Book Review: Justin Cronin’s “The Passage” is Scary Good

In Ed's Perspective by Edward Nawotka

By Edward Nawotka Houston, we have an apocalypse… It starts when a Houston housewife in tennis whites pulls over her gleaming black Denali to give a homeless man $20. That innocent encounter ends luridly, like so many of the true-crime stories that come from the nation’s fourth-largest city, with the woman floating dead in her pool and the man, named …

BEA 2010 Finale: Digital and Print Learn to Co-exist, Russia is Focus for 2012

In Guest Contributors by Edward Nawotka

By Edward Nawotka If one were to summarize what could be learned from BEA 2010, it might be this: Print and Digital are learning to co-exist. Several deals announced during the show, including Baker and Taylor’s agreement to work with LibreDigital for expanded digital content distribution, Penguin’s announcement that is has worked out an arrangement with Amazon to once again …