May 03 2006: Kaavya Viswanathan got a six-figure two-book contract as a Harvard-freshman based on her debut, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, which was written while she was still in high-school. It was published in March and all seemed to be going ...
May 03 2006: Donald Trump and Robert Kioysaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad) have teamed up to write a book. They plan to publish it under Kiyosakis Rich Press imprint with the aim of drawing interest from the big houses who will scramble for a piece of the pie. The book is ...
May 03 2006: John Kenneth Galbraith has died at the age of 97. He is the author of titles such as The Great Crash, 1929; The Affluent Society; The New Industrial State; The Anatomy of Power; The Culture of Contentment; and The Good Society. As the New York Times said in ...
May 03 2006: RainToday.com conducted a survey of 200 authors of business books, and concluded that those who invested some of their own money to promote their books did substantially better than those who didn't. 51% of those who took part in the survey invested their own money ...
Apr 20 2006: Sebastian Junger and his publisher Norton are confronting angry claims from the daughter of a woman whose murder he examines in his newest book, A Death in Belmont (just released in hardcover), in which he examines the 1963 murder of Bessie Goldberg, ...
Apr 20 2006: Publishers Weekly (the USA's leading publishing industry trade magazine) recently published its annual summary of book sales for the previous year - and the overall winner in adult titles, with a massive 3.7 million hardcover copies sold, was not by Grisham, ...
Apr 07 2006: The 2006 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winner in the Children's Literature category is Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (Scholastic/Chicken House), and the winner in the Children's Illustrated category is Zen Shorts by Jon J Muth (Scholastic)....
Apr 07 2006: Barnes and Noble plan to open 30-40 superstores in 2006 (including upgrades) and will close 15-20, for a net gain of about 20 stores. Borders plans to open 35 superstores in the USA and 10-15 overseas.
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
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