{"id":22,"date":"2008-02-13T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=22"},"modified":"2008-02-17T14:34:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T21:34:51","slug":"richard-ford-leaves-his-longtime-publisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/13\/richard-ford-leaves-his-longtime-publisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Ford Leaves His Longtime Publisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/motoko_rich\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More Articles by Motoko Rich\">MOTOKO RICH<\/a><br \/>\nPublished: February 13, 2008 <em>New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/richard-ford-190.jpg\" title=\"The novelist Richard Ford (Fred R. Conrad\/The New York Times)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/richard-ford-190.jpg\" alt=\"The novelist Richard Ford (Fred R. Conrad\/The New York Times)\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>In a surprise move, Richard Ford, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u201cIndependence Day\u201d and \u201cThe Lay of the Land,\u201d has switched publishers for his next three books.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ford, who turns 64 on Saturday, sold the United States rights to two novels and a short-story collection to Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, ending his 17-year relationship with Alfred A. Knopf and more than two decades of working with Gary Fisketjon, now a prominent editor at Knopf. At Ecco Mr. Ford will work with the publisher, Daniel Halpern.<\/p>\n<p>In an announcement on Tuesday, Ecco described the deal as \u201cmajor,\u201d but in an interview Mr. Halpern declined to disclose the terms.<\/p>\n<p>Reached by telephone, Mr. Ford deferred to Mr. Halpern and Paul Bogaards, a Knopf spokesman, for questions on why he made the move. Amanda Urban, Mr. Ford\u2019s literary agent, said, \u201cIt was a long and fruitful relationship with Knopf, and regrettably we couldn\u2019t come to terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/13\/books\/13ford.html\" title=\"click to view rest of article by Motoko Rich\" target=\"_blank\">click to read rest of New York Times article<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MOTOKO RICH Published: February 13, 2008 New York Times In a surprise move, Richard Ford, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u201cIndependence Day\u201d and \u201cThe Lay of the Land,\u201d has switched publishers for his next three books. Mr. Ford, who turns 64 on Saturday, sold the United States rights to two novels and a short-story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}