Say hello to SAD SHOP CARDS, the new indie greeting card maker we're representing!

We're very proud and happy to introduce our customers to Katie Davis, proprietor of Sad Shop Cards, a Seattle-based indie greeting card company. You should check out her Twitter, too.

We think her cards are fresh and modern and funny. Sad Shop cards have been featured on the Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, and Bust.com. Zooey Deschanel has Liked them! (And if they're good enough for Zooey, they're good enough for us.)

Many bookstores on the West Coast and East Coast have been carrying Sad Shop cards already, and we're so glad to be able to help spread the love here in the midwest. Check out her line at Etsy – so handy for browsing – and get in touch with your favorite Abraham Associate to place an order today.

Nobrow Press | A Big Victory for William Grill! →

The judges said of Shackleton’s Journey, ‘The detailed small illustrations wonderfully bring to life the intricacies of life during the journey, whilst the breath-taking larger illustrations provide a strong sense of scale and highlight the enormity of the natural world. This is an exciting, quality book which provides a true experience and reminds us that it is the people, not the journey, that truly matter’. 

Flying Eye / Nobrow author William Grill becomes the youngest winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal in 50 years for his stellar book, Shackleton's Journey.

Stacy Wakefield Discusses Debut Novel by Akashic Books (courtesy of Galley Cat)

Author Stacy Wakefield talks about her new book, The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory, with GalleyCat Editor Dianna Dilworth.

Stacy Wakefield‘s debut novel, The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory (Akashic Books), tells the tale of a young woman’s quest to join the anarchist squatting scene in New York in 1995. Upon arrival, Sid discovers that the East Village is crowded and ends up in the uncharted territory of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The lively novel brings to life the misfits and eccentrics that inhabited the neighborhood decades before The Wyeth Hotel and Blue Bottle opened up.

GalleyCat caught up with Wakefield to discuss the new book. Wakefield talks about how she used documentary research to inspire a work of fiction; landing a publishing deal even though she couldn’t nab an agent; and the process of designing her own book cover.

By Dianna Dilworth on Jun. 18, 2015 - 2:20 PM

Original article here.

'Hansel & Gretel,' by Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti, reviewed in the New York Times →

The New York Times Book Review has posted a rave review for the new Neil Gaiman book, Hansel & Gretel from TOON Books. And it may well be the best reviewed Gaiman book, from a man who regularly earns rave reviews.

"Written with a devastating spareness by Neil Gaiman and fearsomely illustrated in shades of black by Lorenzo Mattotti, the newest version of “Hansel and Gretel” astonishes from start to finish. It doesn’t hurt that the book itself is a gorgeous and carefully made object, with a black floral motif on its pages’ decorated borders, along with red drop caps and tall, round gray page numbers. (Published by Toon Books, the New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly’s venture into richly illustrated books for children, it comes in two formats, with an oversize one that includes an afterword about the evolution of the tale.)"

“Gaiman, who has won every award a writer with a taste for the dark and fantastical could possibly win (Hugo, Nebula, Newbery), ends on an unequivocal high note, reminding us that horror should always be wielded along with some small possibility of brightness. ”

Standard edition:

Hansel & Gretel by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Lorenzo Mattotti | TOON Books / Candlewick Press | 9781935179627 | $16.95 | Cloth

Deluxe edition:

Hansel & Gretel - Deluxe by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Lorenzo Mattotti | TOON Books / Candlewick Press | 9781935179658 | $29.95 | Cloth

Watch this trailer: THE IMITATION GAME, starring Benedict Cumberbatch

Opens November 21, 2014.

The movie is based on the biography of Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges, from Princeton University Press. Princeton is releasing a new movie tie-in edition with related movie art on the cover.

Alan Turing: The Enigma (movie tie-in) by Andrew Hodges | Princeton University Press | 9780691164724 | $16.95 | Paper

Looks great to me!