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Month: March 2015

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In conversation with the editor

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on March 28, 2015March 28, 2015

I love the baroque patterning that you can work toward with the family

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Who said launch?

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on March 22, 2015

The author wants something to mark the occasion. A couple of drinks won’t do. Sleeping with the advance copies under your pillow won’t do.

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Why on earth would a publisher knock back a politician’s memoir?

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on March 8, 2015March 8, 2015

Why shouldn’t a publisher refuse a proposal on political grounds when the author or subject of the book has acted in such a way that they have damaged the publisher?

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