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Along Publishers Row AUTHORS GUILD Spring/Summer 2015 BULLETIN Symposium: Which Way to the Reader? Navigating the Digital Marketplace The Authors Guild Announces Its Fair Contract Initiative Paul Aiken: Twenty Years in the Thick of Things Authors Guild Foundation Honors Joan Didion ALONG PUBLISHERS ROW By Campbell Geeslin oni Morrison, who turned 84 in February, has LOST AND FOUND: “Just call it the Gone Girl effect,” Twritten a new novel, God Help the Child. In an arti- wrote Sarah Hughes in The Guardian. “Following the cle in The New York Times Magazine, she said she keeps success of Gillian Flynn’s bestselling novel and the getting phone calls from journalists all over the world. recent acclaimed David Fincher–directed film adapta- “They are just calling to see when I’m going to die. So tion, fiction in 2015 is set to be dominated by unreli- I’ll play it up a bit and say, ‘Oh, today my arms hurt, able women.” my chest is sore.’ Because, me? I’m not going any- Hughes has looked ahead and observed that “this where soon.” year’s most compelling reads are all about lost girls, some of whom . turn out to have a core of steel in ABOUT THE ESSAY: Phillip Lopate is the author of their soul.” an essay collection, Portrait Inside My Head. He wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “The great promise AN INDIE’S LIFE: Since 2012, Kathryn Le Veque, 50, of essays is the freedom they offer to explore, digress, has self-published 44 works of fiction. Most indepen- acknowledge uncertainty; to evade dogmatism and dent writers’ books are on Amazon, and it has started embrace ambivalence and contradiction; to engage a new borrowing service, Kindle Unlimited. in intimate conversation with one’s readers and liter- Le Veque told The New York Times that before Kindle ary forebears; and to uncover some unexpected truth, Unlimited she sold about six thousand books a month preferably via a sparkling literary style.” at $4.00 a copy or higher. Now Kindle Unlimited pays Lopate was reviewing Charles D’Ambrosio’s her $1.38 for each book that is borrowed. To get those Loitering: New & Collected Essays. borrowers to buy, she has dropped some of her prices to as low as $0.99. Her revenue has gone up about 50 BORN ON TV: Bratva, a crime novel by Christopher percent. Golden, was “lifted wholesale” from the cable TV se- Le Veque told the Times, “I am able to drop prices ries Sons of Anarchy. A Page One article in The New York and by the sheer volume of sales, increase my income. Times reported “The novel was commissioned by the Most authors can’t do that because most of them don’t show’s creator . to keep fans engaged with the char- have fifty novels for sale.” But to keep up, she now acters—and with the show’s lucrative line of clothing, has a part-time editor and two part-time assistants. jewelry, action figures and other merchandise—after She also keeps writing, producing as many as twelve the finale.” thousand words a day. She said, “When I’m in the full Other novels have been based on Homeland, swing of writing with a deadline, I’m writing eighteen Broadchurch and the sci-fi series Fringe. “More titles are hours. It doesn’t feel like work. It feels like doing coming soon,” the Times promised. something I love.” THREATENED: Kamel Daoud, an Algerian writer, is EYE ON THE BALL: Patricia Cornwell’s latest mys- the author of Meursault, Counter-Investigation, which tery, starring fictional medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, retells Albert Camus’s The Stranger. Daoud’s version is Flesh and Blood. It is a bestseller. has caused him to receive death threats, The New York Cornwell wrote for the AARP magazine about a Times said. book that she said changed her life. In high school, she Daoud learned French when he was 9 by studying said, she cared only for tennis, and the book she read at his grandparents’ house. His character in the book is was The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey. quoted, “You drink a language, you speak it and one She said that the book “taught me how to inhabit a day it takes possession of you.” moment until everything is in slow motion—like a ball Daoud said that Camus was a major influence coming at you, closer, closer, focusing so intensely you on him. Camus’s “philosophy helped to liberate me. see its seams.” When I was a Muslim, all the world was explained to Cornwell said, “When I sit down to write, I remind me. With Camus, I learned the sense that life depends myself to stay in the moment. It’s not about how any- on me and my acts. I learned I was responsible for my thing ends.” life.” Daoud, a columnist and father of two, vowed, “I won’t be exiled.” Continued on page 38 Authors Guild Bulletin 2 Spring/Summer 2015 THE AUTHORS SPRING/SUMMER 2015 GUILD BULLETIN President Roxana Robinson Executive Director ARTICLES Mary Rasenberger Editor The Authors Guild Fair Contract Initiative: Martha Fay Taking a Fresh Look at the “Standard” Contract ........................ 