Bancroft Press in the
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Ken Morris
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VERMONT AUTHOR AND BALTIMORE PUBLISHING HOUSE GARNER
FINALIST SPOT FOR THE EDGAR ALLEN POE AWARD
(BALTIMORE, MD—) In an exciting first for the
independent publishing house based in Baltimore, MD, Bancroft
Press is proud to announce that the first book in Libby Sternberg’s
Bianca Balducci Mystery Series, Uncovering Sadie’s Secrets,
has been named one of five finalists for the prestigious Edgar
Allen Poe Award for Best Mystery for Young Adults. Read
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Stephen Hunter, Post Film Critic, Novelist, and Bancroft
Press Author, Wins 2003 Pulitzer for Criticism 4/7/03
Stephen Hunter was born in Kansas City, MO, in 1946, and grew
up in the Chicago area. He graduated in the upper three-quarters
of his class from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern
University in 1968 and then spent two years in the United
States Army. Read More
Bancroft Book, Author Featured in Big Sunday New
York Times Story
From
Stints on the Street, Many Tales to Tell
By LANDON THOMAS Jr. Sunday New York Times - June 29, 2003
SITTING in the lobby of the Intercontinental Hotel in Manhattan,
Ken Morris, a former Wall Street trader, is trying to make
a market for his latest product: his first work of fiction.
It's Day 1 of his road show, a 10-city publicity tour for
the book, titled "Man in the Middle." The book is
a pulpy financial potboiler about life in the trading trenches,
and Mr. Morris, like the good trader he once was, is trying
to create a little market buzz for it. Read
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Wall Street Star Reveals the Treachery of the Capital
Markets in his Debut Novel
In the era of Enron, Worldcom, corporate corruption
and billions of dollars lost in the stock market, Ken Morris,
described by the London Times as a Wall Street trading legend
and a big time Master of the Street, unveils the scams, amorality,
and ruthless dealings of the capital markets in his debut
financial thriller, MAN IN THE MIDDLE. Read
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If you need someone to solve a mystery, you don't
go to a freelance writer, unless it's Aaron Tucker
(BALTIMORE-- June, 2002) Bancroft Press is gearing
up for the September release of For Whom the Minivan Rolls,
the first in its series of Aaron Tucker humorous mysteries.
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Cone Sisters Rescued from Obscurity
BALTIMORE Long-time residents of Baltimore City and visitors
alike are often awestruck by the Baltimore Museum of Art's
Cone Collection: an amazing amalgamation of Matisse, Cezanne,
Picasso, as well as many of their lesser-known contemporaries.
Baltimore, oft-described as a "small town described as
a city," is perhaps an unlikely place for these masterpieces
of art, now valued at $1 billion. Read
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Jonetta Rose Barras Appears on 60 Minutes profiling
Washington DC's Mayor
April 30, 2000 Jonetta Rose Barras was the lynchpin
of the CBS 60 Minutes segment profiling Washington
DC's Mayor Anthony Williams. Barras is one of the nation's
premiere analysts covering the new breed of black political
leaders - especially mayors of major American cities. The
60 Minutes piece drew on material in her book The
Last of the Black Emperors: The Hollow Comeback of Marion
Barry in the New Age of Black Leaders (Bancroft Press).
Publisher Bruce Bortz says "Jonetta Rose Barras is as
telegenic as anyone on television today - animated, articulate,
and smart."
Lynch book on loneliness beginning to get media attention
Dr. James J. Lynch, one of the founders of the holistic
health movement, is slowing gaining the media's attention
with his groundbreaking June 2000 book "A Cry Unheard:
New Insights into the Medical Consequences of Loneliness."
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O'Reilly book and show flying high
April 8, 1999 -- Bill O'Reilly, our first
author of fiction with "Those Who Trespass", deserves
more than a few plaudits. Not only is his national Fox News
Channel "The O'Reilly Factor" now the second-highest-rated
show on cable, second only to Larry King, but the mass-market
version of "Trespass" being released next week by
Penguin is hotly anticipated
-- it's already 322 on Amazon's April 8 listings.
