and out between street
vendors selling everything from a bowl of rice to sewing
threads to brooms and brushes. For those who could neither read nor write, studious looking scribes in long black
robes, round silk caps on their heads, were busily taking
dictation for letters behind a tiny folding table in the middle
of the crowds.
“The Chinese people are serious about business, “Vati
remarked. “Every enterprise is a one-man band. We have a
lot to learn about the way things are done here.”
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Race for the Gold is based on the true story of
Louis Remme, a French-Canadian cattle trader living in Oregon
and his dangerous race across two states to save his fortune.
RACE FOR THE GOLD
Thorn Bacon
In 1855 Remme felt himself a rich man having sold his latest
herd of cattle for $12,500 and having safely deposited the money
in the Adams Express Company Bank in San Francisco.
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isbn-13: 978-1-59582-115-7
For a time, his future seemed bright and his fortune secured; that
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is until Black Monday hit California, and a series of bank collapses
thorn bacon • portland or
wiped out the Adams Express, and with it all the money Remme
trade paper • historical fiction
had in the world. But fate dealt Remme one last chance to save his
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fortune: with the telegraph lines out of commission, the only way
for news to reach the Oregon branch of Adams Express was by
steamboat. Remme knew if he could get the message through, he
could stop the run on the bank and save some of his money.
In a six-day race against time, across forbidding terrain, filled with
hazards, vengeful Indians, and life-threatening dangers, Remme
would have to ride hard and fast, changing horses at least twenty
times. Would he be able to reach the bank in time?
THORN BACON is a prolific writer for such
national magazines as Popular Science, Argos,
National Wildlife, and True. A journalist
for over twenty years with major daily newspapers, including the Chicago Daily News and
articles often carried by the Associated Press.
He is the author of several books and makes
his home in Oregon.
KEY SALES POINTS
• Written with an immediacy and presence that pulls the reader into the
story as if he were there on the ride with Remme, Race for the Gold mixes
the best elements of historical fiction with the thrill of an action story.
• Author appearances and signings in the Pacific Northwest
• Review copies sent to Publisher’s Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist,
and more
• Featured at the Oregon Historical Society and other museum bookstores
• Educational focus targeted toward schools for adoption into reading
programs
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[EXCERPT]
fRomRACEFORTHEGOLD
E
VEN THOUGH his passage through the wilderness
would be hampered by dozens of setbacks, his estimate
of the sailing time from stop to stop of the Columbia was
more than guesswork. Four years earlier when the Columbia
first reached Portland from San Francisco, he had been
one of her first customers to send freight: eggs, apples, and
wheat for the gold camps of California. She was the first true
steamboat in Oregon waters. But aside from that distinction,
the Columbia had little to brag about. A three-masted sidewheeler, only ninety feet long, double-ended and resembling
a ferryboat, the sturdy wooden vessel of 770 feet lacked both
style and comfort. Her speed seldom exceeded four to five
miles an hour. A year after her maiden voyage the Columbia
made two runs a month to Portland. For passage, travelers
paid twenty-five dollars each way and had to furnish their
own blankets and food.
The steamer’s slow speed was the factor that gave
Remme hope he could keep ahead of her overland, despite
the obstacles. By water it was about 710 miles on a straight
course from San Francisco to the mouth of the Columbia
River, where the vessel had to cross the most treacherous
and destructive sandbar in the world. After the hazardous
crossing, the ship plowed up on the Columbia about ninety
miles into the Willamette River to dock in Portland, which
had mostly settled on the west bank.
Remme’s calculations of speed were not based on
dividing nautical miles by hourly speed. He factored into
the equation the extra time consumed by the paddleboat to
make five coastal stops along the way. Loading and unloading passengers and cargo, maneuvering in and out of small
bays and docking and undocking safely added significantly
to her running time. Six days enroute was the sensible estimate before she could drop anchor in the Willamette River.
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“America’s greatest wits explain their rises and falls . . .”
THE PLAYBOY INTERVIEWS:
THE COMEDIANS
Stephen Randall & the editors of Playboy
Humor: some of us have it, others don’t. Woody Allen has a lot
of it. Robin Williams, too. Don Rickles defined what it was for a
new generation. Groucho Marx for the generation before. What
is it? For fifty years Playboy has been asking the candid questions,
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isbn-13: 978-1-59582-066-2
letting the comedians give a straight response. In this collection
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of Playboy Interviews, America’s greatest wits explain their rises
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arts/humor
and falls, talking about what is funny, what is not, and how to
make ’em laugh.
rights: worldwide • october 2007
KEY SALES POINTS
• This volume features interviews with the following notable figures:
Don Rickles, Bill Cosby, Groucho Marx, Woody Allen, Jim Carrey,
George Carlin, Jon Stewart, Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Chris Rock,
and Jerry Seinfeld.
• Many of these interviews are presented in this volume for the first time
since their original magazine publication. In some cases, they have
been unavailable for more than forty years.
• Advertising campaign in monthly Playboy and on Playboy.com
• Online interviews to be posted on MySpace/darkhorse.com
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[EXCERPT]
of the JOHN STEWART INTERVIEW
from THE PLAYBOY INTERVIEWS: THE COMEDIANS
PLAYBOY: Isn’t The Daily Show the longest you’ve ever held a job?
stewart: That’s true. I started January 11, 1999. How did you know?
PLAYBOY: This is Playboy. We know everything.
stewart: We’ll see.
