Upcoming Books Thread (one only right now)

[Christmas Chief]

Another e-book promotion with alleged "Bonus" materials: www.amazon.com/Series-Unfortunate-Events-Collection-ebook/dp/B00655I1DC/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1368823315&sr=1-1&keywords=9780062132956

[bloomers]

I saw that on my Facebook. The text that went with it has a slightly amusing error in the title.

We’re sorry to announce this dreadful deal, but the A SERIOUS OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS COLLECTION: BOOKS 1-3 WITH BONUS MATERIAL is $2.99 for today only on Amazon. Please do not share this link with anyone, especially not people with computers or e-readers.

[Dante]

Oh dear, that spelling mistake! They can't be series.

[Tryina Denouement]

May 18, 2013 11:58:43 GMT -5 bloomers said:

I saw that on my Facebook. The text that went with it has a slightly amusing error in the title.

We’re sorry to announce this dreadful deal, but the A SERIOUS OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS COLLECTION: BOOKS 1-3 WITH BONUS MATERIAL is $2.99 for today only on Amazon. Please do not share this link with anyone, especially not people with computers or e-readers.

Wait! That spelling mistake... can't be series.

[Dante]

Duplicating here from this thread:

www.amazon.com/dp/1938073789

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We are very curious about the Swinster Pharmacy. We stay up late every night wondering what sort of eerie secrets it contains. Why are there three Styrofoam heads in the windows? Who is the owner? Is it really closed on weekends? Renowned investigator Lemony Snicket has compiled 29 myths about this bewildering establishment, in the vain hope that he could help us shine some light on this enduring mystery.
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Lemony Snicket frequently stays up late, worrying about some of his books, including When Did You See Her Last? and The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, which was also illustrated by Lisa Brown.
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Lisa Brown has been known to stay up even later than Lemony Snicket, which is why she is associated with such books as Vampire Boy’s Good Night, Picture The Dead, and other books that leave dark circles around her eyes.
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32 pages; McSweeney's McMullens; February 11, 2014.

[Dante]

I found a review of 29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy on PublishersWeekly that sheds a little more light on its structure and contents:

Every town has one: that tchotchke shop/storefront psychic/drugstore that raises questions like “How does that place stay in business?” Snicket and Brown (The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming) examine one such emporium of enigma, the Swinster Pharmacy, its very name almost “sinister.” Two children are fascinated by the store and what it might sell, and their 29 notes and comments comprise the narrative. This isn’t a book about solving a mystery—entering the pharmacy would, after all, basically put the matter to rest. Instead, Snicket and Brown let readers dwell in the gray, desolate weirdness of the downtown (a foldout map of the neighborhood is included). While the book successfully evokes a sense of unease about the store, as well as the way children create mysteries out of the quotidian, the observations are often opaque (“Nothing’s perfect. The Swinster Pharmacy is not perfect. The glow of the moon on the car, there, is not perfect”) or banal (“I was going to write a poem about the Swinster Pharmacy”), making the mystery one that belongs to these two children, not one readers can share in. Ages 7–up. (Feb.)

[Dante]

Not much to get too excited about yet, but it's one more Snicket/Handler project to watch out for - and yes, unusually, it's both of them this time:

Title: The Best American Nonrequired Fiction 2014
Author (Introduction): Lemony Snicket
Editor: Daniel Handler
Release Date: 7th October 2014 (Mariner Books) (Source)
Details: "Daniel Handler and Lemony Snicket compile the year's best new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and category-defying gems aimed at readers 15 and up." (Source)

[Dante]

Mr. Snicket's latest picture book, 29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy, is released today.

Title: 29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy
Illustrator: Lisa Brown
Cover:

Release Date: 11th February 2014 (Source) (McSweeney's McMullens)
Details: "We are very curious about the Swinster Pharmacy. We stay up late every night wondering what sort of eerie secrets it contains. Why are there three Styrofoam heads in the windows? Who is the owner? Is it really closed on weekends? Renowned investigator Lemony Snicket has compiled 29 myths about this bewildering establishment, in the vain hope that he could help us shine some light on this enduring mystery."

See more interior images here!
store.mcsweeneys.net/products/29-myths-on-the-swinster-pharmacy

[Dante]

A couple of new bits of news here:

Firstly, we have a cover for The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014:



Secondly, Mr. Handler stated in last night's Reddit AMA that he expected We Are Pirates to be out Spring 2015, and Amazon now lists both hardcover and paperback editions for 12th February 2015, so circumstances are coalescing around that date. Could it be that Amazon had received a February release date for the book, and mistakenly entered it as this February rather than next February? Regardless, it may be as little as, um, ten months before this book, long, long in the works, can finally be read.

[Dante]

It's not officially out yet, but I know it's available to order in some places, so: Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman's Girls Standing On Lawns is available now!

