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As it happens, Horowitz is also the editor in chief at Tarcher, so we asked him about the situation, and he emailed back to remind us that, while the house may be selling Manly P. Hall a bit more overtly than usual as Dan Brown’s publication date nears, this particular cover design for The Secret Destiny of America has actually been in use for some time, and he assured us that no similarity was intended between the cover of that book and his own. “I encouraged using the eye-and-pyramid on the jacket to Occult America since that image is so perfectly suited to the subject and is discussed in the book,” he explained. “It’s one of the most alluring images in American history.”

(And it’s true: If you’re going to write about occult-tinged versions of American history, you’re going to wind up talking about the Great Seal of the United States at some point.)

Horowitz added that the two covers used different versions of the Great Seal’s eye-in-pyramid imagery (we’ve blown the two elements up so you can see for yourself, and “beyond that,” he said, “I felt that other elements were significantly divergent.” Given all the additional imagery on the Occult America jacket, that sounds reasonable to us… but we can’t help wondering if we’re going to be seeing the Eye of Providence again before this bookselling season is over?

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If such an imprint existed, it would be helmed by Jenna Bush Hager–two time author and now television news reporter. On today’s Morning Media Menu, we discussed the news that Jenna Bush (pictured, via), the daughter of President George W. Bush, will be joining The Today Show as a monthly contributor.

Here’s more from Politico: “[T]he show decided to give Hager a spin after she’d come off as a ‘natural presence’ in two previous appearances on Today to promote her book for young adults, ‘Ana’s Story,’ about a young woman born with HIV/AIDS.”

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Patterson’s friends and colleagues are encouraged to contact his neighbor, Ellen Levene, at [ellenl2 AT nyc DOT rr DOT com] for information on a possible memorial service at a future date.

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Cross’ book will join a crowded field soon, as comedians like Sarah Silverman and Jerry Seinfeld have set off bidding wars between houses. Time Magazine caught up with the deadpan comedian in an interview this week, getting his thoughts on the Arrested Development film, his upcoming stand-up tour, and the book.

Here’s more about Cross’ blurb from news anchor and author Keith Olbermann: “That was my idea. I’m friends with Keith, I like him quite a bit. And as he says in the blurb, we disagree about things, but we have very interesting, good, educated conversations about stuff. And we’re in a fantasy baseball league together.”

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The conglomerate publisher counted 140 titles on the New York Times bestseller lists during the first half of 2009, but the release said the U.S. arm of the company suffered from “continued distressed economic environment and the reduction in inventory levels by major bookstores.” Nevertheless, the company expressed faith that the massive restructuring last year will “offset” these loses.

Here’s more from Random House CEO Markus Dohle‘s open letter to worldwide staff: “Our customers implemented tighter inventory controls, resulting in significantly higher returns and fewer copies ordered, on both initials and reorders, which hurt frontlist as well as backlist sales … But our fiscal year is not all gloom and doom. Our six-month results only partially reflect the current big turn in the right direction for our business–our strong sales performance overall during June, July, and August in our territories. Our monthly numbers are rising, thanks to some of our biggest-selling titles of 2009.”

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“Storm and I were sitting across from one another at a charity event,” Cain emailed in response to our questions, “and she mentioned that she was a fan of Heartsick [the first book in the series] and in that moment I looked at her and was like, oh my God, she looks just like Gretchen. I’d seen her around—on TV and in photographs—but I’d never really looked at Storm up close until that moment. It was bizarre… I get asked all the time who I would cast as Gretchen, and I’m always at a loss. You have a character in your head, and no one really fits exactly, and at the same time everyone sort of fits. Then I saw Storm and she was Gretchen.” The author ended up arranging the entire photo shoot, hiring a photographer and stylist and picking out Large’s wardrobe herself. In addition to the wanted poster (which will be wheat pasted on the streets of Seattle and Portland), Large and Cain devised several poses for the official “I Heart Gretchen Lowell” website, which is mentioned throughout the novel.

“I had just finished Heartsick and was secretly fantasizing about playing Gretchen in whatever film, television or internet incarnation the story would become in its next life…so I was really excited when Chelsea said that,” Large concurred. “I love that Gretchen is so zen about murder. How the victim makes him or herself known to her, then a kind of seduction or dance begins with the inevitable gory terrible ending…she is a lovely and twisted woman.”

Cain also helped clear up our confusion about Gretchen Lowell’s age; as we noted in our original item, we’d always mentally pictured the character as at least five years older than she appeared to be in the poster. “Gretchen is 34 in the books, but they’ve never seen her birth certificate,” Cain explained, “so no one knows for sure, and I’ve always imagined that she is like Storm—forty maybe, but just really fucking hot.” And, she predicts, the creative partnership will continue: “I’d love to do more with Storm. She has a great idea for a Valentine’s Day card. It involves nudity and a whole lot of blood.”

