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Fictional Authors

By The Daily Dish
Apr 11 2008, 8:21 AM ET

I share Scott Esposito's befuddlement over this concept:

According to Sara Nelson, the editor in chief of Publishers Weekly, "Since there seems to be a blurring of lines between fiction and reality on TV, in books, in politics even, it stands to reason that a fictional character could write a book that actually gets published. It strikes me as one of those ideas that’s so bad it’s good."



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