![]() ![]() Sarem, speaking to Publishers Weekly, said: “It’s silly to say ‘I didn’t know about this book, so how can it be doing well?’ We should all be supportive of each other.” She added that she had been promoting the book at Wizard World Comic Con events, and that there had been a lot of buzz around it. We’ll be issuing an updated Young Adult Hardcover list for September 3 which will not include that title.” As a Fox News contributor, Katie regularly co-hosts the daytime show Outnumbered, has filled in as a guest co-host on the The Five and as a guest host on Hannity. The paper said: “After investigating the inconsistencies in the most recent reporting cycle, we’ve decided that the sales for Handbook for Mortals do not meet our criteria for inclusion. She is the award winning author of the New York Times Best Seller Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up. Shortly afterwards, the NYT changed its list, removing Sarem’s title and putting Thomas’s novel – in which a teenager’s unarmed best friend is shot by a police officer – back into the top spot. “They all said the same thing: someone called and placed a large order or asked about placing a large bulk order ‘for an upcoming event’.” The lack of social media buzz, the fact that no one in the young adult community was talking about it or had even heard of it … it all sounded fishy.” West said he had spoken to five bookshops about the novel. West told Publishers Weekly: “As soon as I saw the list yesterday, it didn’t make sense to me. ![]() An IMDb page for an adaption of the novel lists the author, Sarem (who is also an actor and music act manager), as lined up to play the lead character. Another bookshop shared similar information with West, while Publishers Weekly reported that a shop outside Las Vegas had a customer who ordered 87 copies after learning it was an NYT-reporting shop.Įntertainment website Pajiba, which first reported on the controversy, speculated that “someone, whoever they may be, hopes to use the ‘#1 New York Times bestselling novel’ moniker as a launching pad to a studio deal”. Stamper shared messages he had received from bookshop staff who said they had been contacted to see if their store was an NYT-reporting shop – the paper’s lists are collated from information supplied by a confidential group of stores – before a bulk order was placed. WASHINGTON The Justice Department’s inspector general on Wednesday issued a scathing critique of federal officials for their handling of the botched gun-trafficking case known as Operation Fast. Stamper and other YA writers, including Jeremy West, began to investigate. “You shouldn’t be able to buy your way on to the list. T he attorney Michael Avenatti stands just under six feet tall, with blatant blue eyes and thinning hair he shaves down. Sells ~5,000 in the first week? Ok,” Stamper wrote on Twitter on Thursday. “A book that no one has heard of except for the two niche blogs that covered the GN press release. But author Phil Stamper began to ask questions, pointing out that the book’s publisher was only launched a month earlier and that the novel was listed as out of stock on Amazon. ![]()
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