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This week we welcome Charles Stross, a brilliant new voice in speculative fiction, as our special guest blogger. To get you revved up for his visit, we're giving away fifteen posters of his latest book, Saturn's Children. This amusing and thought-provoking tale is set in a future where humans have become extinct and only our androids remain-though as the femmebot Freya discovers, even without humans the universe is far from being a quiet place.

The first fifteen readers to email us at penguin.blog@us.penguingroup.com with their full name and mailing address will each receive a poster (Approximate Retail Value ("ARV"): $0.00). Offer ends July 14, 2008, 11:59 PM Eastern Time.

For details and Official Rules click here. Get ready for Charles Stross, here and present this week!

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Need a gift for someone who enjoys Latino culture? Have a friend who's taking Spanish classes and needs to hone their reading skills. Are you yourself looking for some Spanish-language or Latino-interest titles? Check out this brochure for an expansive selection of Latino titles being offered across the nation by publishing houses both large and small.

Click here to view the Latino Voices Brochure 2008-2009.

Next month we welcome Tyler Cowen, one of America's most respected economists, as our special guest blogger. To get you revved up for his visit, we're giving away twenty copies of his latest book, Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist. This is a quirky, incisive romp through everyday life that reveals how you can turn economic reasoning to your advantage-often when you least expect it to be relevant.

The first twenty readers to email us at penguin.blog@us.penguingroup.com with their full name and mailing address will each receive a copy (Approximate Retail Value: $15.00).

For details and official rules, click here.

Get ready for Tyler Cowen, here and present the week of 6/23.

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I'm going to keep this one nice and short because the old saw that a picture is worth a thousand words has never been more apropos.

I came home from book tour for Hold Tight (only one more stop and that's near my house) and it has been a wonderful couple of weeks. That's a first for me. Simultaneously, thanks again to many of you, it debuts at one in the UK. Such a thrill.

But this picture taken at Camp Eggers in Kabul... I mean, doesn't it say it all? Is there any greater accolade? I love getting emails from happy readers at harlancoben.com. They all mean something special to me. But I hold an extra special place in my heart—and I'm sure you get that—for the soldiers who are serving overseas and take the time to write.

So stay safe, guys. Thanks for the pic. You are our heroes.

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Here are some stats about Lincoln Hall:

You would expect a man who "died," spent a night alone in Mount Everest's "Death Zone" and lived to tell the tale to be quite serious about his experience. After all, he went through one of the most harrowing ordeals imaginable and as a constant reminder is missing several fingers due to frostbite (a serious handicap for a writer.)

And Lincoln Hall does speak seriously about those famous events of 2006. But he also has a sense of humor about them.

Last Wednesday (5/7), authors Tom Farley, Jr. and Tanner Colby had their first big signing for their new book The Chris Farley Show at the Lincoln Center Barnes & Noble. On hand with the authors to celebrate Chris Farley's comic brilliance and touch upon the late comic's personal demons were Farley childhood friend Mike Cleary and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" writers Brian Stack and Kevin Dorff.

(Top Left: Authors Tanner Colby and Tom Farley, Jr., Far Left: Brian Stack and Kevin Dorff, Right: Mike Cleary, Tom Farley, Jr., Brian Stack, Kevin Dorff, and Tanner Colby)

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Harlan Coben stopped by the Penguin office last week to celebrate and toast his new book, Hold Tight, debuting at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. The Dutton team surprised Harlan with a giant cake that was almost as sweet as getting the number one spot!

As always, Harlan was charming, personable, and so very grateful for everyone's hard work.

We're so proud he's part of the Dutton family!

(Harlan Coben, Penguin Group (USA) President Susan Petersen Kennedy, and Dutton President and Publisher Brian Tart are all smiles at the party.)

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The 62nd Annual Edgar Awards held in New York last night honored three Penguin authors in what turned out to be an exciting evening. Penguin Press author Tana French won the award for 'Best First Novel By An American Author' for In The Woods, while Dial author Tedd Arnold won in the 'Best Young Adult' category for Rat Life. The final award garnered for 'Best Critical/Biographical' was split three ways between the Penguin Press triumverate of Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley for Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters.

Our heart-felt congratulations go out to them all! 

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Ace and Roc editors will be hanging out at Penguin Group's booth at this year's New York Comic-Con, which is happening this very weekend (April 18-20). For all of you planning to attend the convention, be sure to come and visit our booth-which, after consultation with Ace's resident astrologists and Roc's resident numerologists, has been assigned the lucky number 1941.

Some of your favorite Ace and Roc authors will also be in attendance, signing... FREE books! Who said there's no such thing as a free book in this town?

New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher will be at our booth signing FREE copies of Furies of Calderon (while supplies last) on Saturday at 3:30. Furies of Calderon is the first in Jim's stirring Codex Alera epic fantasy series.

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So last week I visited my publisher in New York City to sign copies of Hold Tight for my wonderful sales force and for bookstores who special ordered them.

I walked into the room, pen akimbo-- and the table of books you see here was what greeted me.

"Wow," I said, taking the photo below with my phone.

"Oh that's only about half of them."

I sat down and got to work. As I came upon my second hour of signing, someone asked, as someone inevitably does, "Isn't your hand getting sore?"

The honest answer: No.

My hand only gets sore when NO ONE wants me to sign a book. I still remember my early days, sitting in some Waldenbooks at a mall, no one approaching me, trying to look busy, playing with my pen, straightening out my untouched pile of bookmarks, feeling something like the authorial equivalent to a poster child ("You can buy his book...or you can turn the page...").