Title: Girls Standing on Lawns
Illustrator: Maira Kalman
Cover:

Release Date: 6th May 2014 (Museum of Modern Art, New York) (Source)
Details: "Girls Standing on Lawns is a unique collaboration between renowned artist and bestselling children’s book author Maira Kalman and New York Times bestselling writer Daniel Handler, better known as Lemony Snicket. This clever book contains 40 vintage photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, more than a dozen original paintings by Kalman inspired by the photographs, and brief, lyrical texts by Handler. Poetic and thought-provoking, Girls Standing on Lawns is a meditation on memories, childhood, nostalgia, home, family, and the act of seeing. The gorgeous visual material sets the stage for what Handler succinctly describes as “a photograph, a painting, a sentence, a pose.” Girls, women, families, and even pets from days gone by grace the pages, looking out at us, enticing readers to imagine these people, their lives—and where they have gone." (Source)

I've posted a thread with more details:
asoue.proboards.com/thread/33167/handler-kalmans-girls-standing-lawns

[Dante]

The Handler-edited, Snicket-introduced The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014 is out today! I've got a copy coming in the mail, but Americans will probably have an easier time getting their hands on this.


Title: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014
Author (Introduction): Lemony Snicket
Editor: Daniel Handler
Cover:

Release Date: 7th October 2014 (Mariner Books) (Source)
Details: "Daniel Handler and Lemony Snicket compile the year's best new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and category-defying gems aimed at readers 15 and up." (Source)

[Dante]

There's a full thread on the subject coming up, but We Are Pirates is out (and nearly out, in the U.K. - just wait until the 12th). Next up will be Hurry Up And Wait, a follow-up to the Girls Standing On Lawns Maira Kalman collaboration, on April 7th.

Title: We Are Pirates
Author: Daniel Handler
Cover (Bloomsbury):

Release Date: 3rd February 2015 (Bloomsbury, U.S.) (Source)
Details: As Daniel Handler. Official synopsis:
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A boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. There is blood in the water. It is the twenty-first century and a crew of pirates is terrorizing the San Francisco Bay.
Phil is a husband, a father, a struggling radio producer, and the owner of a large condo with a view of the water. But he’d like to be a rebel and a fortune hunter.
Gwen is his daughter. She’s fourteen. She’s a student, a swimmer, and a best friend. But she’d like to be an adventurer and an outlaw.
Phil teams up with his young, attractive assistant. They head for the open road, attending a conference to seal a deal.
Gwen teams up with a new, fierce friend and some restless souls. They head for the open sea, stealing a boat to hunt for treasure.
We Are Pirates is a novel about our desperate searches for happiness and freedom, about our wild journeys beyond the boundaries of our ordinary lives.
Also, it’s about a teenage girl who pulls together a ragtag crew to commit mayhem in the San Francisco Bay, while her hapless father tries to get her home. (Source)
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Notes: Previous release dates are as follows: Spring 2015 (?) (Source); 12th February 2015 (?) (source; revised after original projected release date of February 2014 passed) (Bloomsbury) (first speculated as 2014 here: source; earlier thought to be 2012: source). Concerns "attempts by people in the present day to become pirates in the classical mode." (source) The protagonists are teenage girls and the residents of an old people's home, and their piracy is situated in the San Francisco Bay. (source) "It was all set to go and then I had this professional upset where my editor was fired, and she and I had to go find this other publisher. A Series of Unfortunate Events was published by Harper Collins, and now I’m at Little Brown. That took like a year. The book is about a couple of girls in high school who team up with some people in an old age home to steal a boat and attack other boats on the San Francisco Bay." (Source)

[Dante]

It's kind of a small note, and doesn't really deserve its own thread, really - "nothing is happening" isn't really important news - but I thought people would probably want to know the following: Daniel Handler doesn't have a new series in the works for after ATWQ concludes. Maybe one-offs at best for the near future.
www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2015/02/10/1-snicket-back-with-something-for-adults.html

I don’t have another series in the works, but there are a few other books I’m working on.

I’m working on a book with my wife (illustrator Lisa Brown).

It’s a picture book, and it means she has to do more of the work than I do — which is the kind of collaboration I’m totally comfortable with.

[Dante]

I thought it was May, but no, it's today, so Hurry Up and Wait with Handler and Kalman!

Title: Hurry Up and Wait
Illustrator: Maira Kalman
Cover:

Release Date: 7th April 2015 ("Distributor General") (Source)
Details: Second in a collaboration with Maira Kalman and the Museum of Modern Art, the first of which was Girls Standing on Lawns. Vintage photography is reillustrated by Kalman, with Handler providing brief, poetic annotations.

[Dante]

I discovered a couple of new upcoming contributions by Snicket:

A Contribution to: Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels
Release Date: 2nd June 2015 (Source)
Details: An essay contributing to the general retrospective on the past twenty-five years of cartooning. Snicket's involvement is mentioned here.

A Contribution to: One Minute Till Bedtime
Release Date: Fall 2016 (Source)
Details: 150 original sixty-second poems selected by Children's Poet Laureate Kenn Nesbitt; a poem by Snicket is included.