[TheForge] Re: Harlan the Dwarf / Michael Horgan

[Dann Johnson]

Michael, 

I enjoyed reading a set of Viking era novels by Harry Harrison, AKA Harry 
Turtledove.  The central charactor starts out as a medieval blacksmith.
"The Hammer and the Cross" 

Did you really meet / know Harry Turtledove ? 

Dann Johnson 

Michael Horgan writes: 

> Harry Turtledove told me how this works...  Somebody reads the book... 
> does a 10 page synopsis, and shops it to an agent, who takes a one page 
> abridgement of the synopsis to the producer who sells the idea and then 
> takes the abridgement, gives it to a screen writer to make a script...   
> The author gets paid, but has ,usually, nothing to do with the movie....
> This is how David Brin's excellent book, "The Postman" became Kevin 
> Costner's "The Postman"... an ok movie.
> <SNIP>