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Well.. it’s not believable to me. But I gather it is very believable to many other people.
I too wish I wrote books like that, I’m particularly envious of Picknett and Prince. Maybe I’ll get round to doing something like that – when I have time! Sitting at a desk doing a book-signing seems like cushy fun to me.
~C.
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And that's why Dan Brown makes the big bucks- his fiction is believable. That's a talent. It's just a different talent to writing formal history. If I could write fiction like that I would too.
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Well their readers think they are history.
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But they specifically write them as fiction- for entertainment. It is completely different to writing anything remotely resembling an academic history.
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 20:02:31 +1100
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Yes, but those authors I mentioned below write fake histories. Specifically.
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That is a very narrow view of popular authors- that they write fake histories. They write fiction and sell it to make a living. If they make money it is because they worked for it. It is hard work writing for a living- that is why I wondered about academic writing.
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 19:58:16 +1100
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They get paid in other ways. Like as lecturers. Or whatever their university job entails. I don’t know what the deal is with academic presses in regards to books… but really, only people who write fake history and stuff – like Lynne Picknett and Clive Prince – or say, Dan Brown – are going to be wealthy from their writing.
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Then it is a bad deal. Even academics have to eat- why don't they get paid?
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:56:24 +1100
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Academic journals don’t pay for articles at all, as far as I know.