Eating with the Enemy
‘Eating with the Enemy’ scriptwriter named
October 14th, 2011 by Julie · Hear It Here First, HighBridge at the Movies
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HighBridge joins other “Spirits” at 2011 St. Louis BoucherCon
October 4th, 2011 by Steve Lehman · Uncategorized
In mid September, HighBridge for the first time joined other mystery fans in attending BoucherCon, the international nonprofit, all-volunteer organization which holds an annual convention in honor of Anthony Boucher, the distinguished mystery fiction critic, editor and author.
size=”6px” Robert Ward, author of THE BEST BAD DREAM, next to the HighBridge table.
This year the convention was in St. Louis with the theme “Spirits of St. Louis.” As a former resident, it was a pleasure to have a reason to make a trip back.
The convention was a great opportunity to meet HighBridge authors such as NEA and PEN West award winner Robert Ward, Deon Meyer, and Colin Cotterill.
Susan Lovley, HighBridge, with Colin Cotterill (KILLED AT THE WHIM OF A HAT).
Cotterill, author most recently of Killed at the Whim of a Hat, was one of two international guests of honor. Meyer went home with a different prestigious honor: The Barry Award for Best Thriller for Thirteen Hours. The Barry Awards, voted on by the readers of Deadly Pleasures, are presented at Bouchercon, as our Bouchercon’s own Anthony Awards.
Our buttons, featuring art from the BLACK MASK series, that we gave out at BoucherCon.
Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press, stands beside the HighBridge titles his imprint is collaborating with us to provide on audio.
Otto Penzler, along with Steve Stilwell, former owner of Minnesota bookstore Once Upon a Crime, and another convention goer.
HighBridge had a table in the “Book Room” to hawk our wares (and hand out our buttons featuring art from our new Black Mask series). That room was jammed with people—at least, it was when the sessions, which featured various author panels, were out. We abandoned our table as well in order to attend a few panels, including “Sparks Fly Out: Law Justice and Society.” The panel had a political edge, as authors discussed the need and the difficulty of sometimes putting aside their own political views to write a well-round novel. There were lots of good, intelligent audience questions and thoughtful author answers.
Colin Cotterill sat on several panels at BoucherCon.
Some of the panels had a humor angle, such as “Cranky Streets: What’s So Funny About Murder.” But even with serious subjects to discuss, the panels were decidedly amusing, with the highlight of many a panel being the authors bantering with each other.
In the tradition of all good sleuth and police procedural stories, the hotel bar was full (although no longer smoke-filled these days) and the gatherings, formal and informal, went on late. One such packed, “formal” gathering was a party by Grove-Atlantic celebrating the relaunch of the Mysterious Press imprint on their aegis. (HighBridge will be publishing these same titles on audio.) Mysterious Press imprint head Otto Penzler and Grove Atlantic head Morgan Entrekin gave a toast.
Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press, with the head of Grove-Atlantic Morgan Entrekin at the party celebrating the relaunch of his imprint.
The event was wall-to-wall people. A number of authors, including Thomas H. Cook and Deon Meyer, attended.
Deon Meyer (TRACKERS, THIRTEEN HOURS, BLOOD SAFARI) and myself, Steve Lehman, HighBridge.
In all, St. Louis was a great adventure. Now that we’ve experienced it, there’s no mystery why authors, publishers, and fans love to attend BoucherCon. Hope to see you in Cleveland in 2012.
(PS Whether or not you attended BoucherCon, if you’d like a set of the buttons mentioned above, drop us an email with your mailing address. Put “Buttons” in the subject line to help us sort out requests.)
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Featured Audio Giveaway – October 2011
October 3rd, 2011 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways
There But For The
by Ali Smith; read by Anne Flosnik
How to Win This Audio CD
1. Be an active* subscriber to our newsletter. Just enter your email address below:
2. Send an email to newsletter@highbridgeaudio.com 3. Put the words “There But For The” in the subject line. Entries must be received by no later than 10/21/2011. See the Win Audiobooks page for more details. Alternatively, you can LIKE HighBridge on Facebook and comment on this post, or become a FOLLOWER on Twitter and tweet or retweet this message by 10/21/2011.
