Only another month until the first volume of Fuyumi Ono's novel The Twelve Kingdoms is released in English in the U.S.. This series of young-adult novels seemed to be widely popular in Japan and spawned a rather popular anime series (I've heard it got several re-runs in Japan. Re-runs are not something that Japanese television does all that often from what I understand...).

The novel will be available on Amazon.com, Right Stuf, Barnes & Noble, and Booksamillion.com.