Whoever the thief is, he or she knows how publishing works, and has mapped out the connections between authors and the constellation of agents, publishers and editors who would have access to their material. “It seems like no one knows anything beyond the fact of it, and that, I guess you could say, is alarming.” “The real mystery is the endgame,” said Daniel Halpern, the founder of Ecco, who has been the recipient of these emails and has also been impersonated in them. But short story collections and works by little-known debut writers have been attacked as well, even though they would have no obvious value on the black market. High-profile authors like Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan have been targeted, along with celebrities like Ethan Hawke. It isn’t clear who the thief or thieves are, or even how they might profit from the scheme. Hannaham was just one of countless targets in a mysterious international phishing scam that has been tricking writers, editors, agents and anyone in their orbit into sharing unpublished book manuscripts. Hannaham said, “to say, ‘That wasn’t me.’”
George’s email address and a little note, and hit send. Hannaham’s website that he rarely uses, so he opened up his usual account, attached the document, typed in Mr. George, asking him to send the latest draft of his manuscript. Earlier this month, the book industry website Publishers Marketplace announced that Little, Brown would be publishing “Re-Entry,” a novel by James Hannaham about a transgender woman paroled from a men’s prison.
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