Literary Agents

Maryann Karinch (http://maryannkarinch.ulitzer.com) launched today the "Literary Agents Magazine" on Ulitzer.com (http://literaryagents.ulitzer.com). Maryann is the author of 15 books, including five books about human behavior co-authored with Greg Hartley: How to Spot a Liar (Career Press, Fall 2005), I Can Read You Like a Book (Career Press, Spring 2007), Date Decoder (Adams Media, Spring 2008), Get People to Do What You Want (Career Press, Spring 2008), and How to Become an Expert on Anything in 2 Hours (AMACOM, Summer 2008). Forthcoming books are Business Lessons from the Edge (McGraw-Hill, co-authored with Jim McCormick, August 2009), 365 Ways to Get a Good Night’s Sleep (Adams Media, co-authored with Ronald Kotler, MD, Fall 2009), and A Spy in Business (working title) (AMACOM, co-authored with Peter Earnest, Spring 2010). Others are Rangers Lead the Way: Th... (more)

Want To Be An Expert? Follow These Two Rules

Expertise is like beauty: It's in the eye (or ear) of the beholder. You can have facts and figures about a particular subject coming out of your mouth, but if your audience has no interest in or need for the information, then you are not an expert. Rule #1 to be an expert: Watch for the signs and signals you are getting through to your audience. Their body language will give you clear indications of your success or failure. (This is the subject of another Ulitzer article, "The Body Language of Acceptance.") You can also go from expert to non-expert quickly if you do not have a se... (more)

Harry Potter's US Publisher Sued for Copyright Infringement

NEW YORK, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The Trustee of the Estate of the late English author Adrian Jacobs will hold a news conference at 11 am Wednesday 14 July at the law firm of Andrews Kurth LLP, 450 Lexington Avenue, New York with attorney Thomas R. Kline to discuss the filing of a lawsuit in New York against Harry Potter's US publishers, Scholastic Inc. for infringement of copyright in the series by J.K. Rowling. The Estate claims that J.K. Rowling copied a substantial part of Jacobs' visionary 1987 book The Adventures of Willy The Wizard No 1 Livid Land into her book Harry ... (more)

Harry Potter's US Publisher Sued for Copyright Infringement

NEW YORK, July 14, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Trustee of the Estate of the late English author Adrian Jacobs will hold a news conference at 11 am Wednesday 14 July at the law firm of Andrews Kurth LLP, 450 Lexington Avenue, New York with attorney Thomas R. Kline to discuss the filing of a lawsuit in New York against Harry Potter's US publishers, Scholastic Inc. for infringement of copyright in the series by J.K. Rowling. The Estate claims that J.K. Rowling copied a substantial part of Jacobs' visionary 1987 book The Adventures of Willy The Wizard No 1 Livid Land into her book Harr... (more)

[2b2k] Total rewrite of Chapters 1 and 2

I’ve been working diligently on Chapter Two, titled “Knowledge as Network.” Today, I threw it out and threw out Chapter 1 while I was at it. I’m radically restructing both. I was 7,500 words into Chapter 2, so this counts as both a possible advance and a setback. The Chapter 2 I had almost completed began with an anecdote about expertise, then talked about the evolutionary origins of knowledge as a way to know more than can fit into one human brain. Then, onto the development of systematic methods of knowing, starting with Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham. Then on to repeatabili... (more)