Who?
This is a celebrity who is definitely past his sell-by date. This will wind up saving HarperCollins a lot of money.
Barely 24 hours after details of his book proposal leaked widely onto the Internet, Hollywood producer Jon Peters has turned down a $700,000 offer from Harper Collins to publish an autobiography promising salacious details from his life with Barbra Streisand and as the head of Sony Pictures.
via Peters Cancels Book Under Threat of Lawsuit | The Wrap.
“Bug: The War Against the World’s Smallest Terrorists” by Marie D. Jones and Larry Flaxman
If there were ever two authors who should absolutely not be allowed to write about public health, it is these two …
Marie D. Jones and Larry Flaxman are the authors of “11:11- The Time Prompt Phenomenon: The Meaning Behind Mysterious Signs, Sequences and Synchronicities,” and “The Resonance Key: Exploring the Links Between Vibration, Consciousness and the Zero Point Grid.” They are co-founders of ParaExplorers,
via Publishers Marketplace: Rights News and Offerings.
Disagree with a couple of the premises here.
Communications style isn’t about meeting audience expectations. It’s about an uncompromising personal commitment to absolute precision in expression.
And style should never, ever, be tech-driven.
The Elements of Internet Style will open your eyes to the major tech-driven trends in publishing—and Web-driven audience expectations—that no professional communicator can afford to ignore.
via EEI Communications – EEI Press.
Like vampire books, these werewolf titles are absolutely infesting the bookshelves today. I don’t find them as objectionable as the vampire genre, becuase I think they appeal to a more healthy set of fantasies, but, generally speaking, they’re pretty dumb.
Christine Johnson’s CLAIRE DE LUNE, in which a teenager learns that she is a werewolf, descended from a long line of female werewolves, and must balance her human and werewolf lives, while tracking down the rogue werewolf preying upon the people of her town
via Publishers Marketplace: The Latest Deals.
I won’t be reading this because I hate all vampire books. I think vampire stories are inherently sadistic and wrongly fascinated with power and control. I recommend that all vampire fans read Terry Pratchett’s funny, frightneing, and wise CARPE JUGULUM, which should put their love of the vampire to rest forever. With a stake through its heart.
John Joseph Adams’s BY BLOOD WE LIVE, a reprint anthology of the best vampire literature of the last few decades, containing stories by Stephen King, Joe Hill, Neil Gaiman, Carrie Vaughn, Kelley Armstrong, Harry Turtledove, and Garth Nix, among others,
via Publishers Marketplace: Recent Deals.
It should be self-explanatory why I won’t be reading this …
Author and former Self editor Alexandra Penney’s book, based on her blog as the Bag Lady at The Daily Beast about learning to live without all the money she lost in the Bernie Madoff fraud,
via Publishers Marketplace: The Latest Deals.
This has got to be the worst timed book in history. Unless maybe for DO-IT-YOURSELF SUBPRIME MORTGAGE SECURITIZATION or GET RICH WITH CHRYSLER.
Do-It-Yourself Hedge Funds
Everything You Need to Make Millions Right Now
By Wayne Weddingtonr
FULL DESCRIPTION
Even with the recent upheaval and turmoil on Wall Street, it’s still currently estimated that the hedge fund industry exceeds one trillion dollars in assets, and continues to expand. Hedge funds are all over the news, as their managers become multi-millionaires and seemingly come up with new, increasingly ostentatious ways to spend their massive fortunes. And until now, the average investor has been kept out of this world, being led to believe that one needs a MBA from a top university and millions of dollars to invest. … more
via Do-It-Yourself Hedge Funds – Hachette Book Group USA.
Random House | Books | Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
ABOUT THIS BOOK
HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERS
IN ALL OF LITERATURE.
AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVIL
IS REVEALED.
Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck.
All the people who are getting exercised about the Simon & Schuster POD rights controversy would do better to direct their attention in this direction. To my mind, the popularity of books like this, that simply glorify evil, is a far more serious problem than a trifling Kabuki play about eminently negotiable rights.
Technorati Tags: Simon & Schuster, reversion, POD, Hannibal Rising, Thomas Harris
Dad’s book is no Oprah pick
It could be a chilly Father’s Day for Oprah Winfrey ’s dad.
The talk queen tells us she’s “shocked” and “disappointed” that she had to hear it from the Daily News that her 74-year-old pop, Vernon, is writing a book about her.
Winfrey said she laughed recently when “one of my assistants said, ‘The Daily News is calling. They say they heard your father is writing a book about you.’ I said, ‘That’s impossible. I can assure them it’s not true.’
“But then my sister said, ‘I think you should call your father.’ I called him and it turned out he is writing a book. The worst part of it was him saying, ‘I meant to tell you I’ve been working on it.’ ”
Winfrey, 53, confided, “I was upset. I won’t say ‘devastated,’ but I was stunned.”
“The last person in the world to be doing a book about me is Vernon Winfrey,” she added. “The last person.”
Oprah was 14 and pregnant when she left her mother’s home in Milwaukee to live with her father in Nashville. Her baby died weeks after he was born. She has said before that she’s grateful to her father for helping her go on, for teaching her discipline and the importance of education.
Nevertheless, Vernon, who plans to call his book, “Things Unspoken,” was quoted as saying he should have been tougher on her, because Oprah was “out of hand and an unruly child.”
“I have a good relationship with him,” Oprah told us Sunday, when she received the Elie Wiesel Foundation Humanitarian Award at the Waldorf. Though she hasn’t seen Vernon since he accompanied her on a trip to Africa a few months ago,
she said, “We talk, we talk, we talk.”
That’s why “I would have preferred to have known my father was working on this. It would have been a nice gesture, a courtesy,” she said.
OK, Vern: you’re the dad. No matter how famous she gets, it’s your job to protect your daughter.
Technorati Tags: Oprah, Father’s Day
Ollie North Signs Eight-Book Deal – 5/15/2007 – Publishers Weekly
With 2007 marking the 20th anniversary of the Iran-Contra hearings, one of those proceedings best-known figures, Oliver North, has signed a multibook deal with the Christian house B&H Publishing Group. The contract calls for North to do four fiction titles plus four nonfiction titles based on his Fox News Channel show, War Stories. North will co-write the novels with Austin Boyd, a former navy pilot and published author.
What?
I know his books will sell because he has a TV show, and my wife still remembers him as that handsome clean-cut guy who made Congress look stupid.
Argh.
Technorati Tags: Ollie North, Iran-Contra, Reagan
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