SECOND HARPER LEE NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED IN JULY

[Dave Monroe]

I like you, Mark. And, when all is said and/or done, isn't that all
that really matters?

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am one of the few readers in this country, and Alice gave me the
> best argument against me,
> that thinks TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is much weaker as a novel than as a
> political act.
> Scout doesn't work for me fully; Lee got that adult Scout from this
> novel too much into it
> in my contrary opinion. But nobody believes me, and some don't like me.
>
> I'm disappearing now. (for awhile)
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This will be a very interesting and historic publishing event. One
>> thing it could focus on is the mind of an Editor:
>> read the publication history and you will learn how MOCKINGBIRD would
>> not be MOCKINGBIRD without him.
>> He is the one who told her that it should be her pov. With which we
>> readers could feel sympathy (young) while we identify.
>> It was a brilliant COMMMERCIAL decision.
>>
>> YET, it may not have been published by Lippincott as, basically, the
>> whole SALES AND MARKETING department (but for the heroically honorable
>> SALES DIRECTOR) said
>> it would not sell...'we can't sell a copy in the South", etc....
>>
>> but that SALES DIRECTOR said, "I don't care if we don't sell any", we
>> should publish it because....MATTERS.
>>
>> Lippincott was the publisher of V. as we may have forgotten.
>>
>> Sales will BE SO HUGE....the advance selling and hyping will be all
>> over everything until Bastille Day....this is ALL OVER my FB, twitter
>> feed and Monroe would not miss it,
>> of course....
>>
>> Will Day One, Two sales rival Harry Potter's 10+ Millions?
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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