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From: brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Star Trek novels
Message-ID: <257@utflis.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 11:32:55 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 11:32:55 1985
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Summary: 

In article <230@decwrl.UUCP> chabot@miles.DEC (All God's chillun got guns) writes:
>>And what kind of highly respected SF author has to stoop to "novelizing"
>>a movie producer's screenplay...  twice!
>Here's maybe a related question: what kind of highly respected SF author
>"stoops" to writing up a screenplays of tv series (surely worse!).  How about
>James Blish, a highly regarded name in science fiction.
>I don't know what might motivate authors.  However, I have heard of authors
>willing to work in popular media because they can make decent profits from 
>which to support their real art.  Dorothy Sayers with her Lord Peter Whimsy
>novels and stories is a famous example (if you don't know what else she's....

McIntyre told a writers' workshop at a Con here this summer that "they"
(Paramount presumably) came to her to do the novelization of Wrath of Khan
because they had very little time to produce it and she was known as 
reliable, deadline-wise, and had written a ST book before that was very
well received.
sb