Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 14:26:49 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: So out of the mainstream
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> eva.whitley at gmail.com 4/8/2006 11:19:18 AM >>>
>Michael Walsh wrote:
>> from one of the book industry newsletters:
>>
>> "Unborn babies must be reading Da Vinci. Who else on this planet
>is
>> left?"--Larry Kirshbaum, literary agent, in an AP story via the
Globe
>> and Mail, about the paperback sales of The Da Vinci Code. (The
>publisher
>> reports that more than 500,000 copies of the book sold in its first

>week
>> of paperback release, and now six million copies are in print.)
>>
>> Not only do I not have a blog, nor do I watched "reality" tv, it
>seems
>> I'm even more out of the mainstream...
>>
>> mjw
>
>You could have a blog. Steven can fix you up with one, like he did for

>me.

But I really have no interest in having a blog... <g>

>Jack swore, about a month or two before he got sick, that he got the
>idea for the Da Vinci Code years ago but rejected it as being too
>hokey.
>Shows how much he knew...--Eva

My boss here at JHUP was at Random House for about 25 years or so.
Apparently when the book was presented at the sales conference it was
along the lines of "This will probably do well... if so, we'll do a
paper edition in a year or so..."  Shows how much publishers know too
<g>.

mjw