Publishers also used to do all kinds of nifty things for their authors, like throw them a cool book party, send them on a book tour, get their books reviewed in the press and give manuscripts loving yet eagle-eyed editing.
My favorite memory of him: the night I hosted a book party in his honor (his prolific output, all banged out on typewriter, made this a frequent occurrence), when he dragged in his co-author, Captain Lou Albano, and a passel of other pro wrestlers, for a night of rowdiness and grappling stories.
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Elizabeth Ironside, she learned, is a pseudonym for Catherine Manning, wife of the British ambassador to the U.S. The rights to Garden had reverted to Manning once the book went out of print in the U.K. Lady Manning was thrilled to be published in America, and her husband, Sir David Manning, wound up hosting a book party at the British embassy in Washington, D.
Last Monday night in NYC, we had a book launch party for Leading So People Will Follow and our first annual Fully Accepted Leader award ceremony.
At a book-signing party, she sits next to a pile of his books.
Unlike screenwriter-in-exile Joe Eszterhas, whose recent book contains a cocktail party's worth of hearsay and salaciousness, Mamet refuses to kiss and tell.
Mr Clinton has promised to end his book tour before the Democratic Party convention, when Mr Kerry officially accepts the presidential nomination.
Yet where Mr Pittman was abrasive and relished the limelight, Mr Logan prefers a good book to a Manhattan cocktail party, and fishing for bass over dining at the Four Seasons.
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Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg since she was catapulted onto the global stage, but perhaps none so strange as one told at the U.K. launch party for her book, "Lean In, " hosted by British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne at his official residence in Downing Street this week.
"Where there are a lot of party scenes in the book, there isn't a lot of product placement, " reported the bartender, who recently reread "Gatsby" for cocktail inspiration but hasn't yet seen the movie.
Hamilton and Armstrong have also written an upcoming book, called Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality, where they expand on their dorm experience and describe how cuts in state funding of higher education have resulted in state schools relying on more tuition dollars.
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Equally, self-published authors are usually not represented by a third party who can best marry up book with reviewer, and, as more importantly, make decisions about which books should go out to the reviewers and which should not.
After the service, the Royal party will sign the Cathedral visitors' book.
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But to make this seem genuine he needs also to take a leaf out of Mr Blair's book and actually take on those elements in his party that most revolt the electorate.
Last week she started out at a party for Matilda Cuomo's new book, The Person Who Changed My Life: Prominent Americans Recall Their Mentors, at Le Cirque 2000, where she posed for pictures in a small room with Tony Bennett, shoe mogul Kenneth Cole and arts maven Kitty Carlisle Hart, among other luminaries.
Japan is so centralised, however, that the party says as many as 200 laws on the national statute book complicate the Osaka merger.
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The book experienced a spike in sales in line with the rise of the tea party in response to the rush of new spending and government control.
Mr Moreno, author of a spiritual self-help book known as the Family Bible, was tracked down after organising a lavish party that the police got wind of.
This book explains how I have come to find myself increasingly estranged from the Republican Party, from the policies it now stands for, and from the philosophy it now represents.
Suggestions in a new book that Mr Brown lied about his knowledge of a huge donation to the Labour Party from Bernie Ecclestone, a motor-racing baron, have led to Tory calls for the chancellor's resignation.
Thilo Sarrazin, a governor of the Bundesbank (and it's worth mentioning, a member of the left-of-center Social Democratic party) was pressured to resign his post in September after publishing a book arguing the failure of Germany's absorption of immigrants.
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In her book, published by Hyperion, she also talks about the uncomfortable fit of the Republican party, sort of like a size 0 Calvin Klein on a size 8.
Just this week, members of Wall Street's elite toasted Mr. Rattner at a party at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York for the publication of his book on the auto bailout.
And every time I teach certain stories - I mean, for example, James Joyce's The Dead, which I talk about in the book as the perfect story to go to if, for example, you want to write a party scene, which party scenes are very difficult to write.
Her friends, their friends, near-strangers she'd meet at a party, would all pull her aside to confess: This thing you're talking about, this book you're writing.
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