>From: Jeff Segal <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Science Fiction and Fantasy Listserv <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Status of Science Fiction Writing Today: Resnick
>Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:51:12 -0400
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>Todd Mason observed "Is it necessary to do, say, film or television
>scripts to be in that 75-100? --not that that's a bad thing, though some
>might have more difficulty breaking into that market than others."
>
>More than a few speculative and horror fiction authors - lead by Alan
>Dean Foster, Orson Scott Card, Joan Vinge, James Blish, Theodore
>Sturgeon, Charles Grant (these names come to mind) - have raised a few
>bucks putting out novelizations of varying merit. I don't know how wide
>this practice is today, though the tv/movie/ prose comicbook tie in
>paperbacks field is spreading like some rapacious fungi.
>Jeff (who has sampled some of these mushrooms)
There are a lot of writers making good money from (ugh) novelizations.
That's different from writing scripts and screenplays, which was
the original question.
-- Mike Resnick
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