About This Month’s Featured Audio
At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group of neighbors and friends slowly gathers around the house, and the story of Miles is one told from the points of view of four of them: a woman in her forties called Anna, a man in his sixties called Mark, a woman in her eighties called May, and a ten-year-old child called Brooke. The thing is . . . none of these people knows Miles anything more than glancingly. So how much is it possible to know about a stranger? And what are the consequences of even the most casual, most fleeting meetings we have every day with other human beings?
Brilliantly audacious, disarmingly playful, full of Smith’s trademark wit and puns, There But For The is a deft exploration of the human need for separation—from our pasts and from one another—and the redemptive possibilities for connections.
“So much more than the sum of its parts. . . . This fine, unusual novel is sweet and melancholy, indulgent of language and of the fragile oddballs who so relish in it.”
—Publishers Weekly 
HC starred review
“The book—packed with jokes and random facts—is really about small stuff like life and death and the meaning of human existence, all told with sharp humor and real insight. The novel itself is a riddle with no solution, which is exactly the point: When you reluctantly come to the end, you can’t help going back to the beginning, trying to unravel this beautifully elusive book’s mysterious spell. A-”
—Entertainment Weekly
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Last Month’s Winner
Congratulations to MICHELLE WILL the winner of the last giveaway, Birds of Paradise. Thanks to all who participated.
Hear it here, first: HEADSTONE, A MOMENT IN TIME, THE JOKE-OFF, ONE AND ONLY
September 30th, 2011 by Kay Weiss · Hear It Here First
We’ve just posted audio excerpts for the following titles coming out in October and November. Get your first listen here!
F O R T H C O M I N G !
Available October
F O R T H C O M I N G !
Available October
F O R T H CO M I N G !
Available September
F O R T H C O M I N G !
Available November
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Barry Prize for Thirteen Hours
September 19th, 2011 by Julie · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First, Publishing News
Deon Meyer’s book Thirteen Hours has won the Barry Prize for Best Thriller at this year’s Bouchercon mystery convention. Congratulations!
Featured Audio Giveaway – September 2011
September 3rd, 2011 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways
Birds of Paradise
How to Win This Audio CD
1. Be an active* subscriber to our newsletter. Just enter your email address below:
2. Send an email to newsletter@highbridgeaudio.com 3. Put the words “Whim of Hat” in the subject line. Entries must be received by no later than 9/23/2011. See the Win Audiobooks page for more details. Alternatively, you can LIKE HighBridge on Facebook and comment on this post, or become a FOLLOWER on Twitter and tweet or retweet this message by 9/23/2011.
About This Month’s Featured Audio
Diana Abu-Jaber’s latest has been receiving acclaim months before its publication. It was the buzz of the June Book Expo America convention, Kirkus gave it a starred review, and now AudioFile has chimed in with praise for the narration. It’s the story of the Muirs:
Avis Muir is a brilliant pastry chef, Brian Muir a corporate real estate attorney. Their son, Stanley, is the proprietor of a trendy food market. Their beautiful daughter, Felice, is missing. A runaway at 13, Felice has spent five years modeling tattoos, skateboarding, clubbing, and sleeping in a squat house or on the beach. She’s about to turn 18. Soon all of the Muirs will be forced to confront their anguish, loss, and sense of betrayal. And Felice must reckon with the guilty secret that drove her away, then face her fear of losing her family and her sense of self forever.
“Narrator Tamara Marston portrays the main characters . . . with feeling and sensitivity. Her reading recognizes that the city of Miami . . . is also a character, and she infuses the descriptions of the landscape and urban setting with meaning.”
—AudioFile
“Nuanced and deftly drawn. . . . Will [also] draw teens.”
—Booklist
“A meticulous, deeply moving portrayal of imperfect human beings struggling to do right.”
—Kirkus Reviews starred review
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Last Month’s Winner
Congratulations to DANA POLK the winner of the last giveaway, Killed at the Whim of a Hat. Thanks to all who participated.
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Hear it here first: Prophet’s Prey
August 31st, 2011 by Kay Weiss · Uncategorized
JUST IN: Masters for
PROPHET’S PREY
My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints
by Sam Brower; foreword by Jon Krakauer
read by Jonah Cummings.