PLAYBOY: Tell us about the time you destroyed thousands of dollars’ worth
of aquariums in what can loosely be described as a gymnastics accident.
stewart: You do know [smiles]. First, the tanks were empty. No fish were
harmed in that senseless tragedy. It was 1976 or 1977. My brother was
an assistant manager at one of the first mega Woolworths. He was
a bit of a taskmaster, but good people. The main floor was filled with
entertaining and wonderful items. I worked downstairs in the catacombs,
with the stock shelves. To alleviate some of the boredom, we used to dive
off the shelves. They were pretty high, but it was okay because this was
back in the day of the beanbag chair. We’d pile them up and do whatever
gymnastics routine we could imagine. Unfortunately, I hit a bag wrong
and it shot across the room and wiped out thousands of dollars’ worth
of aquariums. Fortunately, I had the key to the incinerator. But, much to
my chagrin, aquariums make a lot of noise when they burn. It drew the
attention of some higher-ups and my brother had to fire me.
PLAYBOY: Too bad. You probably would have made manager by now.
stewart: A major disappointment. But I sought professional help,
improved my diving technique and haven’t hit the bag wrong in years.
I know it’s one reason I’ve lasted so long with The Daily Show.
PLAYBOY: Describe The Daily Show to someone who’s never seen it.
stewart: It’s a pulsating hour of drama. Actually, if someone’s never seen
it, chances are I won’t be talking to them; I force people to watch
a highlight reel before each and every introduction.
PLAYBOY: And then you walk into the room?
stewart: Exactly. Then I say: “Do you watch the news? Do you think it’s
funny? We do, too.” That’s pretty much it.
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LARGER THAN LIFE
Fame: It’s a world unto itself. Only certain people—the lucky
few—are permitted entrance. Their notoriety and influence shape
our views on politics, art, commerce, music, even the way we
dress and speak. Our lives become defined by how we were before
they existed and how we see ourselves after. Everyone remembers
where they were the first time they heard the Beatles, watched
Muhammad Ali step into the ring, or how they sat in amazement
as Marlon Brando filled the big screen. Playboy and M Press are
honored to collect the interviews of fourteen people who shaped
the world, who can truly be called Larger Than Life.
KEY SALES POINTS
• Includes interviews with The Beatles, Marlon Brando, Cassius Clay/
Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell, Walter Cronkite, Bette Davis, Bob
Dylan, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, and Mae West
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isbn-13: 978-1-59582-045-7
$22.95 • 6" x 9" • 400 pp • m press
cloth • biography/popular culture
rights: worldwide • available now
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
Power. Control. Influence. In every business, in every area of
professional achievement, only a handful of people have taken
control of their industry or marketplace. With vision, determination, and passion, these people have bent the world to their will.
Some were millionaires from birth, others have risen to the upper
echelons of power by their bootstraps. From the computers you
use, to the shoes you wear, to the cars you drive, their hands have
shaped the fabric of your daily existence. In Movers and Shakers,
fifteen of the most important people from the last forty-five years
of American business speak candidly about their rise to power.
KEY SALES POINTS
• Interviews with Donald Trump, Steven Jobs, Bill Gates, Malcolm
Forbes, and Hugh M. Hefner, among others.
• Features many interviews that have been unavailable for more than
forty years!
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isbn-13: 978-1-59582-044-0
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ThE PlaYBOY iNTErViEWS:
ThE dirECTOrS
THE BEST MOVIES SpEAK IN a universal language, communicating
effortlessly on both emotional and intellectual terms. While there
have been many great films, only a few directors have achieved such
facility with the filmmaking medium to raise the motion picture
to an art form. In this collection of remarkably candid interviews,
seventeen of the screen’s most widely acclaimed and creative filmmakers discuss what drives and inspires them. These revealing,
thought-provoking, and highly personal interviews, possible only
in Playboy’s open forum, range from Roman Polanski’s thoughts
on the murder of his wife to Oliver Stone’s frank discussions about
the challenges he faced in creating his memorable films.
KEY SALES POINTS
• Seventeen talks with filmmakers, from Billy Wilder in 1963 to Quentin
Tarantino in 2003.
• Other subjects include Ingmar Bergman, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley
Kubrick, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, and Orson Welles, with Clint
Eastwood and Oliver Stone featured twice in interviews conducted
decades apart.
ISBN-10: 1-59582-028-0
ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-028-0
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CLOTH • FILM & TELVISION/BIOGRApHY
ThE PlaYBOY iNTErViEWS:
ThEY PlaYEd ThE GamE
FACT: A LARGE NUMBER OF Playboy’s readers do buy the magazine
for the articles—specifically the interviews. The PlayboyInterviews
are incisive and entertaining, and important figures from all walks
of life—many of whom honor no other interview requests—have
given life- and career-altering interviews in the magazine’s pages.
ThePlayboyInterviews:TheyPlayedtheGame features some of
the most revered—and reviled—American sports stars from the
past six decades openly discussing controversial issues including
race, gender, drugs, and sexuality. More than just a bunch of jocks
talking sports, these interviews are a fascinating reflection of the
American psyche and evolving cultural perceptions.
KEY SALES POINTS
• Includes interviews with Jim Brown, Joe Namath, Billie Jean King,
O.J. Simpson, Pete Rose, Michael Jordan, Allen Iverson, Barry Bonds,
Mike Tyson, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and others.
• Select interviews originally edited for space are presented here in full!
ISBN-10: 1-59582-046-9
ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-046-4
$22.95 • 6" X 9" • 300 pp • M pRESS
CLOTH • SpORTS/BIOGRApHY
M P R E S S | B ACk L IS T T I T LE S
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M Press is honored to present fifty years of LeRoy Neiman’s
Femlin drawings, some of which have never been seen in print.
