To Be Continued: An Annotated Guide to Sequels

by Hope Apple, Merle L. Jacob

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781573561556
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/10/2000
Edition description:	ANNOTATED
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.06(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Main Entry Section
Title Index
Genre Index
Subjects and Literacy Forms Index
Time and Place Index

Editorial Reviews

Illinois librarians Jacob and Apple provide readers with a guide for finding subsequent books by a particular author that use the same character, plot lines, and themes as one they just read and enjoyed. They mention no date for the first edition, but the second is enlarged to cite over 1,700 series. They do not include mysteries, which they say are connected only by character. The main listing is by author, and indices are by title, genre, subjects and literary forms, and time and place. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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