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For your resume-making pleasure, here are a couple new postings. This morning, Scholastic posted a job for a Desktop Support Technician. In addition, Cambridge University Press has an opening in ESL/ELT Editorial Opportunities.

BlackBook Media is looking for an Assistant Designer. Finally, HarperCollins Publishers is looking for an Advertising & Promotions Assistant Manager, who will, among other things: “assist marketing with the creation of promotional materials such as seasonal catalogs, sales material and displays. Oversee projects from concept and copywriting through design and printing. Includes routing and follow up to ensure deadlines are met. To create cover copy (blurbs) for mass market and trade paperback releases.”

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The company press release valued the cash and stock transaction at $4 billion, based on stock prices on Friday. Disney now owns the rights to more than 5,000 Marvel characters, an nearly endless supply of spin-off possibilities. Hardboiled author and Marvel writer Duane Swierczynski proved this point on Twitter: “I want to write a Punisher/Jiminy Cricket team-up.”

Disney CEO Robert A. Iger had this statement, laying out the huge swath of imaginary territory now controlled by Disney: “This transaction combines Marvel’s strong global brand and world-renowned library of characters including Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor with Disney’s creative skills, unparalleled global portfolio of entertainment properties, and a business structure that maximizes the value of creative properties across multiple platforms and territories.”

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Smashwords helps publishers and authors create, market, and sell e-books online, giving back all authors 85 percent the net proceeds from book sales. The company’s current collection contains 2,600 titles, and Smashword titles should be listed on the Barnes & Noble site in the next thirty days.

Smashword’s distribution model also includes this new “premium feed” feature, aimed at widening distribution channels for their authors: “This new catalog is distributed to major online retailers and other distribution outlets that have higher mechanical standards such as requiring quality book cover images, books with copyright pages, and other requirements outlined below.”

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This commercial particularly stands out when you compare it to the other videos Solin has released online this summer…

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Zane is a New York Times Bestselling author with more than ten titles under her belt. She is also the publisher of Strebor Books International and the creator and co-executive producer of CINEMAX Original Series’ Zane’s Sex Chronicles.

Jeff Rivera is the author of “Forever My Lady” and the founder of GumboWriters.com.

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GalleyCat has been tracking the stock performance of the major companies that influence the bookselling business. We created this chart with eight publicly-traded publishing stocks hand-picked by our readers–including company name, symbol, current stock price, and price increase or decrease at week’s close.

-Name- -Symbol- -Last price- -Change-
The McGraw-Hill Co. MHP 33.61 0.63
Books-A-Million, Inc. BAMM 13.98 -0.32
Borders Group, Inc. BGP 3.2 0.06
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 82.76 -1.55
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS 20.89 0.16
Wiley John & Sons Inc. JW.A 32.51 0.27
Scholastic Corporation SCHL 24.73 -0.73
News Corporation NWS 12.93 -0.06
Google Inc. GOOG 464.75 -1.31
Apple Inc. AAPL 170.05 0.6
Sony Corporation SNE 27.3 0.05

(Link via Publishers Weekly)

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One year after being exposed as an invented character supported by an elaborate Internet hoax, Martin Eisenstadt has resurfaced in a video supporting his forthcoming book–complete with Amazon Kindle cameos and cardboard cutouts.

In the heat of the 2008 Presidential election, two filmmakers created Eisenstadt as an imaginary political adviser, posing as a John McCain staffer and fooling reporters with exaggerated tales of Sarah Palin‘s problems. The NY Times unraveled the hoax here, but as the video reveals, a book attributed to this imaginary character will arrive in October–”I Am Martin Eisenstadt:
One Man’s (Wildly Inappropriate) Adventures with the Last Republicans.”

Here’s more from the publisher’s website: “[W]e heard that he was a fraud, a fake, and that Martin Eisenstadt didn’t exist. Maybe he doesn’t. But in a world where ‘news’ can spread like wildfire on the Internet and a hoax can tell you more about politics than the facts, Martin Eisenstadt–whose blog and think tank fooled the world–has something to tell us. With the savviness of Primary Colors and the playfulness of Forrest Gump, his book is a mix of political intrigue, campaign-trail escapades, and cyberspace detective work.”

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“[W]e had different ideas about how to tell this story and build the argument,” Klein explained in an interview with the Independent. The documentary will air on September 1 in the U.K., on the More4 channel. Winterbottom has directed many films, including “24 Hour Party People” and “The Road to Guantanamo.” In 2010, he will release an adaptation of Jim Thompson‘s dark novel, “The Killer Inside Me.”

Here’s more from the article: “Winterbottom’s work … has led to such insurmountable creative tensions that Klein, who originally came on board to narrate the film and act as a consultant, does not appear in the credits as a writer or consultant, or act as its narrator. A source at Channel 4 said the writer was so disappointed with Winterbottom’s vision of her book.” (Via NY Times)

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