Portrait of Camelot

At approximately 6:50 pm tonight, images (including cover of book) and video from Portrait of Camelot will be featured on NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams! This will also go out on NBC online!

Authors: By Richard Reeves w/Harvey Sawler, Photographs by Cecil Stoughton

Imprint: Abrams Books

ISBN: 9780810995857

What to Cook and How to Cook It

What to Cook and How to Cook It (ISBN: 9780714859583) was prominently featured over the weekend on the first page of The Wall Street Journal (circ. 2 million) Food section. The "Bits and Bites" column ran on the bottom quarter of the front page of the section.

There will be a review of Renée French: H Day in The New York Times Book Review's Halloween issue on October 31st.  Renée French, an acclaimed graphic novelist and Inkpot Award winner at San Diego's Comic-Con International, has entranced legions of fans with her twisted, highly inventive pencil drawings, whose agile lines and delicate shading open up strange imaginary vistas. She's been called an inimitable and masterful stylist, a kind of Edward Gorey who draws out the whimsical side of body-horror, and indeed, the spirit of Gorey's grotesques breathes through French's creations. In H Day, her first graphic novel in four years, French explores, through metaphor and in pictures, her struggles with migraine headaches, marshaling troops of insects, beasts and humanoids to envision the processes that result in such hideous sensations. A sweeping, often tense narrative of invasion, repulsion and liberation, H Day can be read both as an oblique autobiography and as a suspenseful fantasy story. This volume makes clear the qualities that led Myla Goldberg, author of Bee Season, to call Renée French "that rare gift among artists--one whose work finds its way into the most guarded corners of our psyches and allows us to revel in all that is awkward, embarrassing or sticky about being alive."

Wall Street Journal review for Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead

DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD (9780810988484) was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, October 9. From its opening line, the review is a rave: “The other night I started laughing so hard I had to leave the room.”

Here’s the link to the review: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703726404575533222833017934.html

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID GIANT HELIUM BALLOON TO DEBUT IN THE 2010 MACY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE

Get ready for Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid as you’ve never seen him before! Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS, and Macy’s announce the 2010 debut of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid balloon in the 84^th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade^â. Stepping off on Thursday, November 25, 2010, the Macy’s Parade is broadcast nationally on NBC-TV, from 9 A.M. to 12 P.M., in all time zones. In 3-D for the first time, Wimpy Kid is one of two new giant character helium balloons that will debut in the legendary Parade lineup this year, joining 13 other helium giants. The Parade is part of a series of initiatives celebrating the release of the fifth book in the series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth, which is on sale Tuesday, November 9, 2010, with a first printing of 5 million copies.

Major national publicity confirmed for Alton Brown!

Good Morning America/ABC-TV will air October 6

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon/NBC-TV will air October 8

USA Weekend plans to run an extensive feature on the book on October 24

O magazine will include Alton in a piece on New Year’s food resolutions to run in the January issue

Much, much more to come!

Atlantic City News

After the airing of just one episode, HBO has committed for a second season of Boardwalk Empire, "the sprawling gangster drama," the New York Times reported. The show is based on the book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson Johnson (Plexus).

Boardwalk Empire was one of many titles Chesapeake & Hudson showcased at this year's NAIBA trade show.  Thanks to all of our customers who stopped by and said hi to Sally (left, below) and Robin.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth - 9/20 order deadline

Orders must be placed by 9/20 to receive books by on-sale date: 11/9/10.

Click here for the order form.