Posted on April 28, 2006 by Marsha James

Today the Vatican called for the boycott of the Da Vinci Code movie. The book was criticized for being anti-christian and filled with “lies”. They do not want it around and says that if this had been about the halocaust or the Koran then there would have been world wide uprisings.
Opus Dei is also stepping [...]

Posted on April 28, 2006 by Marsha James

It seemed at first like 19 year old Kaavya Viswanathan’s people were going to stand behind her when she was accused of copying phrases and scenes from author Megan McCafferty. Only a few days later the publisher Little, Brown and Company has announced that they were pulling the novel.
They don’t mention if they are cancelling [...]

Posted on April 27, 2006 by Marsha James

The novel is a fairy tale in which a prince and princess doesn’t live happily ever after, but a King and King does. The prince must find a bride before his mother the Queen will let him have the throne and after looking through all the princesses he doesn’t like any of them. When one [...]

Posted on April 27, 2006 by Nancy Callahan

It’s been a few weeks since I sent out my first queries to literary agents. So far, no bites — just a few rejections.
Luckily, I’m immune to rejections. (I’ve been a freelance writer for a few years, so I’m used to them.) Also, I’m thankful they’ve all been good non-form-letter rejections — each responded [...]

Posted on April 27, 2006 by Marsha James

Three weeks ago Justice Peter Smith ruled in Dan Brown’s favor and Lawyer Dan Tench noticed that ruling on paper today. Some letters are usually italized but are usually unreadable words.
However the ones he saw spelled out Smith Code. Smith is the last name of the judge. He has refused all interview requests but his [...]

Posted on April 27, 2006 by Marsha James

In Character : Actors Acting is actually a photograph novel done by photographer Howard Schatz. In the book are more than 100 actors and actresses acting to different characters and we get to see frame by frame shots of their faces in character.
We are supposed to see them slowly but surely transforming from themselves to [...]

Posted on April 26, 2006 by Bevin Lynch

Yes, the Da Vinci code is still incredibly popular and with good reason. I would imagine that in the coming months it will only grow in popularity as the movie is released, especially given the big name draw of Tom Hanks. My only sadness is that a kind of wish that I rumor I heard a while [...]

Posted on April 26, 2006 by Marsha James

The novel The Da Vinci Code has been out for a few years and has sold more than 40 million hardcover’s. It has been discussed and written about many times and yet when the paperback novel was released a month ago many were surprised at how well it has and still is doing.
The bestselling novel [...]

Posted on April 26, 2006 by Marsha James

Teenage author Kaavya Viswanathan is being accused of plagiarising two books by author Megan McCafferty in her first novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life”.
Viswanathan has apologized but says that the similarities in the books were not intentional and that she didn’t lift passages from the two books.
Some however do not [...]

Posted on April 24, 2006 by Bevin Lynch

Work has been a trial the last few days and today was no different–I ended up going in two hours earlier than necessary to meet with a client that cancelled. So I hightailed it out of there to try and get my head back on straight and ended up in a bookstore…
 Once inside, I felt [...]