Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:54:58 -0500
From: Eva Whitley <eva.whitley at gmail.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How to sell books.....
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Ted White wrote:

>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
>
It's almost like a Zen koan--first it is fiction, then it isn't, then it
is. --Eva Whitley (and didn't we have this whole arguement with SLEEPERS?)