SECOND HARPER LEE NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED IN JULY

[John Bailey]

Just read that some are suspicious of the release - it comes 3 months
after Lee's sister and lawyer passed away, who was fiercely protective
of her work, especially since Lee has reportedly been in quite poor
health and might not be of the mental fitness to know if an
unscrupulous publisher was pulling a swifty on her. This is all just
what I've read, mind, and all news to me. Does seem odd that an author
would release a book half a century after writing it, when there would
have been no shortage of opportunities in the decades since. But
whaddyaknow.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:
> Same thing happened to a lot of authors in that era - probably today,  too,  when a book shows a lot of promise but the editors/publishers are concerned with market forces (which is what pays the bills - for author and publisher, both).  So it gets "fixed" to suit their purposes.  -  See “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - 1943.  First time novelists are most vulnerable.
>
>  "One of the major problems for scholars who work with twentieth-century American writing . . . is to come to terms with the alterations wrought on modern American literature by editors in trade houses" (72). Publishing in the United States was, since its inception, fueled mainly by a market economy rather than private patronage. This resulted in what Amy Kaplan, in The Social Construction of American Realism calls the "failed masterpiece.”
> From -  American Authors and the Literary Marketplace by James West (1990).
> https://web.njit.edu/~cjohnson/tree/pub/pub.htm
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> Becky
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>> On Feb 3, 2015, at 8:29 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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