Yesterday, I wrote a post about recently deposed HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman being a douchebag and literary lightning rod Judith Regan publishing books about sex.
"While Friedman's archenemy Judith Regan was no princess, at least she had the balls to publish daring books about sex, even if they weren't all very good. Friedman, on the other hand, remained the Erica Jong of publishing. Unable to get over whatever fantasy of power she believed she had at the dawn of the feminist revolution all those decades ago, in today's climate of sex-sex-sex, Friedman was nothing but a bore, a literary erection killer, everything Regan wasn't."
And then I got an email from Judith Regan.
"Actually most of the sex books I published were fabulous, even the ones Jane Friedman cancelled.
SEX TIPS FOR STRAIGHT WOMEN FROM A GAY MAN
SHE COMES FIRST
HE COMES NEXT
THE SURRENDER
HOW TO MAKE LOVE LIKE A PORN STAR (a cautionary tale) and much maligned and misrepresented by the media
Many burlesque art books and so much more…which titles did you find poorly done…just curious.
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