Announcing Sourcebooks Landmark; Chicago Publisher Introduces New Fiction Imprint in Spring 2001.

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CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 2000

Sourcebooks, Inc., an independent trade non-fiction publishing house, will debut its new fiction imprint, SOURCEBOOKS LANDMARK, in 2001.

"We selected the name SOURCEBOOKS LANDMARK expressly to reflect the quality and value of the books we will issue. We will publish both literary and commercial fiction including novels, short stories and poetry using the same anti-niche approach we've successfully used with nonfiction. We will publish at least five works of fiction each season beginning in our first full season next fall. However, we will preview the Sourcebooks Landmark imprint in April," explains Sourcebooks founder, president and publisher Dominique Raccah.

SPRING 2001 PREVIEW

The Sourcebooks Landmark imprint will debut in Spring 2001 with the North American publication of Tony Parsons' Man and Boy in April. The novel has received rave reviews from critics across England, and it has struck a public chord to the tune of almost 30 weeks on the UK bestsellers lists and 600,000 copies in print. Man and Boy is a witty yet heartwarming love story between a father and his four-year-old son whom he raises alone. It makes grown men weep, women cry and both laugh uproariously.

"We at Sourcebooks are passionate about books. We believe deeply in authors and authorship, and we want Sourcebooks Landmark to be the home of great storytellers. Man and Boy exemplifies the standard we promise our readers and our authors, and we're honored to publish Tony Parsons' first novel as our first fiction title," says Raccah.

FALL 2001 LIST

The keystone author of Sourcebooks Landmark is Michael Malone, whose critically acclaimed novel Handling Sin established him as a significant voice of the American South. Acclaimed as a "brilliant social caricaturist" like Charles Dickens by the New York Times Book Review, Michael has returned to writing fiction after a nine-year absence. Sourcebooks Landmark will publish his novel First Lady as one of five titles in its first full list in Fall 2001.

The Sourcebooks Landmark Fall 2001 list also will include: The Other Adonis, a novel about art and reincarnation from Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford; a thriller by first-time novelist Jonathan Harris called The Medici Possession (working title); a short story collection entitled Hurricane Season by Karen Bjorneby; and Sunetra Gupta's A Sin of Color, a brilliant novel of love and obsession.

Also in Fall 2001, Sourcebooks will publish Poetry Performed (working title), a book with integrated audio CDs celebrating the written and spoken art of poetry. Edited by Elise Paschen --executive director of The Poetry Society of America--with Advisory Editors Robert Pinsky, Rita Dove and Dana Gioia, the book will include the works of the most influential writers in modern poetry. Recordings on the CDs will feature poets from Walt Whitman and Robert Frost to Allen Ginsberg and Sylvia Plath, each reading their own works. Poetry Performed is a Sourcebooks MediaFusion(TM) title, a mixed media book that enhances reading by making it a dimensional experience.

Sourcebooks, Inc. is a 13-year old independent general trade non-fiction publisher based in the west Chicago suburb of Naperville. Its mission is to reach as many readers as possible with books that will enlighten their lives. Last year Sourcebooks had five bestsellers, with two of them on the New York Times list - We Interrupt This Broadcast and And The Crowd Goes Wild. Sourcebooks was the only publisher named to the Inc. 500 list of America's fastest-growing private companies released in October.