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10-12-2003 12:26 AM ET (US)
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I, For Instance, Write Prairie Girl and Mother Stories as Elderly Prague-based Expat 'Agnes McLeod'But I would really like to write action novels as 'Storm Stryker.' Or horror novels as 'Richard Bachman.' Home
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01-23-2004 10:15 PM ET (US)
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Attention: John Harris Is Not Brian FawcettOr is he? Home
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03-21-2004 10:24 PM ET (US)
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"I honestly don't think (if I'm wrong I'll be corrected), but I don't think any writer in this country has had the critical success that I've had. Not Atwood, not Ondaatje, not Munro, nobody"Weeehehehellll.... Let's not get ahead of ourselves, cowboy. But, indeed, Trevor Ferguson had done well - critically. ""The publishers believed in me," he says. "With each new novel, they felt, 'this is going to be the breakthrough, this is the one,' but the most I ever sold was 500 copies. The Fire Line (1995) sold 192 copies. And it just got worse and worse. You sell under 200 - I mean, your career is over. You're done." But things only really got going once he changed his name and started pumping out potboilers. "The windfall for a famously talented, but financially challenged colleague electrified Canada's writing community. Paperback readers all over the world were thrilled, too. City of Ice zoomed up the best-seller charts and was translated into 18 languages." Hm. Encouraging anecdote or cautionary tale? The money has allowed him to try his hand (rowr) at writing for the theatre... (From PFW) Home
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10-03-2004 09:47 PM ET (US)
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Ghost storyA sordid story of ghostwriting and simultaneous orgasm. Home
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11-14-2004 04:19 PM ET (US)
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From beyond the grave (slush pile)Confessions of a ghostwriter: Who am "I"? It depends entirely on the name signed on the check. The name on the check then becomes the name on the byline—but it's not me. Assuming the voice of someone else, I channel their thoughts, ventriloquizing spoken words into written pages. (From GalleyCat) Home
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11-15-2004 11:14 PM ET (US)
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The Godfather, Part DuhWhat did they put a pen in his shaking deathbed hand and say, Mario, sign this letter of love to the orphans of the world. Mario, do it for the children. Before he died in 1999, however, Puzo signed off on the hiring of someone to continue the "Godfather" saga, and in the fall of 2002 his publisher, Random House, ran a kind of contest to pick the successor. The winner was Mark Winegardner, a 42-year-old Floridian, selected in part, according to Puzo's editor, Jonathan Karp, because he was "in roughly the same place" Puzo was in when he wrote "The Godfather" - a literary novelist in mid-career, with better reviews than sales. Actually, Mr. Winegardner is more literary than Puzo was, or has better literary connections anyway (he heads the creative writing program at Florida State University), and he's probably not as desperate and as financially insecure. Where Puzo got to wing it, moreover - to invent the mob instead of just describing it - Mr. Winegardner was burdened with remaining faithful to a classic. Home
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11-17-2004 09:42 PM ET (US)
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Hey! You got your Nora Roberts in my JD Robb! Ew! When pseudonyms start hooking up, does it feel like incest to you? Home
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Does anyone know the name of the song sung in Spanish in the background in The Godfather Part II when Michael and Fredo are having a drink at an outdoor cafe in Cuba?
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