LEROY NEIMAN : FEMLIN
LeRoy Neiman with afterword by Hugh Hefner
LeRoy Neiman has drawn the twelve-inch woman called Femlin for
every issue of Playboy for the last half-century, showing her at play, at
sport, and at her ease. Wearing her trademark heels, stockings, and
gloves—and not much else—Femlin has become a beloved icon of
Playboy magazine . . . and a celebrity in her own right.
With text and images by Neiman, and an afterword by Playboy
founder and publisher Hugh M. Hefner, Femlin is shown in all
isbn-10: 1-59582-138-4
isbn-13: 978-1-59582-138-6
$49.95 • 9" x 12" • 186 pp • m press
cloth; over 300 b&w and color
illustrations
popular art/culture
rights: worldwide • november 2007
her flattering historical light.
KEY SALES POINTS
• In addition to the regular edition, M Press will be releasing a slipcased, limited edition, numbered at only 250 copies and signed by
LeRoy Neiman.
• Neiman has sold more than 150,000 fine-art prints and paintings that,
according to Manhattan magazine, “have an estimated market value exceeding $400 million.” This book is a must-have for the Neiman collector.
• The popular-art market, which has supported Neiman through his years
as Playboy illustrator and art personality, will want to have this book.
• Fans interested in other Neiman themes—including sports and “the
good life”—will want to add to their collection.
• Readers of Playboy—more than three million of them—will want to
see more of the Femlin in action.
LEROY NEIMAN broke the barrier between
fine art and popular art with his brilliantly
colored, energetic depictions of life in America
and abroad. A world-class artist best known
for his paintings of sporting events, leisure
activities, and the cultural life of the twentieth
century, Neiman is one of the most popular
artists living and working today. He has published fourteen books of his collected work, has
won numerous awards, is included in the fine
art collections of the nation’s top museums, and
has been a key artistic contributor to Playboy
since 1954.
• Playboy will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Femlin character
in a special feature in the August 2007 issue of Playboy.
• Promotion and publicity in Playboy and on Playboy.com
• Promotion and publicity on Neiman’s official website, leroyneiman.com
• The Franklin Bowles Galleries, the official gallery and limited-edition
print house for Neiman’s work, will be staging two gallery shows this
fall, in San Francisco and in New York. The book will be sold through
the gallery, and mentioned through their advertising and marketing
efforts.
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[EXCERPT]
ILLUSTRATIONS from LEROY NEIMAN: FEMLIN
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Rare photos, art, and one-on-one interviews with
actors, writers, directors, and entertainers!
LEONARD MALTIN’S MOVIE CRAZY
Leonard Maltin
In his quarterly subscription-only newsletter Leonard Maltin
shares his personal reminisces, rare photos, art, and one-on-one
interviews with actors, writers, directors, and entertainers of the
Golden Age, chronicling the fascinating history of a magical silver-
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isbn-13: 978-1-59582-119-5
screen era.
$19.95 • 6" x 9" • 400 pp • m press
leonard matlin • los angeles, ca
Leonard Maltin’s Movie Crazy is a collection of the best essays and
trade paper; b&w photos throughout
articles from his newsletter. Anyone who enjoys movies will find
film & television
it here: the history of the silent film, the emerging motion picture
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industry, a chronicle of short subjects to feature-length films,
struggles and conflicts between studios, the rise of the actor and
actress, and yes, rare glimpses into the lives of those nearly forgotten
performers whose legacies are fast fading away.
KEY SALES POINTS
• Leonard Maltin’s annual movie guides regularly sell upward of 50,000
copies.
• This will be popular with Maltin’s legions of fans and followers who
turn to him for advice and recommendations on movies every week
on TV and in print.
• Illustrated with rare photographs, one-sheet movie posters, advertising
art, and personal memorabilia from the collections of the stars themselves, this book will capture the attention of the casual reader as well
as the seasoned film buff.
• Maltin will publicize his book on his weekly DirecTV show Secret’s
Out, as well as through his position as a correspondent on the nationally
syndicated TV series Entertainment Tonight. Maltin is also a frequent
guest on major TV talk shows such as The Tonight Show, The Late Show
with David Letterman, and Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
• Advertising in national film magazines
• Online features at Leonard Maltin’s movie site: leonardmaltin.com
• Promotion at film conventions, library, and book shows
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LEONARD MALTIN is perhaps best known
for his paperback reference, Leonard Maltin’s
Movie Guide, published annually since 1969.
He’s been a commentator and interviewer on
Entertainment Tonight for twenty-five years
and for three years he has co-hosted the weekly
movie review show Hot Ticket. His articles
have appeared in The New York Times, The Los
Angeles Times, The Village Voice, TV Guide,
Esquire, Playboy, and The London Times.
Maltin currently hosts a daily syndicated radio
feature, teaches at the University of Southern
California, and is a faculty member of the
New School for Social Research in New York.
Maltin lives in California.
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fRomLEONARDMALTIN’SMOVIECRAZY
PERSONAL FAVORITES
I
COULDN’T LAUNCH A NEWSLETTER without spotlighting two special people: my wife Alice’s favorite actor
(who ranks pretty high on my list, too), Ronald Colman,
seen here in a wonderful publicity shot for ATaleofTwo
Citiesexamining a miniature guillotine with his director,
MGM’s prolific Jack Conway. Colman certainly had a run
of great parts in the 1930s, and great speeches to read with
that mellifluous voice. Sydney Carton’s final soliloquy is
perhaps his finest moment on screen.
