Tuesday Morning LitLinks
Publisher Martin Rynja reportedly not backing down from publishing The Jewel of Medina, despite recent firebombing of his home…
…Author Sherry Jones calls for an apology from the U.T. Professor who called the book “softcore pornography” and deemed it a “national security issue”.
Galleycat measures the success of literary novels.
Great moments in headlines: “Babe Ruth Barfs, Cops Strike, Hoover Gets Nasty in Lehane Novel”
Robert Burns arrives… to Scottish toilet seats.
R.I.P. Konstantin Pavlov
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September 30th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Professor Denise Spellberg is a dingbat who behaves as if she completely missed the concept of pop culture entertainment for the last 5,000 years.
Appalled at the falsification of Islamic history? Is she an idiot? This is not a textbook any more than The Da Vinci Code.
From what I can tell so far, The Jewel of Medina is intended as a light historical romance. In no way does this point to being an attack on Islam and Spellberg shows an incredible lack of judgement to pretend that it is (there is no way she really believes this).
Spellberg lit the match. She should have known better and held her tongue until the novel was published and then write her own critical analysis.
She burned this book. The fact that it had not been published yet is irrelevant.
This chick is in Austin? William, if you run in to her t the Dairy Queen or the Piggly Wiggly or wherever you people down there shop, I expect you to bang her cart a time or two. And toss of box of matches into her cart - “I guess you’ll be needing these for the next book you want to burn”.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Selling 4,000 hardcover books is a damned good job?
I never looked in to the economics of publishing but this seems absurdly low.
At $30 per book, 4,000 copies equals $120,000 in retail revenue.
From the perspective of a publisher, how is this worth it?
What percentage of the $120K would the publisher get? And then what is the writer’s cut out of that?
September 30th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Please, please, please tell me that Konstantin Pavlov once wrote a poem called “My Dog”.
September 30th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
i want to say how much i admire that you didn’t take the cheap joke fodder of the bob burns toilet seat and instead went for the more oblique.
well played.