Bet that ones worth a bit Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Raymond Feist/New ATT<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 17/11/2013 00:28 To: feistfans-l<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Robin Hobb
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.
