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...When I was 13 it was Barbara Cartland (who was, as it happens, Princess Di's stepgrandmother). She produced a new novel roughly every 10 days - by the '90s she'd sold more than a billion books - so I could buy four and disappear for the weekend (homework was minimal back in the Dark Ages) and never run out. They were all essentially the same. Dark, mysterious, wealthy hero is too damaged to love deeply. Smart, passionate, innocent heroine finds herself in harm's way. Hero rescues; villains are vanquished; vows are exchanged. And a chaste kiss at the happily...
...downloaded to the phones of millions of readers. The most popular are printed as books and sell in the hundreds of thousands. Okiyama's first keitai shosetsu or "cell-phone novel," K, was written on her 3G Sharp handset and finished with a speed that would have left Barbara Cartland eating her literary dust. In book form, it is 235 pages long. "I think I was writing 20 pages in two hours per day at the most, and it took me almost a month," she says. "I wrote while my baby slept...
...Sarkozy and Bruni together under the headline "They're Getting Married! The 9th of February?" The accompanying story offered details of the diamond-studded ring Sarkozy slipped on Bruni's finger as he proposed to her, along with an eye-batting reply that would have given even Barbara Cartland the vapors ("Monsieur le President, I have no reason to refuse you"). The story ends on a similarly schmaltzy note, promising readers, "If you loved Grace Kelly in Monaco, you'll adore Carla Bruni in the Elys...
...Douglas Candland, a professor of animal behavior at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa., argues that Bush's decision sends the wrong message to Americans. "The right to sue under the Endangered Species Act is an issue of guardianship," Cartland says. "In the same spirit as I could report neighbors abusing their children, the act provides me with an avenue to report the abuse of wild animals." Cartland also worries that Bush's decision may affect the U.S.'s standing in the world. "Once again, our government is acting like our interests are the only ones involved," he says...
Dame Barbara Cartland 98 Her 723 romance novels sold more than a billion copies...