Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:58:34 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Books from the grave . . .
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> twhite8 at cox.net 11/16/04 8:55:24 PM >>>
>----- 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?)

Maybe they're being channeled through R. Lionel Fanthorpe?

One should note that the later "novels" aren't that long.  No, I
haven't read any, but over the many years of retail bookselling (B.
Dalton & Walden) I did notice that the pages got fewer & the type got
larger.

mjw