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Aug.06.2009
Below is a synopsis of my forthcoming novel, WANK. The U.S. rights are available, and any publishing-types who wish to see the entire proposal, please email AlanWrites@cs.com.
In late 2006, Alan Goldsher’s A Pretty Good Read, his acclaimed unauthorized biography of platinum-selling indie rockers...
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Sep.02.2008
I've written several jillion book proposal for several jillion non-fiction projects, but T.J. & Dave's Road To Pottawattamie: An Improvised Novel is probably the one I'm most proud of. It's a collaboration with Chicago improvisational comics T.J. Jagodowski and David Pasquesi, and it's cutting...
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Aug.28.2008
So just yesterday, I got a PDF of the uncorrected proofs of my chicklit/foodie extravaganza, "Today's Special." It's being published in the U.K. this coming December, and the U.S. rights are available, so all you publishing-types, email me at amgoldsher@cs.com if you'd like me to zip...
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Aug.09.2008
In the summer of 2000, I got a call from Richard Abate, a literary agent then at ICM. He asked, "Do you know who Bernie Mac is?"
Of course I did. Original Kings of Comedy was due in theaters any day, and since Spike Lee had directed is, you couldn't walk down a single street in Brooklyn...
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Aug.04.2008
So one of my clients says to me, "If you'd like, I can hire a transcriber for you."
I say to my client, "No, Client, that's okay, save your money, I'll transcribe the 4,261 hours of interviews myself."
I don't have issues with transcribing in and of itself -- on the plus side,...
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Jul.27.2008
Yes, New York magazine and the Washingon Post reported it correctly, I'm ghostwriting Dustin "Screech from Saved by the Bell" Diamond's tell-all, Behind the Bell. This one seems to have caught the public's fancy, but I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, because the show is on TBS...
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Jul.23.2008
How fun is it to get the email from your editor with a jpeg of your book cover? I totally hope all of you get to experience that.
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Jul.03.2008
I have to work. If I don't have, like, 23 projects on my docket, I get itchy. Right now, I'm helping four people write their memoirs and three people write their novel, in addition to two novels of my own. That's only nine projects. I need 14 more, or else I'll have too much spare time on my...
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Jun.29.2008
One of the many super-fun things about ghostwriting is the team aspect. As all us Red Roomers know, the whole writing thing can get sorta lonely, but when you get a good team together -- the ghost, the subject, the agent, the editor -- it can be like your actually a normal part of the work world...
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Jun.11.2008
I'm working on a proposal for my next two chicklit books, thus I plan to have a big bowl of estrogen for breakfast.
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Jun.09.2008
Big ghosting news: I'm going to be collaborating with Ironman triathlete Sarah Reinertsen on her memoir "Hot Legs and Great Hair." The final details are still being hammered out, but the proposal found a good home, and landed, in the parlance of Publishers Marketplace, a good deal.
That...
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About Alan
Writer/musician Alan Goldsher is the author of Modest Mouse: A Pretty Good Read (St. Martin's Press, 2006) and Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Hal Leonard, 2002), as well as the music-themed novels JamThe Record Haus (...