Then there is my personal heartthrob, Thelma Todd,
seen here in a rare photo with former silent-screen comedy
star Monty Banks, who directed her in a cute British musical comedy, YouMadeMeLoveYou (1933). Incidentally, the
Italian-born Banks (real name Mario Bianchi) later married
British singing sweetheart Gracie Fields, and even directed
Laurel and Hardy, in GreatGuns, during a brief World War
II sojourn in Hollywood.
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“Harlan Ellison’s essays on film are invariably stimulating, often
infuriating, always provocative, and never dull. In fact, they’re often
more entertaining than the movies he’s writing about.”
—leonard maltin
HARLAN ELLISON’S WATCHING
Harlan Ellison® with an introduction by Leonard Maltin
Harlan Ellison’s Watching documents more than twenty-five
years of this award-winning author’s writings on his obsession with
the motion picture. As the only member of Hollywood’s Writers
Guild ever to win the coveted WGA award for Most Outstanding
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isbn-13: 978-1-59582-056-3
Teleplay four times (for solo credits), he is uniquely qualified to
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write about film from both sides of the camera.
harlan ellison • los angeles, ca
trade paper • film/history & criticism
More than fifty essays in this first collection of Harlan Ellison’s
rights: worldwide • november 2007
cinema criticism come from the darkened interiors of a thousand
movie houses where this most peculiar of all Observers of the
Passing Scene has spent much of his life. The view from these
magic caverns is guaranteed to make you grind your teeth in anger,
bobble your head in blessed agreement, and open your eyes in a
manner of judging films that is definitely not plebeian. The love
affair with movies is obvious. As an essayist, Ellison has no equal;
as a film critic he has no friends.
KEY SALES POINTS
• This will be popular with Harlan’s fans who have read his essays over
the years.
• Recommended for any fan of the cinema.
• New introduction by Leonard Maltin
• With a new documentary about Ellison, Dreams with Sharp Teeth,
opening in 2007, interest in Ellison will be at an all-time high.
HARLAN ELLISON ® was recently characterized by The New York Times Book Review
as having “the spellbinding quality of a great
nonstop talker, with a cultural warehouse for
a mind.” The Los Angeles Times suggested,
“It’s long past time for Harlan Ellison to be
awarded the title: twentieth century Lewis
Carroll.” And the Washington Post Book
World said simply, “One of the great living
American short story writers.” He has written or
edited seventy-five books; more than 1700 stories,
essays, articles, and newspaper columns; two
dozen teleplays, for which he received the
Writers Guild of America most outstanding
teleplay award for solo work an unprecedented
four times; and a dozen movies.
•
•
•
•
National review attention
Advertising in national film magazines
Featured excerpts on MySpace/darkhorse.com
Promotion at film conventions, library, and book shows
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harlan ellison’s WATCHING | HIGHLIGHTED ESSAYS
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Has Science Fiction Theme, 1951
Mickey One, 1965
The War Lord, 1965
The Battle of the Bulge, 1966
Juliet of the Spirits, 1966
You’re a Big Boy Now! 1966
Nightmare At The Daisy, 1966
Beau Geste, 1966
Up the Down Staircase, 1967
Rosemary’s Baby, 1968
Harlan Ellison’s Handy Guide
to 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1969
Joe, 1970
Silent Running, 1972
A Sort of Interview with
Peter Boyle, 1973
Harlan Ellison’s Watching
(First Series): 1st Installment, 1977
Luke Skywalker is a Nerd and
Darth Vader Sucks Runny Eggs, 1977
Star Trek—The Motionless Picture, 1980
In Which Sublime And
Ridiculous Pass Like Ships In The Night, 1984
In Which an Attempt Is Made To Have One’s Cake And Eat It, Too, 1985
In Which The Fortunate Reader Gets To Peek Inside The Fabled Black Tower, 1985
In Which The Fabled Black
Tower Meets Dune With As Much Affection As Godzilla Met Ghidrah, 1985
In Which Nothing Terribly Profound Occurs, 1985
In Which Several Things Are Held Up To The Light . . . Not A Brain In Sight, 1985
In Which Numerous Ends (Loose) Are Tied Up, Some In The Configuration Of A
Noose (Hangman’s), 1985
In Which We Sail To The Edge Of The World And Confront The Abyss, Having Run Out Of Steam, 1986
In Which The Unheard-of Is Heard, Kind Of, 1986
In Which A Gourmet Feast Is Prepared Of Words A Mere Two Months Old, 1986
In Which A Forest Is Analyzed
Without Recourse To Any Description Of A Tree, 1986
In Which We Scuffle Through The Embers, 1984
In Which We Unflinchingly Look a Gift Horse In The Choppers, 1986
In Which We Discover Why The Children Don’t Look
Like Their Parents, 1984
In Which We Long For The Stillness Of The Lake, The Smooth Swell Of The Sea, 1986
In Which Manifestations Of Arrested Adolescence Are Shown To Be Symptoms of a Noncommunicable Dopiness,
Thank God, 1986
In Which Youth Goeth
Before A Fall, 1986
In Which You And A Large Group Of Total Strangers Are Flipped The Finger By The Mad Masters Of Anthropomorphism, 1987
In Which the Land Echoes To The Sound Of An Ox Of A Different Color Being
Gored, 1987
In Which, With Wiles And
Winces, We Waft Words Warranting, To Wit, Wonderful Wit, 1988
In Which Li’l White Lies Are Revealed To Be At Least Tattletale Gray, 1988
In Which THREE Cinematic Variations On “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs” Are
Presented, 1988
In Which the Switch Is Thrown, 1989
In Which The Canine of Vacuity Is Wagged by The Far More Interesting Tale of O’Bannon, 1989
In Which We Praise Those Whose Pants’re On Fire,
Noses Long As A Telephone Wire, 1989
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Originallypublishedin1961as Rockabilly,thisisthenovel’sfirst
appearanceasasinglevolumeinmorethantwentyyears.
