I think the publisher should have told the author whether the book would pass legal inspection. I would go ahead an write a sequel anyway. But I would never admit it was a sequel. I would just vaguely allude to very disguised charaters - maybe one - and that would be it - and my sequal would take place 50 years later. How could anyone prove that it was a sequel? If you looked hard enough, you could find a sequel to every book. It's all in the interpretation. The author should change his pen name and go around Robin Hood's barn and see what happens. Screw Salinger. Who does he think he is? He'll be dead by the time the sequel comes out anyway. HA
Bill Moersen
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I think the publisher should have told the author whether the book would pass legal inspection. I would go ahead an write a sequel anyway. But I would never admit it was a sequel. I would just vaguely allude to very disguised charaters - maybe one - and that would be it - and my sequal would take place 50 years later. How could anyone prove that it was a sequel? If you looked hard enough, you could find a sequel to every book. It's all in the interpretation. The author should change his pen name and go around Robin Hood's barn and see what happens. Screw Salinger. Who does he think he is? He'll be dead by the time the sequel comes out anyway. HA
Bill Moersen