Amanda Knox Released, Can Book Deals Be Far Behind?
With the news that Amanda Knox has been released from Italian prison, you just have to wonder how long it’s going to take before the book deals start flooding in. There are already Candace Dempsey’s Murder in Italy: The Shocking Slaying of a British Student, the Accused American Girl, and anInternational Scandal which was released…
continue readingAnonymous Goes to Amazon Publishing
Recently, we noted the news that Anonymous was shopping a book. The loop on that particular thread has now been closed with a completed sale. According to Publishers Marketplace, the book was sold to Julia Cheiffetz at Amazon Publishing. The deal entry explains that the book is “the story of the ordinary people who became…
continue readingFake Boobs, Insurance, and Girl Next Door Books
Reality television star and former Hugh Hefner consort Holly Madison is getting a tremendous amount of attention for the fact that she insured her breasts for $1 million. Which, to my mind, is kind of like Rebecca Black insuring her Auto-Tuned voice. Both are synthetic, manufactured, and more the product of other people’s skill than…
continue readingJim Harrison and Admitting Ignorance
In the October issue of Outside, Tom Bissell recounts his conversation with Jim Harrison in “The Last Lion.” Bissell is the author of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, and The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of…
continue readingErrors with Categories
As we work out the kinks in our new theme here at Slushpile.net, we’ve noticed that there is an error in that the category links are not pulling all the entries. For example, if you click on the Interviews link on the right, it only displays five results when, in fact, we’ve posted dozens and…
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