{"id":934,"date":"2008-06-15T10:28:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T15:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/15\/fortune-cookie-chronicles-as-a-main-selection\/"},"modified":"2008-06-15T14:00:58","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T19:00:58","slug":"fortune-cookie-chronicles-as-a-main-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/15\/fortune-cookie-chronicles-as-a-main-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortune Cookie Chronicles as a QPB &#8220;Main Selection&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard from my publisher this week: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qpb.com\/doc\/club_url\/club_url.jhtml;jsessionid=RTONN5OQMDNCSCTI4EKCFFA?_requestid=5482\">Quality Paperback<\/a>, an affiliate of Book of the Month Club, decided to use Fortune Cookie Chronicles as the Main Selection as opposed to (I think) just a regular or alternate selection. They are going to issue an early paperback (will this look like the permanent paperback?)<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly I was intrigued by book clubs.\u00c2\u00a0 How do the contracts work? Are they still flourishing in this day and age? Who needs whom more (publishers or the book club). I found a 20-year-old (circa 1988) New York Times article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=950DE1DC133BF932A25755C0A96F948260&amp;sec=&amp;spon=&amp;pagewanted=all\">Book of the Month Club.<\/a> Plus here is some stuff from Ivan Hoffman on how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivanhoffman.com\/clubs.html\">book clubs figure into author contracts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard from my publisher this week: Quality Paperback, an affiliate of Book of the Month Club, decided to use Fortune Cookie Chronicles as the Main Selection as opposed to (I think) just a regular or alternate selection. They are going to issue an early paperback (will this look like the permanent paperback?) Suddenly I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-f4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}