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LitterboxPublicity-Hungry Minister Lures Reporters to Church with Flickering Lights*A North Carolina pastor announced plans for a Halloween bonfire at Amazing Grace Baptist Church, and at least one local television station was credulous enough to send somebody out to hear his explanation. Make that two local TV stations, with at least one Associated Press staffer figuring the story was worth bumping up the news chain. The gimmick here is that Rev. Mark Grizzard and the 14 members of his church believe that the King James Bible is the only version that counts, so they'll be burning copies of any other translation they can get their hands on, as well as books by "heretic" authors like Billy Graham, Rick Warren, and "the Pope" (although it's unclear whether they mean John Paul II or Benedict XVI). The one thing we're curious about: Where are all those books coming from, and how much did they cost? (OK, maybe that's two things.) (Actually, now that we think of it, there's a third issue we can't quite shake: What are the non-English-speaking peoples of the world supposed to do for salvation if they can't read the "preserved, inspired, inerrant and infallible word of God" as laid out by King James' crew of 47 scholars? It's all very confusing.) *That's right: We're stealing from ourselves. Also, yes, we recognize that, technically, the headline is inaccurate because the bonfire is still two weeks away. Charles Dickens Fights for Copyright in the Wild WestYesterday, at The eBook Test, Mike Cane reminded us that Charles Dickens was an outspoken advocate for writers' intellectual property rights, and that he took his crusade to the United States, where pirated editions of his novels once flowed freely. This put us in mind of a great episode of Bonanza we stumbled onto one lazy Sunday afternoon years ago, in which Dickens—played by Jonathan Harris of Lost in Space fame—arrives in Virginia City to read from Oliver Twist and is angered to discover that they are already familiar with the scene... So, what happens is that the local newspaper is serializing Dickens without his permission, and when the publisher's office is destroyed... oh, heck, the whole episode is on YouTube if you want to take a look. We'll just point out one more scene where Dickens has a poignant conversation with Hoss Cartwright in which he compares his literary output to the Ponderosa by way of explaining why he's willing to defend his work against unauthorized publication... As If Publishing Didn't Have Enough Problems
Those specific instructions, combined with the vague description of the situation as an "insect issue," plus the announcement that "a representative from the pest control company will be here on Monday to answer any further questions you may have," have led staffers to suspect that what they're dealing with is bed bugs. "I thought the fact that they'll have a bug expert there to answer questions was a giveaway," an anonymous source told us. "You wouldn't do that for roaches or ants or mice." Having dealt with bed bugs ourselves, we totally sympathize with their concerns—and if that does turn out to be the problem, staffers may want to throw their backpacks in a washing machine (setting: hot) then put them in the dryer on high heat for an hour, just to be safe. We don't know what to do about briefcases; maybe you could leave them open on your chair with a post-it note asking the exterminators to spray them. Or maybe our readers have suggestions... UnBeige: Hungry Little Caterpillar at 40
The famed caterpillar actually began his life as an ordinary worm [Stephanie reports]. After some fortuitous experimentation with a hole puncher, Carle got to thinking about a bookworm and created A Week with Willi Worm, which ended with the title character growing into a morbildy obese worm. "I showed it to my editor, Ann Beneduce, and she didn't like the worm so much," explains Carle in a video on his website. "She said, 'How about a caterpillar?' And I said, 'Butterfly!'" And the rest is history." The Year in Publishing: December 2008
Oh! We almost forgot: Over the holidays, another memoirist turned out to be a big phony: Berkley cancelled the publication of Herman Rosenblat's Angel at the Fence when the author admitted that he did not actually meet his wife from opposite sides of the barbed wire fence at Buchenwald twelve years before their first date. As HarperStudio chief Bob Miller pointed out, everybody rushed to blame Oprah for Rosenblat's ability to perpetuate his fraud as far as he did. The Year in Publishing: November 2008
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The Year in Publishing: September 2008Jason Boog joined the GalleyCat team, and the industry news kicked into high gear...
