SECOND HARPER LEE NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED IN JULY

[Dave Monroe]

@ least it's being published (hopefully) in her lifetime.  And
(presumably) w/ her blessing.

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> And already clear from the trending that there'll be no shortage of opinions
> (some very vehement). Certainly nobody seems hindered by not knowing  Lee,
> her late sister/lawyer, her current lawyer, or more than a few lines of some
> other netizen's version of five decades of background. Everybody into the
> pool!
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:25 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> >
>> > ***
>> > Becky
>> >
>> >> 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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