SPidEr KiSS
Harlan Ellison®
HE CLAIMS HE’S NOT A FAN of rock and roll, but somehow Harlan
Ellison’s seminal novel based on the career of Jerry Lee Lewis
ended up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. One of the first—and
still one of the best—dissections of the wildly destructive rock-and-
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roll lifestyle, SpiderKiss isn’t about giant cockroaches that attack
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Detroit or space invaders that smell like chicken soup. Instead,
HARLAN ELLISON • LOS ANGELES, CA
it’s the story of Luther Sellers, a nice kid from Louisville with
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a voice like an angel who’s renamed Stag Preston by a ruthless
promoter. Preston’s meteoric rise on the music scene is matched
only by the rise in his enormous appetites—and not just for home
cooking—and soon the invisible monkey named Success is riding
him straight to hell. This raucous early novel reinforces Ellison’s
reputation as one of America’s most dynamic writers.
PRAISE FOR SPIDERKISS
“Therehavebeenmanybookswrittenaboutrockandroll,somegood,
somebad,butthisnovel,originallypublishedin1961,hasthesingular
distinction(asitproudlyproclaimsonthebackcover)ofbeingtheonlyone
enshrinedintheRockandRollHallofFame.Ellisonisbestknownforhis
speculativefictionandnon-fictionwriting,soit’shardtoimaginehimtacklingsomethingsomundaneasthestoryofarockstar,butashecomments
inhisauthor’snote,StagPrestonisasymbol,ratherthanaportrayalof
anyparticularrockerandSpider Kissisafable.”
—Green Man Review, April2007
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[EXCERPT]
fRomSPIDERKISS
H
IS SONG WAS A POINTLESS thing; filled with pastel
inanities; don’t ever leave me because I’ve got a sad
dog heart that’ll follow you where’er you go, no, don’t leave
me ’cause my sad dog heart cries just for you for you, ju-ust
fo-o-o-or you . . .
But there was a subtext to the song. Something dark and
roiling, an oil stain on a wet street, a rainbow of dark colors
that moved almost as though alive, verging into colors that
had no names, disturbing colors for which there were only
psychiatric parallels. Green is the dead baby image . . .
The running line of what could be sensed but not heard
was ominous, threatening, sensuously compelling in ways
that spoke to skin and nerve-ends. It was like the moment
one receives the biopsy report. It was like the feeble sound
an unwatered plant makes in the instant before all reserve
moisture dries from the tap root and the green turns to
brown. It was like the sigh of anguish from the victim of
voodoo at the instant the final pin is jammed into the ju-ju
doll half a continent away. It was like the cry of a mother
brought to see the tiny, crushed form lying beneath the
blanket on a busy intersection. It was like the kiss of a spider.
And the great animal that was his audience, his vacuous,
demanding, insensate, vicious audience, purred. Ripples of
contentment washed the crowd. Almost mystically the surface of mass hysteria was smoothed, quieted, molded by his
singing into a glossy plane of attention and silence. Girls
who had been facially and bodily contorted by his appearance, who had thrown themselves forward in a spasm of
adoration, now settled back demurely, seated and attentive.
...Itwaslikethesighofanguishfromthevictim
ofvoodooattheinstantthefinalpinisjammed
intotheju-judollhalfacontinentaway.
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“Patrick ‘Bad News’ Hughes has a book out now which amounts
to a more portable version of his blog that you can leave unlimited
comments on with a ballpoint pen. In other words, I love it.”
—xeni jardin, BoingBoing.com
DIARY OF INDIGNITIES
Patrick Hughes
A hilarious account of life’s daily disappointments, as told by
blogger Patrick Hughes. From reminiscing about being a teen in
the ’80s to chronicling another family Christmas with Jello shots,
Hughes has the right amount of candor, wit, and perversity for
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these vignettes to really pack a punch.
$14.95 • 6" x 9" • 256 pp • m press
patrick hughes • gainsville, fl
Whimsical stories of soul-melting shame, Diary of Indignities first
trade paper • humor
came to public notice on the popular blog: Bad News Hughes,
rights: worldwide • june 2007
where thousands of readers are flabbergasted, disgusted, and
amused every day. The indignities generated by the author’s uncanny life and talent for personal failure feature more than your
average share of heartbreak, carefree violence, booze, bodily injury,
hypochondria, inappropriate nudity, neuroses, embarrassment,
and painful rashes, and are all totally true. Except for the bits that
are really obviously just kind of made up. Most people can tell
the difference.
KEY SALES POINTS
• For a sample of the wit of Patrick Hughes, log on to badnewshughes
.blogspot.com!
• Diary of Indignities presents numerous cross-marketing opportunities
via the heavily trafficked blogosphere, publisher’s website, and digital
culture venues
• Marketing and Publicity
PATRICK HUGHES’ previous incarnations
have seen him employed as a newspaper and
magazine columnist, editor, record-store owner,
watermelon picker, and science writer for the
University of Florida. His articles on music,
art, film, and crop dusting have appeared in
a variety of publications, including Thrasher,
The Gainesville Sun, Art Papers, Metal
Maniacs, JAZZIZ, and Agricultural Aviation,
and with noted filmmaker David Cassidy he
co-authored the book One Small Step: The
Story of the Space Chimps.
