Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:07:41 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Nice Work If You Can Get It
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

from a publishing email service I receive:

Fay Weldon will spend the next three months as a writer-in-(free)-
residence at London's Savoy Hotel as she finishes her next manuscript.
The room, ordinarily priced at £350 a night according to the BBC =
comes
with free breakfast, too=AFbut she'll have to pay for any mini-bar =
goodies.
But there will be no required product mentions, as with her Bulgari =
novel.
"The book is certainly not about the Savoy and I don't think there will =
be
any mention of the hotel in it because it's not that kind of novel. I =
don't
think they are expecting me to mention them. Funnily enough I often
mention Claridges in my books and I have often stayed there. I can see
that it wouldn't be too wicked to change Claridges to the Savoy just
once."