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In fact, we’ve got an incredible array of fiction, poetry, politics, current affairs, children’s books, and just about everything else from over 90 independent publishers around the world. In representing this vibrant community of publishers, our mission is to get their books into the hands of the widest possible audience. Our publishers’ authors include Howard Zinn, Charles Bukowski, Elfriede Jelinek, Che Guevara, Tony Kushner, Pablo Neruda, and Arundhati Roy, and their honors include Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and Nobel Prizes (to name a few). These are great books from great publishers.

The Consortium Office is Moving!

Effective August 1, 2007, the Consortium office (sales, marketing, publisher services, and production) will be located at:

The Keg House
34 Thirteenth Avenue NE, Suite 101
Minneapolis, MN 55413-1007
phone 612 746 2600
fax 612 746 2606

Our warehouse and customer service department are still located in Jackson, Tennessee (no change):

1094 Flex Drive
Jackson, TN 38301-5070
phone 800 283 3572
fax 800 351 5073

Consortium Welcomes

For the Spring 2007 Season, Consortium would like to welcome our newest publishers:


Ausable Press to Publish Poet Laureate Charles Simic in Fall 2008

“Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic, who learned English as a teenage immigrant, will be the new U.S. poet laureate, the Library of Congress announced Thursday. ‘When you read it, you feel like he’s talking to you,’ Marilyn Hoskin, dean of the college of liberal arts at UNH, said of Simic’s work. ‘Whatever the subject matter—a cat walking at midnight or a view from Serbo-Croatia—someone is there telling you something beautifully phrased.’”—The New York Times

The Basics to be on Martha Stewart and More!

The Basics author, Filip Verheyden, will be on the Martha Stewart Show on October 24. Bon Appetite will run an article in the December issue, on newsstands November 15, and Gourmet magazine will feature the book in their November issue. Perfectly timed for Christmas shoppers!

The Basics
The Techniques of Continental Cooking
Filip Verheyden (Author) Tony Le Duc (Photographer)
Melville House
Published: 05/01/2007
9781933633183 | $29.95 | Trade Cloth

Alter Ego on NPR’s Morning Edition

Morning Edition ran a story about Alter Ego on July 31. Here’s the link:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12263532 

Alter Ego
Avatars and their Creators
Robbie Cooper (Author) Julian Dibbell (Introduction) Tracy Spaight (Afterword)
Chris Boot
Published: 05/01/2007
9781905712021 | $29.95 | Trade Cloth

Photo District News Cover Story: Welcome to Pyongyang

The current (August) Photo District News cover story “Inside the Secret Nation” features an interview with the photographer and describes the book as a “visually compelling document about a closed and mysterious society.”

Welcome to Pyongyang
Charlie Crane (Author) Nicholas Bonner (Introduction)
Chris Boot
Published: 05/01/2007
9781905712045 | $35.00 | Trade Cloth

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