Jo Walton ([info]papersky) wrote,
@ 2008-11-29 09:50:00
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Stranger than you can imagine
In gathering links for a Tor piece just now, I discovered that Anthony Trollope, Sarah Monette, and W.E.B. Griffin are all published by Penguin. Different bits of Penguin, admittedly, but even so, who would have thought?

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[info]autopope
2008-11-29 03:48 pm UTC (link)
Me too! Me too!

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[info]antonia_tiger
2008-11-29 07:05 pm UTC (link)
Griffin opened my eyes to a few bits of history that have been referenced in my NaNoWriMo thing, but after coming across one particularly badly-researched bit (a chunk of a book set in WW2 England), I dropped him several notches down on my preference list. With more doubts about the quality of the background, and Mary-Sue aspect became a little too obvious.

But I'm now thinking of English cathedral politics being handled in the style of the USMC.

A sort of Full Metal Cassock.

Maybe that's my subconscious kicking loose after I finished NaNoWriMo?

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[info]ellen_kushner
2008-11-29 07:12 pm UTC (link)
Me, oh, me, I woulda thought! Makes perfect sense.

Add Delia to that list, as CHANGELING is a Viking/Penguin book.

I actually committed text for a "St Nick Saves Christmas" sort of book many years ago - I remember my agent rather acidly referring to the company as "the little penguins [who had not sent my check yet]".......

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[info]takumashii
2008-11-29 09:42 pm UTC (link)
And me too -- and I was delighted to learn that my own imprint, Dial, had its roots in a literary magazine that published e.e. cummings, T.S. Eliot, and Gertrude Stein. Not that I write anything like them; I'm just delighted.

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[info]ethelmay
2008-11-30 12:29 am UTC (link)
But -- but -- Penguin publishes EVERYTHING, don't they?

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[info]malkingrey
2008-11-30 02:48 am UTC (link)
I blush to admit that W.E.B. Griffin's books are among my guilty pleasures.

(He's been writing them for an awful long time . . . the earliest volumes came out while I was in grad school. I think that a some of the more recent ones have been written with the "assistance" of a co-author, possibly his son.)

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[info]papersky
2008-11-30 02:11 pm UTC (link)
He's one of my guilty pleasures too.

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[info]readinggeek451
2008-11-30 03:16 pm UTC (link)
His son is credited as co-author on his last several books.

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[info]truepenny
2008-12-04 08:34 pm UTC (link)
When I was little and wanted to be an author, I wanted to be a Penguin author, because they published all the coolest and hardest to find kids' books. Of course, I knew I couldn't be a Penguin author, because they were all British and therefore much cooler than me.

... sometimes life is not only weird, but also awesome.

(Also, belatedly, happy birthday!)

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