> Subject: Re: Robin Hobb
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 16:23:20 -0800
> To: [email protected]
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
I love that. I'm currently reading Hobb's stuff at the moment actually, and I
was chuffed to recently hear she's picked up her pen (well, sat at her
keyboard) and started to write about Fitz and the Fool again. Paul
