Although she was best-known for her wonderful Dragonriders novels, Anne McCaffrey’s talents roamed far beyond the skies of Pern. Like a lot of writers, she was fond of cats, and in none of her books is her ailurophilia more pronounced than in her Barque Cats novels: Catalyst and Catacombs. These charming novels describe a space-going [...]
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Today, Del Rey and Random House say farewell to our beloved Del Rey Editor-in-Chief, Betsy Mitchell. We will miss her. After a decade at Del Rey and over 30 years in publishing, she embarks on a new adventure. But she won’t disappear from publishing completely. She will continue to work with authors on special projects, and can be found
Howard Sherman
I absolutely know for a fact that some of the personality traits in the characters in books I've...