APRIL 2007

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY

RESURRECTION MEN
Released on April 19th, 2007, RESURRECTION MEN is finally available.  Run out and get your copy today!

I'll be reading from RESURRECTION MEN early next month at the Princeton Teen Book Bash and at Borders, in Princeton, New Jersey.  (See Events, below)  Come on down and meet some of today's premier YA authors live and in person -- writers as varied as David Lubar and Patricia McCormick.

If you already own a copy of RESURRECTION MEN, click here to access a secret section of the site...just for you.  (NOTE:  Enter the name Secret (S-e-c-r-e-t) and the correct Password, printed at the rear of the book.)

Inspired by the 1831 “Italian Boy” trial of body snatchers in London, England, RESURRECTION MEN is a spine-tingling murder mystery that pits a beggar boy named Victor against a nefarious group of Resurrection Men. In this tumultuous dark underworld, where a “fresh subject” can fetch as much as nine guineas -- the yearly salary of a working man -- Victor must risk his life to uncover the identity of the murderer who is at the heart of London’s furtive trade in human corpses.

For a sample chapter of RESURRECTION MEN, click here.

To buy your copy, click here!

THE UNRESOLVED
Ranked one of the Top Ten Children's Books of 2006 by the Washington Post, THE UNRESOLVED has been named a 2007 Association of Jewish Libraries Notable Book for Teens by the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee, which recognized only six works in Jewish teen literature this year.  The novel was nominated for the 2006 Cybils literary awards, and for the 2007 Best Books for Young Adults (BBYA) by the American Library Association.  It's currently featured as one of the Best Teen Books of the year 2006 at BarnesAndNoble.com.

The Washington Post said, "Welsh writes with a precision and delicacy unusual for YA fiction."  School Library Journal said, "THE UNRESOLVED tells a remarkable story in a remarkable way."  Horn Book Magazine called THE UNRESOLVED, "A decidedly unconventional ghost story ... (and) a tightly wound novel."  Kirkus Reviews termed it, "A remarkable account."  Romantic Times said, "THE UNRESOLVED is a book you shouldn't pass up."  The Edge of the Forest said, "It may be the most beautifully written novel I've read this year."  All About the Book said, "The Unresolved is a great one. Mallory is the most well-developed ghostly character I've seen in a long, long time..."  And Midwest Book Review called THE UNRESOLVED, "a wonderfully different kind of ghost story."

Inspired by the tragic events of 9/11, THE UNRESOLVED reaches back into history to explore what was, until recently, the greatest disaster in New York City history.  Based on the sinking of the General Slocum steamship -- which caught fire in the East River, New York, in 1904, resulting in the death of over 1,000 mostly German immigrants on a church outing -- THE UNRESOLVED is at once a ghost story, a courtroom drama, an examination of immigrant life, and a tale of love, redemption and revenge.  The novel dramatizes how a single life –- and death –- can have a powerful influence on history.

For a sample chapter of THE UNRESOLVED, click here.

To buy your copy, click here!

READERS' POLL
The results are in for the March, 2007, Readers' Poll.  The question was, "Who was responsible for actually starting the blaze aboard the General Slocum?"  Everyone who responded got this one right, but I won't reveal the guilty party.  You're just going to have to find out for yourself!

For the results of previous polls (except for March, 2007!), click here.

REVIEWS (Excerpted in March)

RESURRECTION MEN -- Editorial Reviews

Jen Robinson's Book Page, March 2007
"T. K. Welsh doesn't shrink from depicting the horrors and dangers faced by beggar children in the city: police and criminals and filth and beatings...I found this story gripping and fast-paced, filled with intriguing historical details. Several of the characters, as well as the general atmosphere of the book, feel menacing. You can practically smell the smells, and feel the hair rising on the back of your neck, as you read this book. The ending is utterly satisfying and consistent.  Highly recommended for fans of historical fiction."

Kirkus Reviews, March 2007
"(For) audiences that relish historical fiction...Welsh pits an orphaned beggar lad with a shattered leg and some martial-arts training against a pair of genial body snatchers in the employ of a prominent doctor who likes to molest girls and infect kidnapped children with cholera in the name of scientific discovery....(A) lurid stomach-churner... strewn with corpses and gruesome relics."

For the full text of the Reviews, click here.

EVENTS

RESURRECTION MEN
Date:        May 5th, 2007
Venue:     Princeton Teen Book Bash
Time:       Noon - 5:00 PM
Address:  Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ
Phone:             (609) 924-9529       

List of participating authors so far:  Sarah Beth Durst, Daniel Ehrenhaft, E.R. Franks, Mariah Fredricks, Robin Friedman, K.L. Going, Rob Krech, Marie Lamba, E. Lockhart, David Lubar, Carolyn MacCullough, Leslie Margolis, Wendy Mass, Megan McCafferty, Patricia McCormick, Blake Nelson, Kieran Scott, Ned Vizzini, Maryrose Wood, and yours truly, T.K. Welsh.

RESURRECTION MEN
Date:        May 9th, 2007
Venue:     Borders Books
Time:       7:00 PM
Address:  601 Nassau Park, Bldg. G, (off Route 1), Princeton, NJ
Phone:             (609) 514-0040