Angel Tarazzas has been named fashion PR director at Vink Media. He previously served as a consultant for the “PR, marketing and style agency.” (RevolvingDoor)

Penguin revealed a series of marketing and advertising-related promotions. Book Country’s Colleen Lindsay was promoted to associate director of marketing, social media and reader experience for the team. She will still be a strategic advisor and continue to interact with the writing community, but the Chicago Tribune‘s Brandi Larsen has been hired as the new director of Book Country. In addition, Ashley Fisher-Tranese was promoted to associate director of advertising and promotion. Craig Burke was promoted to director of marketing for Riverhead Trade Paperbacks and Perigee Books. Erica Martirano has been elevated to associate director of marketing and promotion, and Jodi Rosoff has been promoted to associate director of marketing and publicity. (GalleyCat)

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The issue at hand isn’t the fact that Lance cheated, ruined honest people with fake libel charges, or promoted a bunch of big brands after winning while on dope. No, it’s all about his books, see?

The two plaintiffs in the class-action complaint say that they bought Lance’s inspirational memoirs because they believed his story about a triumphant, dope-and-cancer-free return to the Tour de France. Upon discovering that the story was not exactly true, they felt “duped, cheated and betrayed” and decided to take his sorry ass to court for fraud. The suit accuses Lance and his publishers, Penguin and Random House, of committing acts of “false advertising” by selling the books as works of non-fiction.

Excuse us while we enjoy a guilt-free laugh.

The most interesting part of this story (to us) is the fact that one of the men filing the suit is “Rob Stutzman, a public relations executive who served as a deputy chief of staff for former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger“. He would certainly know a good bit about famous liars, wouldn’t he?

So will this suit go nowhere like the one against Three Cups of Tea author Greg Mortenson, who fabricated portions of his books? Or will it lead to a settlement like the case filed against admitted fabulist James Frey? And what do we think about the fact that a veteran PR professional started it?

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