Comments on: Surprising Facts About 15 Bestselling Authors

By: Heather White

Heather White — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:08:48 +0000

Anne Perry’s real name is Juliet Hulme. Her accomplice was Pauline Parker. The girls were about 15 or 16 at the time.It was committed on 06/22/1954 in New Zealand- the girls killed Pauline’s mother Honora Rieper. Anne Perry dropped a stone so Ms. Rieper would bend down and look. Pauline was supposed to hit her at that point.They thought one blow from a brick filled stocking would killer her, but instead it took 45 frenzied blows after they realized it wouldn’t work. A condition of their release was for neither girl to contact the other ever again. And they haven’t. Both girls lived in a complete fantasy world-a disturbing world.

http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Digitised/ParkerHulme/

By: John Joachim

John Joachim — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:25:21 +0000

Perry isn’t merely a killer, but a cold-blooded one at that: not only was the weapon of choice a rock to the skull, but 45 times at that (once didn’t kill her apparently). Of course, Perry did have an accomplice, so maybe she only induced as many as 22.5 blows to the head (sorry, I tend to over-react).

By: jkate

jkate — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:53:52 +0000

Aww, Tori beat me to it. Yep, the murder Anne Perry committed (with a pal) was portrayed in the 1994 film “Heavenly Creatures”. Kate Winslet, in her first movie role, played Perry (whose name was something else at the time). Written and directed by Peter and Fran Jackson.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001392/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker-Hulme_murder

By: Tori

Tori — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:51:33 +0000

Anne Perry is a convicted murderer. That’s got to be the most intriguing author fact of all!

By: Jane Heitman Healy

Jane Heitman Healy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:23:45 +0000

Hi, Ethan,
thanks for the interesting stuff of success. I’ve linked to your post on my Read, Learn, and Be Happy blog.

Jane

By: Pamela Lowell ya author

Pamela Lowell ya author — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:13:50 +0000

Not to mention that Stephen King’s house in Bangor, Me has a really, really cool iron fence around it with
all sorts of creepy cut-outs. Gotta love that guy.
Author Returnable Girl
Spotting for Nellie
(find the new book trailers on Youtube)

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:11:04 +0000

Stephen King wrote the filecard for Crystal Ball. And if I recall correctly, Sneak Peak was killed off in the G.I. Joe comic book.

By: janeeyre316

janeeyre316 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:40:06 +0000

To add to this, The Rock Bottom Remainders is a rock band made up of Mitch Albom, Dave Barry, Greg Iles, Roy Blount Jr., Kathy Kamen Goldmark, Stephen King, Matt Groening, James McBride, Amy Tan, Ridley Pearson, and Scott Turow. They play for charity tours and whenever they get sick of writing. They even have a website!

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:32:50 +0000

Another interesting fact about Dean Koontz, to quote USA Today:

“The Koontzes have donated millions to CCI, whose Oceanside, Calif., facility is called the Dean, Gerda and Trixie Koontz Campus. The Koontzes, who have no children, have designated CCI the primary beneficiary of their fortune after their deaths.”

By: Jonny

Jonny — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:15:30 +0000

When I heard about 9/11, one of my first thoughts was about a Clancy book I had read, thought the title escapes me, I think it might have been “Debt of Honor”. In it, a sort of lone nut Japanese patriot flies an international airliner into the US Capitol Bldg during the State of the Union address, effectively beheading all 3 branches of the US govt.

But if you want the lighter sports angle, he also tried to buy the Vikings back in 97-98. He had put the Vikings in the Super Bowl…in one of his books (The Sum All Fears). Although, by that logic, he also vaporized the Vikings, as the plot of the book is a nuclear bomb going off at the SB.