Re: RARA-AVIS: Joe R. Lansdale Moves to Knopf

From: r-and-jclinton ( r-and-jclinton@msn.com)
Date: 25 Jun 2001


It's always good to see one of the good ones get his due reward...

Ron Clinton

From: "Frederick Zackel" < fzackel@wcnet.org>
> from Publishers Weekly
> http://www.publishersweekly.com/articles/20010625_96067.asp
> Edgar Winner Moves to Knopf
> Joe R. Lansdale, whose mystery The Bottoms won this year's Edgar Award for
> best novel, is moving from Mysterious Press to Knopf, where Sonny Mehta
has
> just made a mid-six-figure deal, U.S. and Canada, for his next two books
> with agent Jimmy Vines. The first in the deal, scheduled for 2003, is
Sunset
> and Sawdust and is a thriller set in East Texas during the Depression,
about
> a woman who kills her abusive sheriff husband in self-defense, then takes
> over his job and is faced with a murder that points to her.

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