What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Where do the authors live?
We don't know anything about the authors, they just communicate with each other through email.some of the characters are on a space ship, I think one is a detective, and another is from a romance novel.
Thanks for that pointer Kris... some of those look intriguing.Unfortunately none of those are the one I'm looking for. I want to add it to my "Goodreads" list of books I read.
Don't know if there is a particular story like this, but this sounds similar to some books by Charles de Lint. It also reminds me a little of Sophie's World
Scalzi's Red Shirts is about fictional characters who figure out that they are fictional, but I don't recall that their stories shift around, or that they communicate by email.
yes, I'm still trying to find the name of the book I read.
Have you ruled out all the books mentioned above?
What's the Name of That Book???
Books mentioned in this topic
Literally (other topics)Sophie’s World (other topics)
Authors mentioned in this topic
Charles de Lint (other topics)Roderick Townley (other topics)
The story is told in parallel... "real world" and "fiction worlds".
The real world authors are writing back and forth in email about the fact that their stories keep changing after they've written them.
The fictional characters have figured out that they are just that, fictional characters, and (if I remember right) are trying to manifest themselves. They keep moving between different stories (through a nexus library of sorts) and bring this fact of their reality to different characters.
The characters find paper notes to themselves... I can't remember if they are notes from other characters, or from the authors that are trying to communicate with their wayward creations.