Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:41:35 -0500 (EST)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How to sell books.....
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Michael Walsh wrote:

> More on Frey via Publishers Lunch:
>
> Talese Contradicts Frey's Account of Sale
> Nan Talese talks to the Observer about the publication of James Frey's A
> MILLION LITTLE PIECES and her essential truth is different than the
> author's. She tells the Observer she "almost collapsed" after hearing
> Frey tell Larry King, "When Nan Talese purchased the book, I=E2=80*m not =
> sure
> if they knew what they were going to publish it as. We talked about what
> to publish it as. And they thought the best thing to do was publish it
> as a memoir."
>
> Her statement: "When the manuscript of A Million Little Pieces was
> received by us at Doubleday, it was received as nonfiction, as a memoir.
> Throughout the whole process of publication, it had always been a
> memoir, and for the first year and a half it was on sale, it was always
> a memoir with no disputation. It was never once discussed as fiction by
> me or anyone in my office."

And, of course, it was presented to the public and sold under the
description of "a memoir".  Ted is, perhaps, thinking of an earlier
incarnation, presented to another publisher, of which Frey said nothing
to Doubleday.  I shouldn't be surprised if that constituted fraud, too.

-- Dick Eney

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