Called a “tour de force” in Publisher Weekly’s starred review, this collaboration between Del Toro and Hogan launches the Strain Trilogy - and is already up to 190,000 copies in print after two trips to press.  Morrow’s tour schedule included to midnight signings, one in L.A. with Del Toro and another in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with both authors.  The Los Angeles event went past 4 a.m. because of Del Toro’s “No Geek Left Behind” policy:  he wouldn’t leave the store until everyone who bought a book and wanted an autograph got one.

(Publisher’s Weekly, June 15)

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(Publisher’s Weekly, Feb. 23)

Simmons kicked off an eight-city tour in Denver, his hometown, on Feb. 16; he’ll end up on Feb. 25.  Film rights to Drood have been sold to Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth).  According to Publisher’s Weekly starred review, “Despite the book’s length, readers will race through the pages, drawn by the intricate plot and the proliferation of intriguing psychological puzzles, which will remind many of the work of Charles Palliser and Michael Cox.”

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