Unfortunately John Parsley has decided to pass.  The pages are good, he said, but they didn’t give him that edge-of-his-seat feeling that I guess he’d been hoping for…  In talking further about it, it’s almost like he wants something antithetical to what the Anon culture actually is:  he wants YOU to be the guy who did EVERYTHING, wants to know exactly what you hacked, who did what…  He didn’t put it that way exactly, but his sense from these pages is that you were there but weren’t necessarily the guy in every instance.  And I said, well, actually, that’s TRUE!  And the collaborative nature of Anonymous means (in part) that the individual pieces aren’t really tallied in that way…

He remains very interested, IF there were somehow more to tell him…but that means we’d have to postpone things, do more work—and then we’d STILL not know for sure…

This is good news.  That time seems to have been well spent last night.


On Thursday, September 22, 2011, Daniel Conaway <dconaway@writershouse.com> wrote:
> So SMP likes the new stuff-see below.  I have a call in to Parsley, will let you know what I hear.  Stephen Morrow was running out the door, promised to speak w/ me tomorrow.  Clive Priddle confirmed that he'll be bidding.
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> Dan Conaway
> Literary Agent
> Writers House
> (212) 696-3825
>________________________________
> From: Soha, Yaniv [mailto:Yaniv.Soha@stmartins.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 3:49 PM
> To: Daniel Conaway
> Subject: RE: ANONYMOUS--new sample
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> This is really good.  A little jargony still, but much more in the spirit of what we'd envisioned.  I'm sharing with colleagues.  Will be back in touch ASAP.
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> Thanks,
> Y
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> From: Daniel Conaway [mailto:dconaway@WritersHouse.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 1:49 PM
> To: Soha, Yaniv
> Subject: RE: ANONYMOUS--new sample
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> Here's the attachment.
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> Dan Conaway
> Literary Agent
> Writers House
> (212) 696-3825
>________________________________
> From: Daniel Conaway
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 1:47 PM
> To: 'yaniv.soha@stmartins.com'
> Subject: ANONYMOUS--new sample
> Importance: High
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> Hey, Yaniv-
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> Good talking just now.  As promised, here's the sample Gregg and Barrett wrote to (hopefully) give you a clearer sense of what the voice of the book-a book focused much more clearly on Gregg and his lens, and not trying to be encyclopedic or journalistic per se-would be.  Obviously this was done quickly, on the fly-basically they knocked this out last night, before Gregg headed back up to Boston.  But I like it, like how it drills down to give a more moment-by-moment sense of how the CoS 'op' come together, and also what it meant.
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> Hope this helps.  Let me know what you think of this, will you?
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> Thanks-
> Dan
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> Dan Conaway
> Literary Agent
> Writers House
> (212) 696-3825
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