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The Gargoyle$32.95 add to cart

With total advances (not including film rights) approaching the two million-dollar mark, Andrew Davidson has rocked the publishing world with his debut novel The Gargoyle.

Growing up in Pinawa, home of Atomic Energy of Canada's former Whiteshell Laboratories, he traveled the world before moving back to Winnipeg in 2008 to finish what Sara Gruen (author of Water for Elephants) describes as "a hypnotic, horrifying, astonishing novel."

Andrew kindly took the time to answer some questions for our website readers. The full interview follows.

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Imagine this new graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline to be your own private movie; no one will be around to shush you when you shriek unexpectedly.

Coraline is the story of a very intelligent girl who is desperate for attention. While exploring her new house, she happens upon a door, a door that leads her to all the glorious and surreal attention she could want and more.

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The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were presented at San Diego's Comic Con International. Among the winners were Y the Last Man for Best Ongoing Series, The Umbrella Academy for Best Limited Series, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 for Best New Series.

David Petersen's Mouse Guard won both Best Series for Kids and its collected first volume won Best Reprinted Graphic Album.

Ed Brubaker received the Eisner for Best Writer, Pia Guerra and Jose Marzan Jr.--the pencil and inking team on Y the Last Man--won for their collaboration, while James Jean was awarded the Best Cover Artist prize for his work on Fables and The Umbrella Academy.

You will find a complete listing of the Eisner winners here.

The second annual Scribe Awards were given out recently at this year's San Diego Comic Con International. The Awards, presented by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers (IAMTW), seek to celebrate excellence in liscensed tie-in writing.

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For the first time in its existence, the Prometheus Award, sponsored by the Libertarian Futurist Society, has resulted in a tie. Harry Turtledove and Jo Walton will share the award for their works The Gladiator and Ha'Penny respectively.

Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange received the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.

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Peaches$9.99 add to cart

Reviewed by Sarah Lund.

In Georgia, three teenage girls with little in common are thrown together in this light and fun novel about fruit, friendships, and first loves.

The book follows the adventures of shy, friendless Birdie, desperate to save her family's peach orchard; beautiful, uptight Leeda, coping with always being less perfect and less loved than her older sister; and rebellious, brilliant Murphy, causing trouble to distract herself from her mother's latest bad relationship. All three girls come together, fall apart, and come together again when it counts. Peaches is a testament to growing up and bridging the gap between who you are and who you want to be.

Wizards, a division of Hasbro Inc., has decided to discontinue its Discoveries line of novels after December 2008 to concentrate on its core books based on the worlds of Dungeons and Dragons and Magic the Gathering. Discoveries published works of original fiction that usually had some horror or fantasy element. A number of other forthcoming novels in Wizards' Eberron setting were also cancelled.

Traveling this summer? Let an audio book tell you a story as the highway miles unfold and banish that age-old question: "Are we there yet?" Plan on soaking up the sun? Sit back and listen. Going for a walk? Riding a bike? Swimming? — well maybe not. You can take an audio book on CD almost anywhere.

Between the Covers (BTC) is an audio book company on a mission to make you listen. This ambitious collaboration between Goose Lane Editions and CBC Radio is based on the finest audio adaptations from current CBC Radio programming and the extensive CBC archives. The BTC Audiobooks collection includes works of fiction by a vast range of Canadian writers, including Stephen Leacock, W.O. Mitchell, Farley Mowat, Margaret Atwood, David Bergen, Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, Guy Vanderhaeghe and Miriam Toews.

Since its inception in 1997, BTC Audiobooks collection has grown to over 60 titles, encompassing readings, poetry, and dramatizations.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have named author Harry Harrison as the latest to receive their Grand Master Award. Harrison, who has been publishing since 1951, is probably best known for his creation The Stainless Steel Rat, which spawned a ten novel series, and Make Room!Make Room!, the novel that served as inspiration for the movie Soylent Green. The award will be presented to Harrison at the 2009 Nebula Awards Ceremony in Los Angeles, California.