(It would not be unusual, however, for a big author using an agent to negotiate better terms).
"For example, festival organisers should make a commitment that every time they programme a big-name author they put a smaller author alongside".
Losse's seems to me desperate and far reaching, a reaction from an author who, yeah, saw that a big name author wrote about a similar topic, and it hurt her or she may have even seen the potential to bring attention to herself.
That approach certainly seems like a long shot, but it wouldn't be the first time a big-name author allowed her name brand as a seal of approval on series additions written by other authors.
But this sadistic creep, unlike most, is interested in acquiring the unpublished letters and papers of a big-deal author.
Scott Turow, a big-time author who is president of the Authors Guild, worries that the club is going to get a lot smaller.
As a book publisher, he did not hesitate to suggest a big-ticket author or a subject that captured his interest, like the Rockefellers.
At first, Mr. Turner and his agent, Morton Janklow, of Janklow & Nesbit Associates, considered a big-time author who had worked on collaborations — someone in the mold, Mr. Janklow said, of William Novak, who had written Lee Iacocca's best-selling autobiography.
In 1951, Groucho Marx wrote to him on the occasion of the Broadway opening of "Guys and Dolls": "I won't bore you by telling you how happy I am that you have finally become a big-shot author.
Charles Randolph, a screenwriter whose credits include "The Interpreter" and "The Life of David Gale," said the big Hollywood studios were likely to wait — perhaps for a definitive book by a big-name author — and not join in the initial rush to tell the story.
