Deathly Hallows Book Discussion **LoTs Of Spoilers**

[Alex]

Unless there are some really weird contracts out there Scholastic wouldn't have any rights to the characters, just publishing rights for the 7 books. Any continuation after Rowling's death would have to have the involvement of her estate.

So you'll have to hope that David and Mackenzie won't go against her wishes should Rowling make it to death without doing more on her own.

Maybe they'll go the V.C. Andrews/Tom Clancy route and in a couple decades we'll start seeing something like this:

J.K. Rowling's® Harry Potter and the Last Crusade in Search of the Holy Grail by Alan Dean Foster

[wendybeth]

Ooooh...... I can just see the movie.....Harrison Ford can play Dumbledore, and instead of riding around on thestrals they can just bang coconuts together!

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Alex

Maybe they'll go the V.C. Andrews/Tom Clancy route and in a couple decades we'll start seeing something like this: [snip][/size]

Wait wait wait. When did Tom Clancy books start being written by a ghost writer?

[Alex]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Wait wait wait. When did Tom Clancy books start being written by a ghost writer?

He does not write the books in the OpCenter, Power Play, or Net Force series. When the Net Force series first started they didn't even mention the real author on the cover, but I believe they've changed this in the years since with it still being the case that "Tom Clancy's..." is in huge letters and the author's name is nice and small. In those first books the only mention would be something in the acknowledgments like "invaluable contribution[s] to the manuscript by Joe Blow" when in fact the invaluable contribution was that Joe Blow wrote it.

So there are the now acknowledged series in which Clancy has just licensed his name but rumors that other recent books have been ghostwritten as well.

So he's not quite in the V.C. Andrews camp (at least not until he dies) but is an example of whoring out the name. Asimov did something similar in his late years but I think the appropriate authorial credit was given much more prominently.

Robert Ludlum is another. His estate has published about a dozen new books since he died in 2001, supposedly based on unfinished manuscripts but no authorial credit is given

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Alex

He does not write the books in the OpCenter, Power Play, or Net Force series. When the Net Force series first started they didn't even mention the real author on the cover, but I believe they've changed this in the years since with it still being the case that "Tom Clancy's..." is in huge letters and the author's name is nice and small. In those first books the only mention would be something in the acknowledgments like "invaluable contribution[s] to the manuscript by Joe Blow" when in fact the invaluable contribution was that Joe Blow wrote it.

So there are the now acknowledged series in which Clancy has just licensed his name but rumors that other recent books have been ghostwritten as well.

So he's not quite in the V.C. Andrews camp (at least not until he dies) but is an example of whoring out the name. Asimov did something similar in his late years but I think the appropriate authorial credit was given much more prominently.

Robert Ludlum is another. His estate has published about a dozen new books since he died in 2001, supposedly based on unfinished manuscripts but no authorial credit is given

Ahhh. Thanks. I knew Net Force wasn't by him (because I picked up on the Tom Clancy's..." but the others didn't even occur to me. I only follow the Jack Ryan series; couldn't get in to the other ones. And now I know why. I would be curious to know if Clancy wrote The Bear and the Dragon and The Teeth of the Tiger. I had a really hard time getting involved in those books. On another note, this link makes me happy (the chronological order of the books). I now need to go back and read them in order. I bet that would fill in some [not real] plot holes.

Sorry for the derail.