silly badger, bridget jones isn't a real person
she's a literary figure, conceived and poured onto paper by journalist-turned-novelist-turned-full-time-mum helen fielding. so the wolves couldn't eat her. and jilly cooper is just made of plastic these days. so the wolves couldn't eat her either.

the sad truth, according to the myriad of publishers and agents who have come to talk to my masters class at oxford, is that only 2 things really sell in volume these days: chick-lit and vampire fiction. anything else, you are in the lap of the gods as to whether you are one of the 10 books or so that tesco chooses to sell every month, or that richard and judy put in their book club... it is v depressing from a reader's perspective.

great from a writer's perspective, if like me you churn out that sort of chick-lit shit, however. the rest of my highbrow literary class went pale.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:28, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I was going to put Helen Fielding
but wolves are too good for her. I'd happily take Renee Whatsherface as the Jones subsitute.

I am well aware of the sad truth.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:32, Reply)