Pre-pub quotes for How’s Your Drink

How’s Your Drink, by Eric Felten
9781572840898 | $24.95 hc | available November
Agate Surrey / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

Great quote from Ted Allen, judge on Top Chef and Iron Chef America and
host of Uncorked:

“In these desperate times of appletinis, Red Bull and vodka, and low-carb beer, How’s Your Drink? is a welcome and bracing tonic, a triumphant manifesto on cocktailing with style, packed with more yarns and lore than a battalion of bartenders. Salute!”

Great quote from Andrew Ferguson, author of Land of Lincoln (Grove
9780871139672):

“Who knew drinking could be so much fun? Oh right, just about everybody. What Eric Felten brings to the party, though, only deepens the pleasure. He has a vast knowledge, a sly sense of humor, and a knack for telling wonderful stories–gifts as essential to a writer as to a bartender. Not since Kingsley Amis’s classic On Drink have readers been treated to such an enjoyable guide to what, when, and how to tipple.”

The Bigger the Better, The Tighter the Sweater to feature in Bust Magazine, Marie Clarie

The Bigger the Better, The Tighter the Sweater,
by Samantha Schoech and Lisa Taggart
9781580052108 | $18.50 pb | In stock
Seal Press / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

Upcoming publicity hits:

- review in July issue of Bust

- 4-page excerpt with pictures in August issue of Marie Claire

Upcoming media for Velo Press titles

Sports Nutrition for Endurance Athletes, by Monique Ryan
9781931382960 | $27.50 pb | In stock
Velo Press / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

- review forthcoming in Triathlon Magazine Canada
- author article in October issue of Outside
- UPDATE: from the interview now posted on CBC.ca (Aug. 3, 2007):

“In her latest book — Sports Nutrition for Endurance Athletes — Ryan describes nutrition as part art and part science. What’s right for one person, may not be suitable for someone else. Yet there are certain basic principles people should follow.”

 

Zinn & the Art of Triathlon Bikes, by Lennard Zinn
9781931382977 | $30.95 pb | In stock
Velo Press / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

- review in August issue of Triathlon Magazine Canada
- print ad in Inside Triathlon

Monstering reviewed in the New York Times

Monstering, by Tara McKelvey
978-0786717767 | $32.50 hc | in stock
Carroll & Graf / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

From the New York Times review (July 29, 2007):

“Monstering” is a book of reportage. This is not to say that McKelvey makes an effort to conceal her own outrage at what went on at Abu Ghraib, but rather that she is less interested in exploring how this great moral and institutional failure came to pass — the toxic mix of fatally misguided policy and undisciplined soldiers and interrogators — than in depicting what, precisely, went on behind the prison’s cinder-block walls. In describing such scenes, she uses her rigorous reporting to fine effect, drawing on her interviews with detainees to reconstruct their haunting accounts in straightforward, lucid prose. McKelvey also manages to advance her well-covered story by illuminating the deranged culture that obtained among the soldiers posted to the prison, some of whom evidently battled the stress and boredom by “Robotripping” — chasing tablets of Vivarin with eight-ounce bottles of Robitussin for a cheap high.

Advance Review for Fake Steve Jobs’ Options

Options, by Fake Steve Jobs
978-0306815843 | $22.95 hc | available October
Da Capo Press / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

The first advance review of Fake Steve Jobs’ memoir is in, according to his own blog, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:

“Quite possibly the greatest work of literature by an imaginary CEO, ever.”

Maybe you’ve heard that I’ve been working on my memoirs. Well, it’s true. The book will be out in October and will contain some shocking, never-before-told stories about life inside Apple. For those who have followed the big “scandal” around options backdating and wondered what really was going on behind the scenes, well, you won’t be disappointed. It’s all here. But be warned — this story will shake your faith in the American judicial system.

The review quoted in the headline, by the way, comes from the good folks at ImaginaryReviews.com. Yes, we paid them. But I still think it counts.

Looking for Loons reviewed in Q&Q

Looking for Loons, by Jennifer Lloyd
978-1894965545 | $19.95 hc | available August
Simply Read Books / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

From the Quill & Quire (July 2007):  “Quebec author Jennifer Lloyd recreates a golden morning at the cottage effectively…. Vancouver illustrator Kirsti Anne Wakelin’s luminous watercolours are an excellent match for the natural beauty of the tale’s setting.”

CBC.ca article on Jean Carper’s Complete Healthy Cookbook

Jean Carper’s Complete Healthy Cookbook, by Jean Carper
978-1569243268 | $23.50 pb | in stock
Marlowe & Company / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

From CBC.ca (July 22, 2007):

Foods that cure focus of cookbook emphasizing important new research

From the article:

“More than 30 years ago, American nutrition journalist Jean Carper wrote about the first research on the value of antioxidants in food by a scientist at the University of Minnesota and she was hooked.

“I was so fascinated as not too many writers were looking at it,” she says.

They are now, however, as study after study indicates that antioxidants found in certain foods help neutralize cellular enemies called free radical chemicals that are considered a primary cause of accelerated aging and chronic disease.

Ever since, Carper has kept her readers aware of the latest research on everything from antioxidants to which vitamins do what for health and the value of eating smart.”

Bidulka’s forthcoming novel mentioned in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix

Sundowner Ubuntu, by Anthony Bidulka
9781897178430 | $21.95 pb | available September
Insomniac Press / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

Article in the Star Phoenix (July 17, 2007): “Building a mystery; Globe-trotting author maintains base,” featuring interview with Bidulka, author photo, and mention of the new book Sundowner Ubuntu.

Odori hits #2 on the Calgary Bestseller list

Odori, by Darcy Tamayose
978-1-897151-09-9 | $22.95 pb | in stock
Cormorant Books (UTP Distribution)

On Sunday, July 22^nd, Odori was #2 on the Calgary Herald’s top selling list.

Coureur de Bois reviewed in Calgary Herald

Coureur de Bois, by Bruce MacDonald
978-1896951720 | $22.95 pb | in stock
Cormorant Books (UTP Distribution)

From the Calgary Herald (July 22, 2007):

“Coureur de Bois is an energetic, quirky novel of ideas, as unabashedly 19^th-century about its characters’ theories and visions as H.G.Wells but sleek, gritty and set in a skuzzy part of Toronto.”