Comment by chaostheory
3 years ago
I’m surprised that she doesn’t publish adapted novels based on her Wikipedia entries.
Might be wrong, but both the Twilight series and 50 Shades of Gray series were initially fan fiction pieces by housewives who published their work on blogs.
Alternate historical fiction is a very popular genre.
50 Shades of Grey was Twilight fanfic with the 'serial numbers filed off'. I don't think Twilight itself has fanfic in its origin.
I think Twilight was the first novel from the author and she pretty much wrote a transcript, and got a book deal off the back of it. She had little previous experience in writing novels and was just very, very lucky that it happened to all fall in to place... some first time novelists spend years trying to do what she did.
Not to take away from hard work and talent but breaking into the arts in a big way--after which it's at least somewhat easier--must be, what, 90% luck.
Forgot to add that Orson Welles started his Hollywood career pulling a much worse public deception.
If you are referring to "War of the worlds " the radio broadcast indicates it is a audio drama. He couldn't have intended for people to think it is real just because the audio drama is in the form of a news broadcast.
The broadcast began with the usual announcement: "The Columbia Broadcasting System presents Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre Players in a dramatization of H.G. Wells' novel, 'The War of the Worlds.'"
Listeners heard a dance band playing languid Spanish numbers in the "Park-Astoria Hotel". The music was interrupted suddenly by a flash. It was announced that a professor in a university observatory in the Southwest had noticed a series of gas explosions on the planet Mars.
They may have covered themselves legally, but it’s highly likely they intended to fool people
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/war-worlds-broadca...
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