News and Publicity

July 22, 2010

This Summer’s Hottest Frozen Treat!

“Extraordinary.”–The New York Times Book Review “Page after page, Stern embraces every outrageous possibility, in lush, cartwheeling sentences that layer deep mystery atop page-turning action atop Borscht Belt humor.”—Washington Post “A funny, …

July 21, 2010

Water For Wednesdays

News from the set! What’s 42 years old, 8 feet 8 inches tall, weighs in at 9,000 pounds, and gets to touch Robert Pattinson? Tai, the adorable Asian elephant, plays Rosie in …

July 14, 2010

Water For Wednesdays

News from the set! They’re wrapping the circus set in Piru, CA! Director Francis Lawrence is keeping fans up to date via his Twitter account, @hibbits. On taking down the Big Top: …

July 12, 2010

Milagro Creek Interview and Excerpt!

Author of The School of Beauty and Charm and Polite Society, recipient of a Whiting award in fiction in 1995, and creative writing professor at Kennesaw State University, Melanie Sumner is out …

July 7, 2010

Water For Wednesdays

Because the closest I care to get to a circus is Robert Pattinson’s trailer. Water For Elephants: Movie News The buzz surrounding the Water For Elephants film has people asking “Wait a …

July 7, 2010

The Frozen Giveaway

July 6, 2010

The Ghost Of Milagro Creek – Book Trailer

Put on your Southwestern-coming-of-age-mystery hat for The Ghost of Milagro Creek by Melanie Sumner. This story of Ignacia Vigil Romero, a full Jacarilla Apache, and the two boys, Mister and Tomás, she …

July 6, 2010

The N.Y. Times Loves…

The New York Times Book Review has only good things to say about Algonquin reads! The Frozen Rabbi by Steve Stern The July 3rd issue of The New York Times Book Review …