'No way': The size of Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh’s deals raise eyebrows in the book world
By Rachel Chason Rachel Chason Reporter covering local politics Email Bio Follow April 2 at 6:10 PM When the president of the National Writers Union heard how much Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh had been paid for her children’s books, he paused.
“It’s crazy to wrap your brain around a six-figure number of books being sold,” said Wendy Dean, who owns Baltimore-based Omnibus Publishing, which focuses on children’s books. “To sell 100,000 books — that is your ultimate goal. . . . It feels like that would be equivalent to being on the New York Times bestseller list every week for a year.”
The Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund, a quasi-public company created by the legislature, gave $7,500 in 2012 to Pugh’s Healthy Holly LLC, according to the fund’s executive director. At the time, Pugh was a state lawmaker who sponsored legislation favored by the fund. The next year, the fund gave $5,000 to Associated Black Charities, which was collecting money for “Healthy Holly” books. The fund’s donations were first reported by the Sun.
Children’s book author Christina Allen, who runs a small publishing house in Lexington Park, Md., said she had never heard of orders as large as Pugh’s for first-time authors of picture books.Allen said her first book, about a rare breed of turkey on her farm, sold about 8,000 copies. “I don’t make any money,” she said. “I’m doing it because I enjoy it. Maybe I’ll make money one day.”
Pugh spokesman James E. Bentley II referred “Healthy Holly” book questions to Silverman. He said the mayor, who had a recent bout with pneumonia, is “at home, trying to get well.” Joseph Cohen, vice president of Kromar Printing in Winnipeg, Manitoba, said his company was paid between $13,000 and $15,000 for each of the 20,000-book orders it completed. He said that price range is standard for picture books between 28 and 32 pages.
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