Re: RARA-AVIS: Are unpublished novels best left unpublished?

From: david david ( davividavid@yahoo.com)
Date: 16 May 2007


what's a "typewriter"?

i have a manuscript (is it the only one in existence? i hope not) of an unpublished novel by Marty Holland (Fallen Angel, The File on Thelma Jordan). I still haven't read it, but I will put the question to test when I do.

--- George Tuttle < noirfiction@whoever.com> wrote:

> Hi Ed,
>
> No, I wasn't thinking about when "name" authors die
> and the sort of
> ghoulish things that happen in the name of art. I
> see that as another
> can of worms.
>
> This whole unpublished good book debate was a
> popular topic back in
> the Mystery & Detective Monthly days. (Note for
> youngsters, Mystery &
> Detective Monthly was a mailing list like Rava-Avis,
> but for typewriters.)
>
> George the Librarian
>
> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Ed Lynskey
> <e_lynskey@...> wrote:
> >
> > I've not read the two JT novels you cite, though
> I'm now
> > curious. It may be a case where the authors don't
> want to see
> > the unpublished novels (for whatever reason) in
> print. Do you
> > also include the novels-in-progress when authors
> die and they're
> > finished by other writers?
> >
> > Ed
> >
> > --- George Tuttle <noirfiction@...> wrote:
> > > Is it true that a good book will always find a
> publisher? If
> > > it is true, are unpublished novels best left
> unpublished,
> > > like for example Jim Thompson's The Rip-Off? I
> liked this
> > > posthumously-published novel.It had the
> quirkiness of The
> > > Golden Gizmo, but a tighter, stronger plot.
> > >
> > > I am a believer that the literary marketplace is
> not that
> > > fair, but I am curious how others feel.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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