Obama's lit agt |
Author: mary riley (---.nyc.res.rr.com)
Date: 05-17-08 22:24
Interesting story on tonight's home page of the New York Times about Obama's books and his literary agents and attorneys. Quite an aggressive guy he is.
Excerpt: What happened between Mr. Obama and Ms. Dystel is not clear. Ms. Dystel declined to be interviewed for this article. Mr. Obama said, “It really had more to do with the fact that by the time ‘The Audacity of Hope’ was written, I was going to be in Washington and was obviously now very high profile.” Mr. Osnos called Mr. Obama’s decision to switch to Mr. Barnett, whose clients include former Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, “disloyal but not unusual.”
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Re: Obama's lit agt |
Author: Robert Brown (---.hsd1.in.comcast.net)
Date: 05-18-08 11:34
Happens quite frequently that when a writer, be s/he a senator and possible presidential nominee or not, gains fame that suddenly his present agent isn't big enough (I wouldn't call Dystel and Goodrich small, but oh well). What usually happens, however, is the client finds him or herself at the same place their original agent could have taken him. So I'd say the switch had more to do with added prestige (or press) than anything else-"My agent is so and so, you know the one who got the Tony his big deal?"
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Re: Obama's lit agt |
Author: Carmel C (---.stny.res.rr.com)
Date: 05-19-08 15:01
Haha maybe my full with Dystel will get more attention - you know now that there's an opening.
Incidentally, Jeff Rivera helped me land that request.
Peace, Carmel
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