Senator Kamala Harris was the latest Democratic Presidential candidate — and author — to release her recent tax returns. She had gross earnings of $733,000 in 2018 for her book, published in early 2019, and declared significant “commissions and fees” of $412,000. (She collaborated with Vinca LaFleur and Dylan Loewe on the book.) Inspired by…
Authors
WND Books In “Spectacular Fall,” With Authors Reportedly Unpaid
WorldNetDaily has fallen on hard times, and the sufferers include authors with their WND imprint, as well as people who paid to publish through their World Ahead Press. The Washington Post reports that, “Many authors who signed on with the site’s publishing arm, including former Republican senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, are fuming about allegedly…
NYT Updates Dan Mallory Story With Details From Author’s Outlines
The New York Times’ February 14 story about allegations that Dan Mallory’s bestselling The Woman in the Window might have plagiarized Sarah Denzil’s Saving April received a prominent update on Tuesday. The revision, which “include[s] additional relevant information that Mr. Mallory’s lawyer and agent provided to The Times after publication,” contains information about initial outlines…
Abramson Will Add Quotations to Some Passages and Fix Notes
Jill Abramson told the AP that she found some errors in her book MERCHANTS OF TRUTH that she intends to correct: “The notes don’t match up with the right pages in a few cases, and this was unintentional and will be promptly corrected. The language is too close in some cases and should have been…
People, Etc.
The ABA’s board has recommend Jenny Cohen of Waucoma Bookstore in Hood River, OR to join the board of directors for the first time, and Kris Kleindienst, Chris Morrow, and Bradley Graham were all nominated for additional, three-year terms. Per their usual protocol, ABA vice president Jamie Fiocco of Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC is…
Yes, More Salinger Is Coming, and No, Not Soon
The late J.D. Salinger’s son Matt Salinger confirmed to the Guardian that the author left behind a significant body of unpublished work after his death in 2010 which the estate has been working to prepare for publication. “It’s not ready,” Matt Salinger says. “He wanted me to pull it together, and because of the scope…