How I Became a Famous Novelist

By Steve Hely
(Grove Press, Paperback, 9780802170606, 322pp.)

Publication Date: July 2009

Categories: Literary

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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the July 2009 Indie Next List
“This hilarious story is a send-up of being an author, and all other aspects of the book business. Hely has written a captivating novel about writing a bestselling novel, while doing as little work as possible. The fake New York Times bestseller list alone is worth the price of this book!”
-- Mitch Gaslin, Food For Thought Books, Amherst, MA

Description
Narrated by an unlikely literary legend, this work moves from the post-college slums of Boston to the fear-drenched halls of Manhattan's publishing houses and tells the horrifying, hilarious tale of how one man's self-described pile of garbage novel becomes the most talked about book in America.


NPR
From Comedy Writer To 'Famous Novelist'
Wednesday, Sep 16, 2009

Comedy writer Steve Hely details the journey of a young writer's effort to create the greatest best seller of all time in his new novel How I Became a Famous Novelist. More at NPR.org

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