Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:44:21 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
        WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How to sell books.....
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 1/13/2006 12:38 PM, samlubell at verizon.net wrote:
> >From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
> >>  You haven't read about how the latest book she's featured has turned
> >>  out to be fake?
> >
> >"Fake" fiction?
>
>Sure, why not?
>For instance, alternate histories in which the North won the civil war.

That would be "real fiction".

The book in question isn't supposed to be fiction at all though.  It's
supposed to be fact as remembered by the author...a
"memoir".  Unfortunately, he knowingly put things in it that never
happened.  Info here:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0104061jamesfrey1.html

-- Mike B.