I was interested to read this on Sarah Weinman's Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind blog:
Dan Begley's MS. TAKEN IDENTITY, in which a failed male novelist decides to write a chick-lit novel under a female pseudonym, becoming a better man through the process and rocketing to fame and bestsellerdom...
"I'm pretty sure I read this book, or at least a different idea of it, a few years ago..." said Ms Weinman. What book was she talking about?
Colin Bateman's Chapter & Verse, which is the story of a fading author, Ivan Connor, and his bizarre attempt to reignite his career by drunkenly re-editing his rejected literary masterpiece into a chick-lit bonk buster and hiring a beautiful actress to impersonate this new publishing star.
So what do you think? Are they too close for comfort or is there room for lots of different books on similar subjects?
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