Word: prequels
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Four years after collaborating on The Official Preppy Handbook, Lisa Birnbach has returned with a prequel: life before Bif and Muffy get the desk and mortgage. Lisa Birnbach's College Book runs down-sometimes literally-186 American schools. "I realized that there wasn't a single college guide that described life on campus," she recalls, "at least not the things that interested...
...Leia or Luke, that does not mean he will not come up with some in the next decade or so. If he does carry the story any further, he will probably go back to the beginning, before these characters were born, and make what he calls a "prequel," another trilogy that would explain how the Republic fell. Only after that?and certainly not before the 1990s?would he do the sequel and show what happens to the Star Wars trio after Jedi. But at the moment the only words he likes to think about are The End. "I look upon...
...about the Wookie tribe. They come from a damp jungle planet where they reside in tree houses and live to be 350 years old. The six-breasted females deliver their offspring in litters. After an invasion by Imperial forces, which may be alluded to in the "prequel," the Wookies were rounded up by slave traders and sold throughout the Empire. Chewy was rescued by Han Solo and installed as his copilot. Got that...
...Orion Pictures, however--caught up in the growing Hollywood mania for serials--had other ideas. Remember the flashbacks in the original? You know, where the previous inhabitants were slaughtered by their son? You got it. Amityville Horror II: The Possession tells their story. The sequel is actually a prequel...
...reprint rights-traditionally a low-register gift to the author-on 75% of its contracts. Not every writer is applying for food stamps, of course. John Irving's Hotel New Hampshire brought $2.25 million; Albert Goldman's Elvis nailed down $1 million, and Mario Puzo sold a "prequel"-an antecedent-to The Godfather story for about $2 million...