Friday, April 11, 2008

Real books by fake authors...

Somewhere in here is a great idea for a Popular Culture Association presentation.

And yes, I've been a life-long fan of All My Children, but I can't help but chuckle at these choice excerpts from the article:

"Kendall Hart 'is a very aspirational character for women,' Mr. Frons said. 'She’d come from a trailer park and had built up a cosmetics company, and we felt that was the stuff of good female fiction.'"

And this one:

"According to Sara Nelson, the editor in chief of Publishers Weekly, 'Since there seems to be a blurring of lines between fiction and reality on TV, in books, in politics even, it stands to reason that a fictional character could write a book that actually gets published. It strikes me as one of those ideas that’s so bad it’s good.'

That Kendall Hart could whip up a novel and get it published with such dispatch raises no credibility issues with viewers, said Ms. Leahey of Soap Opera Digest. 'Soap opera characters come back from the dead and have evil twins,' she noted, 'so in that world, it would make sense for someone to write a book in a few weeks.'"

I wonder how long it would take soap characters to write a dissertations...well, I have seen them go through medical school in a year, so probably not that long...

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