Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:39:33 -0600
From: thaughey <thaughey at acnet.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Books from the grave . . .
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

I believe you guys are trapped in three dimensional thinking when we are
obviously facing a time/space paradox.  You've got to stop putting the
Cartland before the hearse.  --Tom Haughey

Ted White wrote:

>----- 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
>