Tough but RIVETING story.
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Summary:
From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the arrest of Warren Jeffs, the maniacal prophet of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), comes the engrossing, horrifying story of how a rogue sect used sex, money, and power disguised under a facade of religion to further criminal activities and a madman’s vision.
Publication date: 09/27/2011
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A few thoughts on Jerry Leiber
August 25th, 2011 by Frank Randall · Author/Narrator News, Publishing News
Jerry Leiber (at piano) with Stoller and The Coasters
A few days ago Jerry Leiber, the lyricist from the legendary songwriting team of Leiber and Stoller, died. Writing songs for early innovators like Elvis Presley and the Coasters, as well as for singular voices like Ben E. King and Peggy Lee, Leiber had a large hand in shaping the vernacular of rock and roll. Remembering him will be a pleasure for a musician and music fan like myself: He left us mountains of great music. “Hound Dog,” “Kansas City,” “Searchin,” “Stand By Me,” “Jailhouse Rock,” “Is That All There Is?” – the list is loooong. One of my personal faves is “Don’t” — a perfect meshing of lyric and melody that Elvis sings with great subtlety.
If you’re looking for insights into the genius of this stellar songwriting team, you can find a tribute and link to an audio interview on the American Routes website. Highly recommended for fans who want to reminisce about the amazing life and career of Jerry Leiber—or anyone who read the list above and now want to know more about one of the musical geniuses behind all those great songs. (The revealing 21-minute interview is also on the 5th Anniversary collection American Routes: Songs and Stories from the Road).
Mysterious Press, HighBridge Company collaborate on two new audio imprints
August 9th, 2011 by Kay Weiss · Publishing News
Starting with five titles this fall, Mysterious Press and HighBridge are collaborating to create two new audio imprints: Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio will feature new titles from the renowned mystery publisher, now an imprint of Grove/Atlantic Books, and Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio Classics will offer outstanding backlist titles, many of which have never been available on audio.
Sallie Neall, President of HighBridge, says “The Mysterious Press titles bring a wonderful richness and depth to our mystery list.” In the last year HighBridge has published mystery/suspense titles by Alafair Burke, Colin Cotterill, Sara Gran, Camilla Läckberg, Deon Meyer, and Håkan Nesser, as well as the Black Mask series, a multi-volume audio collection based on The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories edited by Otto Penzler, who is also the President and Publisher of Mysterious Press. “Our work with Otto on the Black Mask series naturally developed into a larger interest in the entire Mysterious Press line.”
“I’m pleased to be working with HighBridge to publish Mysterious Press titles in audio format,” says Penzler. “HighBridge has an outstanding reputation as an independent audio publisher and will give them the quality production they deserve.”
The first two titles published under the Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio imprint are Headstone by Ken Bruen (October 2011) and The Corn Maiden by Joyce Carol Oates (November 2011).
The three Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio Classics releasing this fall are Dancing Aztecs by Donald E. Westlake, The City When It Rains by Thomas H. Cook, and The Glitter Dome by Joseph Wambaugh, all publishing in November 2011.
HighBridge Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota, is an award-winning independent publisher of spoken word audio. Started by Minnesota Public Radio in the early 1980s to produce and distribute recordings of Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, HighBridge now publishes a diverse list of New York Times best-selling fiction and nonfiction, humor, National Public Radio compilations, and more. HighBridge is distributed to the book trade by Workman Publishing, New York.
The Mysterious Press is a publishing company devoted entirely to mystery, crime, and suspense fiction. It was founded in 1975 by Otto Penzler, largely with the intention of raising the stature of mystery fiction. The recent incarnation of The Mysterious Press as an imprint of Grove/Atlantic will feature works by such authors as Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Joseph Wambaugh; Edgar Allan Poe Award–winning authors Thomas H. Cook, Andrew Klavan, and Thomas Perry; two-time nominee Ken Bruen; National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates; PEN West Award winner Robert Ward; and Pulitzer Prize–winner Robert Olen Butler.
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Happy Birthday, Garrison
August 7th, 2011 by Kay Weiss · Uncategorized
A happy 69th to Garrison Keillor, who is currently in the middle of the 2011 Summer Love Tour, taking him and guests to cities across the US.