Category: Publishing

May 6, 2014 /

It’s in his Kiss, everyone has a secret: once-wealthy moguls, studio executives with double lives…June 1st

May 4, 2014 /

Try doing this with a face full of Botox – and by the way, I’m done proofreading…

May 2, 2014 /

Down to the wire corrections, remove quotes, italicize thought…and I’ll see you all on the flip side

May 1, 2014 /

Things are looking up in Hollywood, at which point I become insufferable, the novel prototype has arrived…

 
April 29, 2014 /

What’s life like with Crazy-Pants Publishing-Girl?

Let’s imagine we’re Mister Lester… Why! I feel so tall all of a sudden! Back to reality here. The Mister does stand about a head taller than me, but I’ve never seen him in eyeliner. I’m not saying it’s bad—I remember a performance by Keanu Reeves as Siddhartha in “Little…

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April 29, 2014 /

“Grace under pressure,” and no, Hemingway was not referring to me…still swept up in the book thing.

 
April 29, 2014 /

“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other.” Hemingway

April 28, 2014 /

I was a little rude about one of the great American authors last week…

April 28, 2014 /

Bennett Cerf, married to Hollywood?

First to Sylvia Sidney, for a short while: And then for the rest of his happy life to a cousin of Ginger Rogers’: Phyllis Fraser:

April 28, 2014 /

Truman Capote goes Hollywood, according to Bennett Cerf

After Other Voices was published, Truman came wafting into the office one day and told me that Vogue wanted him to go to Hollywood for two weeks to write the impressions of a young writer who had never before been there. They offered him two thousand and expenses for two…

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