From: "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Some good news
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:56:19 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Good on you, mate, as they say Down Under!
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 11:29 AM
To: wsfalist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Some good news
>From Publishers Weekly:
Between 1977 and 1987, former CIA operative Edward =
Whittemore
(1933*1995) wrote the Jerusalem Quartet, a surreal =
historical fantasy
that won many plaudits but little renown for its author. =
This remarkable
epic set in the Middle East deserves a new generation of =
readers and
comes with blurbs from Jonathan Carroll, Ellen Datlow and =
Mike
Resnick. The set comprises Sinai Tapestry (Old Earth
[www.oldearthbooks.com], $17.95 paper 368p ISBN 1-882968-22=
-0),
Jerusalem Poker ($19.95 paper 462p ISBN -23-9), Nile =
Shadows
($19.95 paper 515p ISBN -24-7) and Jericho Mosaic ($17.95 =
paper
426p ISBN -25-5). The same publisher is also reissuing =
Whittemore's
first novel, which plays with 20th century Asian history, =
Quin's
Shanghai Circus ($17.95 paper 344p ISBN -21-2).
I do like "This remarkable epic set in the Middle East deserves a new =
generation of readers . . ."
Sold a fair number of copies at WFC, some folks sooooooo enthused over the =
reprints they nearly soiled themselves . . .
MOre about WFC after I dig through more email, yadda yadda yadda . . .
mjw