Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:38:18 -0500
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How to sell books.....
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

dicconf wrote:

>  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.

It was written as a novel and failed to sell (to a publisher) until the
author remarketed it as "a memoir." It started out in life as fiction
and I guess it's going to end up as fiction.

--Ted White