• Promotion at bookshows, including New York ComicCon, BEA, and ALA.
• Author signings and appearances on the East Coast.
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[EXCERPT]
from DIARY OF INDIGNITIES
ADVICE FOR CHILDREN
D
ON’T USE ONE OF THOSE little Handi-Vac things
to empty an ashtray. Because the inrush of air could
potentially reignite any fading embers. And, uh, a big jet
of flame might shoot out of the thing, surprising you and
making you scream like a ten-year-old girl. And you might
knock over your beer.
If you’re ever fishing, and a poisonous water moccasin
swims up to try and eat one of the fish on your stringer, and
you think that maybe flipping the snake out of the water
and onto, say, me is a good idea, please reconsider.
Just because you can stick toothpicks in your forehead
and they’ll stay there and it doesn’t really hurt all that bad
doesn’t mean you should go ahead and do it, at Denny’s or
any other restaurant.
Don’t try to pee and ride a bicycle at the same time,
even if Jim Marburger can do it. Not that you were watching
or anything.
The rash won’t go away on its own.
Should you ever decide to use bamboo sticks and
stretchy, decorative string that’s designed to wrap presents
to make a bow and arrow, and should you decide to wad up a
bunch of duct tape on the end of your arrow and soak it with
WD-40 so it’ll, you know, burn better, I would recommend
not shooting the flaming arrow onto the roof of a house or
into the lap of your friend’s cousin. Even by accident.
Knife wounds inflicted on bodily extremities, such as
hands, should receive firm pressure with a clean, dry towel
or cloth. Elevate if possible. Remember, dry is the key. The
wet washcloth is a poor choice for staunching blood flow,
no matter what you’ve heard.
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Acompletecareerretrospectiveaboutthe
groundbreakingrevolutionaryfilmmaker
JOhN laNdiS
Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan
WHAT DO ANImALHoUSE,ThEBLUESBRoThERS,AnAmerican
WerewolfinLondon, and Michael Jackson’s Thriller have in common?
Director John Landis who has consistently made innovative and
mega-successful movies. An exhaustive career retrospective about
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$29.95 • 8" X 11" • 280 pp • M pRESS
the groundbreaking revolutionary filmmaker, told through exclusive
TRADE pApER ; 100+ pHOTOS &
ILLUSTRATIONS
interviews, with Landis as well as through essays, interviews, and
FILM HISTORY
remembrances by his colleagues, contemporaries, and members
of the film industry and reviewers. Contributors include Joe Dante,
Jack Arnold, Wes Craven, Rick Baker, Frank Oz, Jim Abrahams,
and others. Illustrated with exclusive photographs from Mr.
Landis’s many films, some reproduced here for the first time from
the director’s personal collection of photographs taken on the set
by Mr. Landis during production of his movies.
KEY SALES POINTS
• John Landis has remained one of the most popular filmmakers of his
generation since exploding on the cinema scene in the early 1970s.
• There has never been a major biography/autobiography of Landis.
• John Landis was recently made a member of the Masters of Horror
film series and has two new films in the works due for release in
2007–2008.
• Contributors include Joe Dante, Jack Arnold, Wes Craven, Rick Baker,
Frank Oz, Jim Abrahams, and more.
• Illustrated with exclusive photographs from Mr. Landis’s many films,
some reproduced here for the first time from the director’s personal
collection of photos taken on the set by Mr. Landis himself.
• Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan is a film journalist and she serves as director
of the Torino Film Festival hosted each year in Italy.
RIGHTS: wORLDwIDE • OCTOBER 2007
Althoughheismostlyknownforhisinfluentialcomedies,JOHNLANDIShasalsodone
manyhorror-relatedprojects.Hiscareerbegan
as a teenager, working as a mailboy at 20th
Century Fox. He starred in Schlock (1976),
which he also wrote and directed, and also
directedThe Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)and
National Lampoon’s Animal House(1978).
In1980,LandisdirectedThe Blues Brothers
(which he co-wrote with Dan Aykroyd) and
then An American Werewolf in London,
which he also wrote, in 1981. American
WerewolfwasperhapsLandis’smostpersonal
project, a film which he had been planning
to make since 1969. Landis also directed the
opening teaser and first segment of Twilight
Zone: The Movie(1983).Thatsameyearsaw
anotherLandis-directedfilm,thePrinceandthe
Pauper–stylecomedyTrading Places,starring
DanAykroydandEddieMurphy.
• John Landis and the author will be available for signings at tradeshows
and events, including Comic-Con International: San Diego.
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[EXCERPT]
photos from JOHN LANDIS
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BACKLIST
26 Bottomfeeder
28
Living with Type 2 Diabetes
29 The Great American Stay-at-Home
Wives Conspiracy
30 Saffron and Brimstone
31
Will Eisner: A Spirited Life
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“Mr.Fingermanisadeeplytalented,creative,anddisturbedman.”
—mAXBRooKS,authorofWorld War Z
BOTTOmfEEdEr
B.H. Fingerman
PHIL MERMAN IS A REGULAR GUY. A regular guy who just happens
to be immortal—for whatever that’s worth. So far all it’s gotten him
is a divorce, a lack of friends and family, and a string of soul-killing
jobs with no room for advancement. Bound to a self-imposed
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ethical code bordering on vigilantism, Phil prowls the bowels of
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New York City in search of suitable sustenance—the homeless,
B.H. FINGERMAN • BROOKLYN, NY
the insane, no one who’ll be missed—all the while wondering
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how he became what he is. Are there others of his kind? Would
he want to know them?
