Ghosts, Celebrity "novels", and social media bullying: another Guardian brouhaha

Modelland?

How...on the nose. (Which, I suppose, is the point.)

It (Modelland) is as greatly terrible as you think it is. One of the true highlights of the YA dystopia tidal wave.

So here's a thing. Another piece got written. But because it's a) not attacking a specific author who happens to be part of a minority in publishing and b) not disguised as a book review, it isn't attracting the same amount of backlash at all.

Who'd have thought?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...driven-out-of-full-time-work?CMP=share_btn_tw

(It's kind of reminding me of an old anecdote I once heard, though, about how tough times for writers are nothing new. I gather decades ago Larry Niven said on more than one occasion that he never would have been able to write if he didn't have a big trust fund to live off of. But maybe that's a subject for another thread.)

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He did? I never knew that. The secret lives of SF writers!

I know Frank Herbert did journalism work, F. Paul Wilson was a practicing physician. Leigh Bracket and Harlan Ellison did screenwriting. Some others support themselves with genre writing under different names.

The article has a point, though. OTOH, very few, I'd say almost none, of those celebrity books remain in print after the first year, unless it's a juicy, definitive autobiography, and they're usually the first books to get culled from library shelves. Has anyone seen a copy of Madonna's English Roses lately? No?