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BOOK ON WTC HERO STIRS RAGE
New York Post (NY) - Friday, September 28, 2001
Author: Keith J. Kelly
FIREFIGHTERS seem to have finally eclipsed police officers in the literary world in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks - but not all the attention is welcomed by New York’s Bravest.
“Holding Fire, A Love Story,” a racy new novel about firefighters, has stirred up a firestorm of controversy because the author says the main character in the book is based on Captain Patrick Brown - a decorated firemen who perished in the World Trade Center attack.
Members of Brown’s family say they are angry and upset and want author Elissa Wald to stop what they feel is shameless capitalization on Capt. Brown’s death to sell books.
“There are no firefighters or family members who are happy about this,” says Dr. Michael Brown, brother of the late firefighter. “The book really does some pretty bad things to good people.’
Wald, a stripper at Flash Dancers-turned-writer, has been on the “Today Show” on NBC and was featured in a USA Today interview over the last week once it was learned that the main character in her book, Jonah Malone, is modeled closely on Captain Brown. She said she was romantically involved with Brown in 1994 and remained friends even after their affair ended.
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The publisher and editor for the book, Beau Friedlander of Context Press, said he has no intention of recalling the book and says it is “absolutely untrue” that he sped up production of the book to capitalize on the tragedy.
“The book was on its way to stores before the attack,” said Friedlander . “And Elissa is donating 10 percent of her profits to charities,” he noted.
Capt. Brown’s brother says he is exploring his legal options. In the meantime, he says of the book, “Just dump it in the garbage. Hopefully, in a few days it will go away, and nobody will get hurt.”
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Chapel Hill gunman’s book tells of voices that drove him to kill - Publishers don’t want his book and state officials say they’ll confiscate any profits from the work
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC) - Sunday, April 22, 2001
Author: DOUG JOHNSON Associated Press
CHAPEL HILL - It happened late one night after Wendell Williamson’s band finished a raucous gig on the University of North Carolina campus. His head was pounding and he felt dizzy from the music. That’s when the voices started.
People were talking to him, but their lips weren’t moving. Williamson was sure he had received a wonderful telepathic gift.
Later, Williamson writes, he realized it was not a gift. It was the start of his descent into mental illness that reached its nadir on the day he staged a shooting rampage in Chapel Hill with a military rifle and 600 rounds of ammunition.
For the first time since that day, when he shot two people to death and wounded a police officer, the former UNC law student is trying to explain the paranoid schizophrenia he says held him hostage and drove him to kill.
“Nightmare: A Schizophrenic Narrative” is the latest in a line of books written by notorious figures, from Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski to white separatist Randy Weaver, who want to set the record - as they see it - straight.
But like Kaczynski, whose “Truths Versus Lies” was yanked at the last minute by his publisher, Williamson is having a hard time finding someone willing to help him tell his story.
“Mine was a very notorious case that is more complicated than it first appears,” Williamson said in a recent telephone interview from the state mental hospital in Raleigh. “I think if people knew more about it, they might not have such a low opinion of me.”
Williamson was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity in the Jan. 26, 1995, shootings of UNC lacrosse player Kevin Reichardt, 20, and restaurant worker Ralph Walker, 42.
In March, a month after advertising Williamson’s book and selling several copies, publisher iUniverse.com terminated its contract with the author over liability concerns. Officials at iUniverse would not elaborate.
Beyond liability, there’s disagreement over what would have happened to any money the book made.
When the deal with iUniverse was still active, Williamson had said profits would be donated to the Treatment Advocacy Center in Arlington, Va., a nonprofit group that provides legal counsel for people with severe brain disorders. But North Carolina officials have a lien against Williamson’s assets, and said they would confiscate book profits to pay for his treatment.
Context Books publisher Beau Friedlander , who spiked Kaczynski’s book over legal issues, says dealing with such manuscripts can be a sticky business.
“With a notorious criminal like Theodore Kaczynski, or Timothy McVeigh or the guy from Chapel Hill, it’s open season when they decide to write a book. Anyone can step forward with a lawsuit, and the burden is on the publisher,” Friedlander said.
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