Consortium Book Sales & Distribution has added seven publishers,
who will join the distributor for the spring 2006 season. They are:
- 4N Publishing, a children's publisher founded in 2002 whose two principals live in New York and South Korea.
- Feral House, a nonfiction house in Los Angeles, Calif., that was founded in 1989. Spring titles include Prisoner of X by Allan McDonell, a memoir of 20 years at Hustler magazine, and The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber, an illustrated biography by Mel Gordon.
- Millipede Press, Denver, Colo., which publishes classic crime, suspense and horror novels and short story collections. Two "new" titles are the classic The Face That Must Die by Ramsey Campbell and Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon.
- Paul Dry Books, a Philadelphia, Pa., house with an eclectic list of new and reissued fiction and nonfiction.
- Manic D Press, San Francisco, Calif., founded by Jennifer Joseph in 1984, an alternative outlet for young writers of fiction, poetry, art, commix and alternative travel titles.
- Pegasus Books, New York City, which publishes commercial fiction--with an emphasis on crime novels, mysteries--and serious nonfiction.
- Wave Books, a new Seattle, Wash., poetry house that has formed a couplet of sorts with Verse Press to expand its poetry program.