Now an established and respected author, Ellet went on to write Family Pictures from the Bible in 1849.
The Tinman was an illiterate outsider from a poor farming family, while Kathryn was a big-time journalist and an internationally respected author.
He was also founder of the International Systems Institute with its innovative "conversation -oriented conversation -orientedconference of the General Evolutionary Restructureoup, an influential professor of systems theory and a widely read and respected author.
The company maintains that it is respecting authors' contracts with other publishers because it is not signing them to write works that are book length.
"The thing that still makes me shake is all the people, many of them respected authors and even people I knew, who wrote about it without having seen it," she says.
While respected authors publish real, paper books riffing on characters created by authors long dead (and therefore, crucially, out of copyright), fanfiction is still seen as geekier than geeky, the pursuit only of the friendless, usually female internet nerd, creating panting fantasies, riven with author insertions.
Recent books by respected authors like Malcolm Gladwell ("Outliers"), Susan Faludi ("The Terror Dream") and Jane Jacobs ("Dark Age Ahead") rely far more heavily on cherry-picked anecdotes — instead of broader-based evidence and assiduous analysis — than the books that first established their reputations.
But it is easy to respect the author's choices.
I don't think it is a novel, but I respect the author's honesty in not calling it a memoir.
Murray accepted at once and his edition appeared in December 1815, after a trouble-free editorial process in which her new publisher made a point of treating her with the greatest respect, though author and publisher never actually met.
He describes Benjamin Sachs's first novel like this: "It's a whirlwind performance, a marathon sprint from the first line to the last, and whatever you might think of the book as a whole, it's impossible not to respect the author's energy, the sheer gutsiness of his ambitions".
