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: Blind Items
April 28, 2008 | Monday | 150 Comments
Another blind item landed in my inbox, and each one is more interesting than the next. You like the blind items? Hate them with a burning, itchy passion? Let me know. On to the item of limited vision: This NYT Author’s deviltry won’t come as any surprise to many of her colleagues, as sources say she’s not made many friends in the way of authors, reviewers, or, according to some fans who attended a recent weekend, members of her own fanbase. The scene: a restaurant, a relatively mellow mealtime during a recent conference. The Author is chatting and, given the…
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April 22, 2008 | Tuesday | 27 Comments
Heather Graham contacted me regarding the great “What What In My Camera” debate with the following statement: The story as I know it . . . . A bartender had a camera and insisted, as the bar was closing, that someone there take it, as he knew it belonged to our group. (Of hundreds.) Some of the kids—assorted kids, as in children of participants, models, not “camps!”—took silly pictures of armpits. Someone had discovered that close-ups of pressed pits resembled other body parts. The pictures were in bad taste, but then, again, it is a convention where we do have…
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April 21, 2008 | Monday | 104 Comments
A certain pub of the vowel variety was seen approaching one of their former authors, now a big double-diamond star in her own right for another publishing house. Despite proclamations that said author was persona non grata at their house since she departed, the pub rep present at RT was begging said author for a few books - e-rights only, no need to worry about that printy type business. Things must be rotten in Denmark for begging to supercede earlier vilification. Meanwhile, a number of authors from one ePub had a marvelous time at the party of another ePub, even…
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April 19, 2008 | Saturday | 20 Comments
A few not entirely blind items: Rumor has it EC Cavemen behaved like cavemen, with the exception of a gentleman who lived up to that term by the name of Rodney. At least three authors that I know of resorted to physical response to their grabby tactics – a physical response that involved a slap and no tickle. As of Friday evening, no cavemen in sight – they seem to have suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. At least, they’re not wearing their official EC gear and traveling in a pack, and the EC staff seem to have departed as well. And…
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