November 19, 2003

Who Knew?

Posted by Kieran

Who knew that the book publishing world was so full of bizarre criminal intrigue? If this were fiction, an editor would laugh at the absurdity of a villian whose alias was Melanie Mills but whose name in fact turned out to be Roswitha Elisabeth von Meerscheidt-Hullessem. Real life, having no moral to impart or plot to resolve, has no such difficulties.

Posted on November 19, 2003 08:04 AM UTC
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What a great scam! I’ve run into would-be novelists in the coffee shop who would be the easiest of marks for such a con…

Better get started.

Posted by p mac · November 20, 2003 02:28 AM
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→ out there, I'm just a rube.
Excerpt: Australian writers who want to do business in the US (overseas is where the cash is) would do well to read this salutary tale from Atrios, which also leads to Writer Beware, which does the obvious. The trail from Melanie...Read more at BARISTA

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