ABSTRACT
Nowadays the bestselling author must often be prepared to sacrifice some of his originating role, and the glory of sole ownership which goes with it. Hence one sees such title-pages as this, in which the author shares his credits as a screenwriter would:
330 Park
Stanley Cohen
Produced and Developed by R.Smith Kiliper
or advertisements like the following:
ANNOUNCING THE HALL OF FAME
SERIES
the latest from Lyle Kenyon Engel,
Creator of the bestselling
Kent Family Chronicles
The ‘author’ of the bestselling ‘Kent Family Chronicles’ is John Jakes. Engel, the ‘creator’ provides the ideas for Jakes to write up, and receives 50 per cent of the royalty from the series-which by the late 1970s was advertised to have sold over 10 m. of its various instalments.
