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New Book Reveals Christie's Tumultuous Background

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Cissy Laureys, Chris Christie New Jersey, Video, Chris Christie, Morris County, John Murphy, Chris-Christie, St. Martins Press, Doug Cabana, Governor Chris Christie, Michael Symons, New Jersey Politics, Bob Ingle, Chris Christie Book, Politics News

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's work as U.S. attorney might have made him a frontrunner for his current job, but he almost lost his prosecutorial pos...

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Feds Intercept Pot Shipment Sent To Publishing House

Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: St Martins Press Pot, St Martin's Press, Pot Intercepted, Video, Marijuana, Post Office, Usps, Pot, Mail, Books News

Crime-related documents website The Smoking Gun reported yesterday that three parcels, containing 11 pounds of pot, were intercepted on their way to p...

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Sideways Publishing Saga -- The St. Martin's Press Nightmare (Part III)

Rex Pickett | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Alfred A. Knopf, St. Martin's Press, Alexander Payne Sideways, Books News

When people meet me and learn that I wrote Sideways they're shocked to find out I'm not a multimillionaire. Not even close, I inform them. In fact I'm...

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Sideways Publishing Saga -- The St. Martin's Press Nightmare (Part II)

Rex Pickett | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Sideways Movie, Alexander Payne Sideways, St. Martin's Press, Books News

When I started to write novels and had some success I really believed that the author, more akin to a playwright in the theater, would be treated with kid gloves. Try brass knuckles!

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The 'Sideways' Publishing Saga -- The St. Martin's Press Nightmare (Part I)

Rex Pickett | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Alexander Payne Sideways, St. Martin's Press, Literary Agents, Sideways, Sideways Movie, Book Publishing, Publishing Industry, Books News

I started to believe I had written a dreadful book, that Sideways was unpublishable. Then I got a call informing me that St. Martin's Press had offered $5,000.

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The Sideways Publishing Saga -- Part III: Whiplash; Dismay!

Rex Pickett | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Sideways Book, Alexander Payne, Sideways, Alfred A. Knopf, Sideways Movie, St. Martin's Press, Rex Pickett, Books News

The Academy Awards hold a special place in my heart. I'm somehow miraculously behind two Oscars: the Best Adapted Screenplay for Sideways (based on my novel of the same title) and the writer of the 2000 Oscar for Best Live Action Short.

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The Sideways Publishing Saga -- Part II: Exultation

Rex Pickett | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Alexander Payne, Alfred A. Knopf, Sideways, St. Martin's Press, Sideways Book, Sideways Movie, Rex Pickett, Books News

A year after Sideways had been pulled for submission, and the film industry had turned a deaf ear to two guys who go wine tasting in then little known Santa Ynez Valley, my life was in tatters.

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It's the End of the Word as We Know It

Rex Pickett | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Alexander Payne, Sideways, St. Martin's Press, Sideways Book, Publishing Industry, Future of Books, Future of Movies, The Death of the Word, Sideways Movie, Books News

You would think with a publishing contract, a high-powered agent, a movie in the works, that I was the most grateful writer on the planet. I was... and then I wasn't.

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Being Ok With A Cliche

Erin Byers Murray | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Marriage Advice, Off the Grid, Oyster Farming, Career Advice, Books We Love, Memoir, Erin Byers Murray, St. Martin's Press, Shucked, Slidepollajax, Women News

"She went off the grid to write a book about being off the grid so she could come back to a better place on the grid."

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Casey Anthony Book Coming Soon

nytimes.com | JULIE BOSMAN; Compiled by ADAM W. KEPLER | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Inside the Mind of Caset Anthony, Casey Anthony Book Deal, Macmillan, Glenn Beck, Casey Anthony, St. Martin's Press, The 7, Keith Ablow, Books News

The Casey Anthony book blitz has begun. St. Martin's Press said it had acquired a book about Ms. Anthony, the Florida mother who was found not guilty ...

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Cherish The Book Publishers—You'll Miss Them When They're Gone

wsj.com | ERIC FELTEN | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Publishing, Book Publishing, Kindle, Amanda Hocking, Self Publishing, Amazon Kindle, St. Martin's Press, Big 6, Ebooks, Books News

The Klondikers of digital publishing are rushing to stake their claims, inspired by tales of the gold to be found in the Kindle hills. A few pioneerin...

