The PW Morning Report, October 10, 2008
By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 10/10/2008 5:31:00 AM
Friday, October 10, 2008
A daily r
ound-up of the latest publishing news: Jewel of Medina Postponed in Britain; Andre Norton Book Rights Given to Care-Giver; Misha Defonseca Lawsuit Tossed; Publishers Flock to Frankfurt; HarperStudio Goes International; Hemingway’s Cuban Field of Dreams; and Joan Rivers & Cleopatra
Jewel of Medina Postponed in Britain, reports The Bookseller
After the fire bombing of her publisher, Gibson Square, the novel has been postponed in the U.K. "We respect Sherry Jones’s decision," her publisher said. "In her view the best thing to do is to postpone her visit and the publishing of the novel in Britain"
Andre Norton Book Rights Given to Care-Giver, reports AP
The woman who cared for sci-fi writer Norton before her death in 2005 is given book rights by the Tennessee Court of Appeals
Misha Defonseca Lawsuit Tossed, reports AP
A Massachusetts judge has ruled that Defonseca, author of the 1997 book Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years, cannot be sued by her publisher Jane Daniel because the lawsuit was filed too late
What Credit Crunch? Publishers Flock to Frankfurt, reports The Bookseller
Stands booked by publishers from both the U.K. and U.S. has grown, from 797 to 798 and 637 to 673 respectively
HarperStudio Goes International, reports The Bookseller
Bob Miller’s imprint will soon be available in the U.K., Australia and New Zealand
Hemingway’s Cuban Field of Dreams
New York Times reports on what happened to Ernest Hemingway’s baseball diamond in Cuba. A delightful story
OMG! Joan Rivers Has New Book, reports Rush & Molloy
It’s called Men Are Stupid: And They Like Big Boobs (Pocket; December 30, 2008) and in it she reveals that when she went in for plastic surgery she met a fellow actress who also had plastic surgery. She "insisted she had been in a car accident," recalls Rivers, adding: "I won’t say who, but she’d played Cleopatra." Claudette Colbert?