O'Reilly's show, for the first time, passed Larry
King's in national ratings. - November 15, 1999
Both Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book
Club have begun promoting purchase of "Live
by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death
of JFK"
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Bancroft Press sends letter regarding Kennedy Assasination
to the editorial page editors of the largest 236 daily newspapers
in the United States. It was not published in a single
paper! Read More
New York Times Book Review Makes It Safe -- Finally
-- To End JFK Assassination Mystery
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Bancroft's Live By the Sword optioned by Showtime
for TV mini-series
BALTIMORE (January 13, 1999)-Last fall, Baltimore's
Bancroft Press was issuing press releases describing its upcoming
book, Gus Russo's Live By the Sword: The Secret War Against
Castro and the Death of JFK, as "the most important book
[they'll] ever publish." Read
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Doubleday Book Club Takes Walker's First Novel
March 30, 1999 -- The popular Doubleday Book
Club has agreed to feature Mike Walker's first novel, "Malicious
Intent," to its millions of subscribers in October 1999,
when it's published by Bancroft. Walker, the gossip guru of
"The National Enquirer," is a New York Times #1best-selling
author for the book he co-wrote with Faye Resnick. His weekly
Hollwood column, "Behind the Screens," is read by
17 million people worldwide. He appears every Friday on the
nationally syndicated radio program of Howard Stern, who calls
Walker "the Hemingway of gossip." And, in September,
Walker will appear nationally and daily on the MGM-syndicated
TV program "The National Enquirer with Mike Walker."
Galleys of "Malicious Intent" will be available
for author-signing at BEA in LA on May 1. Of Walker, Publisher
Bruce Bortz says: "This guy is going to be very big as
a commercial novelist. He may be the new millenium's Harold
Robbins -- like Robbins, he writes authentic and earthy best-sellers."
H'wood at its most vicious
New York Post October 13, 1999 - The Enquirer's
Mike Walker is hustling his first novel,
"Malicious Intent: A Hollywood Fable." Bancroft
Press. Story of an actress hiring a thug to beat up a tabloid
reporter. Hey, they could beat me, they could kill me, I would
never suggest this "fantasy" is littered with real-life
characters. Read More
Walker offers $500 for contest winner
Mike Walker, the National Enquirer's gossip
guru who's seen daily on a nationally syndicated TV show he
helped bring to the air this fall -- "National Enquirer
TV" -- is now out with a book, a sizzling, scary (but
funny) portrait of Tinseltown, seen through the eyes of a
tabloid gossip columnist and a sexy, dangerous star named
Charmain Burns. Read More
Howard Stern Talks Up Mike Walker & New Novel
on Stern's AM Radio Show
October 15, 1999 -- "By the way, I just
got a copy of Mike Walker's new novel, called Malicious
Intent: A Hollywood Fable. It's out in bookstores now
or available at amazon . com. Go read Mike Walker, 'cause
you know he knows what the people want, 'cause he writes the
National Enquirer gossip page, and it's really good.
He's the best writer I ever met. And, Mike, as I'm quoted
on the back cover, you are the Hemingway of gossip."
Kirkus Reviews offer lavish compliments for Bancroft's
first literary fiction -- and author's first novel
February 1, 1999 - A year in the life of a Baltimore
boy provides the basis for a formidable portrait of urban
American life. A warming exploration of fairly routine material,
made attractive by newcomer Fuqua's depiction of city life.
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Reappearance of Sam Webber
Wins One of Publishing's Most Prestigious Awards
(BALTIMORE --April 1, 2000) A quiet, little-noticed
urban novel written by a first-time novelist and published
by a small Baltimore firm has captured one of the most prestigious
prizes in book publishing. Read
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Another National Award for Fuqua's Sam Webber
(Baltimore - November 17, 1999) School Library Journal,
the bible of the school library business, has put The Reappearance
of Sam Webber by Jonathon Scott Fuqua on its 1999 top
five list of adult novels recommended for teenagers, as well
as named it a School Library Journal Best Book Selection
for 1999. Read More
Sam Webber 1 of only 2 novels named best ABFFE
book on youth and violence
(Baltimore - October 1, 1999) --The American Booksellers
Foundation for Free Expression, in a list announced this week
of the 30 best books dealing with violence and youth, nominated
The Reappearance of Sam Webber. Read
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