Here's a novel idea for a story - take all the elements and surroundings that make a character and dump them for formulaic dribble made only to wring every last buck out of a property. Sold? So was HarperCollings! Which is why you'll have new kindling based on Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw...and her high school experience.Candace Bushnell, who crapped out that now treasured tale plans to write about Carrie's high school years in The Carrie Diaries, comprising two books which arrive beginning late 2010.
Bushnell said she'd always been interested in exploring Carrie's teenage years before she arrived in Manhattan, befriending three other women whose love lives, careers and wardrobes formed Sex and the City. I guess we just didn't know how much money it would take to have her develop that interest. Because without her alcoholic whore friends, hideous fashion, and turnstile vaginas in arguably the world's most famous city, I'm certain there's plenty of interesting things about Carrie Bradshaw that an audience would love to hear about.
In a press statement, they said the diaries would focus on Carrie's formative years in high school, giving an inside look at her friendships, romances, and how she realized her dream of becoming a writer. Translation: catty transgression over hurt adolescent BFF feelings, getting fingered by a football player in the backseat of a Mazda, and the shower masturbation material of a gal secretly trying to seduce her hunky, single male English teacher (who probably bangs her when she becomes 18 and graduates). Without the cosmopolitans, kiss-and-tell slut friends, and overprices clothing, who gives a shit? They couldn't even make prequels about Darth Vader that were interesting, and he's Darth fucking Vader!
"Carrie in high school did not follow the crowd -- she led it. It was there that she began observing and commenting on the social scene," Bushnell said in a statement. Gee, that's got the be real insightful. I think it's called Gossip Girl? Or Gilmore Girls? Or Beverly Hills 90210? Or The O.C.? Or Dawson's Creek? Or One Tree Hill? Or Greek? Or 50 other teen dramas? Bushnell, whose middle-class, post collegiate white woman porn is tired has basically set her sight on the Seventeen magazine crowd, who have not graduated into the vapid uselessness of the Vogue and martini crowd. Hack, you're really pushing it.
Details of the two-book deal were negotiated by Alessandra Balzer, co-publisher of the Balzer & Bray imprint (imprinted with what, bad taste?) at HarperCollins Children's, who I'd like to see severely injured in the collapse of a tower of books - preferably those or any sports autobiography. The children's division? It makes me cringe to think that the nasty uselessness of the Sex And The City mindset is even being attempted to water down and repackage in the presently hot teen-lit field. Not that any of it translates...it would be like Japanese hentai without tentacle rape and explosive ejaculates - not at all the thing it is being named. You could write the story and call the character anything else but Carrie Bradshaw and you'd never think twice about Sex And The City. That, and you wouldn't have the draw of that namesake. What a cheap sales tool. Hang that dry pen up.
"Carrie in high school did not follow the crowd -- she led it. It was there that she began observing and commenting on the social scene," Bushnell said in a statement. Gee, that's got the be real insightful. I think it's called Gossip Girl? Or Gilmore Girls? Or Beverly Hills 90210? Or The O.C.? Or Dawson's Creek? Or One Tree Hill? Or Greek? Or 50 other teen dramas? Bushnell, whose middle-class, post collegiate white woman porn is tired has basically set her sight on the Seventeen magazine crowd, who have not graduated into the vapid uselessness of the Vogue and martini crowd. Hack, you're really pushing it.
Details of the two-book deal were negotiated by Alessandra Balzer, co-publisher of the Balzer & Bray imprint (imprinted with what, bad taste?) at HarperCollins Children's, who I'd like to see severely injured in the collapse of a tower of books - preferably those or any sports autobiography. The children's division? It makes me cringe to think that the nasty uselessness of the Sex And The City mindset is even being attempted to water down and repackage in the presently hot teen-lit field. Not that any of it translates...it would be like Japanese hentai without tentacle rape and explosive ejaculates - not at all the thing it is being named. You could write the story and call the character anything else but Carrie Bradshaw and you'd never think twice about Sex And The City. That, and you wouldn't have the draw of that namesake. What a cheap sales tool. Hang that dry pen up.
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