Showing posts with label pseudonyms and other secrets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pseudonyms and other secrets. Show all posts
28 August 2017

An Upsetting Tap on the Shoulder

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In a conversation with novelist John Le Carré arranged and recorded by the New York Times Book Review , the espionage historian Ben Macint...
02 January 2013

Who Wrote “The Isle That Time Forgot”?

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While researching the last weekly Robin posting , I stumbled across a curious dispute over the question of who wrote “The Isle That Time F...
03 February 2011

Banville, Black, and Beam

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In my SCBWI New England workshop on writing within and without genre last year, I used the example of John Banville, the Irish novelist. Un...
05 August 2010

What’s the Story Behind C. C. Colbert?

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After reading the graphic historical novel Booth , scripted by C. C. Colbert and drawn by Tanitoc, I had a couple of questions. The first wa...
05 June 2010

Postapocalyptic Vampires Defeat Slender, Plotless Narratives

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The publication of Justin Cronin’s The Passage , first of a “postapocalyptic vampire trilogy,” is bringing up a number of the issues I discu...
24 November 2009

Three Degrees of Maginel Wright Enright

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I knew before reading it on Jacket Knack that illustrator Maginel Wright Enright was the sister of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. But I didn...
01 April 2008

It Was Mary Something, I Think

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Ron at Media Bistro's Galley Cat ran a couple of brief items last week about Editorial Departments responding to some author submissi...
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15 December 2007

L. Frank Baum Writes His Own Contract

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Yesterday I discussed L. Frank Baum 's many pseudonymous books published with Reilly & Britton in 1906. Those all came under one co...
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14 December 2007

The Pseudonymous Bugle

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In 1906, the Reilly & Britton Company, a publisher founded only two years before, announced a list of fiction by Laura Bancroft, Capt. H...
06 October 2007

Looking for the Great American Superhero Novel

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A few days ago , toward the start of NON-COMICS WEEK, I posited that the increasing respect for comics in our culture has opened the door fo...
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