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BOOKS NO ONE EVER WROTE

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Are you a writer of novels?  Do you sometimes run out of ideas for a new book or film concept?  (Hollywood script writers take note….)  Then you’ve stumbled on the right Blog!  Here is an unabridged,   alphabetical list of books that have been alluded to in novels by published writers, but have never actually been written.  You don’t even have to worry about copyright infringement!  Feel free to steal and plagiarize at will!

HERE ARE A SAMPLE OF TITLES CREATED BY REAL AUTHORS WHO INVENTED THEM AS A PART OF THEIR STORY:

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BAINBRIDGE, Mary: Winter Swan
—from Lisa Goldstein’s “Reader’s Guide”

BANDINI
, Arturo: “The Little Dog Laughed,” “The Long Lost Hills,” untitled novel (“the story of Vera Rivkin”)
—from John Fante’s Ask the Dust

BANE
, Joseph Cameron:

Cabot’s House
Lips That Could Kiss
Ruthpen Hallburton
The Wind at Morning
“others, others”

—from Lawrence Block’s “With a Smile for the Ending,” in Enough Rope

BANION, Gerry: Sageknights of Darkhorn
—from Steve Hely’s How I Became a Famous Novelist

BANKS, Rosie M.: Mervyn Keene, Clubman; Only a Factory Girl; ‘Twas Once in May
—from P. G. Wodehouse, Eggs, Beans and Crumpets

BARBECUE-SMITH, Mr.: Pipe-Lines to the Infinite
—from Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow

BARR, Frank Walker:

Mythos and Tyrannos
Time’s Body

—from John Crowley‘s Aegypt cycle

BARTH, Septon: Dragons, Wyrms, and Wyvern: Their Unnatural History
—from George R. R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons


BASSETT, Clarence: The Bassett Family
—from Ross Macdonald’s The Barbarous Coast

BEAMISH, Alan: A Pox on the Box: Memoirs of a Disillusioned Broadcaster (Cape, 1993)
—from Jonathan Coe’s The Winshaw Legacy

BELDECAR: History of the Rhoynish Wars
—from George R. R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords

BELZNER, Zalman: Beyond the Pale, Yeshiva Bokher
—from Joseph Epstein’s “Beyond the Pale”

BENDRIX, Maurice:

The Ambitious Host
The Crowned Image
The Grave on the Water-Front

—from Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair

BIEDELMAN, Roz: Trampled Ivy
—from Heidi Julavits’s The Uses of Enchantment

BLAIR, Alan: I Pity I
—from Jonathan Ames’s Wake Up, Sir!

BLAKE, Royden: “The Necklace of Malvio d’Alfi,” “The Wreck of the S.S. Lorelei,” “The King of the Trojans,” “The Lost Girdle of Venus”
—from John Cheever’s “A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear”

ALL THINGS LIVE FOREVER

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Sir Henry Rider Haggard (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure fiction set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre

Occupation Novelist, scholar
Nationality British
Period 19th & 20th century
Genre Adventure, fantasy, fables,
romance, sci-fi, historical
Subject Africa
Notable works King Solomon’s Mines,
Allan Quatermain series,
She: A History of Adventure

FREE YOURSELF TO BE YOURSELF

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1001_Things_To_Do_While_You’re_Dead — An INTERVIEW with Lawrence R. Spencer

BE YOURSELF FOR A CHANGE.

“Relax. As a disembodied spirit you don’t have to hang around with people any more so you don’t have to try to impress anyone. In human society you are usually expected to look good, smell good, be good, do good and exhibit other behavior that may not come naturally to you.

For example, if you don’t take a bath for a few weeks your body will stink like a bag of rotten meat – which is essentially what it is. As a spirit you don’t have to shower, shave, brush your teeth, eat, go to work, pee or perform any of those nasty habits.

The 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) said, “We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”

So, forget all that stuff you were taught about “now I’m supposed to…”. Do what pleases you.”

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Excerpt from 1,001 Things To Do While You’re Dead: A Dead Persons’ Guide To Living, by Lawrence R. Spencer

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