Author of the month

They say new authors have to do a lot to support their books. And in fact there was a story in the Chronicle Friday about a local woman, Pamela A. Johnson, who self-published and distributed thousands of copies of her own books.

But she's got nothing on Mr. Matthias Vheru, who as a Los Angeles School District official engineered the purchase of thousands of his own books, netting him over $1 million. He is being sued by the state.