About 15 years ago, books might have gotten a boost from Oprah's endorsement; these days, it's word of mouth that propels lucky titles – a magical synchronicity that publicists try to plot and editors pray for that gets not only devoted readers but casual ones to give a long, literary novel a try.
However, David Michelinie, who scripted based on a plot by editor-in-chief Jim Shooter, said in 2007, "I didn't think they actually should [have gotten] married..
The Front Page, 1974 You surely know the great Ben Hecht plot – grizzled Chicago editor wants to keep love-struck ace reporter and wallows in farcical efforts to save an amiable dolt from death row: but what you probably din't know was what a feast Jack Lemmon, Billy Wilder and the immortal Walter Matthau make of it.
Warriors is a series of juvenile fantasy novels published by HarperCollins; it is written by authors Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Tui Sutherland, with the plot developed by editor Victoria Holmes, who collectively use the pseudonym Erin Hunter.
When Hildy stumbles into the miscreant, he locks him inside a desk rather than call the police as he plots with his editor on how to maximize scoops.
Now, I understand the term better in comparison with "plot-driven"; my editor was asking whether interior attributes or exterior structures — relationships, narrative conventions — control the action.
The plot concerns three editors at an academic press, fed up with reading endless dotty books about the occult, who concoct a ridiculous and (they think) entirely fictional 'Plan' which claims to lead its followers towards the source of all the world's energy.
"IT SOUNDS like a movie plot," says Shekhar Gupta, editor of the Indian Express, a leading daily newspaper.
"The Last Samurai" would have benefited from deeper character and plot development and a editor more willing to excise chaff, but Helen DeWitt shows she is a writer willing to take chances.
