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This week Kent M. Keith ’71 released his first full-length book, Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments, published by Penguin Putnam, after a Mother Teresa quotation led him back to his own college-age prose...
Keith, self-proclaimed “public citizen” and senior vice president for development and communications at the YMCA of Honolulu, took a circuitous route to Penguin Putnam, beginning in mid-September 1997 at a meeting of the Honolulu Rotary Club. Keith was in a rut with his writing. After attending the Maui Writers’ Conference two weeks earlier, he worried that his chances of publishing anything were slim, because he had no “special hook or angle.” Bowing his head at the beginning of the meeting, though, Keith heard his fellow...
...Wally Amos (of chocolate-chip cookie fame) connected Keith to a small Maui company, Inner Ocean Publishing. After he expanded the commandments to a book explaining the meaning of each one, that company not only bought the manuscript but sold its rights to several foreign publishers, as well as Penguin Putnam...
Pursuing legal action seemed like a good idea at the time. After all, her manuscript Blood Eternal, which is about vampires who operate a car service in the suburbs of New Jersey, had languished “for about nine months” in Penguin Viking’s editorial offices. She originally sent it to a sympathetic Penguin editor she met at a Chicago book fair. This Starobin booster switched jobs before any Blood Eternal progress was made and her replacement had no interest in unagented horror from an unknown author. Starobin finally got her manuscript back and, disappointed...
...FUDGE FATALE Popular children's author Judy Blume hasn't written a kid's book in 12 years. But that's about to change, reports PW. In September, Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers will publish "Double Fudge," the latest hardcover entry in her best-selling Fudge series. There are currently16 million Fudge books in paperback...