October 24, 2005

CNN.com - Canadian leader ready to debate U.S. on trade - Oct 24, 2005:

Canadian leader ready to debate U.S. on trade
Prime minister to press softwood issue as Rice makes first visit

Monday, October 24, 2005; Posted: 2:26 p.m. EDT (18:26 GMT)

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OTTAWA, Canada (Reuters) — Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin kept up his attack on U.S. trade policy on Monday as he prepared to meet Condoleezza Rice later in the day on her first official visit to Canada as U.S. secretary of state.

“Friends live up to their agreements,” Martin said in calling on the United States to respect a ruling under the North American Free Trade Agreement on Canadian exports of softwood lumber.

Not quite as incendiary as the headline promises.

HarperCollins Publishers — Home of William Morrow, Avon, Perennial, Rayo, Amistad, Caedmon Audio, Regan Books:

One Dead Under the Cuckoo’s Nest
A Pauline Sokol Mystery
by Lori Avocato

Former nurse-turned-insurance fraud p.i. Pauline Sokol’s current undercover investigation into a sleazy psychiatric scam has hit a small snag: she’s been forcibly committed to a mental institution!

Clank. How can an author named “Avocado” not have an ear? Adding “Dead” to “One Under The Cuckoo’s Nest” completely spoils the sound of the phrase. In this case, you can judge the book by its title. Pass.

Internet Outsider: Sorry, Google is Not a Technology Company:

What does Google sell? Advertising. For better or worse, this makes it a media company (an online media company, but a media company). From a financial forecasting perspective, this also means that the pool of Google’s potential revenue, at least in the company’s current incarnation, is global advertising and direct marketing spending, not global technology spending. This is important, in part, because global advertising and marketing spending is not growing as quickly as global technology spending.

Viewed as a media company, Google is a far more distinctive presence in its market than as a technology company. Google as media company with unique technology = buy?

Top-notch fantasy.

ALA | American Library Association to hold 2006 Annual Conference in New Orleans: “(CHICAGO) The following statement has been issued by American Library Association (ALA) President Michael Gorman:

‘I am pleased to announce that we are planning to hold our 2006 ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans.”

Right on!

Publishers Marketplace: Recent Deals: “Ahmet Zappa’s THE MONSTROUS MEMOIRS OF
A MIGHTY MCFEARLESS, in which Minerva McFearless keeps a journal of the monsters she and her brother must defeat when they embark on a mission to save their father from the most diabolical creature in the universe, to Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, sold outright, in a major deal, reportedly for $1.5 million, by Helen Breitwieser, Cornerstone Literary and Jody Hotchkiss at
Hotchkiss & Associates.”

This one’s a tragedy in the making because I can guarantee you that the final title of the movie when it’s released won’t be THE MONSTROUS MEMOIRS OF A MIGHTY MCFEARLESS.

It’s just too long! — but any other title will be lame and stupid. Predictable disaster.

Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | How much for your notes?:

Our writers are excited. They have thrown down their pencils, head-butted their rubbers and kicked their thesauri out of windows. The calamity is this: writers’ archives are fleeing Blighty to sit in the libraries of universities across the Atlantic.

While the University of the Shetland Islands can afford just �1.12 for a Zadie Smith council tax bill - “You’re in band F” - or 40p for a photocopy of Evelyn Waugh’s 1936 tax return - “Is claret de

Good news for both authors and book-lovers that their notes are becoming increasingly valuable.

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The novelist is always the adaptation’s most skeptical audience, but I’ve got to tell you, I think this movie will blow people away,” Brown told a soldout crowd of 800 at the event, an audience that included his wife and parents. “The script has emerged as powerful and thought-provoking, and the cast is world-class. I truly believe moviegoers will come out of the theater feeling like they’ve just watched the novel.”

The Gospel According to Anne - Newsweek Entertainment - MSNBC.com:

In two weeks, Anne Rice, the chronicler of vampires, witches and—under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure—of soft-core S&M encounters, will publish “Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt,” a novel about the 7-year-old Jesus, narrated by Christ himself. “I promised,” she says, “that from now on I would write only for the Lord.

Until this, Anne Rice has been filed under Books I Won’t Be Reading. I must admit I’m curious, although I have a queasy feeling … Says later in the article that Kirkus gave it a starred review (reproduced here at Annerice.com).

Anne Rice writes there:

“Dear Ones — As many of you know, my new novel will be published in about a month. I’ve not said very much on this because perhaps there is so much to say. But let me make a few introductory remarks now. Christ the Lord — Out of Egypt is a novel about Jesus as a child, a boy of seven. And the story is told from his point of view. The research for this book has been endless and thrilling and at times confusing. I’ll post more about the research, the sources in all fields, including archaeology, social history of the first century, Jewish history, Jewish law and customs, New Testament studies, etc., as time goes on. An entire bibliography of works consulted would be very simply impossible. — What I want to say here is this: every effort has been made to make the entire world of this book accurate according to all the records we possess. This is the Jesus who was born in Bethlehem, celebrated by angels, visited by shepherds, and the Magi. This is the Christ of the four gospels in whom I believe. — In a way, the novel is the story of Christmas told in a new way — from the point of view of Jesus Himself when he is old enough to start talking seriously about the mysteries surrounding His birth. — My life has led to this book.

Love, Anne.”