1. If you're going to plagiarize your thriller novel, don't steal from James Bond. Those Bond fans know everything, including that Q.R. Markham's debut ASSASSIN OF SECRETS was mightily stolen from a number of sources. Markham (pseudonymous with Quentin Rowan, Brooklyn bookseller) just had his first book yanked and the remainder of his contract canceled. Oops.
2. Even if you also steal from Graham Greene, people will know you as the guy who stole from James Bond. (Nine paragraphs in.) (9!)
3. This is not the correct way to vent your anger at not being one of the chosen Brooklyn literary elite:
In an interview with The New York Daily News last week, Quentin Rowan [alias Q.R. Markham] said he had previously written several literary novels, "but nothing wound up happening with anything I'd done."Showy and one-note? Burn!
He said he had grown "disillusioned" as he saw other Brooklyn writers such as Jonathan Safran Foer (EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED) strike it big as "wunderkind writers."
"There was a bunch of books by people who were technically my peers that felt showy and one-note. Maybe I had to dumb it down."
4. Kaavya Viswanathan is never going to clear her name. I mean, not to minimize what she did, but we could pick on a comparable adult here (there are lots of them!)
5. It's too bad "Without A Trace" isn't making original episodes, because this would make a great one. Just look at this guy's picture. 43 minutes later, he's discovered in Istanbul going to the steam bath after his advance.
6. Things are going to get slightly awkward at Spoonbill & Sugartown, the bookstore Rowan co-owns.
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