Re: Boy wizard Harry Potter has made author JK Rowling richer than the Queen, according to The Sunday Times Rich List.
The 37-year-old has more than quadrupled her personal fortune in the past two years.
Her £280m makes her the wealthiest woman in showbusiness and Britain's 122nd richest person - 11 places higher than the Queen.
LOL... and you've swallowed it all hook, line and sinker!! Even if you adduced an abstract of accounts of Ms JK Rowling showing that she "owns" a £280m deposit in Barclay's bank it'd still prove nothing.... There could still be a contract confidentially entrusted to a lawyer's safekeeping that stipulates that all the money is lodged as collateral for a Swiss bank or a Cayman shell....
Straight from the ghost's mouth:
If you do decide to use a ghostwriter, you're in good company. According to Wikipedia, here are just a few famous ghostwritten books...
* Barbara Feinman was the ghostwriter for It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us by Hillary Clinton. Clinton later won a Grammy Award for a recording of her memoirs, Living History.
* William Shatner used a ghostwriter for his science-fiction books.
* The novelization of Star Wars was credited to George Lucas but was written by Alan Dean Foster.
Not only actors, singers and politicians, but also some of the highest-paid and most well-known authors, use other writers to help create their work — in some cases, even after they're dead! The famous novelist Robert Ludlum, author of The Bourne Identity and numerous other intrigue/thrillers, died in March of 2001, but he's still "publishing" novels. (Which makes you wonder, who's the "ghostwriter" here?) Actually, his past several novels were ghostwritten from outlines he had produced, presumably before his death. Many other extremely busy, prolific and very-much-alive authors also produce outlines or synopses, and then hand the project over to a ghostwriter for completion. The resulting book is no less "theirs," legally or ethically, than it would have been if they had painstakingly labored over every word themselves.
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