Re: RARA-AVIS: more "Publishers as Filters"

From: Don Lee (donthepoet420@gmail.com)
Date: 28 Jan 2010

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    Nick Tosches has a vampire novel? Holy moley! He's a great writer! Check out his COUNTRY; THE TWISTED ROOTS OF ROCK N ROLL. Awesome book.

    On 1/28/10, Frederick Zackel <fzackel@wcnet.org> wrote:
    > From Publishers Lunch (January 27, 2010)
    >
    > "Stefan Petrucha's BLOOD PROPHECY, set during Napoleon's late-18th-century
    > invasion of Egypt, featuring a "vampire Indiana Jones" who searches for
    > ancient clues in an effort to become human again, to Alex Logan at Grand
    > Central ...."
    >
    > A vampire Indy Jones. Uh-huh.
    >
    > "Nick Tosches' new novel about vampires who move in the bars and streets and
    > subterranean places of New York City's night, to Michael Pietsch at Little,
    > Brown, who will edit, for publication in Fall 2012, by Tosches ..."
    >
    > Mmmm. Nightlife, eh? Showy? Flashy? Glitzy Vampires?
    >
    > "No. 1 NYT bestelling author of Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael
    > Jackson, Ian Halperin pulls back the curtain on another celebrity whose
    > identity cannot be revealed, to Lynn Grady at William Morrow, with Matthew
    > Benjamin editing, for publication in September 2010, by Jarred Weisfeld at
    > Objective Entertainment (world)."
    >
    > Wait! Wait a minute!
    >
    > Michael Jackson's not dead.
    >
    > He's coming back!
    >
    > To put the bite on us!!!
    >
    > Quick! Call my agent!!
    >
    > Michael Jackson has risen from the dead! Hallejuah!!
    >
    > "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself alive ... who can
    > sing and dance and whoop and bling ..."
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    "Go soothingly on the greasy mud, for therein lies the skid demon."
    -- Chinese Road Sign
    



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