WTF?

Gone With the Wind is my all-time favorite book. I've loved Scarlett since I was 16 years old, which is longer than I've loved anything that's still alive. I can, as my mother-in-law likes to mention, quote Gone With the Wind chapter and verse. (I also love the movie just as much as the book. For a book lover, that's unusual, in my opinion.)

So I'm flipping through my November RT magazine and am confronted by a full page color ad for Rhett Butler's People.

Swoon and die!

I understand the validity of keeping characters copyrighted, I do. But was nothing learned from Scarlett? I was introduced to Alexandra Ripley, who wrote some fairly decent books herself. Of course, I would have been happier had Ms. Ripley introduced original characters instead of taking her own characters and plugging them in as friends of Rhett's when Scarlett decides she's going to chase Rhett from Atlanta to Charleston to Kentucky to Ireland....

Is it wrong that after all my ranting I'm excited to read this book??