Nega Mezlekia, who won the Governor General’s Award for non-fiction last month, is battling the novelist he hired to edit his book. Anne Stone claims she wrote much of the book, but Mezlakia denies it and sent letters to her accusing her of being ”dull, colourless, humorless, vulgar, and a complete failure. ‘You may have Penguin’s lawyers off your backs [sic], but rest assured my campaign has just began [sic]. I have set side $50,000 of my hard earned money to ruin you’.” – National Post (Canada)
- WHAT IT MEANS TO AUTHOR: The complicated relationships an author has with those who help bring a book to print can make the lines of authorship blurry. The Mezlekia/Stone dispute comes down to his stories and her help in getting them out. – National Post (Canada)