Clues to the mystery of his existence begin to reveal themselves,
luring him into spaces perhaps best left unknown.
KEY SALES POINTS
• Bottomfeeder is the debut prose novel of the critically acclaimed and
award-winning artist Bob Fingerman.
• The author is also known for his features in Cracked,Penthouse,Heavy
Metal,NationalLampoon, and HighTimes.
B.H. FINGERMAN is a twenty-three year
veteran of the comic book field. His books includethecriticallyacclaimedBeg the Question
andWhite Like She,(bothpublishedbyFantagraphics). Other books include the recently
releasedYou Deserved ItandZombieWorld:
Winter’s Dregs(bothbyDarkHorseBooks),
to which Fingerman contributed the title tale.
This is his first novel. Fingerman lives in
NewYork.
• National review attention from humor and pop-culture publications
such as EntertainmentWeeklyand Maxim.
• Promotion on author’s website: www.bobfingerman.com
• Author signings at bookstores, galleries, and tradeshows, such as BEA
and NY ComicCon.
PRAISE FOR AUTHOR’S PREVIOUS WORK
“Ifyoucaptured,hogtied,andextractedDNAfromtherespectivebrainpansofChuckPalahniuk,PhilipRoth,andBramStoker,theresulting,
recombinantliterarymutationwouldresemblenothingsomuchas
Fingerman’sdebutnovelBottomfeeder.Laugh-packed,horrific,boldly
reprehensible,sociallyastute,andslavetonoknowntrend,Fingerman
hascomeupwithabookthatprettymuchbleedsgenius.”
—JERRYSTAhL,I, Fatty; Permanent Midnight
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. . . He’d never been a religious man,
but I felt him yearning to characterize me as
unholy—unclean
[EXCERPT]
from BOTTOMFEEDER
Maybe this whole immortality thing isn’t all it’s cracked up to
be. Oh, sure, they pump it up like it’s going to be some nonstop
party, but let me tell you something: don’t believe the hype.
A LITTLE BACKGROUND, BUT ONLY A LITTLE . . .
I
n MY FOLKS’ declining years their tunes about my perpetually youthful—if a bit pallid—good looks changed from
pride and admiration to scorn and resentment, and then
finally fear and distrust.
“You’ve got some great genes, let me tell you,” my dad
said many a time. He said it again that day, complimenting
me on my forty-fifth birthday. “You don’t look a day over
thirty.”
The fact was I didn’t look a day over twenty-seven, but
why split hairs? I still don’t today, and guess what? That’s
right, I won’t tomorrow or the day after that or the day after
that. No Dorian Gray portrait tucked away in a dormer, attic,
or closet either. Not even under the kitchen sink. Lucky me.
By the time he’d been consigned to his deathbed—
mercifully in his own home instead of some grim hospice—
my dad’s tune had done a one-eighty; apropos in a dyslexic
way, considering he was eighty-one. No longer was I getting
the flattery, the “I’ll have what you’re having” type of goodnatured ribbing. Beyond his abiding antipathy for my
inconstant visits—and those taking place only after dusk—
he looked on me as an abomination, his rheumy, cataractglazed eyes focusing as well as they could on my smooth
pale face. He’d never been a religious man, but I felt him
yearning to characterize me as unholy—unclean.
M P R E S S | B ACK L IS T T I T LE S
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liViNG WiTh TYPE 2 diaBETES—
mOViNG PaST ThE fEar
Gloria Loring & Dr. Timothy Gray
WITH DIETARY AND LIFESTYLE CHOICES fueling a rise in type 2 diabetes,
coping with this treatable disease has become a priority for millions. Unfortunately, although type 2 diabetes can be treated, the
specifics of how to effectively combine insulin, diet, and exercise
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are often difficult to master. Gloria Loring—a regular contributor
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to the DiabetesWellnessLetter as well as a famous singer, songwriter,
GLORIA LORING • LAKE ARROwHEAD, CA
DR. TIMOTHY GRAY • pORTLAND, OR
former star of the TV drama DaysofOurLives, and mother of a
diabetic child—co-authors with Dr. Timothy Gray on this straight-
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forward guide on how to identify and live with type 2 diabetes. The
HEALTH & FITNESS
authors draw on up-to-date research and first-hand experiences
to create a book that is both easy to follow and empathetic toward
those with the disease and their loved ones.
KEY SALES POINTS
• An estimated 13 million people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with
diabetes while 5.2 million people are unaware that they have the
disease. LivingwithType2Diabetes contains the information to help
manage this disease.
• After her son, Brennan, was diagnosed with diabetes, Gloria Loring
published TheDaysofOurLivesCelebrityCookbook to raise money and
awareness for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International.
• The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation has recognized Gloria Loring with
their Lifetime Commitment Award. Loring has also received the Woman
of Achievement Award by the Miss America Organization and is listed
in Who’sWhoinAmerica and TheWorldWho’sWhoofWomen.
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ThE GrEaT amEriCaN
STaY-aT-hOmE-WiVES CONSPiraCY
Dan Merchant and B. Scott Taylor
MIKE O’BRIEN THOUGHT HE HAD it all. A semi-retired Internet
millionaire, Mike had a beautiful wife and a relaxing life—until
he discovered that his wife was part of possibly the greatest, and
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ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-020-4
oldest, conspiracy in history. Dan Merchant and B. Scott Taylor’s
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satiric, sharp novel tells the story of how stay-at-home wives communicate and collaborate to control the lives of married men.
