An interesting fact on DeMille:
http://nelsondemille.net/about/
That's amazing to me.Did you know...
I write all my manuscripts in longhand, using #1 pencils and legal pads.
An interesting fact on DeMille:
http://nelsondemille.net/about/
That's amazing to me.Did you know...
I write all my manuscripts in longhand, using #1 pencils and legal pads.
Bob Green
That is amazing. I guess when he wrote his first novel, released in 78, so I guess written in 76 and 77, that was not so odd. But wow, to write 20 novels long hand? Good Lord.
George Will still writes his columns that way - but a thousand word column and a hundred and fifty thousand word novel are two different things!
DeMille's main character John Corey is very much a smart aleck like myself...I am very pleased, so far, with the dialogue in my novel. Now, whether I can actually construct an entire novel remains to be seen...
I will read more of them, I'm sure. Many of my 'go to' authors have passed away or aged out through the years. One of my guilty pleasures was the Amelia Peabody series about a family of Egyptologists during the exciting late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Elizabeth Peters was the pen name of Barbara Mertz, a real-life Egyptologist. She died in 2013. RIP.
Just finished Jennifer Foehner Wells fourth book in her Fluency series.
Not hard science fiction by any stretch. Good, fun reads.
Finished Letting Go by David Hawkins.
A lot to ponder, potentially life changing.
This is the Bill Clinton-James Patterson collaboration.
I found it fast paced and entertaining. It has a lot of action and a large helping of first-person introspection. The latter seemed a bit preachy at some stages, but overall contributed to the story. Patterson seems to have kept Clinton away from too much wonkism. The story itself, of course, is close enough to plausibility to fend off any claims of fantasy. Certainly worth reading.
The question now is who plays the president in the movie.
I finished The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. I enjoyed it. A lot of dark humor. Now its on to Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann. I loved Lost City of Z so I have high expectations for this one.
I finally finished The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
SPOILER ALERT (from a book released over a decade ago) I liked the reading about the dysfunctional family and everyone’s struggles.
Now that Sports Illustrated is publishing a little less frequently,my Canadian Macleans has gone from weekly to monthly, as long as I don’t get too bogged down with my Saturday Globe and Mail and can pull myself away from DBR, I will hopefully get more books read.
I just started two smaller books, David Sedaris’ Naked (I always find him entertaining in interviews) and Ishmael Beah’s ‘A Long Way Gone - Memories of a child soldier ‘. Hopefully, I will finish one or both this summer or fall.
The question is also who wrote it? It wasn't Clinton and likely not Patterson, who's done a masterful job of having understudies crank out "James Patterson" novels by the dozen. This is not a criticism BTW...Clinton and Patterson are there to sell copies, and that will work. And the book is probably good. I'm a published author, and a ghost writer for others....this is how this biz rolls.
Why do you think Clinton didn't write any of this novel? He's written at least four other books. I never heard that he had a ghost writer for any of them beyond what he credits in the acknowledgments.
You are quite right that Patterson is an industry now, not an author. His name certainly sells and I would think learning how he operates with his many collaborators would be fascinating. One of his team members is/was Mark Sullivan. I posted a comment about Sullivan's excellent Patterson-free work, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, earlier in this thread.
Maybe, as a published ghost writer HBCK, you could provide some insight here about how this works.
Many years late but I just got COSMOS by Carl Sagan. Also got Handmaids Tale
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge" -Stephen Hawking
Just finished The Bedford Boys, immediately preceded by A Gentleman in Moscow, both of which were birthday gifts from Mrs. dd (neither of which were about beer).
[redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.
Judging from numerous comments from many posters across multiple threads, I thought this might be interesting to the board. I recently finished 'Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story' by Chris Nashawaty. Not great, but if you love the movie you'll probably find it worth the time. An easy read. I'd estimate half the book doesn't have anything to do with the movie, it's about the creators and their previous efforts (mostly dealing with Lampoon).
Just read The Captain Class by Sam Walker and found it to be quite interesting. The book seeks to identify the greatest sports teams in history and identify what made those teams exceptional.
Just started William Manchester's biography of Douglas MacArthur. I am thoroughly enjoying that one so far as well.
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Couple things:
First, 99% of all books that utilize ghost writers never fess up. Thus the name "ghost." All the work I did is considered highly secretive. I officially don't exist for these projects. This includes talk radio, books, speeches, and those "ad lib" live advertisements.
As for Clinton, I highly doubt he actually wrote any of those books. I do think he probably consulted and beta read the material on the way to publication. Could well have even come up with the general plot. I'm not a Clinton fan, but he is intelligent and enough of a bullshooter to add something to the material. But author? Highly doubtful.
Now why do I say this? Because the vast majority of big names (as non writers) who "write" books are merely pimpled for their name's ability to sell books. That's how it works. That's what publishing has become. Remember, 50 Shades was originally self published.
Many think Harry Potter would have been self published - but self publishing didn't really exist at the time (Amazon pretty much invented this). It took forever to get an agent and then to get published. Same is true of the late novelist Vince Flynn.
The James Patterson model is probably unique to him, but he is an industry, no longer an author. Nice work if you can find it!