9 Assistant Editor Joan Didion Honored by the Authors Guild Foundation ............ 11 Nicole Vazquez Senior Contributing Editor Confessions of a (self-published) Fool ................................. 13 Campbell Geeslin By Larry Duberstein Staff Writer Industry Trends & News ................................................ 15 Ryan Fox Copyright Hearings Conclude .......................................... 17 Copy Editor By Ryan Fox Hallie Einhorn Authors Guild Foundation Symposium: All non-staff contributors to the Navigating the Digital Marketplace ................................... 21 Bulletin retain copyright to the articles that appear in these Paul Aiken: Twenty Years in the Thick of Things ...................... 53 pages. Guild members seeking information on contributors’ other publications are invited to DEPARTMENTS contact the Guild office. Along Publishers Row ...................................................... 2 Published quarterly by: Short Takes ................................................................... 4 The Authors Guild, Inc. From the President .......................................................... 6 31 East 32nd Street From the Home Office ...................................................... 7 7th Floor New York, NY 10016 Legal Watch ................................................................ 19 Books by Members ......................................................... 48 The Bulletin was first published Members Make News .................................................... 51 in 1912 as The Authors League News letter. ABOUT THE COVER ARTIST Kevin Sanchez Walsh is a freelance artist and longtime contributor to the OVERHEARD Bulletin. He can be reached at [email protected]. “I don’t read that much. My buying-to-actually reading ratio is 387 to 1. I buy a ton of books. I have actually con- vinced myself that buying books is the same as reading.” — Judd Apatow, author of Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy, quoted in The New York Times, June 14, 2015 Copyright © 2015 The Authors Guild, Inc. Authors Guild Bulletin 3 Spring/Summer 2015 write her memoir. The book was approached the publisher, Dresen SHORT TAKES initially set for publication in 2012 agreed to pay her 1 percent of the by William Morrow (HarperCollins) book’s net sales out of fear that the Reading and E-reading but has been delayed indefinitely. estate might try to prevent the book PlayCollective and Digital Book Bozza sent Love a full draft of the from being published. After further World have released their fourth book in January 2014. Three months consideration, Dresen rescinded annual survey of e-reading habits later, Love told The Telegraph that she the offer, and Schacht filed suit. The among children ages 2 to 13, The had rejected it and spoke negatively case is now making its way through ABCs of Kids and E-Reading: Volume 4. about the content. Privately, she told the German court system. The court The findings, as reported by Digital Bozza, via text, that she planned to had earlier asked Random House Book World, suggest that children “fix the book” with another writer, Germany to disclose its earnings, and their parents are increasingly but she never formally terminated but the publisher refused, citing le- engaging with electronic books, their agreement. gal, moral and copyright grounds. with children “playing more ac- Bozza claims that he was prom- tive roles in choosing what e-books ised payment of $200,000 plus a Royalty Shortfall they read” and parents “willing to share of royalties; he has been paid Hesperus Press, a small, indepen- spend more on children’s digital $100,000 and, with his suit, he is dent publisher, released the UK content” compared to just a few seeking an additional $200,000. edition of Swedish writer Jonas years ago. Nearly all children who According to the lawsuit, Love has Jonasson’s 2012 bestseller, The read e-books “do so at least once a been paid $400,000 of her $1.2 mil- 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out week.” The study found not only an lion advance. (When contacted the Window and Disappeared. increase in the number of children by The New York Times in April, According to Nielsen BookScan, who read electronically, but a rising HarperCollins did not respond with sales of the novel reached almost preference for doing so. a comment.) 550,000 print books in the UK and Scholastic also performed its more than 700,000 e-books. The fifth study on readers between the The Goebbels Effect success of the book made it pos- ages of 6 and 17. The survey looked A biography of Joseph Goebbels is sible for Hesperus to create two new at attitudes of both parents and at the heart of a copyright debate imprints, but Jonasson says that he children toward reading skills, the that may have long-term ramifica- received only a fraction of the royal- importance of reading for fun, at tions for historians and publish- ties owed him in the fall of 2012, and classroom and at-home practices ers.
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