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pages that link Dove Audio The Carnival of the Animals Otto Penzler The Mysterious Press (1975). The Mysterious Book Club became a division of the Book of the Month Club and Mysterious Audios an imprint with Dove Audio. The Mysterious Bookshop Freda Payne Sings the (Unauthorized) I Hate Barney Songbook: A Parody An Evening with Freda Payne: Live in Concert Christmas With Freda and Friends
 * Dove Books on Tape; Dove Books; Dove Audio; Dove Books and Audio

pages that link NME George Vasilakos
 * New Millenium Entertainment; Phoenix New Millenium


 * Phoenix Books; Phoenix Audio; Phoenix Books and Audio

= Michael Viner =
 * Michael Viner

(mother obit) bernstein -- Faye Resnick's ghostwriter for Dove

(LAT obit) woo

(RS obit) matos

Viner married actress Deborah Raffin in 1974 (they divorced in 2005). He and Raffin opened Dove Books-on-Tape in 1985 in the garage of their Coldwater Canyon home. Viner had won an $8,000 bet in a backgammon game with the author Sidney Sheldon; rather than taking the money, Viner asked Sheldon to let him publish two of his books as audiobooks. Although Viner became known for publishing sensational tabloid-style books such as You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again and Faye Resnick's book about Nicole Brown Simpson, among Dove's first successes was the audiobook of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time. The company grew to become a serious competitor of the more established publishers in the audiobook business.

After suffering some financial setbacks, Viner and Raffin sold Dove in 1997, and later obtained a large legal malpractice judgment against their own lawyers relating to this transaction, but after a lengthy appeals process, the judgment was overturned. They founded New Millennium Entertainment, which filed for bankruptcy after a jury ordered it to pay $2.8 million in a highly publicized lawsuit with author and editor Otto Penzler. In 2005 Viner established another company, Phoenix Books. Viner sold Phoenix to Dwight D. Opperman in 2007 but stayed on as its president.

Viner died in Beverly Hills, California at age 65 on August 8, 2009, due to cancer.

Deborah Raffin

 * Deborah Raffin (de) -- pretty-girl actress

(1993 profile of the couple)

bare link The Fresno Bee (1991-10-13)

bare link Washington Times (1990-12-11) "[VP of] a books-on-tape company that is vying for the No. 2 slot in the industry."

(LAT obit) woo2012



Dwight D. Opperman

 * Dwight D. Opperman


 * Dwight Opperman ranked #374 on the 2006 Forbes 400
 * Opperman Scholarship at Drake Law School; see also Constitutional Law Center
 * Westlaw, established by Opperman at West Publishing
 * Other obituary sources
 * 2013-06-13 upd 10:49pm Star Tribune
 * 2013-06-20 LOC Law Library blog
 * 2013-06-24 Drake U Law School

[no AC]

Julie Chrystyn

 * Julie Chrystyn



Selected publications

 * 2008 Killing for Sport: Inside the Minds of Serial Killers, Pat Brown
 * 2009 "Eighty Is Not Enough", Dick Van Patten and Robert Baer
 * 2009 Breakshot: A Life in the 21st Century American Mafia, Kenny "Kenji" Gallo and Matthew Randazzo V

2014-05-10 import from notes at DE.wiki
en:Michael Viner and Phoenix
 * 365 ways for you and your children to save the earth one day at a time, Viner and Pat Hilton, (New York: Warner Books "A Dove book", 1991)[http://worldcat.org/oclc/22345912 ; (Dove Books on Tape, 1990)[http://worldcat.org/oclc/22518209
 * Final exit for cats : a feline suicide guide, wri. Viner, illus. Frank Remkiewicz (HarperCollins, 1992)[http://worldcat.org/oclc/026701427
 * Tales from the casting couch : an unprecedented candid collection of stories, essays, and anecdotes by and about legendary Hollywood stars, starlets, and wanna-bes, compilers Viner and Terrie Maxine Frankel (Dove Books, 1995)[http://worldcat.org/oclc/033961098
 * Unfinished lives : what if--?, 12 writers, concept by Viner (Dove, 1995)[http://worldcat.org/oclc/033921527
 * Barbs from the bard : Shakespearean insults with modern translations and notes, William Shakespeare, compilers Viner and Stefan Rudnicki (New Millenium Press, 2000)[http://worldcat.org/oclc/043662063
 * Shattered dreams, broken promises : the cost of coming to America, oral history(?) by Viner in Eastern Europe (Phoenix Books, 2007)[http://worldcat.org/oclc/141384040