This stems out of the recent Kaavya Viswanathan scandal:
In TIME magazine, James Poniewozik noted that Kaavya shares her copyright for her book with Alloy Entertainment, a book packager. This means the company "develops ideas" and "hires writers" who "deliver a finished product to publishers."
I must admit, I'm an aspiring author, so this makes me think. Packaged publishing? WTF? How do I evem describe it?
I always that that part of being a good author was the creativity to come up with wonderful ideas,
but now, it seems like being a good author just means being good enough to convey someone else's ideas (or maybe plagiarizing others). Is society to blame? Partially, with chick lit like The Clique and The A - List being the No. 1 bestsellers of teen fiction. And since it is universally accepted that teens spend a lot of money (sarcasm), then this is the market everyone wants to corner.
But I don't know. If I was a writer of packaged publishing, I think I might feel somewhat empty. Or somewhat like I fake. But it seems like a good springboard to start off with, and I would not feel bad if I helped formulate the story plot. This is like me coming up with the idea and Alloy telling me if it needs to be tweaked, what should be added - and we collaborate until we come up with a happy compromise. What do you think?
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