To Be Continued: An Annotated Guide to Sequels - Hardcover

Hope Apple; Merle L. Jacob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 157356155X ISBN 13: 9781573561556

Publisher: Greenwood, 2000

Synopsis

Keeping track of prolific authors who write fiction series was quite challenging for even the most ardent fan until To Be Continueddebuted in 1995. Noew, readers will be happy that the soon-to-be-released second edition has added 1,600 new books and 400 new series. To Be Continued, Second Edition, maintians the first volume's successful formula that featured concise A-to-Z entries packed with useful information, including titles, publishers, publication dates, genre categories, annotations, and subject terms. Among the genre categories that can be found in To Be Continued are romance, science fiction, crime novel, horror, adventure, fantasy, humor, western, war, Christian fiction, and others.

About this title

About the Author

MERLE L. JACOB is currently the adult materials selection specialist for the Chicago Public Library and was formerly the coordinator of collection development for the Skokie (Illinois) Public Library. She is a frequent workshop presenter on collection development topics and readers advisory subjects and also does independent consulting. In addition to To Be Continued: An Annotated Guide to Sequels, she is the author of several magazine articles.

HOPE APPLE is a freelance researcher and writer. She is the former head of reference services for the Skokie (Illinois) Public Library, and has nearly 20 years of experience as a reference librarian. She earned her master's degree in library science from Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois and graduated from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, with a B.A. in English literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157356155X
• ISBN 13: 9781573561556
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 488