On Thu, 29 May 2003 17:46:42 -0600 "Kestrel"
 writes:
> > > > Veloci--good for Jack!--raptor
> > >
> > > Indeed :)
> > > Are we sure it's the same Jack?
> >
> > we are....
> > =g=
> >
> > In fact, just now that Jack posted over in writing:
> 
> ahh, but see... I don't get Writing :)

I know, that's why I cross posted....

> Last I saw/heard from Jack was about..hmm...98, 99? Maybe even 
> before that!
> My God...

well, now you have his email!
(and can discuss casting of a Sam Johnson dictionary movie....)

er, yeah! tygress

> > ====
> > From: Jack Lynch 
> > To: writing2{at}tantech.com
> > Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 15:32:52 -0400 (EDT)
> > Subject: Re: [writing2] Hello Everyone!
> > Message-ID:
> > 
> >
> > pddb{at}demesne.com writes:
> >
> >     What publishers will give you is their boilerplate contract.
> >     This contains clauses that they will never enforce even if
> >     you sign it as is, because the clauses do not apply to the
> >     kind of writing you do.
> >
> > When I published my trade-press abridgment of Johnson's
> > _Dictionary_ last year, the contract said that I gave the
> > publisher the movie rights.
> >
> > Drat! -- and I had plans of optioning it to Miramax, with Brad
> > Pitt as the noun substantive and a cameo by Meryl Streep as the
> > letter N.  I thought about calling it a deal-breaker.
> >
> > (Happy news: though it's been available only through mail order
> > so far, in September a retail edition will be released in a
> > co-publishing deal with Walker Books.  Walker is best known for
> > Dava Sobel's _Longitude_; they've also done _Brunelleschi's
> > Dome_, _The Victorian Internet_, _A Basque History of the World_,
> > &c.)
> >
> 
> 
> 


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But what life is without danger, really? [Jill Fredston, arctic
adventure's] father, Arthur Fredston, a courtly Manhattan attorney, was
walking near the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001.
Her mother, Elinor Fredston, was diagnosed with peritoneal cancer almost
six years ago.... So, compared with terrorism and cancer, what's an
occasional polar bear? --Michael Ryan

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