From the category archives:

Reviews

Chronicle Highlights: Rude Hand Gestures of the World

15 July 2011

Learn Your Gestures A hand gesture is arguably the most effective form of expression, whether you’re defaming a friend’s mother or telling a perfect stranger to get lost. Learn how to go beyond just flipping the bird with this illustrated guide to rude hand gestures all around the world, from asking for sex in the [...]

Read the full article →

PRESS HERE: Chronicle Children Bestseller

17 June 2011

New York Times Children’s Bestseller # 5 – Week of June 26, 2011 Press the yellow dot on the cover of this book, follow the instructions within, and embark upon a magical journey! Each page of this surprising book instructs the reader to press the dots, shake the pages, tilt the book, and who knows [...]

Read the full article →

ROOM Shortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction: Available in International Mass Market

17 March 2011

ROOM by Emma Donoghue is nominated for the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction.

Read the full article →

Chronicle Highlights: PRESS HERE & PANTONE’S COLOR OF THE YEAR

18 February 2011

PRESS HERE: Publisher’s Weekly, Starred Review Press the yellow dot on the cover of this book, follow the instructions within, and embark upon a magical journey! Each page of this surprising book instructs the reader to press the dots, shake the pages, tilt the book, and who knows what will happen next! Children and adults [...]

Read the full article →

Chronicle Highlights: CAKE POPS debuts on New York Times Bestsellers List

23 September 2010

Cake Pops
By Bakerella and Angie Dudley
HC, 9780811876377, $19.95
Release Date: July 16, 2010

Read the full article →

2010 Pulitzer Prize Finalist: EVOLUTION OF GOD, Robert Wright

13 April 2010
Click image to download PDF Sell Sheet

Robert Wright is now a 2010 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for his EVOLUTION OF GOD.

Read the full article →

Publicity Highlights: LA Times names their best and favorites & PRIVATE is adapted for TV

8 December 2009

Publicity Highlights: RAVENS is named one of the best & PRIVATE is adapted for TV

Read the full article →

Publicity Spotlight—COLD and CHEATING DEATH

28 July 2009
Click image to download PDF Sell Sheet

Glowing reviews and publicity posted for COLD (9780316042918, HC, 7/09) and CHEATING DEATH (9780446508872, HC, 10/09) in the New York Times Book Review and Publisher’s Weekly.

Read the full article →

Great Quotes for CONNECTED, SIX PIXELS OF SEPARATION, NURTURESHOCK & PROPHECY OF THE SISTERS

14 July 2009

Reviewers’ overwelming praise of CONNECTED, SIX PIXELS, NURTURESHOCK, PROPHECY OF THE SISTERS, and I HATE PEOPLE.

Read the full article →

Praise for EVENING’S EMPIRE

24 June 2009

Novelist Christopher Sorrentino has offered the following comment about Zachary Lazar’s Evening’s Empire:   “Zachary Lazar has written a gripping book of unexpected beauty.  In Evening’s Empire, he remorselessly examines the ambiguous nature of both the shady deal and the good life.  His analytic impulses soar with breathtaking imaginative leaps.” –Christopher Sorrentino, author of Trance, [...]

Read the full article →

Miley Cyrus Filming THE LAST SONG

18 June 2009

E! Online News talks about THE LAST SONG, “a [new] drama from THE NOTEBOOK author Nicholas Sparks.” The international edition will be published this September and teen sensation, Miley Cyrus, will star in the onscreen adaptation.

Read the full article →