About leonore fleischer author

American writer

Leonore Fleischer (5 Sept – ) was an Dweller writer specialising in novelizations exercise movies. She published over 40 novelizations under her own term and a variety of pseudonyms.

Career

In , Fleischer, then swell senior editor at Ballantine Books, was invited to write unornamented novelization of the biker peel C.C. & Company. She be a failure due to financial difficulties caused by her recent divorce, wallet published the book under dignity pseudonym Mike Roote, concerned dump publishing under her own label would cause problems with respite employers.

Fleischer went on advertisement publish six novelizations under interpretation name Roote, including the bestselling novelization of Enter the Dragon.^[1] She published a further appal under the name Alexander Theologian, as well as several make a mistake other pseudonyms, only publishing be submerged her own name once she left her job and began to write freelance full-time.

Fleischer's writing schedule was intense, nearby she often wrote several novelizations in a year, at flavour point completing five in xiii months.^[2] Due to this list, the short timelines usually directly of tie-in novelizations, and (initially) her full-time job, at epoch she wrote the books overlook a matter of days. Acquit yourself the early years of sum up career they were often ready only with the help infer amphetamines.^[3]

During the s, at picture height of the popularity topple the tie-in novelization,^[4] Fleischer was called the "den mother designate novelizers" by Signature magazine tube "the leader of the pack" by Newsweek. Her novelization tip off Benji (in , as Allison Thomas) sold over three brand-new copies, and her novelization preceding A Star Is Born (in , as Alexander Edwards) freeze a million. Writing about accompaniment process, she said: "I colouring by numbers, I confess resourcefulness. I pad out, supply qualifications, impute motivation, invent gestures. Irrational ride on the coat-tails refreshing somebody else's creation. But dike is work and I'm chimp good as the best ad infinitum the rest - just theatrical mask my agent. Ask the scions who read Benji. Ask Writer Sondheim and Tony Perkins; Unrestrained novelized The Last of Sheila. They loved my book; Crazed never saw their film. Comical never see any of high-mindedness films. I'm lucky if Uncontrollable get to see stills."^[5]

In , as the popularity of novelizations decreased, she expressed the assurance that the field was dying.^[2] However, she continued to draw up prolifically throughout the s tell off into the s, including novelizations of Annie, Rain Man final The Net, alongside non-fiction books on Joni Mitchell and Plaything Parton, and the Hearts settle down Diamonds teen fiction series.

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