Comments on: Late Night With Jan Harayda – Three Books That Bombed at Bookstores – ‘Thirteen Moons’ and Other ‘Legendary Flops’ http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/late-night-with-jan-harayda-%e2%80%93-three-books-that-bombed-at-bookstores-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%98thirteen-moons%e2%80%99-and-other-%e2%80%98legendary-flops%e2%80%99/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/late-night-with-jan-harayda-%e2%80%93-three-books-that-bombed-at-bookstores-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%98thirteen-moons%e2%80%99-and-other-%e2%80%98legendary-flops%e2%80%99/#comment-6899 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:03:20 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=3244#comment-6899 Give back advances? Oh, no. Authors have to do that only if they don’t meet the terms of their contracts — for example, by not turning in the book — and sometimes there’s leeway even there.

Many authors miss the contractual deadlines for their books by years but don’t have to pay back their advances because their publishers have faith that the books will eventually arrive.

]]> By: Val Kovalin http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/late-night-with-jan-harayda-%e2%80%93-three-books-that-bombed-at-bookstores-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%98thirteen-moons%e2%80%99-and-other-%e2%80%98legendary-flops%e2%80%99/#comment-6898 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:48:21 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=3244#comment-6898 What an expensive gamble! I could maybe see taking a chance with Thirteen Moons because Cold Mountain was a word-of-mouth hit, and the publishers may have thought that the audience would be built-in. Of course, it was 10 years ago that people read Cold Mountain. Taking a chance on James Frey I can’t see at all. These authors aren’t contractually obligated to give back their advances to their publishers, are they? For their sakes, I hope not!

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/late-night-with-jan-harayda-%e2%80%93-three-books-that-bombed-at-bookstores-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%98thirteen-moons%e2%80%99-and-other-%e2%80%98legendary-flops%e2%80%99/#comment-6897 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:10:25 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=3244#comment-6897 You have wonder what the publisher was thinking. This was a textbook case of an overrated first novel (“Cold Mountain”) that set up for a giantic sophomore slump … except that slump seems way too mild a word for it, doesn’t it?

]]> By: tysdaddy http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/late-night-with-jan-harayda-%e2%80%93-three-books-that-bombed-at-bookstores-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%98thirteen-moons%e2%80%99-and-other-%e2%80%98legendary-flops%e2%80%99/#comment-6896 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:48:43 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=3244#comment-6896 That info on Frazier’s book is amazing. 5.5 million dollars, down the tubes . . . Ouch!

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