Thursday, September 20, 2007

(Not) Read (Yet): The Chopin Manuscript

Talk about your impulse purchases.

Starting September 25th, Audible is publishing a
"serial thriller" written by 15 different authors, at the rate of two or three chapters per week. The final chapters will become available on November 13th. It's read by Doc Ock, which leads me to believe the entire manuscript has already been completed, edited, and tinkered with. It's such a non-event that details are scarcely searchable on Google, but I can't imagine anyone financing this project if it was predicated on S.J. Rozan downloading the latest chapters the day they came out, writing her part, then FWD'ing it to Lee Child in time for him to get his submission back to Alfred Molina in the recording studio.

Which is too bad, because that was the sort of pressure that made the
Green Mile so intriguing. But even assuming that's the case, I still couldn't resist knowing: "What would happen if 15 different people wrote a Jeffrey Deaver novel?"

I hope you're ready to find out, and that you have some vague idea of who Jeffrey Deaver is. (If not, he is, as we say in the game-speek sphere, a mystery writer on rails.) Because I'm going to be posting about it every week. Place your bets for best chapter now.

1 comment:

Mister Bile said...

I'm betting on chapter four. The plot will be building, and the mysteries will have the faintest whiff of promise.

And then it will all come crashing down.