Vedran Smailovic, the actual musician whose story is featured briefly in Steven Galloway’s novel THE CELLIST OF SARAJEVO, is objecting: “”They put my picture, my face, on the front, on the cover with no permission. They don’t ask me — they use my name advertising their product. I don’t care about fiction, I care about reality.” Galloway, who sent Smailovic an autographed copy, interviewed over 25 people for the book and says to the CBC: “[I don’t know] for what I would be compensating. I mean, he performed a public act and I mentioned it?” One potential problem area according […]
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As previewed earlier this month, we’re rolling out more changes in how Lunch news is presented and available to you, by e-mail and throughout the day. For a long time we’ve presented news at PublishersMarketplace in a variety of ways, including “headline clips” and some individually posted items on the home page–but that process will now be more consistent, constant, and easy-to-track. The site version of Publishers Lunch Deluxe is basically turning into a 24/7 newsblog. All news items will post there first as they are ready; each item now has an individual permalink, two types of tags for searching, […]
August 2008 Indie Next
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows The Lace Reader: A Novel by Brunonia Barry The Gargoyle: A Novel by Andrew DavidsonThe 19th Wife: A Novel by David EbershoffThe Seamstress: A Novel by Frances De Pontes Peebles What Happened to Anna K.: A Novel by Irina ReynIodine: A Novel by Haven KimmelThe Likeness: A Novel by Tana FrenchAwesome by Jack PendarvisBikeman: An Epic Poem by Thomas F. Flynn The Little Book: A Novel by Selden EdwardsThe Spirit of the Place by Samuel ShemThe Mercy Rule: A Novel by Perri KlassWaiter Rant: Thanks […]
David Morrell's Graphic "Knockout"
The AP enthuses over the author’s stand-alone comic-book miniseries Captain America: The Chosen, from Marvel. Morrell says in the afterword he wanted to “dramatize the burden of being a superhero in today’s troubled world, especially a superhero named after the United States.” The wire calls it a “poignant, yet uplifting, story with psychological dimensions that transcends the genre.”AP
Latest Textbook Trick: Slightly Customized Books Defy Used Sales
No wonder students rebel against textbook publishers. The latest twist, described in today’s WSJ, is for publishing companies to produce slightly customized books–like a special edition of “A Writer’s Reference” that puts the University of Alabama’s name on the cover and includes a 32-page section describing the school’s writing program (taken right from the school’s web site.) There’s no value added for the student, but the university gets a $3 a book royalty (from over 4,000 copies) from publisher Bedford/St. Martin’s, and the publisher inhibits resale into the open used book market. (If it makes you feel any better, Professor […]
Madonna's Brother's Memoir Lands
Christopher Ciccone’s big revelation in Life With My Sister Madonna? “The singer really does love her husband, director Guy Ritchie, but, apparently, not as much as she loves her career and herself,” the AP says. To further summarize: “Ciccone’s memoir includes everything from gossip about Madonna’s sex life (she lost her virginity to a ‘guy named Russell’) to anecdotes about such ex-lovers as Sean Penn (Madonna called him a ‘paranoid control freak’) and Warren Beatty, who allegedly cornered Ciccone at a party and quizzed him intensely on what it was like to be gay…. “The book offers snapshots of Bruce […]