DAN MERCHANT AND B. SCOTT TAYLOR •
pORTLAND, OR
This hilarious romp details the wives’ “Point System” (Leaves the
CLOTH; 36 ILLUSTRATIONS
toilet seat up: -100 points; Lets his mother-in-law visit for a month:
FICTION/HUMOR
+500 points), includes a quiz to determine if your wife is part of
the conspiracy (Does your wife spend more than five hours a week
at Starbucks?), and answers burning questions like: If men are
the superior sex, why do they lose every argument with their stayat-home wives? Energetic and entertaining, TheGreatAmerican
Stay-at-Home-WivesConspiracy is a witty look into the lives of wives
and the husbands who are controlled by them.
KEY SALES POINTS
• Humor fans of books such as Steve Martin’s Shopgirl,PureDrivel,and
ThePleasureofMyCompanywill love this book!
• Readers of “lad mags” such as Maximand Stuff will appreciate the
same eye-candy humor in this hilarious romp of a story!
• Features a reversible dust jacket, so your secret stays safe!
DAN MERCHANT is an Emmy Awardwinningtelevisionwriter/producerandoftenmockedyouthbasketballcoach.Hehasbeen
happily married for more than seventeen
yearsandisthefatheroftwo.Mr.Merchantis
currentlyvacationingatDickCheney’s“secure
location” until things cool down with the
PortlandPTA.
B. SCOTT TAYLOR is an Internet millionaire,serialentrepreneur,registeredRepublican
and Veteran of USN Squadron SVAQ 130
(Zappers).Hehasbeenhappilymarriedfor
more than fifteen years. He lives in Portland
withhiswife,theirfourchildren,twodogs,and
a cat. Mr. Taylor is presently suffering from
caffeinewithdrawal,havingbeenbannedfrom
everyStarbuck’sinthePacificNorthwest.
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Contains the short story “Echo,” winner of
the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
SAFFRON AND BRIMSTONE:
STRANGE STORIES
Elizabeth Hand
Widely praised and widely read, Elizabeth Hand is regarded as
one of America’s leading literary fantasists. This new collection
(an expansion of the limited-release Bibliomancy, which won
the World Fantasy Award in 2005) showcases a wildly inventive
isbn-10: 1-59582-096-5
isbn-13: 978-1-59582-096-9
author at the height of her powers. Included in this collection
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are “The Least Trumps,” in which a lonely woman reaches out to
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the world through symbols, tattooing, and the Tarot, and “Pavane
trade paper • fiction/literature
for a Prince of the Air,” where neo-pagan rituals bring a recently
departed soul to something very different than eternal rest. Written
in the author’s characteristic poetic prose and rich with the details
of traumatic lives that are luminously transformed, Saffron and
Brimstone is a worthy addition to an outstanding career.
KEY SALES POINTS
• By the author of Maze of Deception and Hunted (over 110,000
combined sales).
• Selected for inclusion in several “Best of the Year” collections.
• Elizabeth Hand’s work has been selected as a Washington Post Notable
Book and a New York Times Notable Book, and she has been awarded
two Nebula and two World Fantasy awards.
• Saffron & Brimstone is part of the Locus recommended reading list for 2007.
Elizabeth Hand is the author of almost a
dozen books and is a frequent contributor to
The Washington Post Book World, Fantasy
and Science Fiction, and the The Village
Voice Literary Supplement, among others.
The recipient of numerous awards and honors.
PRAISE FOR AUTHOR’S PREVIOUS WORK
“Myth and magic are the ingredients assembled to sometimes stunning effect
in this vivid gathering of previously collected and recently published stories
from the award-winning fantasy author. Brandishing the lush descriptive prose
that energized such critically acclaimed novels as Waking the Moon (1995)
and Mortal Love (2004), Hand conflates reality with dream and disorientation,
the physical world with realms visited in memory and imagination.”
—Kirkus Reviews, August 2006
“Enthusiasts for Hand’s sensuously descriptive brand of literary fantasy are
in for a treat with her latest collection of short fiction. Aptly subtitled ‘strange
stories,’ the eight superbly crafted tales share Hand’s predilection for probing
the translucent borderline between magic and reality.”
—carl hayes, Booklist
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“BesidesverifyingEisner’simpactonnearlyeveryartistwhodrew
comicsinhiswake,AndelmanshowsthatEisner’sinfluenceextends
tosuchfilmdirectorsasSpielbergandTarantino.”
—GordonFlagg, Booklist
Will EiSNEr: a SPiriTEd lifE
Bob Andelman
THIS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BIOGRApHY EXpLORES the fascinating
life of Eisner, detailing a career that exceeds six decades in which
Eisner spearheaded the cause of comics for adult readers and created
the first widely accepted graphic novel,AContractwithGod. His in-
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ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-011-2
fluence has been felt by such diverse talents as Batman creator Bob
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Kane and Jack Kirby. Underground comics legend R. Crumb and
BOB ANDELMAN • FLORIDA
Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonists Jules Feiffer and Art Spiegelman
TRADE pApER; 91 pHOTOS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
have hailed Eisner’s cinematic approach to comics and his enduring
BIOGRApHY/COMICS
character The Spirit. From his childhood to educating Army sol-
diers to famously turning down a proposal for Superman, Eisner’s
personal and professional life is told in dramatic detail.
KEY SALES POINTS
• Bob Andelman spent almost three years interviewing Eisner, researching
his life and work and interviewing his friends, family, and the creative
talents he inspired over a seventy-year career. Among those who spoke
about their personal experience with Will Eisner were: Alan Moore,
Dave Gibbons, Neil Gaiman, Denis Kitchen, Joe Kubert, Stan Lee,
Jules Feiffer, Neal Adams, and Patrick McDonnell.
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