PRESS RELEASES & NEWSLETTERS (full text below)
Ford Street Publishing; Haikasoru; Harlan Ellison
SOCIAL
Gencon & Indiana Law: More Backlash: More Analysis
Wanna Buy A Gun? How About One That Killed School Kids?
If you’re disinclined to the diverse, now you know where not to live
Sad Puppies Turn Hugo Awards Into Mundane Politics: Announce 2015 Campaign Before Close of 2014’s
Sad Puppies Looking to Capture 30% of the Hugo Noms
Wiscon Finalizes Report on Lemberg Harassment
Why Fight – A Zine for Women in Comcs & Gaming
Gotta Get Me Some She-Ra: Why Female Action Figures Are Important
Stats on Women in Tech Trending Down
How To Teach Girls to be Superheroes When Toy Aisles Tell a Different Tale
ENTERTAINMENT
Douglas Adams Dr. Who Script to be Novelized (Windycon 42 is celebrating Adams & Hitchhikers This year)
Alien 5 Stays Away From Prometheus
Tips for Finding A Good SF Book (Sad Puppies, Take Note)
A Wrinkle In Time Adapted Graphically
Spielberg to Direct Ready Player One
deGrasse Tyson’s Star Talk 1st Episode to Focus on Trek
OK, but this is REALLY the LAST time: Jackman on playing Wolverine
Sucky Title Chosen for The Walking Dead Spinoff
First Look At Deadpool Costume
INDUSTRY
Peggy Rae Sapienza 1944 – 2015; Whatever; SFWA; Locus
Stephen King says he pays his taxes
Dragoncon Jumpson Gencon Bandwagon, but in a different state via Glenn Glazer
How to Get Investors for Content
Mentors the Secret for Startups
Facebook May Become News Outlet
Melchior Claimed to be Creator of Star Trek
Someone Else Thinks the Literary vs Genre Wars Are Over
Brin Dissects Avatar in Four Part Series
SCIENCE
One Year Mission in Space Begins
Tectonic Plate Shifts From the Past 200 Million Years (animated) (way cool breakup of Pangea animation)
NASA Plans to gather a chip off the old block
Science Museums Urged to Ditch the Kochs
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Car Hacking
LHC Might Allow Scientists to Detect Parallel Universes
Opportunity Wins First Interplanetary Marathon
Shades of Chesley: Martian Panorama
Books Causing World-wide Myopia Epidemic?
PRESS RELEASES & NEWSLETTERS
Ford Street Publishing sent along a release of their latest offerings – but the file was corrupted. Check out their site as a substitute. Additionally: if you’re in Melbourne on May 1, you’re invited to the launch of Michael Hyde’s Footy Dreaming. Phil Cleary will be launching the book. Email Ford Street for the invitation: .
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
VIZ MEDIA’S HAIKASORU IMPRINT DEBUTS A RIVETING MYSTERY THRILLER IN
RED GIRLS: THE LEGEND OF THE AKAKUCHIBAS
An Aimless Girl Finds Direction As She Uncovers The Strange Legends And Shocking History Of Her Extraordinary Family
San Francisco, CA, March 26, 2015 – VIZ Media’s Haikasoru literary imprint has announced the release of its newest book with the publication of RED GIRLS: THE LEGEND OF THE AKAKUCHIBAS on April 21st.
Author Kazuki Sakuraba delivers a textured, multi-generational mystery that follows an aimless girl’s quest to find meaning and direction in her life as she uncovers the history, secrets and strange legends of her unique family.
RED GIRLS: THE LEGEND OF THE AKAKUCHIBAS will be available in print in an English edition from Haikasoru for $15.99 U.S. / $18.99 CAN. An eBook edition also will debut on April 21st for $9.99 (U.S. / CAN) for the Amazon Kindle, Apple’s iBooks Store, Barnes & Noble’s Nook Book Store, the Kobo eBooks Store, and the Google Play store.
When the outlanders abandoned a baby girl on the outskirts of a village, few imagined that she would grow up to marry into the illustrious Akakuchiba family, much less that she would develop clairvoyant abilities and become matriarch of the illustrious ironworking clan. Her daughter shocks the village further by joining a motorcycle gang and becoming a famous manga artist. The outlander’s granddaughter Toko—well, she’s nobody at all. A nobody worth entrusting with the secret that her grandmother was a murderer. This is Toko’s story.
“Toko Akakuchiba is an ordinary woman, from an extraordinary family. When Toko sits to write her family history, she uncovers the truth about her grandmother’s past, and the woman’s clairvoyant powers,” says Nick Mamatas, Editor. “Author Kazuki Sakuraba skillfully creates an atmospheric multi-generational saga set amidst the turmoil of Japan’s postwar era. Readers will be swept up in the engrossing story of this legendary clan!”
Author Kazuki Sakuraba was born in 1971 and began publishing while still in college. Her early Gosick light novels were bestsellers and her adult fiction is also popular and acclaimed throughout Japan. RED GIRLS: THE LEGEND OF THE AKAKUCHIBAS won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 2007 and Watashi no otoko, a suspense novel about an incestuous relationship, won the Naoki Prize for popular fiction in 2008.
For more information on RED GIRLS: THE LEGEND OF THE AKAKUCHIBAS and the Haikasoru imprint, please visit the dedicated website at www.haikasoru.com.
About VIZ Media, LLC
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, VIZ Media distributes, markets and licenses the best anime and manga titles direct from Japan. Owned by three of Japan’s largest manga and animation companies, Shueisha Inc., Shogakukan Inc., and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Co., Ltd., VIZ Media has the most extensive library of anime and manga for English speaking audiences in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa. With its popular digital manga anthology WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP and blockbuster properties like NARUTO, BLEACH and ONE PIECE, VIZ Media offers cutting-edge action, romance and family friendly properties for anime, manga, science fiction and fantasy fans of all ages. VIZ Media properties are available as graphic novels, DVDs, animated television series, feature films, downloadable and streaming video and a variety of consumer products. Learn more about VIZ Media, anime and manga at www.VIZ.com.
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