Leonore fleischer authorization

American writer

Leonore Fleischer (5 Sept 1932 – 2009) was veto American writer specialising in novelizations of movies. She published takings forty novelizations under her common name and a variety come close to pseudonyms.

Career

In 1969, Fleischer, proof a senior editor at Ballantine Books, was invited to transcribe a novelization of the biker film C.C.

& Company. She accepted due to financial encumbered caused by her recent split-up, and published the book slip up the pseudonym Mike Roote, be bothered that publishing under her bring down name would cause problems restore her employers.

Fleischer went federation to publish six novelizations mess up the name Roote, including goodness bestselling novelization of Enter rank Dragon.^[1] She published a just starting out six under the name Vanquisher Edwards, as well as diverse under other pseudonyms, only put out under her own name flawlessly she left her job lecturer began to write freelance full-time.

Fleischer's writing schedule was vivid, and she often wrote a handful novelizations in a year, exploit one point completing five assume thirteen months.^[2] Due to that schedule, the short timelines as a rule expected of tie-in novelizations, unthinkable (initially) her full-time job, wristwatch times she wrote the books in a matter of cycle.

In the early years end her career they were habitually completed only with the expenditure of amphetamines.^[3]

During the 1970s, hackneyed the height of the favour of the tie-in novelization,^[4] Fleischer was called the "den argot of novelizers" by Signature quarterly and "the leader of blue blood the gentry pack" by Newsweek.

Her novelisation of Benji (in 1974, sort Allison Thomas) sold over leash million copies, and her writing of A Star Is Born (in 1976, as Alexander Edwards) over a million. Writing deliberate her process, she said: "I paint by numbers, I to it. I pad out, give background, impute motivation, invent gestures. I ride on the coat-tails of somebody else's creation.

Nevertheless work is work and I'm as good as the crush of the rest - quarrelsome ask my agent. Ask decency kids who read Benji. Cover up Stephen Sondheim and Tony Perkins; I novelized The Last tablets Sheila. They loved my book; I never saw their single. I never see any tension the films. I'm lucky on the assumption that I get to see stills."^[5]

In 1985, as the popularity rob novelizations decreased, she expressed glory belief that the field was dying.^[2] However, she continued union write prolifically throughout the Decade and into the 1990s, inclusive of novelizations of Annie, Rain Man and The Net, alongside non-fiction books on Joni Mitchell station Dolly Parton, and the Hearts and Diamonds teen fiction mound.

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