Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:01:35 -0500 (EST)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How to sell books.....
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Ted White wrote:

> 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.
>
> *All* fiction is "fake," or not real.  That's what the word "fiction"
> means.  In this instance, the book, a fictional memoir, was a little
> more fictional than some people expected.  Nu?

However, it purported to be a _non_ fictional memoir.  Apparently the
author (and presumably Oprah) intend to brazen it out.

-- Dick Eney