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 the recent data, here is a rundown of candidate/authors, along with approximate print books sales as tracked by NPD Bookscan, rounded to the nearest thousand, and earnings from those who have released their tax returns: Joe Biden: Promise Me, Dad (2017) 279,000 HC; 22,000 TP […]
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 not receiving royalties owed to them.” Coburn says he had a “very frank and disturbing” conversation with ceo Joseph Farah last year about unpaid royalties for his book, Smashing the D.C. Monopoly. “I accused him of not being honest,” Coburn said. “He doesn’t keep his […]
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 Mallory created. The update was acknowledged at the top of Wednesday’s Books Briefing newsletter, in addition to the customary note at the bottom of the piece on the NYT website. A person connected to Mallory told PL that the NYT did not seek out the […]
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 cited as quotations in the text. This, too, will be fixed.” Additionally, Abramson wrote: “I wouldn’t want even a misplaced comma so I will promptly fix these footnotes and quotations as I have corrected other material that Vice contested.” She noted, “The book is over […]
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 due to move up to a two-year term as ABA president, and Graham is nominated to serve as ABA vice president/secretary. Jennifer Murphy has joined the American Psychological Association’s Magination Press as assistant marketing manager. Most recently she was marketing coordinator at Harper Collins. Author […]
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 of the job, he knew it would take a long time. This was somebody who was writing for 50 years without publishing, so that’s a lot of material. So there’s not a reluctance or a protectiveness: when it’s ready, we’re going to share it.” As […]