In 1985, as the popularity of novelizations decreased, she expressed the belief that the field was dying. They loved my book I never saw their film. Ask Stephen Sondheim and Tony Perkins I novelized The Last of Sheila.

But work is work and I'm as good as the best of the rest - just ask my agent.

I ride on the coat-tails of somebody else's creation. I pad out, supply background, impute motivation, invent gestures. Writing about her process, she said: 'I paint by numbers, I confess it. Her novelization of Benji (in 1974, as Allison Thomas) sold over three million copies, and her novelization of A Star Is Born (in 1976, as Alexander Edwards) over a million. ĭuring the 1970s, at the height of the popularity of the tie-in novelization, Fleischer was called the 'den mother of novelizers' by Signature magazine and 'the leader of the pack' by Newsweek. In the early years of her career they were often completed only with the help of amphetamines. Due to this schedule, the short timelines usually expected of tie-in novelizations, and (initially) her full-time job, at times she wrote the books in a matter of days. She published a further six under the name Alexander Edwards, as well as several under other pseudonyms, only publishing under her own name once she left her job and began to write freelance full-time.įleischer's writing schedule was intense, and she often wrote several novelizations in a year, at one point completing five in thirteen months. She accepted due to financial difficulties caused by her recent divorce, and published the book under the pseudonym Mike Roote, concerned that publishing under her own name would cause problems with her employers.įleischer went on to publish six novelizations under the name Roote, including the bestselling novelization of Enter the Dragon. In 1969 Fleischer, then a senior editor at Ballantine Books, was invited to write a novelization of biker film C.C. She published over forty novelizations under her own name and a variety of pseudonyms. Leonore Fleischer (5 September 1932 – 2009) was an American writer specialising in novelizations of movies.

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