Comments on: Tuesday Morning LitLinks http://authorscoop.com/2008/12/30/2546/ The Latest in Literary News Thu, 17 May 2012 10:53:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Michael http://authorscoop.com/2008/12/30/2546/#comment-4155 Michael Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:10:36 +0000 http://authorscoop.com/?p=2546#comment-4155 Laura Bush should just make it a recipe book. In a televised interview on the first day of the RNC convention in 2004, I recall Laura Bush being asked if she ever discussed current events with her husband and she replied something to the effect that she did not because it was not her place to discuss those things. Laura Bush has nothing to say. Laura Bush should just make it a recipe book.

In a televised interview on the first day of the RNC convention in 2004, I recall Laura Bush being asked if she ever discussed current events with her husband and she replied something to the effect that she did not because it was not her place to discuss those things.

Laura Bush has nothing to say.

]]> By: William Haskins http://authorscoop.com/2008/12/30/2546/#comment-4152 William Haskins Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:05:36 +0000 http://authorscoop.com/?p=2546#comment-4152 i think it will be a rather cynical and bottom-line business model. can they sell it to enough die-hard bush partisans and libraries to turn a profit... i think it will be a rather cynical and bottom-line business model. can they sell it to enough die-hard bush partisans and libraries to turn a profit…

]]> By: chris johnson http://authorscoop.com/2008/12/30/2546/#comment-4151 chris johnson Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:33:34 +0000 http://authorscoop.com/?p=2546#comment-4151 The Laura Bush piece highlights for me a weird aspect of publishing -- when a publisher buys a nonfiction book, it's a pig-in-a-poke because there's only the first chapter or two written plus some proposed chapter outlines. With insider/celebrity books it's a tease; they're selling not what they (more likely their ghost writer) has written, but what they might write. It's a very, very weird dance. Fundamentally, though, with this book I think there's truly little or no there there. The Laura Bush piece highlights for me a weird aspect of publishing — when a publisher buys a nonfiction book, it’s a pig-in-a-poke because there’s only the first chapter or two written plus some proposed chapter outlines. With insider/celebrity books it’s a tease; they’re selling not what they (more likely their ghost writer) has written, but what they might write. It’s a very, very weird dance. Fundamentally, though, with this book I think there’s truly little or no there there.

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