{"id":669,"date":"2014-03-07T12:50:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T12:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turneyduff2.dev\/?p=669"},"modified":"2014-03-07T12:50:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T12:50:53","slug":"twitter-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.turneyduff.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/07\/twitter-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Drama…"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Publisher\u2019s Weekly, @gselevator says he will sue the publisher “100 times over” if they try to get back the book advance they gave him. Nothing sounds more appealing to another publisher. For a guy who has made a living off of 140 characters or less, you\u2019d think he\u2019d be more careful with his words. Why not just go into your next pitch meeting and say, \u201cLook I\u2019d love to sell you my book for multiple six figures, but if you find out I\u2019m not who you think I am, don\u2019t think you\u2019re getting your money back because I\u2019ll sue you.\u201d<\/p>\n

There really shouldn\u2019t be an issue here, unless\u2026 the book proposal doesn\u2019t line up with what the book is now. Back when @gselevator was just @gselevator and not John Lefevre, the potential for a book had a certain mystique. Sure his twitter account was a parody, but his book promised to be true stories. For me, this was a harder sell. Any anonymous person can make up crazy banking stories. Now he gets to tell his story using real names and places, protecting the innocent of course. This should be a layup.<\/p>\n

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Simon and Schuster made a business decision. It has nothing to do with John Lefevre. If they thought they could sell 100,000 copies of his book, they\u2019d still be buying it. There\u2019s no moral or ethical dilemma here if the book rings true. If it\u2019s as great as he says it is, then he should have no problem finding another publisher. That is, unless he keeps sending out tweets like this: \u201cStay tuned. Next week, I will tweet locations and times, at various bars in NYC — All drinks will be on Simon & Schuster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Publisher\u2019s Weekly, @gselevator says he will sue the publisher “100 times over” if they try to get back the book advance they gave him. Nothing sounds more appealing to another publisher. For a guy who has made a living off of 140 characters or less, you\u2019d think he\u2019d be more careful with his … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}