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Penguin Group (USA) Weekly Update - 8/4:

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Daniel Silva "Feels the Love" as Moscow Rules Debuts at #1 on The New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestseller List and The Secret Servant Stays on The New York Times Mass Market Fiction List for a Fifth Week

 
 

Silva Signs Copies of Moscow Rules

B&N Lincoln Triangle - from L to R:
Ivan Held; Sloan Harris (co-director,
Literary Department, ICM); Neil Nyren; Daniel Silva; David Bull (Art Restorer and the "real" Gabriel Allo

Daniel Silva is setting personal bests as his new Putnam novel, Moscow Rules, debuts at #1 on The New York Times hardcover fiction list for the week of August 10th. Moscow Rules is Silva's first #1 New York Times bestseller. This is also the first time ever that Silva has held slots on both the hardcover and mass-market New York Times bestseller lists simultaneously. The Secret Servant (Signet) has been on the mass-market paperback list for the past five weeks, reaching as high as #6, also a new record for Silva.

Critics across the country have been praising Moscow Rules, the eighth novel featuring legendary art-restorer-cum-Israeli-secret-agent Gabriel Allon, ever since it landed in bookstores. Today's USA Today writes "Silva 'Rules.'" The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says "put 'Moscow Rules' atop your summer beach book list;" and the Houston Press calls the book "A fast-paced thriller with all the appropriate twists and turns." The Rocky Mountain News declares "Silva continues to provide some of the most exciting spy fiction since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bond," while The Chicago Sun-Times says: "Silva just gets better as the questions get harder."

Posted by Penguin Group USA on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 1:43pm. in
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Tue, 08/05/2008

Writing Kiss My Math by Danica McKellar:

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Last year, after releasing Math Doesn't Suck, for back-to-school '07, we got such a positive response that we decided to follow up with the next step up in the math curriculum with Kiss My Math. And just in time for back-to-school ‘08.

When I wrote my first book, Math Doesn't Suck, I had about a year to turn in the first draft, and several months afterwards for rewrites. This time, we wanted to turn the whole thing around in a year! A year had always seemed like a long time, until I became an author. Smile

It was more labor-intensive to write it more quickly, so I completely stopped acting for about 7 months in order to basically chain myself to my computer, and turn out the best book possible! An odd thing about Kiss My Math? For some reason, I wrote this one almost entirely during nighttime hours. I'd work late, until around 5am or so, go to sleep around 6am, and then sleep all day, wake up at 2pm and start again. I think I did that because there were fewer distractions, and I could get more done. See, I was determined to make Kiss My Math not only on par with Math Doesn't Suck, but even better. Thankfully I was cheered on by countless emails from girls, telling me how much Math Doesn't Suck had helped them, and how much they were hoping for a sequel. They made the late nights a lot easier!

So, what are the main differences between Math Doesn't Suck and Kiss My Math?

Posted by Penguin Group USA on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 8:18am. in
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