Salman Rushdie’s lawyer Mark Stephens says that author of On Her Majesty’s Service Ron Evans has “accepted that much of the story published in the Mail on Sunday [excerpted from the forthcoming book] was false,” adding that Evans “was a police driver making out he was an armed special protection officer.” Stephens also says that “the authors have admitted that there were falsehoods in the original manuscript and have made amendments accordingly.” Publisher John Blake expects to have a revised version of the book ready for release next week.Guardian
New Releases/Forthcoming
Goodkind e-book a Kindle Exclusive
NYT Bestseller and fantasy novelist Terry Goodkind’s first novel, Wizard’s First Rule, originally published in 1994, is released today in e-book exclusively on Kindle from Rosetta Books. This is Goodkind’s first appearance of in e-book format. His agent, Russell Galen, said: “Terry believes deeply that the power of novels is connected in part to the physical experience of reading a printed book, and so for years he refused to permit electronic editions of his work. A hands-on demonstration of the Kindle convinced him that here at last was a technology which provided that powerful reading experience.”
New Woodward Announced
Simon & Schuster has announced the title of Bob Woodward’s new book: THE WAR WITHIN: A Secret White House History 2006-2008–along with the release date of September 8, in what they say will be a 900,000-copy first printing. In a statement editor Alice Mayhew says: “There has not been such an authoritative and intimate account of presidential decision making since the Nixon tapes and the Pentagon Papers. This is the declassification of what went on in secret, behind the scenes.” The Washington Post will excerpt the book on September 7, when the traditional Woodward 60 Minutes episode will air as […]
Michael Moore Suggests Ignoring Fall Books Preview
In one of the more unusual attempts to spice up the traditional preview of fall books, AP quotes Michael Moore as saying this is not the time to be reading – not even Moore’s upcoming book Mike’s Election Guide 2008. “There really is no time for any frivolity. People are already working two jobs to put gas in the tank, so they can drive from the first job to the second job. People need to spend as much of their free time as possible for candidates…I would rather you go and work for a local candidate than read my book.” […]
Debate over Chronological Bible
Leaving aside the unsubstantiated (and incorrect) characterization of ” the midst of a Bible-publishing boom,” USA Today has a long piece looking at Thomas Nelson’s forthcoming CHRONOLOGICAL STUDY BIBLE. “The latest edition rejiggers the order of books, psalms, and Gospels in an effort to provide a historical framework for a text most scholars consider chronologically challenged.” But some scholars regard the exercise as non-productive and even confusing: “For some biblical accounts, such as the Israelites’ exile to Babylon, there are historical accounts to support the narrative. Other stories require a leap of faith, however. Scholars say trying to rearrange individual […]
Swift Boat Author Back with Anti-Obama Book
Four years after Unfit for Command helped derail John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign, Jerome Corsi returns with Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, which will debut at the top of the New York Times Non-Fiction hardcover bestseller list this weekend. So naturally the NYT’s Jim Rutenberg and Julie Bosman are paying attention to the book, published by S&S’s Threshold imprint, as the latest example of “an effective and favored delivery system for political attacks.” They also hone in on of the paper’s favorite subjects, the lack of time for proper fact checking prior to publication. In this […]