KidColt wrote:
My further guess is that none of them knew, until someone approached them with the book and showed it to them (thinking they knew about it).

sbuscema wrote:
We had found out about the book when a colleague had contacted me asking if we knew about it being published (the first time we saw anything about it was in Previews).

So they clearly knew about the book at the time of solicitation, well before actual publication. 
 
Not having the book in question, but based on the title I'm assuming that it is very laudatory.  Not sure why publishing a book that (presumably) says only positive things about its subject should be considered "disrespectful."