Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 20:19:33 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Bifurcating L. Ron
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>From the PublishersWeekly Newsline for today:

Crossing a Bridge: Galaxy Press Is Scientology Publisher's Spinoff

Anyone who has stepped within a few hundred feet of the Bridge
Publications exhibit at BEA probably knows more than they ever thought
they would about the
Scientology movement and its publishing program. Well, now you'll have
two chances to acquire some accidental wisdom.

The house responsible for Battlefield Earth and all literary licenses
asociated with L. Ron Hubbard has spun off a new company to handle
fiction: Galaxy Press, comprised of eight employees who worked on the
fiction line at Bridge. Galaxy will be run by John Goodwin, who once
served as v-p, public relations for Bridge.

While the company has not hired any additional personnel, Galaxy
spokesperson Elise Toth says that because of the spin-off, "the
concentration in marketing, publicity and sales efforts can greatly
increase for both Mr. Hubbard's fiction and non-fiction work." Toth
says Hubbard has more than 20 works of fiction in print, but has
written over 250. The new firm, she says, "will publish a lot more of
these books."

Is everyone clear on this?

mjw