Alex Kingston Writes River Song Novel
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Awesome! I'm going to pre-order it right now. 
(Edit: Or I was going to but my local bookstore doesn't have it listed yet)
(Edit: Or I was going to but my local bookstore doesn't have it listed yet)
I hate to be that continuity geek, but does it potentially conflicting with the Faction Paradox stuff?
Fair. I was thinking the same thing but about the New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield...
Is there a specific reason to think she isn't writting it herself?
Did Sophie Aldred and Tom Baker not actually write their novels?
I read the description on Io9 and it sounds like a lot of fun.
Meh, I don't care. Her timeline is already very timey-wimey.
Speaking of which, I need to see if that very cool fan-made graphic that shows the complexity of her timeline, including all of the Big Finish audios and a few other things, has been updated. The one I have is a few years old.
Both of them had cowriters. Sophie had Mike Tucker and Steve Cole and Tom had James Goss.
I imagine since none was mentioned in this news release that Alex wrote it herself.
BBC Books was cagey about Goss' involvement in Scratchman. They announced his involvement, unannounced it, and then acknowledged it once the book was in stores.
I wasn't even aware Sophie has co-writers, but those two, Tucker especially, make sense.
If Kingston has co-writers, Justin Richards and Jac Rayner seem most likely to me. I'd prefer someone like Jenny Colgan on this book, but she's a best-selling author in her own right, and I can't see her doing a barely-credited ghost-write on this.
Oh, that's right. I had forgotten about that.
They're not mentioned on the cover, but you see them on the cover page.
Considering the last two books, I'd think they'll be mentioned at least on the cover page, just not on the cover. I'ld be happy with any of those but I have no particular preference.
They'll let actors write books, but not let authors star in shows...
I can hardly forget; I was on the front lines of some of the shenanigans. :-/
I don't have At Childhood's End yet. I'd ordered the hardcover in the Before Times, and my order was cancelled within the last month. I've since ordered the paperback.
Whenever an actor writes a book, there's almost always a professional author involved that gets sidelined. Sometimes they get listed on the front cover, often it's the cover page, and sometimes they just get relegated to the acknowledgements or dedication. It's like this everywhere, just look up any book any franchise written by an actor and you'll see one of these three scenarios. One of the rare exceptions is Andrew Robinson's DS9 novel A Stitch in Time, which he really did completely write himself.
Ah, yeah, that'll do it. :-\
Oh, man, you're in for a treat! It's a fun read.
This is just speculation on my part, but I imagine writing Garak's diary alongside the show for seven years and reworking that material for the conventions helped him fine tune the prose to the point that Pocket Books was happy with he came up with for A Stitch in Time.
OK, I had assumed if there was going to be a co-writer they would have been required to include them on the front cover, but from what other people wrote after my post, it sounds like that isn't the case.
Paul Darrow wrote 4 B7 books.
One after the oringal series finished and 3 (the Lucifier Trilogy set post Gauda Prime) for Big Finish.
Never read the first but by all accounts it's not very good. The BF books I did read and didn't think much of them. Never seen any mention that he a ghost writer (which might have helped).
There’s also the late Richard Hatch’s BSG books, which were sequels to the original series.
Yeah but you can't emote without blubbing and only DSC likes that style.
According to Wikipedia, Hatch had co-authors on those.
Ah, anyone who can blub on cue has it made in the acting biz. I'm better with the drunk act, they battle joy, or the Scottish tactical eyebrows.
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