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What Makes The Newest "Sweet Valley High" Spinoff Different?

nytimes.com | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Macmillan, St. Martin's Press, Francine Pascal, The Sweet Life, Sweet Valley High, Sweet Valley Confidential, Sweet Valley High Spinoff, Books News

If the recent spinoff of the “Sweet Valley High” young-adult series wasn’t enough for nostalgic fans, there is another revival in the works....

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Amazon Reveals Frontlist Deal For Thriller Writer Barry Eisler At BEA

The Bookseller | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Bea, Random House, Book Expo America, Thrillers, Barnes & Noble, Amazon Offer, St. Martin's Press, Barry Eisler, Amazon, Frontlist Deal, Larry Kirshbaum, Books News

Thriller writer Barry Eisler, who turned his back on a two-book deal for half a million dollars from St Martin's Press, has decided to accept six figu...

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UPDATED: Amanda Hocking Signs Four-Book Deal With St. Martin's Press

AP | By TARA BANNOW | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Publishing, St. Martin's, Amanda Hocking, St. Martins, Harpercolllins, Self Publishing, Random House, St. Martin's Press, Amanda Hocking Book Deal, Books News

AUSTIN, Minn. -- For more than five years, Amanda Hocking spent her days tending to disabled adults, making their meals and cleaning up after them. Wh...

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Rick Lax: In a City Rich With Deception, No One Fools Him

Ellen Sterling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hookers, And How NOT to Get Screwed in Vegas, David Coopperfield, Penn & Teller, Las Vegas Weekly, Lawyer Boy, St. Martin's Press, Rick Lax. Fool Me Once: Hustlers, Headliners, Books News

Fool Me Once, is what Rick Lax acknowledges to be a "stunt" memoir: "Your publisher pays you to go out and have an adventure. You're getting paid $20,000 to go to Las Vegas. What's better than that?"

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Obama's Tucson Speech Already A 99 Cent eBook

New York Times | JULIE BOSMAN; Compiled by PATRICIA COHEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Obama Tucson Speech, Ebook, St. Martin's Press, Obama Speech, Book Publishing, Kindle, Books News

Anyone who missed President Obama's speech at the Tucson memorial service on Jan. 12 can read it online, watch a video clip on YouTube or listen to sn...

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A Well-Written Story Poorly Told

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mildred Pierce, Jeffery Deaver, Harlan Coben, Scott Brick, Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio, Tonight I Said Goodbye, Lincoln Rhyme, Michael Koryta, Asimov, Globe and Mail, Myron Bolitar, Audiobook, Chicago Tribune, St. Martin's Press, Zachary Scott, Books News

The Bolitar audiobooks are Twitter-talking, cheeky-sleuth mysteries at their best and require an often light, irreverent touch in narration.

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Operation Dark Heart 'Pulped': Military Officials Watched Publisher Destroy 9,500 Books

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghan War, Dark Heart, Military Intelligence, Department of Defense, Afghanistan, Operation Dark Heart, Anthony Shaffer, St. Martin's Press, Anthony, Banned Book, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department says it has paid $47,000 to destroy 9,500 copies of a former Army intelligence officer's war memoir that the...

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Following Karen

Cari Shane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: First-Time Novelist, Murder Mystery, Motherhood, St. Martin's Press, Books, Writing, Karen Bergreen, Books News

Karen Bergreen, who considers herself far from perfect as a mother and wife, wrote a book about the non-perfect woman's obsession with the perfect woman.

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The "American Idol" of Publishing

Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Chuck E. Cheese, Book Publishing, Contest, Books, Writing, Novels, Usc, American Idol, St. Martin's Press, Writing Contest, Books News

"When I was 18 and read Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler, the desire to write a private eye novel was firmly planted in my soul," says Thomas Kaufman. At the age of 52, Kaufman's ambition was realized.

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Humane Society of the US: New Factory Farm Book is "Groundbreaking... A Dramatic Expose"

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hsus, Factory Farms, Animal Factory, Humane Society of the United States, David Kirby, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, St. Martins Press, Humane Society, Cafo, Books News

Here's an interview I recently gave on my work behind writing Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Envrironment.

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Current Best Sellers: Buyers Beware

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

If you're the kind of reader who must finish a book no matter how disappointing, you might want to save time by simply avoiding these current offerings from three marquee-name writers.

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