Saturday, August 23, 2008

Hand Grenade Pins in Every Line

What does a literary novelist do when he writes a media tie-in novel, as my cousin Tod Goldberg did with "Burn Notice: The Fix"?

He searches his soul; draws inspiration from the writers successful with their own books who do tie-ins; invests his emotions in the project; and then writes a nifty L.A. Times essay about the whole experience.

A non-literary novelist likely writes his tie-in, cashes the check, and moves onto the next deadline.

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