That is great!
On 17/11/2013 11:23 AM, "Raymond Feist/New ATT" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> On Nov 16, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Scott Burchfield <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > I received a copy of the cloth covered Magician book from the UK and was
> looking through the page opposite the dedication and right after the
> Copyright Raymond E. Feist 1982, 1992 there is this:
> >
> > "Robin Hobb asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of
> this work."
> >
> > I'm not an author or publisher, but this seems very odd to me. I did a
> search at Crydee.com but the only thing referencing "Hobb" were non Feist
> books for sale.
> >
> > Ray could you clear this up?
> >
>
> No, I can't.  I'm sworn to secrecy, and they're holding my kids . . .
>
> It's just a production fuck up. The "droit moral" clause (which is not
> agreed to by the US, alone, of all signatories to the Berne Convention on
> Copyright) says that you put that stuff in there.  HarperCollins screwed
> the pooch big time.  Apparently, Robin Hobb wrote Magician and I wrote Song
> of Fire and Ice!  How's that?
>
> Just a production mistake.  Nothing significant in it.  Though I was doing
> a signing with Megan Lindholm (Robbin Hobbs) and autographed a copy someone
> had fetched over from the UK and Megan circled that and wrote, 'No I
> didn't!" and signed it.  Thought it was great fun.
>
> Best, R.E.F.
>
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