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October 1, 2008

Where's Rick Riordan?

According to Forbes, these are the world’s best-paid authors over the last 12 months.

1.) J.K. Rowling made $300 million last year, which averages out to more than $820,000 a day (or $9.50 every second).
2.) James Patterson is a distant second with $50 million. (Muscle up!)
3.) Stephen King: $45 mill.
4.) Tom Clancy (right): $35 mill.
5.) Danielle Steel: $30 mill.
6.) John Grisham and Dean Koontz (tie): $25 mill.
8.) Ken Follett: $20 mill.
9.) Janet Evanovich: $17 mill.
10.) Nicholas Sparks: $16 mill.
(I'm on the extended list at number 859,072.)

September 26, 2008

Rating Poetry

Nights in Rodanthe
is rated PG-13. The official explanation is "some sensuality"— as if!
From Manohla Margis's review of Nights in Rodanthe. (She didn't like it so much. "There’s no joy and not even much cruel laughter to be had from the spectacle of... some of the most pitiful, platitudinous, risible dialogue in recent memory."