AS Byatt - clueless

[davewitley]

I heard something on the radio (Radio 4 Today Programme) that I 
thought might interest some of you.

AS Byatt has done it again.

Apparently, some wily American author with an eye for the main 
chance ('I'm not pretending this is great literature') has 
published 'Pride and Promiscuity', a version of 'Pride and 
Prejudice' with the naughty bits left in.

ASB somehow got wind of this and sounded off on 'Today' about how 
this was terrible, an insult to the reader's imagination, etc.  (I 
can't remember the rest.)

In effect, she has just handed massive free publicity to what is 
almost certainly run-of-the-mill Austen fanfic.

So, fanficcers, you can't make a quick buck now, but 50 years after 
JKR dies, you could get lucky and have some pompous person sell your 
wares on a national radio station.

David, laughing, if not all the way to the bank