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PreviouslyThe Year in Publishing: June 2008 The Year in Publishing: May 2008 The Year in Publishing: April 2008 The Year in Publishing: March 2008 The Year in Publishing: February 2008 The Year in Publishing: January 2008 A $530 Laptop Case? That's Not Punk, It's Cyberpunk It's a Book Trailer! It's a Cat Picture! You Can't Say You Weren't Warned FishbowlLA: Bad PR Techniques in Action! How to Judge a Book By Its Cover (and a few other factors) The Art of Reading, Reduced to a Gimmicky Stunt Running Through the World, Dancing in Rhythmic Measures UnBeige: Half Off Fancy Art Books! President Bush Prefers Books To Network TV Want 600 SF eBooks for Free? Become an Astronaut Obama's Building Up His Foreign Policy Assets FishbowlLA: Feminist Handbook Undercut By Racist Artwork Fox News Tackles Literature: Class Act as Always From Politics, It Was an Easy Step to Book Trailers Perhaps The Easiest Blind Item Yet It's Fun When Alternative Bands Namecheck Writers! Of Course He Bought Books He Hasn't Read! It Would Be Easier With Stormtroopers Let's Check In On Some Old Friends What Do Authors Think Of No-Advance Publishing? Six Unboring Lit Links: Winners, Losers, Gossip Girls, And Memoir Lies How Much More Pink Could This Be? The Answer Is None. None More Pink. What's With the John Hughes Nostalgia? Apparently, Fake Editors Aren't an Urban Legend Elsewhere on mediabistro.com: Now That's Creative Bookshelving The Most Award-Nominated Story You've Never Heard Of Elsewhere on mediabistro.com: JT Leroy, Bugs, Kristin Harmel Ben Greenman's Britney "Musical" Now on YouTube When You Get to the End of This Headline, Remember to Breathe Ditch Your Office, Email Work in From Starbucks Two Stories You Really Ought to Read Your House Is a Very, Very, Very Fine House Dozens of Weird Books, Collected Under One Cover Chuck Norris Tells America How It's Gonna Be Oxford Designates "Locavore" Word of the Year Oprah's Inadvertent Thing for Fake Memoirs Happiness in Libraries Is Entirely a Matter of Chance Striking Writers Still Have Options for Writing Almost Moon Doggerel Sweepstakes Completed "Long Tail" Expert Gives Publicists Short Shrift "Trick Lit": Is There Really Any Out There? "Incloseto Putbacko!": More Dumbledore Reactions mediabistro.com Alum Lands YA Book Deal GalleyCat: Your Source for Literary Page Six Items It Really IS a Small World, After All More Literary Stuff What Is Being Given Away Online Toiling in Obscurity? Take Comfort Online Please Excuse the Semi-Detached Tone of Late Carrying Subversive Literature on Int'l Flights Will Get You Noticed, But Tom Clancy's OK For Now Go Do a Crossword Puzzle or Something Bill Clinton Stocks Up on Reading Material Travis Bickle, Patron Saint of Bloggers? Meet Anna Nicole's Widower's Lawyer! Bongos and Catcher's Mitts, Put to Uses God Never Intended Another Drib from the Clapton Memoir Top Books Left Behind in UK Hotel Rooms Brown-Bagging It? Maybe There's a Prize for You Amazon/Humane Society Lawsuit Still Simmering Liberals Bury Their Noses in More Books Two Denise Browns, Each With Her Own Tragedy Judith Regan Still Attached to OJ Book Gossip Talk About Dangerous Books for Boys (& Girls) Publishers Downplay the Menace of Paper Cuts Somehow I Don't See This Catching On With Amtrak Morgan Spurlock, Eat Your Heart Out Damn Right Jane Austen Got Rejected Minneapolis News Chain Closes Shop Hachette Unharmed by Grand Central Explosion A Bulk Email Snafu? What Is This, 1997? Next Time, I'm Just Writing the Book Myself Novel Writing Made Simple (and Semi-Nude) Dorothy Parker Lawsuit Turns Full Vicious Circle Lambda Seeks Funds to Nurture Next-Gen LGBTQ Lit Every Time You Ban a YA Book, You Make The Angels Cry Gawker Literati Shine on Manhattan A Perfectly Nice History of the Met Wait, Rosie Used a Ghostwriter? More Developments in Our Future Hit Show Wanted: A Literary Simon Cowell Perhaps the Coolest Alarm Clock Ever Built How Not to Disrupt an Author Event No "White House Money" for Ex-Spymaster TNR Floats "Gonzales Memoir Proposal" |
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