From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Books from the grave . . .
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:55:24 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 5:19 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Books from the grave . . .

> "Four years after her death, two new [Barbara] Cartland novels trickled
> on to the market yesterday. And there are 158 more to come, at the rate
> of one a month - enough to satisfy her admirers for about 13 years.
>
> <http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1349581,00.html>

So who's writing them now?

(Yes, I know the article claimed she wrote them herself.  But it also said
she was chugging along at 20 books a year, one every 18 days, just to "meet
the demand," until going blind and deaf in 1997.   Granted she dictated
them, did she somehow screech them out *after* going blind and deaf?   And
how did she manage to get ahead by 160 novels, if the demand was still so
great?)

--Ted White