For example.
Was/Is she as popular as Ludlum or Le Carre?
Oh, look at the pretties!
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Volans - Aug 03, 2004 3:33:52 pm PDT #5520 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Betsy HP - Aug 03, 2004 3:40:59 pm PDT #5521 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
She was regularly on the bestseller lists; I don't know relative rankings.
Connie Neil - Aug 03, 2004 3:44:09 pm PDT #5522 of 10002
brillig
In her heyday, MacInnes was quite well respected.
Consuela - Aug 03, 2004 3:48:44 pm PDT #5523 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Also, women regularly write best-seller serial killer novels, like Patricia Cornwell. I don't see the spy genre being much different.
erikaj - Aug 03, 2004 3:53:32 pm PDT #5524 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I want to at least have cake at the Scrappy party...impressive guest list.
Volans - Aug 03, 2004 5:00:25 pm PDT #5525 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Hmm. Any genre that really has to be written by a man to sell?
(starts contemplating being unemployed and writing spy novels while in Athens)
erikaj - Aug 03, 2004 5:08:44 pm PDT #5526 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Not seen a lot of women's procedurals either. But in a world with Wambaugh and McBain...duh.(And that's Ed McBain, not the action hero portrayed by Rainier Wolfcastle.) I guess Cornwall counts, maybe.
Betsy HP - Aug 03, 2004 5:17:04 pm PDT #5527 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Any genre that really has to be written by a man to sell?
This is why the good Lord made pseudonyms, Raquel. I know a guy who writes chick lit for teenagers. He didn't particularly want a pseudonym, but his publisher did; Serena Scarlett (not the actual pseudonym) sells very well, thanks.
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2004 8:06:15 pm PDT #5528 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Author JK Rowling is planning to write an eighth Harry Potter novel. The English novelist - currently adding the finishing touches to her sixth Potter book - had previously vowed to only create seven adventures about the magical wizard. But she now wants to add an eighth entry, featuring outtakes she has edited from the series so far. Rowling will donate all proceeds from the book to charity, and publishers estimate the "Harry Potter Encyclopedia" could make in excess of $18 million. But the 39-year-old insists she's ready to retire when the hugely successful series ends. Rowling, who has made an estimated $960 million from Harry Potter, says, "I think it highly unlikely I'll write more novels. I've got enough for seven books and I never meant to carry the story beyond the end of book seven."
Emphasis mine. What's happened to the book as we knew it?
Volans - Aug 04, 2004 2:48:32 am PDT #5529 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Huh. That's like the DVD extras of a book.
(hefts books 4 and 5 in each hand)
OUTTAKES?!?! Something DIDN'T make it in?!?