Flowers in the Attic: Sex and the pre-teen girl
Like many young girls who grew up the 1980s, I stumbled upon “Flowers in the Attic” because I was attracted to its cut-out paperback cover. (Anyone remember those? You?d open it to reveal a bigger – usually creepier – picture underneath.) In “Flowers in the Attic,” the image of a beautiful blonde girl looking tentatively…
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A cat person?s nine lives
THIS JUST IN: “You Know You Want This” just went to S&S’s imprint, Scout Press, for more than one million dollars, plus an additional novel in the deal. I?m guessing Kristen Roupenian thought she?d scored when her short story, ?Cat Person,? was recently published in The New Yorker. But her own story has just begun;…
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Writers’ groups are really made for writers
?Marketing is a long and arduous process that I wish I would have known more about in the beginning?? opens today?s Publisher?s Weekly article about the professional benefits of joining a writers? group. The quote came from Deeann Callis Graham, whose book, ?Head On,? addresses the issue of areata, an autoimmune disease that causes baldness…
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Knopf, Scandinavians, and publishing legends
Knopf is tagging along with another Scandinavian publishing phenomenon. This interesting article in Publisher’s Weekly details how Swedish agent Niclas Salomonsson convinced executives to sign up Lars Kepler. Kepler is the pen name of a husband-and-wife duo who have sold 11 million copies around the world, but failed to crack the United States market. The…
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Pulitzer winner’s pad for sale
Not every author who wins a Pulitzer Prize ends up sitting on a pile of money. But Herman Wouk seems to have done well for himself over the decades. He just listed his Palm Springs estate for $2.5 million. The 102-year-old writer won the Pulitzer in 1951 for The Caine Mutiny. His home was previously…
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