Plume Gets Virginia Tech Account – 4/30/2007 – Publishers Weekly
n one of the first deals related to the Virginia Tech shootings, Plume’s Cherise Davis has bought world rights to Roland Lazenby’s April 16: Heartbreak in Blacksburg from agent Matthew Carnicelli. Lazenby, a journalism professor at Virginia Tech, will use the perspective of students on campus, in particular his own journalism students who helped supply the mainstream media with information via their student-run Web site planetblacksburg.com, to provide context for the events and describe the recovery and resilience of the campus community. Three of Lazenby’s students will coauthor the book and a portion of the proceeds will be given to the victims’ fund at Virginia Tech and to support journalism education at the university. Plume will publish this summer.
Bzzzt.
Too early, prof. Smells bad.
I actually have some unique perspective to add here, as I am already familiar with Lazenby’s work: I collect books about basketball and Lazenby is the author of several rather pedestrian ones. He’s not likely to come up with a deeply insightful book about the VT shootings.
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