The Poet's Funeral: 1 (Guy Mallon Mysteries, 1) - Softcover
Praise for The Poet's Funeral... "Nonstop wisecracks and an amiable tweaking of the publishing world add up to a highly entertaining debut." -Kirkus Reviews Everything goes wrong at the 1990 convention of the American Booksellers Association. Julia Child's cooking demonstration in the Random House aisle catches fire. A top New York editor catches a pie in the face. Invitations to the most exclusive publisher's party are stolen, and all the wrong people show up. Worse, Heidi Yamada, the world-famous poet, is found dead, spread over the late Elvis Presley's king-sized bed. Rich with poetry, publishing, book collecting, literary gossip, and a cast ranging from small-time players to the famous Rock Bottom Remainders, The Poet's Funeral is a story of ego, love, art, and murder. John M. Daniel has worked as a bookseller, freelance writer, editor, entertainer, and teacher. He is now a small-press literary book publisher in California. He has taught fiction writing at UCLA Extension and Santa Barbara Adult Education and is on the faculty of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. www.danielpublishing.com
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Daniel (Play Melancholy Baby) turns the 1990 Las Vegas ABA convention (now known as BEA) into a murder site in this delicious sendup of the book trade.
The meteoric rise of beautiful poet Heidi Yamada begins with the conversion of Guy Mallon, Santa Barbara bookstore owner, into Guy Mallon, publisher.
Clever, blatant and aggressive self-promotion wins Heidi a critic here and an agent there. Add a major publishing house and a star is born. But instead
of receiving a major literary award, Heidi winds up dead at the ABA (""of an apparent drug overdose,"" according to Publishers Weekly). In their eulogies,
her mentor, her agent, her various publishers and the critic who first hailed her, among others, reveal the Heidi they knew. Each adds a piece of the puzzle that Mallon will eventually decipher. The author lampoons
everything from the overstuffed ""collector's editions"" to the self-importance of critics and the self-interest of publishers and agents as he parades a growing list of suspects in Heidi's demise. Daniel's sharp, sardonic wit and insider's view of book industry foibles are sure to make this bibliomystery a hit.
-- Publishers Weekly 2005-03-14
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- PublisherPoisoned Pen Press
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 159058161X
- ISBN 13 9781590581612
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages386
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