In the wake of CNN’s article showing that Monica Crowley’s 2012 book What the (Bleep) Just Happened copied material from numerous sources, HarperCollins was “looking into the matter” and announced on Tuesday to the NYT. “The book, which has reached the end of its natural sales cycle, will no longer be offered for purchase until such time as the author has the opportunity to source and revise the material,” Harper said in a statement. (Published by their Broadside Books imprint, the print version has sold only a handful of copies over the last three years at outlets tracked by Nielsen Bookscan.) Crowley […]
Archives for January 2017
Did Anyone Else Actually Bid for Milo?
Slate talks to many of the conservative books editors about Milo Yiannopoulos’s book proposal, and the NYT covers a couple as well. “It appears that Yiannopoulos was actively shopping his proposal to various right-wing imprints, with minimal success,” Katy Waldman writes. “Multiple publishing houses specifically told me that they had turned down his book.” Of course there’s no glory or gain now in declaring yourself an underbidder, but it’s not clear that anyone but Threshold offered for Milo’s book. The Times may misconstrue agent Thomas Flannery Jr.’s remark that “virtually every major conservative imprint expressed interest” (expressing interest is different from bidding) as […]
People
Sylvie Rosokoff has been promoted to director of foreign rights at Trident Media Group and Meredith Miller moves up to associate director. Claire Roberts, who has headed the department since 2006, is adding to her responsibilities as vice president by building her own domestic client list with a focus on upmarket and literary fiction, while continuing to handle international rights. Marketing technology and services start-up Optiq.ly formally confirmed two recent additions to their executive team: Didier Jean Charles joined the company in October as director of engineering (he was most recently the director of application and online technology at Lincoln Center), and Susan Ruszala is vp of sales (she was president […]
People, Etc.
Tom Thompson has joined SMP as vp, creative services and advertising. Thompson most recently was svp, digital strategy/group director of Verso Advertising, where he worked for 10 years. At William Morrow, Emily Krump has been promoted to senior editor. Bookselling Barnes & Noble will close their downtown Minneapolis store at Nicollet Mall in May when the lease expires. The company admitted that the two-floor, 25,000-square-foot store is too big and unsuccessfully tried to negotiate with the landlord for a 14,000 to 16,000-square foot space on one floor. It’s yet another sign that the bookseller is looking to reshape its store […]
Trump National Security Pick Crowley’s 2012 Book “Plagiarized Large Sections”
Conservative author and former Fox News contributor Monica Crowley, who has been picked for a leading national security communications role by the Trump administration, plagiarized upwards of 50 sections of her 2012 book What the (Bleep) Just Happened, according to CNN’s KFile. Among those from whom Crowley appears to have lifted material based on KFile’s investigation include National Review writers Andrew C. McCarthy and Rich Lowry, Michelle Malkin, conservative economist Stephen Moore, Karl Rove, and Ramesh Ponnuru of Bloomberg View. Crowley “also lifted word-for-word phrases from the Associated Press, the New York Times, Politico, the Wall Street Journal, the New […]
Two In A Row for Monthly Buzz Books
Our inaugural volume in the just-the-right-size monthly Buzz Books spinoff for January features Indie Next No. 1 pick Emily Fridlund’s History of Wolves, plus consensus bookseller selection Shanthi Sekaran’s Lucky Boy and Stephanie Garber’s must-read new YA Caraval — and now we’re releasing the next February Buzz Books, which includes an excerpt from the latest Indie Next No. pick Elan Mastai’s All Our Wrong Todays. It also has pre-publication excerpts from Christina Baker Kline’s long-awaited A Piece of the World (inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s famous painting), plus the first in Jeff Giles’ YA series The Edge of Everything and Pam Jenoff’s The […]