[bksvol-discuss] Re: romances with well written characters
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- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 21:35:48 EST
I was unaware of that. I was only repeating something someone who was really
in no position to know told me. I do know, though, that Stephen King has
bragged that not only could he get his laundry list published, but if he did it
would immediately become a best seller. Similar things could be said about Dean
Koontz. Perhaps what I was observing was that because of the assurance of his
success he got a little lazy.
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Actually Dean Koontz got published at 20. He won a writing contest. Dean
Koontz and Patricia Cornwell could probably write a plumbers manule and it would
be come a best celler. Lol.
Georgina
I’m not a pessimist just an optimist for the worst
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Perhaps the explanation is the later publication of juvenilia. An example
might be Dean R. Koontz. As is the case with most authors he had to suffer a
long
series of rejection slips before he finally got published. I don't know if
this is true because I have never tried to track down the history of his efforts
at publication, but I have heard that once he got published and everything he
would write would become a bestseller his publisher decided to cash in by
publishing some of those rejected books from the past. If that is the case I
think I can tell the difference. His first bestsellers and his more recent
novels are really quite good, but some of those in between seem amateurish.
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I've just discovered how books written by the same
author can vary. To make a long story short, because
this discussion should really be on the bookshare list
but I don't know how many of you partaking go there,
one book I started reading, a second book in a series,
caught my interet and I bought it from our used-bok
store (10 cents for paperback romances). Because
references were made to people and events in the first
book, I took it out of the library--but the characters
weren't behaving true to character, as it were. It
didn't make sense. I tried a few other pages in the
middle and end of the book and decided not to waste my
time. I went back to book I'd bought and started it,
and the characters so far are more defined and
behaving and speaking true to their personalities.
In the past I've found differences between an author's
earlier books and later ones; in some cases the later
ones are much better, but in another case she seemed
to run out of steam and her characters were more
stereotypical and less complex. But never before have
I found differences in two books in the same series.
I'd have guessed perhaps difference authors wrote
under the same name, but that's apparently not the
case.
Cindy
--- Georgina <culmer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Her books have a little bit of everything.
> Outlander is the first, then
> Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drumbs of Autom, The
> Fierry Cross, Abreath of
> Snow and Ashes, and the next book will be called An
> Echo in The Bone.
> Georgina
>
> I'm not a pessimist just an optimist for the worst
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy Rosenthal" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 4:16 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: romances with well
> written characters
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>
> > I'll have to add her to my list. For some reason I
> > thought she wrote fantasy fiction.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> > --- Georgina <culmer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Yep DG is great. I can't wait until the next
> book
> >> is out.
> >> Georgina
> >>
> >> I'm not a pessimist just an optimist for the
> worst
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 11:42 PM
> >> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] romances with well
> written
> >> characters
> >>
> >>
> >> > Romances which include well developed
> characters
> >> include Dianna Gabaldon's
> >> > series.
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