Showing posts with label literary agent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literary agent. Show all posts

Friday, May 18, 2012

2003: Promotional material from Obama's book says "born in Kenya"

Obama’s literary agent changed Barack Obama’s bio page in April 2007, two months after he announced his run for President of the United States in February 2007. Before that, Obama’s bio said he was born in Kenya.
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In 2003, the publishers of Barack Obama’s book, Dreams of [sic] My Father, wrote that Barack Obama was born in Kenya in their promotional material.
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

14 days and 36 hours

Have you ever wanted to write a book, fiction or non-fiction,
but you just couldn't get it started, or didn't have the time, or
couldn't think of a plot or had writer's block, or didn't think you
had anything important to say, or didn't think you had the writing
talent, or had something else that was stopping you?

Well, I've just discovered a web site that is specially designed to
help you write your book faster than you ever thought possible.
In fact, there's information here that will lead you to write your
book in 14 days!

Now, I know that seems hard to believe, but when Mark Victor
Hansen (co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul and dozens of
other books) saw the information, he not only said it was some
of the best stuff he'd ever used, he even asked the owner of the
website to speak at his next seminar! And Mark is using this
information to crank out still more books!

This stuff is so powerful that folks all around the world, even
absolute novices, are using these techniques to write books
faster than they ever thought possible. There's even a free
email course that gets you started FAST! So if writing a book has
always been your goal, your dream, your desire, get yourself
over here right now!

(You'll also find out how to get an agent in 36 hours too!)