Hoaxing the Hoaky

Due to some tech issues with Movable Type, Publishers Lunch got around to covering Atlanta Nights, the book-length hoax submitted to PA, before us. Still: if you haven’t checked out weblog Tenebris’s reprinting of PublishAmerica’s letters to the Atlanta Nights team, we’ll at least claim credit for reminding you to do so.

Also worth a (slightly more fleeting) glance: PublishAmerica‘s website, presumably written by a publicist version of Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction, someone capable of continually mistaking stalking for publicity. Among the site’s listed “success stories”:

Perhaps it’s only fair, though, to expect a vanity press to confuse a book’s arrival with its happy reception. After all: in its world, acceptance is the effect of correct postage.

And, to whatever degree PublishAmerica claims it isn’t a vanity press, its desperate need for “success stories” (and crumb-sized implications of “credibility”) proves otherwise.

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