As literary estates consider how to extend the readership of their intellectual property, they’re authorizing fresh takes on well-worn characters.
The novelist Kim Sherwood was sitting in the passenger seat of an Alpine A110 S, wending through Edinburgh, Scotland, when the driver asked her what she was taking notes for. Panicked, she spluttered an answer: She was writing a book about cars. “But — you can’t drive,” he said, confused.
Scottish crime writer Denise Mina described hesitating when the Raymond Chandler estate approached her about writing a new Philip Marlowe novel. She wondered if the project would be akin to when Fay Weldon was commissioned to write “The Bulgari Connection” by the jeweler. But Mina was drawn by the challenge of reinterpreting the noir detective — a character she loved, though in her view, Chandler’s novels “start brilliant, and they get a bit iffy after ‘The Big Sleep.
For Karin Smirnoff, commissioned to write three books in Stieg Larsson’s blockbuster Millennium series, a key question was how to make Lisbeth Salander, the eponymous girl with the dragon tattoo“I was thinking, how do you make somebody more responsible? How do you make someone grow?” Smirnoff said, of writing “The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons.
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