Comments on: Did I mention that her last name is Seinfeld?

By: Tara

Tara — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:47:15 +0000

Ms. Lapine is very fortunate to have been entwined in the book problem because now she’ll make so much more money from the media exposure….that’s the logic of many posters. Yeh, she’ll even be more happy when her greedy lawyers start deposing the Seinfeld’s entire HarperCollins book prep team in 3-4 weeks to see who leaked Ms. Lapine’s manuscript. You see, Ms. Lapine didn’t use an agent when she first presented the her manuscript to HarperCollins so the book staff could possibly have just said, ” Heh, look here, a free manuscript to steal. Nobody will ever know.”

By: Keir

Keir — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:29:39 +0000

More food for thought from Galleycat.

By: Keir

Keir — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:56:20 +0000

I never said there’s no rat. I just said that smelling the rat doesn’t necessarily mean that the rat will be found.

And, should the corpse of the rat be produced, I will be very surprised if it resembles the agent.

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:20:38 +0000

Yeh, Keir, right…TWO books which are:

both cookbooks
shown to the same publisher
in the same year
with the same UNIQUE recipes
on the same UNIQUE cooking concept
by authors who live in the same city
with nearly IDENTICAL book covers
both pitched to OPRAH

IS JUST A COINCIDENCE. No way, I smell a rat!

By: Keir

Keir — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:03:34 +0000

I think it’s a stretch to blame the agent. Do you really think Walsh went over Kaavya Viswanathanâ€™s manuscript and inserted select passages from Megan McCafferty’s books?

It’s definitely possible that Lapine got the short end of the whisk, but unless someone produces damning e-mails or another modern-day smoking gun, these things are very difficult to prove conclusively. Fortunately for Lapine, her book has enjoyed some substantial success on its own merits.

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:23:27 +0000

THIS IS A HUGE DEAL!

Point #1 - Ms. Lapine showed her book to HarperCollins (Ms. Seinfeld’s publisher) 6 months before Ms. Seinfeld. Ms. Lapine’s publisher had already made Ms. Seinfeld’s publisher change the book cover (which easily resembled Ms. Lapine’s book cover).

Point #2 - Ms. Seinfeld has the same agent from the William Morris Agency as the Harvard sophomore student who recently lost her book contract for copying another’s novel.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12594078/

Coincidence? You be the judge!