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Byatt added that "the English publisher panicked" when it saw the excessive poetry in the manuscript, "but I talked them into publishing it. Then, everybody sort of read it several times and became enthusiastic--at least that's my account...
...first one written. Fifteen years ago, Leigh's biographer Anne Edwards wrote Tara: The Continuation of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. It was to be the basis for a joint film venture by Universal Pictures and MGM. When the deal soured, Edwards was left with an unpublishable manuscript, since its copyright was linked to the release of the film...
...what happens next? Well, Harry hides out in the Bronx for a year, writing up the account of this momentous night, and then takes off for Moscow, where he rents a hotel room and reads the 2,000 microfilmed pages of the typed manuscript he has been composing for years about his life and the CIA. While Harry does this, so must everyone else who has been lured into his predicament, since there is now nothing else but this history going on in Harlot's Ghost...
...established order. Victorians so yearned to watch Sherlock Holmes perform his tricks again and again that after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed him out of boredom, he gave in and resurrected the great detective. Dame Agatha Christie had the same murderous impulse toward Hercule Poirot, but slyly tucked the manuscript away until her demise. To this day, the first thing publishers ask is whether a mystery can become a series, a literary annuity...
...enthusiasm, which is essential," he says. The worst part was the drop in income: "Huge . . . huge." But other things suggested themselves. When his eldest son (he has five children) asked him about the facts of life, he found himself tongue- tied. He sat right down and wrote a manuscript, Where Did I Come From?, which was bought by a publisher in 15 minutes. Mayle's conclusion: "This is the game to get into...