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The reference is to Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Milhone “alphabet” series, which ended with “Y” at the author’s death. Grafton explicitly rejected having a ghost writer finish the series and to their credit, her heirs are honoring her wish.
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In the case of the Wheel of Time series, Robert Jordan's wife Harriet picked Brandon Sanderson to write the last book after her husband died. It was Robert's wish that the series be finished.
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And most of the old men's adventure novels (Deathlands, The Executioner, etc.) were written by house names. But at least the Executioner books acknowledged the true author with a thanks. |
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I tried to find any indication either way on these but didn't find anything. |
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the rook, bossing Never.
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Some alphabets don't even have X and Y, never mind Z. In the past in England the & was the last letter of the alphabet as taught to small children.
I've read Z is for Zachariah. Same author as the Rats of NIMH, but post-apocalypse SF. |
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What about them? You asked why he might want to do that, I proposed one reason why that could be the case. Just because there are exceptions doesn't mean it's always the case.
Again, it seems likely he does them himself but I couldn't find anything one way or the other. I say these might be exceptions because Cross Down seems like it's a side story to the main Alex Cross books, or at least doesn't focus as much on Cross, so getting a co-author for that makes more sense. Same with the other, it sounds like it has a different framing from the normal books. From Wikipedia: "its premise is that it is a book written by Alex Cross." |
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Note to authors: Overuse of "cried" as a dialogue tag (especially when combined with exclamation points!) can make your characters sound incredibly loud and whiny.
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Which is fine it they are meant to be loud, but whiny would be "You despise me," he said, then he cried.
Some people try too hard to avoid "said". Dogs snarl, not sure how people do it while talking. Also I think that sobbing, smiling and laughing and crying are better as actions, not speech tags, i.e. then she laughed. Last edited by Quoth; Today at 04:32 AM. |
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